Great line at the end:

…Windows tries to be a friendly town for everybody and the zoning board forgot to include a neighborhood for the weirdos who build their own furniture. We don’t want to take over your town, we don’t even want to change it. We just a workshop with sharp chisels and permission to make a mess. Give us that and we’ll stop complaining about the art you choose for City Hall.

Well from that image possibly adjusting the colors and taking photos on cloudy days affects how we see things

I don’t know where you get yours, but I get 24 loads in a box of powder for $6. https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-dishwasher-detergent-powder-lemon-scent/0001111080564

That’s good, reuse > recycle. We had nothing to do with them so were just recycling these giant jugs all the time. Now we have a big container we pour the detergent into and just scoop it out as we go. Containers are cardboard for the powder

I’d say it’s better, but not great. Environmentally it still comes with a giant plastic jug that needs to be disposed of, and we all know how plastic recycling is. On your wallet, if you think bout it, you’re not just paying for the soap, but the water and the weight/shipping of that water to get to your home from the factories.

Powder is really the same thing, but you have water at home to mix it with, that happens in your washing machine. So, naturally it is going to be cheaper.

Thanks to Technology Connections - Dishwasher/Laundry pods. Soap with pretty colors, and probably more soap than you need per load. I’ve swapped to powder and literally cannot tell a difference at all, and instead of 8 dollars for 10 loads I now am getting an entire box with like, 40 loads for $8.

And if you want something convenient for laundry they have the laundry sheets that don’t release plastic into your water so that’s nice.

But personally if I want a known amount each time for each load I just use a scoop.

Anchovies. Severely underrated.

No, today is November the 5th, the Alamo takes a break today.

It’s be fun to have a nemesis like that. Nothing life threatening or too evil, just enough where you’d turn and say, “Newman”.

Great show

Two trains passing in the night…

Oh that’s not fair, Leslie Knope is the public servant we all deserve.

I’ll throw in a few.

I want Dr. Cox and JD to be my medical team, the two of them would do everything they could.

I want my local burger shop to be Bob’s.

And I wish Captain Holt was a real police commissioner.

It’s both ways, I both ignore things from you, and I don’t send anything to you either.

Exactly right. The positive is that we can also easily defederate from bad actors, but unless you explicitly allowlist everything then that’s going to be a losing battle.

Downside of free and open is that it’s, well, free and open.

From that level of crash I’d assume mostly cosmetic, maybe a tiny bit of damage right behind the hood, but yes I assume once the bits of truck were moved out of the way it just started up and kept going, probably visiting the shop on its next service stop is all

Started is with, as you see, 3 to 5 massive diesel-electric engines, taking quite a while to max speed. Modern railways have electric engines that do the same but with better torque and traction, but we don’t have modern railways in America.

Stopping is interesting. The engines have their own brakes, but three engines can’t stop a train that long by themselves, the brakes would just melt. They are set mostly like a parking brake when you are already stopped.

The actual brakes are air brakes, with a tube of compressed air connecting from the front of the train to the back. Each car has its own brakes then that are applied as pressure is released from the brake system. Going into emergency brake is essentially all pressure being released and all brakes throughout the entire train engaging, and that is what we are seeing here.

With that though, the train is still tens of thousands of tons of mass moving at a max track speed of 55mph. It’s going to take some time to slow that down, even with every brake being applied.

Don’t fuck around with trains.

Dipshit driver just standing there almost got wiped out by his truck being whipped around like a piece of tin foil. If you’re in that situation, you run

Think of the mass of a freight train carrying over a miles worth of material behind it. Then a truck

Think about how much propaganda we are fed. The right tried to tell us that all major cities are horrible crime ridden deathtraps and it’s just not true. I can walk through my city any time and be fine. Now people may not feel safe but feelings aren’t what is actually happening.

What is proven is that fear gets clicks, and so the more you amp up that things are unsafe the more people will click.

Most reasonable answer. Propaganda is insidious. It is subtle, it can latch onto anything. It could be racism, that’s one thing sure. It could be that they wanted lower taxes and over time it slowly convinced them it was all of the others. It could be anything. To assume like this, well, it’s exactly why the right has so much just reasoning when saying we’re quick to throw the racism card. Because, well just look at this thread.