Amtrak hasn’t done enough track maintenance on the NEC and has super-padded its schedules because trains in the US are managed by idiots.

The new trainsets aren’t slower, the track and scheduling is slower.

No one who holds their hands like that doesn’t think they’re hot shit. Yes, Merkel included.

I read an article about something similar in Pakistan. The main thrust was that the wealthy were able to buy solar and go off-grid and the poor had to pay higher rates for grid power because the production costs had to be split along fewer customers.

Jimmy Neutron?

Yeah, seems like it’s well-attested (and makes sense), I just hadn’t seen it before!

“Tsar/czar” is a common crossword clue and it’s interesting that there are two common transliterations in English (I think czar is far older). But the fact that there are already two very common ones and then this person threw out this third one was unexpected!

My first time seeing “tz” as a transliteration of Ц.

Byzantine emperor Leo III was onto something.

another ghoul died peacefully in his bed of old age

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I believe that’s an official category for aid from Social Security.

Now that they’re targeting key resistance figures like John Bolton, Trump has really gone too far!

They really thought they had something here?

ah, but you see, lifetime appointments for judges are in black-and-white in the magic document!

Darkly funny that it’s lifetime appointees saying that lifetime appointments are unconstitutional.

If you still cling to the sinking ship of legalism (as all Dems must), then DC statehood would prevent the feds from deploying the troops as they have.

So in his mind, this is addressing the problem.

A Sound of Thunder vibes

Very funny that actual experts are usually ignored.

Teachers moving to Oklahoma from California and New York will be required to pass a new test to obtain a teaching certificate for Oklahoma, according to Walters, who told CNN the move was designed to keep away “woke indoctrination.”

The network reported that the test was developed in association with PragerU, a conservative educational body that has acquired a large audience online and is sympathetic to the Trump administration.

Penis Prager gets paid.

Too bad we all get to lose because of the West’s unwillingness to decarbonize.

I predict they will simply ignore this.