Most cities have a bus service, but they only rarely connect to smaller towns (“smaller” being relative here, like 30,000 people).

To put it in perspective, I live in a suburban apartment outside of a medium-sized city in Ohio. There is a single busline that goes through my neighborhood (which thankfully has a stop right outside my complex). A bus comes by once an hour between 7 AM and 7 PM.

This can get you to work if you’re lucky enough to work a 9-5 next to a bus stop. My work has a bus stop, but I work a 4-12, so no luck.

My favorite bar is in the next town over, a college town about 15 minutes down the road. If I wanted to get there by public transit, I would need to wait for the hourly bus outside of my apartment, get off at a grocery store, wait about a half an hour for a connecting bus from the college town’s bus service, and that’s not even counting the drive time.

And if I don’t leave the bar by 6 PM, of course, I’m stranded without an Uber or something, because even on weekends (not that I have weekends off work) the busses only run till 7 PM.

And there’s other towns nearby that I literally cannot take public transport to. I had to work an event in a smaller city (but still probably within the top 20 in the state for population) about half an hour drive away. There is no bus service that connects me to them. The only options are driving or Uber.

Bashar has been replaced by a Western puppet Islamist dictator. It is not good news that Britain cut ties to begin with and they certainly shouldn’t be reestablishing them now.

Love to see BTN posted here. That said, not watching, what’s the tl;dr

I’m not sure how to feel about this - there will always be dangerous jobs in any worksite and it’s better that the danger is more highly compensated than the alternative - that the job is forced upon those with the least alternatives and paid the same or less than safer work (like the situation in the OP with incarcerated firefighters).

I work in a grocery store meat department and was a meat cutter for 2 years at a previous job. It pays well at least partially because you’re working with your hands next to a spinning blade for hours a day and it’s pretty normal to see old timers missing a finger or two.

From the thumbnail those looked like PSL signs

I agree, but -

The thing about Age of Consent laws is that a case will never stand up in court unless the victim testifies. Even if a 50-y/o man is sleeping with a 14 y/o girl, it’s practically impossible to prove criminality unless the victim testifies in court against him (and even then, there’s a good chance that the judge will throw out the case anyways).

I think men that are paranoid about the legality of age gaps in relationships are either (1). Worried because they are taking advantage of young girls and think they would testify in court against then given the chance, or (2). Are more worried about what their social circles would think of them than a court of law.

First Vibe Coding, next Vibe Bombing

This is an Internet forum, not a party congress.

I am relishing in the terror.

Nice

The charities Imouhagh International, Kel Akal, Diaspora of the United States, and the Azawad Solidarity Association accuse them of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Sounds like the the organizations complaining are mostly for the Western diaspora. Just makes me think of similar orgs for Ughyrs or Tibetans or w/e that are solely made up of people who work for the U.S. government or NGOs it funds.

I’d like to hear what the Tuaregs actually living in the area think.

If there is a grain of truth to this story, I’d love to read into it more from a less biased source like Global Times or SCMP.

I agree that I think it’s silly to draw everything back to “Orientalism”.

I would just say that North Korea and Enver Hoxha were/are based and good, actually.

Israel would claim that the flotilla was providing material assistance to a military enemy, and were a legitimate target

“You said you would land on Mars by 2025. You were correct.”

I’ve met up with the RCA guys in my area a few times. They’re mostly alright but are exactly what you’d expect

I was going to answer “in the Internet Hole”, which was also my college nickname

The origin of “Maoism” as it’s used today goes back to China after Mao’s death, where there was a power struggle between those who stuck closer to Mao’s teachings (Peasant Democracy and political education/activism) and the more Technocratic, economically liberal elements.

In reality, the result was that moderates took power and did their best to appease both sides; but to the Maoists, they believe that after Mao’s death China fell to Liberal revisionism and the Gang of Four, the leaders of the Maoist movement, were exiled.

Maoism was popularized outside of China by Peru’s Shining Path, led by Chairman Gonzalo.

This war is essentially over,

Yeah, agreed.

The world will remember not to fuck with Ukraine

Are we watching different wars?

If this sort of thing happened in Korea we’d be hearing of it every day for years. Unfortunately this is a UK/US Phenomenon.

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