[–] 49 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

That other train that passed had a clear track, and they were waiting their turn on a side rail to use the track the other train was coming the opposite way on. Many many places only have one set of rails, there ain’t two-way traffic everywhere. You probably don’t want two million-ton vehicles to smash into each other in the middle of a wildfire.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    I'm not who you replied to but I have a similar view.

    For me, it's not "you didn't vote, so you support Trump", it's "you didn't vote, which says you were fine with any of the available candidates, how they presented themselves, and their plans for this nation. You were fine with any of them being President." Anybody who was fine with Trump being President gets criticism from me.

    Hell, I give more credit to somebody who put a write-in vote for "my cat: Sir Fluffykins, esq. III" because at least that person would make their voice heard that no candidate was acceptable.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    His last trick, which led to his death, involved the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō. While attempting to win immortality for mankind, Māui entered her vagina, intent on leaving through her mouth while she slept. However, he was crushed by the teeth in her vagina, which were made of obsidian. [citation needed]

    That's just wild on so many levels.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That math ain't mathing.

    Assuming a "long drive" is at least 200 miles and most of the trip is on a highway without a lot of slow spots, you should save much more than 20 minutes a year regularly going 15 mph over.

    With a lower highway speed limit of 60 mph, going 15 over will put you at 75 mph. In an hour, you're 15 miles further down the road going 75 than 60 and it will take you 15 more minutes going 60 to get to that same spot.

    Specific conditions will change the numbers, obviously. I'd consider both a few hundred mile drive and driving through NYC during rush hour to be long drives and they'll have vastly different stats. By all means leave earlier but that Speedr app seems like it's mathing wrong.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Your asterisk example is correct. For those less fluent: The "ch" in "chore" is the same as in "choice" and the "ch" in "chasm" is the same as "chord".

    Which is yet another example that english is really just three languages in a trench coat that mugs other languages in dark alleys for spare syntax.

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