Let's take a trip to the future. What will it be like?
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You create wormholes by summoning giant worms that eat through space-time. This is, obviously, a bad idea
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>he actually sells pianos
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chuckling @ guy telling bar newbies that he sells pianos
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at least they get the locations right in the english version lmao
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oh no no no no no
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hehehe
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Researchers say Discoveryโs programming overwhelmingly featured White men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks.
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ใฌใใ ใฐใชใผใณ ใใซใผ๏ฝใญใฑใใใจ้ป่ป๏ผ2021.06๏ผ #ๅฑฑๆ็ท #ไบฌๆตๆฑๅ็ท #้ป่ป #gatangoton
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this is ofc very difficult because it depends more on ability of vehicles to stay on schedule and be in place for the driver swap on time, and because you need to make sure all the drivers have a timely way to get from their depot to their swap location--but the payoff is huge
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for the most efficient use of your transit vehicles (if not necessarily of your support vehicles), you want to use driver swaps to separate *driver breaks* from *vehicle layovers,* largely eliminating the need for layovers at all, allowing vehicles to remain in service more
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Papua New Guinea no fact yet of theย day
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at higher frequencies tho, your layover will fit better if it matches your headway or some multiple of it--if buses are ten minutes apart, then a ten minute layover fits perfectly at both terminals (if 5 minutes apart, 10 min layover = need room for 2 buses at terminals)
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on a low frequency route, you want your layovers to fit neatly into your one-way or round-trip times, e.g. if a trip takes 25 minutes one-way, you could have a 10 minute layover once per round trip (or two 5-minute layovers, one each direction)
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not a doppelganger, but a junior doppelganger
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train kid is the cleaned-up, broader-audience version of trainman
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his victories are my victories
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I should eat breakfast
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British people when they skip breakfast: twitter.com/soapyhadid/staโฆ
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Caring more about fixing our broken transit pass pricing models than fareless transit or fare capping is a sign of a serious person who's spent the time to educate themselves about the relevant issues.
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if you want to make passes cheaper for everyone, I'm with you--Americans get HOSED for their long-term transit passes, very slight discounts vs buying single rides
if you want to make passes free for some, I'm with you again! income qualification makes a lot of sense here
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if people don't know your preferences they can't violate your autonomy by fulfilling them
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We just pulled out a newly acquired nishiki-e satire book by the great political cartoonist Kobayashi Kyochika (ๆธ
่ฆช) for an Art History course . Here are some pictures! Title: "Humorous story: Hana de Yatsuatari (ๆป็จฝๅ
ซใใๅฅฝ, ่ฑใงๅ
ซใๅฝใ)," 1897.
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inshallah
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Amtrak and the Commuter railroads are about to get abunch of engineer and conductor job applications lol
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HEYYYYYYYYYYY !!!
*glompz u*
I made you a cookie... but i dropped it on the orphanage floor where I grew up (my parents were murdered and I have super powers ...)
*to myself* oh, I should probably hide my angel/devil wings ... T__T
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occurs to me that I want to look at, say, decibels per hour rather than just max decibels
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Replying to @boisfeuras71
the train horns in America are deafening, I live across the street from freight/passenger tracks. the trains are also pretty loud at this distance because of their weight--but the street makes more noise than the tracks, not bc cars are louder but more constant
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since the problem is more about the hassle than the cost, the solution involves things like switching from paying per use to paying once a month, switching from paying with cash to paying with cards etc, switching from onboard payment to prepayment...you get the picture (I hope)
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seriously though, consider the choice of words--there's a very good reason they talk about being "nickel-and-dimed" and not being, say, bankrupted...paying for transit (esp when cash-only, exact change!) is almost always a HASSLE, but rarely a financial BURDEN
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anyway. tired of being "nickel-and-dimed" when you use the bus? I have just the invention for you: the monthly pass
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all it's missing is the wheat field
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but if you want to remove the ability for transit agencies to raise their own money--let alone to do so with no plan besides "simply find the money somewhere else"--then unfortunately we are not on the same side
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