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Unless you were a corrupt politician whose aim was self-enrichment by looting the country, in which case you may be reassured that you are on the right track
Unless you were a corrupt politician whose aim was self-enrichment by looting the country, in which case you may be reassured that you are on the right track
Windows Solitaire. Or, before Windows, Solitaire with actual playing cards.
If he does end up in The Hague, the IDF raid to free him will turn out to have been conducted with extensive UK assistance.
It was only called austerity in contrast to the previous vaguely social-democratic settlement. After a decade or two, it’s just the way things are. The Tories themselves announced the end of austerity a few years ago, without changing a single policy.
The frightening realisation to take away is that most people don’t have a visceral horror of fascism in the way that progressives on Mastodon do. Which makes sense: if fascism was regarded with widespread revulsion, the Trumps and Orbans and Netanyahus of this world would be as successful as someone running a dogshit sandwich stall at the local market.
From what I understand, it’s slow because along much of the route it uses legacy rights of way with level crossings. Brightline West will have all new grade-separated right of way, which will allow higher speeds.
Is it the case that the US fundamentally can’t do what, say, Spain and South Korea and Algeria have been able to, and that they have been able to do with, say, NASA, the military and numerous private corporate logistics systems, or just that they haven’t done it yet?
Once the US has one working world-class HSR line (probably Brightline West, or possibly CAHSR), the appetite for more lines will increase. HSR will have become something that is common for Americans to ride when not on holiday to Japan or Italian hilltop towns, and reflexively dismissing it as “it wouldn’t work here because we have too much (space/liberty/big cars)” won’t work anymore. New plans will be proposed (a midwest network connecting Chicago to Cleveland and St. Louis?) and old ones (such as the Texas one) dusted off. And the Canadians will notice and jump on the bandwagon (given that a big chunk of their population would be reached by a line from Detroit/Windsor to Quebec City makes it a no-brainer).
The eagles of liberty fly together
They missed a trick by using paint, when a spray of salt water would have done the job at one more subtly and more permanently
One person’s psychosis is another person’s ghosts of dead aliens blown up with H-bombs in volcanoes and then forced to watch bad movies for eternity.
Have the Lib Dems abandoned their pro-EU stance?
inb4 .ml discovers this and makes it sincere.
In Europe, that’s July and/or August, depending on the country
Are those adjectives randomly chosen?
It’s a good thing that communist parties are immune to having sexual predators in their ranks.
Is there any evidence of the climate wars having been reignited among anyone beyond a dwindling cohort of rusted-on conservative boomers who take ivermectin for their wind-turbine syndrome?
The Guardian (based in the UK, though with editorial operations in the US and Australia) made this decision some 10 years ago, and has stuck with it. So far, they seem to be going well.
Meanwhile, Brexit remains the Will Of The People, with both major parties absolutely ruling out any reversal as not to betray the robust, unvarnished opinions of true Brits like Barry the football-loving squaddie from Southampton whose Twitter account is now either a big-haired homeschooling mom from Missouri or the social media officer of Palestinians For Trump.