It was a compliment. It means hippie, but more on the “let’s take care of nature and each other” side of it.

Also I really need to start dragging my wife to asl classes, because I’m going deaf

Fiber. I started biking years ago and have been doing bodyweight exercises off and on since college

Ok but high speed rail isn’t for connecting you to New Orleans, it’s more for connecting New Orleans to Chicago.

We’re unlikely to wind up as train connected as Japan, but let’s look at the shinkansen. It goes between major population centers and sometimes stops at decent sized cities on the way. When I had to go to a smaller town in Japan I took high speed rail from Tokyo to the nearest major city, then I took their local rail to a town, then another line to the place I was going.

For comparison this is the equivalent of flying into New York from Europe, taking high speed rail to Chicago, taking an Illinois rail network to Peoria, then taking it again to say Lincoln. Northeastern states have the rail network to do that last mile stuff. But even just having the ability to drive into your nearest city and take a high speed rail to a city your friends live in or that you want to vacation or do business in would be huge. That’s why the main proposals for high speed rail are to connect New York to Chicago or San Diego to Seattle. The latter would make it convenient to go from any major city on the west coast to any other one, even if you have to take BART or a bus or whatever first and last mile transit you need to get there

Yeah it was beautiful at the end, but it was a lot of boring to get there. And tbh it was easy to forget how beautiful it was because it was dwarfed by the beauty of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the Cascades. I’m biased, I think there’s little on Gaia’s great green ass more beautiful than mountains, and forests and valleys, as well as lakes and oceans are among the few things that compete.

I’ll also say Peoria surprised me as a hub of urban beauty. But I’m generally an Illinois lover, something about that state is beautiful and smells weirdly comfortable.

Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are the interesting parts of the Midwest (and Minnesota and Wisconsin). Once you leave the Great Lakes Midwest for the Great Plains Midwest you’re gonna be bored out of your mind until you hit the Rockies. Iowa is so boring its tourist traps are trucker themed.

I did the drive from Ohio to the PNW a year ago and yeah, it’s bad when you’re missing Ohio and can’t wait for Wyoming… Minnesota rocked though, absolutely awesome rest stops, we were glad to take a detour there to shave some time off South Dakota.

Hey those are fully intentionally drawn to ensure everyone has just enough ethnic and religious minorities to ensure they force those groups to be a problem for them. Also to screw the Kurds

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You got this, ignore the jackass. Life after transition remains difficult, but it’s so much better

Not really, unless you have a lot of keys. They just kinda swing together. And pickpockets are rare in my country, so the fact that they’re in front of me where my hand naturally rests leaves me feeling secure in them

Well it’s in the category of things that the better you get at it the less passionate about it you tend to be. At least in my experience. When I was struggling every day with basic shit I was super focused on mental health. These days I just have the tools and use them as needed

And if it’s on a carabiner on your belt loop, you want a middle ground which is a situation in which large hair ties really shine. Added bonus, you’re likely the sort who needs one regularly and likes being able to offer one to people who need one.

So it’s going to be rerouted from the MRIs I take it…

Yeah anonymity and pseudonymity have been stolen from us IRL in a lot of cases and we shouldn’t cede them online. We should also take them back irl. Go lie about who you are to someone you meet.

RWBY lol

Unfortunately no, it requires you to add some crystal for it to do that

Night, because I work in factories. Also because I’m not waking up early to shower before work

Whenever I have a garage I plan to pick up a welder and try my hand at it. No idea what I’d make, but it looks fun and I’ll find a use

Mood. I’d love to do some woodworking but I don’t have the space

Meh better than the cancer strains of frog

There really is little that’s more primal of an “oh no” than the about to vomit while too drunk