I’m assessing whether your “guess” is wild SF-inspired imagination or grounded in anything, you know, actually factual.

You’ve answered.

How adorable.

Just the high-speed trains here carry just under 3 billion passengers per year. Divide it by respective populations (land area is roughly equivalent) and you’ve got the equivalent of the USA carrying 735 million passengers annually.

And that’s just high-speed trains.

If you factor in regular rail we can add about 730 million extra passengers (183 million extra passengers for US population adjustment).

The USA has a whole lot of work to do before it catches up even on regular rail, not to mention high-speed.

This is “Single-Bamboo Drifting” (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

Judging by later messages, this is a True Believer. Which when translated to English is “idiot”.

You seem both nice and very bright.

there are a bunch of orb-like UFOs exploring our sensitive areas

I think you will find that traditionally they do anal probes for this.

Seems like military drone tests in my opinion.

Have any actual expertise to back that opinion up?

(Hint: probably not.)

Things like the “C-Trains” in Calgary, despite being intended for mass transit (and ridden mainly by the poors) are also multi-compartment.

The reasons it’s so narrow is that Apartheid Manchild’s “Boring Company” has drills that are too small for the projects he envisions using them for.

What was supposed to be a simple task (modifying some code from an MCU to another MCU in the same family) is turning into a nightmare as it turns out that the “same family” can be radically different with this vendor’s products.

So … “fun”. In both the ironic and not-ironic sense.

One of my absolute favourites of all time for street food is 肉夹馍. Had it this Tuesday on the way home from work. A very close second is 煎饼. Last time I had that, though, was over a month ago.

Yes. That’s exactly what I said.

🙄

I guess this is what happens when people grow up with video games instead of people.

I honestly can’t stand eating packaged dried so-called “ramen” made the way the instructions say. I can only bear eating them … like crackers. So I’m with you on that.

My own weird thing?

I like eating plain steamed buns (“mantou”) by using a dip made of peanut oil, a few drops of sesame oil, and some decent rice vinegar.

That’s one HELL of a can of worms to be opening. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush isn’t about birds, nor hands, for example.

Perhaps people should just learn?

What he said.

I’m not seeing the bullets in your solution here. Did I overlook them?

Yeah, that whole separate school board thing is ludicrous, especially given how the proportion of people identifying as Catholic in Canada has been on a steady decline since the 1950s. (I vaguely recall that being a drop from over 50% to under 30%, with 15% dropping in just the 2000s alone.)

It may be time to dismantle that wasteful system.

Thinking isn’t being.

The point of ACAB isn’t to take it literally. It’s a reminder that a whole fucking lot of cops, particularly in the USA, are bad. And the problem is that when you’re dealing with an individual cop at an individual interaction, you don’t know which you’re dealing with. And you won’t until it’s too late.

So the smartest thing to do is, with any interaction with police, clam up and lawyer up. No matter what. Because you don’t know if they’re asking questions because they’re investigating someone else or investigating you. And when the latter, the bad cops (and remember, you don’t know which kind you’ve got!) will cheerfully lie and cheat and distort and generally railroad you to fit their theory.