Based tbh.
Also, Norm MacDonald was fucking hilarious.
The real dastardly thing is that they knew but went down the tobacco lying path. It means that while we (worldwide society) burnt the fuel, big FF have a special place in hell due to their lies.
I suspect that there will come a time soon where declaring that you work for the fossil fuel industry won’t be something you want known.
Why do we continue to drive cars and not politically agitate for better public transportation and insist on more solar and wind for powering our homes?
I just found out that I qualify to use public transit for free in my area.
It’s thus a damned shame I basically never see a bus. I hate driving, but public transit here isn’t much of an alternative.
Still, i’ll probably go ride it around for no real reason just to increase the use of it, since it runs anyway. More riders means more expansion of services, right? Riiiiiiight?
Find a place to eat that is neear the bus route and have a ride and dine party with a bunch of friends that meet up at your place to start the adventure!
I just found that the local bus line in my area runs out past a plaza with one of my favorite restaurants in it. Going to check out the routes and times and see if I can make it work.
Thats a solid point. I don’t have friends in the area to bring into that plan, but no reason I can’t go hang out away from home for the day all the same. I enjoyed the subway when I visited Boston, partly because I didn’t really have anywhere specific I needed to be, just exploration.
My city bought a train. It doesn’t work when it snows. The city is famous for getting a few blizzards every winter.
However, the train also doesn’t work in hot weather as the components start to deform in the heat.
It cost 9 billion dollars.
Ooooo, someone should lose their pension for that fuckup.
Heat deforming the rails is an issue that can be solved by cutting more expansion joints into them.
Lemme guess… the tracks are long, long pieces laid down and attached to concrete ties?
Just painting the rail beds white or using white gravel for the beds also goes a long way.
Thing is, the rails laid dwn in the 19th century across the southwestern US passed through some of the hottest parts of the continent, and buckling wasn’t an issue then because the trains went slower and the track segments had a larger gap for expansion.
There’s no excuse for lousy engineering that ignores environmental conditions. None at all.
This makes me quite irritated to read.
capitalism caused it. call it what it is; a disgusting system that will only ever destroy while it convinces the public to bail it’s corporations out. the same formula use for “big oil” is used for pharma, banks, etc. Calling it Big Oil just obfuscates.
Because we as a whole let them. It takes two to tango. That said, bankrupt them all
