Gonna start cycling with two propane tanks on the sides of my bike.

Go to any Instagram comment section about something to do with bikes, and every other comment is some blood thirsty version of “I get hard when I run over bikers”.

It’s revolting.

Maybe we shouldn’t be using an economic system whose immune system has historically lead to genocide, especially in an age where nukes are now a thing.

So you’re jumping to conclusions.

They’re not even saying everything is capitalism though.

(A very good piece of dystopia fiction)

1hr commute both ways to work

GPU/ticket scalpers take on a risk too. But we don’t give a shit about them getting fucked by the risk, neither should we give a shit about landlords getting fucked. They’re no different than scalpers.

But what’s worse is, usually they never take on risk to begin with. Insurance companies take on the risk of actual damage. Banks take on some of the risk from the mortgage.

And usually, these landlords are operating under LLCs of some variety. So even if things went belly up, the fat cats get golden parachutes and the maintenance people get fucked.

Landlords are a scurge, and need to be ended as a social class.

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I thought it was called Union Station. The closest light rail station is in Steel Plaza.

Actually, yeah you’re correct and I was wrong.

and the light rail station was called Penn Station, but it closed like five years ago.

Yeah, that figures.

Yeah, it always sucks because whenever there is some project in the works to fix the problem, it’s always some half step like a bus trapped on a normal road, so we’re back to square one after having blown millions of dollars.

Even worse, the city used to own a lot of riverfront area with rail infrastructure, but sold it off. That land has now since been developed into other stuff. So even if we wanted to rebuild what we used to have, we’d have to eminent domain and bulldoze a bunch of shit, making it way more expensive than it would be if the city just kept the land.

I think you’re talking about the Penn Station, to which the answer is yes, its the end of the dark blue line on the right side.

This map seems more aspirational than existent.

Yeah, it’s dog shit. Part of that is because it’s kind of a pointless task to map the rail system, because there basically is none. Google used to have a good display for it, but it looks like they took it out.

Here is a better one, though it doesn’t show the shear mass of area that isn’t covered:

Kinda hard to force people to use it when the T only serves like 3 neighborhoods in a city of 300k, with ~40 neighborhoods.

The light blue is a bus line, but the busses are never on time or consistent. So it’s a gamble if it gets you to your destination on time.

If the busses/train had dedicated roads for them, it’d be a different story.

I wouldn’t mind having a linux tablet. But not at $700

The light rail is even totally free, making it easy for everyone to get there.

I gotta say, we could do a hell of a lot better with that.

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Those tiny red and blue lines is all we have for a city of 300k people, and only just to those few neighborhoods. We could easily have way more, but we just don’t.

Most people live in cities.

We should absolutely be working on both. But the genocide of palestinians is definitely the easier one to effect at the moment.

.ml has 50k users, and hexbear has 27k.

Assuming every single one of those people side with Palestinians and also the CCP, and are also not bots or duplicate accounts(which is absolutely not the case), that’s only 77k. Or 2.5% of the population of the U.S.

That’s very few people like I said.

And if you only go off of active users in the last 6 months(which we should given that lots of people will have made accounts, then later left due to disagreement or lack of interest), it’s only around 8k people. So again, very few people.

The difference is, western nations aren’t giving China billions of dollars for the express purpose of bombing uyghur civilians. There is still the issue of continuing trade, but then you’re getting into a game of passing the buck. The people blame the politicians who blame the corps who blame the people. Nobody wants to be the first to take responsibility for it.

I think you’ll find very few people who are against Israel’s actions but support China’s actions.