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(Heartaches) By the numbers. Personal account.
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Incredibly frustrating!
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I could make a case for NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, A SERIOUS MAN, and BURN AFTER READING all being in the top ten.
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I have a theory that the Chupacabra phenomenon of the early 00s was a psy-op to test just how dumb Americans were and everything since then has been based on the results of that test
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As someone who is taking a series of trains and buses from Lincoln, NE to Detroit, MI let me say that one would be forgiven for assuming the American diet was largely tofu and tortillas
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In Iowa it was up to my belly-button already
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Your sacrifice is noted
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My Wednesday evening train to Grand Rapids is completely sold out which is a pretty small market in the grand scheme of things, and Michigan has pretty decent rail service so I imagine this is Lake House holidayers?
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If train travel were just as fast as driving in the US it would overwhelm capacity pretty quickly
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To my knowledge the New York Central System never went to Lincoln, NE and the Union Station in Lincoln never had anything approaching a rail/car layout depicted in this painting
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In Nebraska news: why is there a painting of the New York Central System prominently featuring the Nebraska State Capitol in the Chicago Union Station metropolitan lounge?
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Salute to all the brave CBO scorers who were exposed during this process
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Being mad that your four minute commute is now almost 20 minutes is insane. As a former Angeleno, it would take me 20 minutes to get from one side of my neighborhood to the other in rush hour.
Also, ride a bike - a four minute driving commute will also take about four minutes on a bike.
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As someone who used to live in Toluca Lake, biking to the Universal City Station was a nightmare requiring a bit of biking on Lankershim so it would have been a real game changer. Frustratingly the project just never materialized. Afaik no progress was made for about ten years.
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To put this in perspective, the CAHSRA was approved via ballot in 2008 and is further along than a six-ish mile bike path with agreed funding and ROW.
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Had my dates wrong, the deal was officially reached in 2013 after five years of negotiations beginning in 2008. However, the agreement was re-agreed to in 2023. Afaik, still no bike path.
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15 years to not build an agreed upon bike path with ROW and funding in place
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When Universal build the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in LA one of the agreements was that the LA River adjacent to Universal owned would become a public bikeway, funded in part by Universal. That agreement was reached in 2010 and just now the city just gave up and decided to pay the whole thing
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Also Darrell Waltrip said this and we never told a joke
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Also those ditches look look like they could be for surface water irrigators. My brain is broken.
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I like their English white cheddar
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Feels like 20% of the content on Facebook is an AI image of Jesus blessing Robert Duvall or something and a pivot to making that the Whole Thing feels guaranteed to backfire.
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One hope I have is that this clumsy attempt to foist an AI “metaverse” on an indifferent consumer will backfire. If the baseline assumption becomes everything on facebook is a fraud and attempt to dupe people, people may log off.
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To be clear, “Red Headed Stranger” is one of the greatest albums of all time let the best Willie album and for sure meets this criteria of 15 years into career
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Also his album where he explicitly is paying the bills (“The IRS Tapes”) is a top ten Willie album from a guy who is pushing 100 albums
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As a big Willie Nelson guy there are many albums where he’s like, “Gotta do a duet with Kermit the Frog to pay the bills” and some albums where he transcends cliches and simultaneously unnerves and calms the body and mind. “Too sick to pray” from 1999 is a gut punch