blanketswithsmallpox

Does anyone have a X-Files Kai recommendation lol?

I ain't got the time for 218 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X-Files_episodes

No, and your rent goes down by an equivalent amount for the 13th month as well.

These newsletters come out all the damn time and are relatively easy to get signed up for these Fusion Center briefs. You can generally apply if you have at least a remote level of need for them either through physical security, or cyber security.

They're typically based on SAR (suspicious activity reporting), so they're essentially briefs and generally tip guides about things that might be happening in your state or area. All those tips that you send via tips.fbi.com or similar tend to make their way to your local fusion center. They get marked down for relevant current political climate stuff from multiple agencies, typically include thwarted terrorist events or online calls for action, and will usually training available.

While most of the info in these newsletters are For Official Use Only, there's a lot that might straight up be publicly available which can still be shared under the CUI Program. You just can't share the entire document itself since it's typically unclassified, but that doesn't mean you can share it publicly. Parts of it maybe, it'll tell you which parts you can. It's similar to Traffic Light Protocol for any CISA stuff if you get those. TLP Clear is capable of being publicly released. Everything else has some sort of limitation.

Just to back this up, the 32 ICE murders in 2025 didn't involve US Citizens.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline

Keith Porter was also a US Citizen, but we don't have high quality video of the dude being executed from multiple angles in broad daylight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#Deaths

Ya'll know Veracrypt isn't Bitlocker right?

Ya'll realize there are still way more regular images and videos than there are people trying to ragebait shooped ai slop right?

I swear even on reddit people claim the most inocuous shit as AI, or even worse, think good old fashioned special effects aren't real.

Captain Disillusion got out at a good time.

Regular old ZIP with AES-256 should do the trick for anything truly important you want to keep locked down.

You could always do sly stuff like Hidden volumes with Veracrypt as well. Leave the crumb trail for the low key shit or old nudes of gfs you have permission to keep.

Destroying things from the inside is one of the most effective ways of crippling an organization.

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

Does https://massgrave.dev/ not work anymore?

Never let Rimu know that we ran a train on their mom.

I hate to tell you, but this sort of anti-science medical fearmongering is half the reason why millennials and older had to suffer through their entire formative years and young adult lives dealing with untreated ADHD by treating help as if it's makes people lesser than others.

They're just kids! They don't need no ritalin, that's just how boys are! He just needs to focus, and that's on the school to figure out! Besides, what happens when they stop taking it, all the good work you've done for 10 years including the capability of getting a good job will just fall apart when the apocalypse hits!

Okay, Bill. Now don't forget to take your omeprazole and losartan heart meds before you have to visit the ER again from thinking you're having a heart attack, or actually having one again.

We had 4 lighters! Who has all the damn lighters!?

Cue whoever has the 2x oversized hoodie emptying their hoodie pocket of like 8 lighters: Sorry! I just forget!

Thanks friendly neighborhood train autist!

Now going back on track... huehuehue, did you have any solid sauce on actual costs estimates? The initial google was wildly different, with anywhere from 10 million to 500 million per mile. Which to a layperson like me, seems vastly inflated, but top sources and AI was able to more or less verify, and might even be giving even lower numbers than actual.

Per mile, the New York project cost $2.6 billion, which is high even by U.S. standards. For example, the Purple Line in Los Angeles cost $800 million per mile. By international standards, the New York price tag is stratospheric: A project in Madrid cost $320 million per mile, and one in Paris cost just $160 million per mile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/comments/hpaq1r/average_cost_per_km_of_high_speed_rail/

https://www.hsrail.org/blog/why-transit-projects-cost-more-in-the-u-s-than-almost-anywhere-else-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1mej6ix/cmv_it_is_not_cost_effective_to_biuld_high_speed/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_the_United_States

They generally can't parse information from videos from my understanding. It's decently well sourced, and just like the other person said, a quick google gave wildly different opinions on prices, so this is a great starting point.

Even our friendly neighborhood train autist gave zero pricing lmfao.

Edit: Unfortunately despite everyone's bitching, including a very helpful friendly neighborhood train autist, we still have no better answers for how much it would cost with regular google providing wildly different answers, so good chance the below listed information is still correct given the relatively okay, but not robust sauce.

Per ChatGPT how much would it cost to interconnect all major cities with high speed rail in the usa:

Good question — there’s no single authoritative number, but based on past studies and real U.S. projects we can make some rough-order estimates of what it might cost to “interconnect all major U.S. cities” with a true high-speed rail (HSR) network — and the result tends to be in the hundreds of billions to low-trillions of dollars. Here’s how one might arrive at such a figure, with major caveats.

🔎 What we know already: cost per mile is very high

Building HSR tracks in the U.S. is extremely expensive. For example, in California High-Speed Rail (CA-HSR), costs per mile have been estimated as high as ~ US$200 million per mile for full, 220 mph-class track. (Hoover Institution)
Not all rail needs to be brand-new dedicated track. For less ambitious upgrades (e.g. improving existing rail corridors to somewhat higher speeds) cost estimates are much lower: in one case, upgrading ~3,000 miles of track was estimated at about US$7.7 billion — ~US$2.5 million per mile. (Congress.gov)
A 2009 federal assessment noted a wide variation: while dedicated high-speed lines might cost tens of millions per mile (for example a projected HSR line between Los Angeles area and Las Vegas was estimated at about US$22 million to US$48 million per mile depending on route/terrain).

So the cost per mile can vary by more than an order of magnitude — depending on whether the rail is new vs upgraded, terrain, urban vs rural, tunneling/bridges, land acquisition cost, station infrastructure, electrification, signaling, etc.

🌐 What “connect all major cities” might mean — and how much track that could require

Estimating a U.S.-wide high-speed network depends a great deal on how one defines “major cities” and the level of connectivity (hub-and-spoke? dense mesh?). But even a modest network that connects perhaps 30–50 of the largest metropolitan areas would likely require tens of thousands of route-miles of new or upgraded track.

Past proposals give some sense of scale:

A plan studied by U.S. federal authorities once envisioned about 12,800 miles of passenger-rail corridors (not necessarily full HSR), with an early cost projection of ~USD 50 billion for a “moderate-speed” rail system — but that projected cost does not apply to full-speed, dedicated HSR. (Downsizing the Federal Government)
Analysts skeptical of HSR argue that a true nationwide high-speed rail network (serving many states and major cities with dedicated track) could cost US$500 billion to US$1 trillion — and once you “fill in all gaps,” perhaps close to US$1 trillion or more. (BLE-T)

💡 What a plausible ballpark cost looks like today

Because of all the variation, any large-scale estimate must come with wide error bounds. But a rough range:

If you built a “skeleton” network — connecting major city clusters using mostly upgraded existing tracks and selective new segments — costs might run hundreds of billions of dollars (e.g. US$300–600 billion).
If you instead built a more ambitious, high-speed, dedicated-track network linking most major cities (think “bullet-train everywhere”), costs could easily reach US$700 billion to over US$1 trillion, possibly more depending on scope, geography, and how modern you demand the system to be.

Indeed, some conservative projections see ~US$1 trillion as a realistic floor for a comprehensive U.S. HSR system. (BLE-T)

⚠️ Why the uncertainty is so large — and what could drive cost up or down

Terrain & urban density: Building through mountains, hills, or densely populated urban areas (especially with tunnels/viaducts, land acquisition) dramatically increases per-mile costs (as seen in CA-HSR). (Hoover Institution)
Shared vs dedicated tracks: Upgrading existing tracks for “higher-speed” is far cheaper than building new dedicated corridors — but yields slower speeds and sometimes lower ridership. (Congress.gov)
Inflation, regulatory, environmental mitigation, stations, electrification, signaling, rolling stock, maintenance facilities: all add huge extra costs over just laying track. U.S. costs historically have run much higher than many international systems for comparable projects. (High Speed Rail Alliance)
Ambition & coverage: A minimal network with only a few corridors is much cheaper; a dense mesh covering dozens of metro areas raises costs steeply.
Political, legal, and land-rights hurdles: In the U.S., acquiring rights-of-way, dealing with local regulations, environmental reviews, and community opposition tend to add delays and cost overruns — as seen with CA-HSR. (U.S. Government Accountability Office)

🎯 Bottom line: It’s possible — but very expensive

If the U.S. decided to connect all major cities with a modern high-speed rail network (dedicated tracks, fast speeds, nationwide coverage), a realistic cost estimate is likely in the range of several hundred billion to over a trillion dollars (in today’s dollars).

If you like, I can run a rough “back-of-envelope” estimate: pick, say, the 50 biggest U.S. metro areas, lay out hypothetical direct HSR connections, and compute a total cost estimate — to show you concretely what “major-city-wide national HSR” might cost under different assumptions (cheap upgrades vs full build). Do you want me to build that estimate now?

/r/cospenis if this was reddit.

Maybe we should quit lying to ourselves in the name of civility that only gets turned against us, and start wishing a little more often lol.

Did they account for X, Y, Z?

What about all my personal anecodotes!

OMG this was just a survey? HOW IN THE WORLD COULD YOU EVER TELL IF SOMEONE LIED!?

Researchers who already thought of all this and it's in the study: -_-

Different rock, different hill.

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All of X-Files, summed up.

It's the dream

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

Fuck ICE

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

Papers, please

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

sending my worst wishes

Windows 7

Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

It's just aging /s

handling strays

Trains 🤧

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🔎 What we know already: cost per mile is very high

🌐 What “connect all major cities” might mean — and how much track that could require

💡 What a plausible ballpark cost looks like today

⚠️ Why the uncertainty is so large — and what could drive cost up or down

🎯 Bottom line: It’s possible — but very expensive

Separate Group Chat

Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

Disproven

So that's how it came about!

Prometheus

After the new Kurzgesagt video about black holes...

Keeping your refrigerator stocked will get you many women

Snorlax pwns

It’s the Flintstone Rap! 🦕

We Need to Rethink Exercise – The Workout Paradox

Megadeth Drummer Hears Paramore For The First Time

Full Sized Crow of Judgement

Anti-Marijuana PSA: "The Death Drug" (1996)

Why don't idle games mine for crypto?

Ape gives audience the Ol Razzle Dazzle before flinging hot feces on them.

Kiwi!