scoobdog

If i recall correctly, Amtrak doesn't own any track. They frequently have issues with being on-schedule for this reason. More importantly, freight traffic tends to take up 70-80% of the traffic on those lines, especially the closer you get to a major terminal, like a port. Traffic in the Los Angeles area is heavily congested just by the sheer number of cargo containers that are being shipped out from the Port of LA and Long Beach.

Thursday was the last day of Rebecca Black’s burgeoning singing career.

I don’t think we’ll know until they actually announce charges.

Famous last words: "Born from just a few dudes in Erie, Pennsylvania who wondered..."

You're selling that particular fraud short. They actually falsified test data for that. Hyperloop has never been anything other than the musing of another fraud.

It was entirely theoretical.

FWIW, no one believed his hyperloop idea was serious.

That asshole is on the precipice of complete and utter collapse.

Guy was an unparalleled songwriting talent.

I think even he doesn't know what he's actually doing. When you're a simple person, you spend your time trying to ape the cool kids.

Well, it’s not really designed to be a synonym for despotism or authoritarianism to begin with. It’s a fairly specific ideology that is often conflated with marginally related concepts like imperialism, racism / antisemitism, and nationalism.

Did we really need to give fascism a more hip buzzword? I really think we did.

Police state fash?

Now you gone and done it...

I don't really see evidence of them being used that way, though. I would think that deliberately labelling a MILF as a cougar would be one way of rationalizing the sexualization of a woman, for instance. Obviously, when it comes to guys, there is far less need for distinction. You rarely see anyone labelled a DILF because women eroticize men in a more complex way.

I don't see them as interchangeable. MILFs are certainly sex symbols, but they don't necessarily even want sex. Cougars explicitly want sex.

"Hey Sawdy, what's up man?" Five mInutes later....

The police don’t automatically send SWAT to certain addresses with a history of swatting. I think they take additional steps to confirm with people on the property.

I would think the male counterpart to a cougar would be a sugar daddy.

The more these yahoos agitate for civil war, the more they damage their own party.

The response to this thread is somewhat underwhelming.

The article actually points out that improvements in dealing with post- and peripartum depression have actually done the most to prevent infanticides, making safe-haven laws essentially useless.

This is somewhat relevant: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/us/infant-safe-haven-law-abortion-invs/index.html TL;DR - it appears for that same reason, safe haven surrenders are rare despite the prevalence of those laws.

Oh, I didn't misunderstand.

It would look good on him.