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  • Tamil Nadu: 3 Dalit manual scavengers die cleaning septic tank without safety gear

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  • The (upper-caste) people in charge are often itching to acquaint people from the lower strata with the business end of a noose at the drop of a hat, so that tends to hamper efforts towards a workers' union -- but even so, there are some pretty significant efforts here and there

  • We rescued this lil orc at the humane society!

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  • That is a land manatee

  • OnePlus Nord CE3 refuses to use the mic on Bluetooth devices

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  • Ugh I really don't want to have to do that

  • Formatting issues with OxygenOS 15

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  • It was the launcher! I tried out Microsoft Launcher and that looks so much better. Thanks!

  • India's also jumping on the "conflating socialism with fascism" train

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  • And the ruling BJP is the worst offender as far as that despicable practice is concerned

  • Tamil Nadu: 3 Dalit manual scavengers die cleaning septic tank without safety gear

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  • India overtook Japan in total GDP yesterday

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • Unfortunately. At least ours is cheap

  • US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse

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  • "Just following orders"

    Honestly every single one of them deserves to have their names and faces on public record

  • A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US

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  • Assholes. Transphobes included

  • As someone forced to ride my bike right next to thundering trucks and cars on the roads every day, I can't begin to enumerate how many close calls I've had because there are no bike lanes here.

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  • What in the fuck

  • Locked

    I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide

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  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • I've just told you I live in Asia and you've sent a link about public transport in America.

    Very good USdefaultism, sir.

  • They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better) - Not Just Bikes

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  • Utrecht in the Netherlands had a moat that they turned into a motorway, and then back into a canal a few years ago

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • They're still there

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • I'm from here and I ride the trains up and down the length of the country fairly often, usually in sleeper class. Every class from Sleeper (SL) and up has linens -- sometimes they're hard to find or just not supplied, but they're there.

    Overcrowding is an issue regardless of whether you have or haven't gotten a confirmed berth, because folks with unreserved tickets will also come crowding in (because they have to get where they're going and there simply aren't enough trains to satisfy demand) and you end up having to share your space with them even if you have a reserved seat. It's exponentially worse in the sleeper/general (sitting) cars but it happens everywhere on the train. I've shared my space with them and I've been them. It's not a pretty sight or a good experience for anyone involved.

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • I didn't say luxurious, I said lacking in basic amenities. You're absolutely right that trains should be for everyone, not just for the rich -- but everyone also deserves to travel with a certain basic level of sanitation and comfort that isn't there on a lot of Indian trains. Just because they're cheap doesn't mean they should be shit.

    The toilets are filthy and unhygienic, the running water often...isn't, the bed linen has been found to be dirty and/or infested with vermin on quite a few occasions, and the general state of most trains is just bad. Over and above that, the trains themselves haven't been upgraded in years AND an increasing number of them just...aren't in service any more, which means delays, horrible overcrowding, conflict on board the train, and an overall unpleasant passenger experience that further drives people away from taking trains.

    This is made a lot worse by the fact that the railway authorities here tend to focus on trying to improve the experience for actual rich people in the upper classes (ie. 1st class/AC class) who aren't even taking the train anyway -- they're flying. That means ticket prices for even the lower classes are rising, because all that money has to come from somewhere, but there's no commensurate increase in the standard of service.

  • Dalit man killed after brutal assault for calling caste-Hindu shopkeeper’s son “beta” in Gujarat

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  • Caste originated in Hinduism. The concept has (slightly) bled over into other minority religions in the subcontinent due to cultural assimilation, but it's most deeply entrenched in Hinduism to this day and it shows up in absolutely horrific ways like this. There are hundreds of incidents like this across the country every day and a vast majority of them go completely unreported -- and that's not even accounting for microaggression that most folks either don't notice or choose to ignore because "that's just how things are".

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • India trains are the best trains in the world.

    Ehhhh...no, not really. There's a lot of room for improvement there, honestly. They're absolutely pretty inexpensive, but even then they're sorely lacking in basic amenities, and successive governments (especially the current one) have steadily been ignoring the railways more and more in favor of roads and airlines -- because rich people tend to either drive or fly, and mostly only poor people take trains. I guess the powers that be think that means the railways aren't worth caring about.

    It's causing a runaway effect where more and more people are being forced to use roads because the trains are either in terrible nick or overcrowded or both, which means there's even less focus on actually improving the trains, and so on and so forth.

  • A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US

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  • They're already blaming black people for it because the perpetrator happened to be black