@skinnylatte watching video of SF from the 1950s makes me a little sick to my stomach. Cities shouldn’t be locked in amber but we’re so terrified of change.
@skinnylatte I didn’t realize that was a routine part of the process—that’s fantastic. We are often an aspirational country yearning to one day live up to our own beliefs, but more often than people realize we at least have the right aspirations.
@skinnylatte Democrats in this country are too often gullible as hell. It’s good to have you here and your clarity is, as always, refreshing. Happy new year and see you in this next one. :)
@skinnylatte I enjoyed them more in the small studio apartment or even SRO form factor than the more common and expensive multi-room format. I think they look cute but I don’t think I’d want to live in one again without having time and money to make some pretty large changes.
@mekkaokereke tomorrow we get to find out if he’s got an advent calendar of pardons to pop open for the rest of the month or whether he’s gonna stop at a milquetoast one.
These new trains accelerate a lot faster than the old ones. Not because these are too wildly speedy, but because the diesel train acceleration curves were very very slow, so the comparison is stark.
Overall, these trains will complete the full SF-SJ route over 20 minutes quicker than the previous ones.