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I love opening this app and sensing that discourse has occurred only by seeing the penumbra of meta-discourse, without seeing the discourse itself. (This suggests to me that I am curating my feed well.)

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It is also advertised rather prominently at Heathrow itself (including having uniformed staff standing there ready to sell you a ticket) in a way that makes it the most prominent/visible option and makes me suspect some percentage of people may not realize it’s not the only train to London.

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For all I know they do.

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They have rankings for everything now. Colleges, high schools, hospitals, cars, hotels. I am not sure they do anything other than rankings.

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The most interesting thing here is that it’s per 100 kg, implying that both you and the fare inspector (?) are supposed to know how much the building materials weigh.

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Waiting anxiously is strictly prohibited.

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“Excuse me, do you have a ticket for those building materials?”

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And people say Germans have no sense of humor.

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Doug @doug.city · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I was only 25 minutes or so late at my final destination.

Doug @doug.city · 29/09/2026

No, both under 60.

This is not necessarily to excuse the reliability issues, since obviously one of the most important functions of a railway is to transport people reliably. It is unfortunate that the infrastructure can’t keep up with the demand. But it’s only fair to discuss the positive aspects as well.

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DB obviously has systemic issues with reliability (both ICEs I rode last week were delayed, conveniently allowing me to still make my connection…), but it does do many other things right. The website, app, and passenger info systems are top-notch and so are the ICE equipment and on-board experience.

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These were specifically saying I was in Texas, unrelated to local laws.

Yeah I encounter it when I roam internationally. Don’t recall getting it in Canada last month but I got it in Germany and the UK.

LOL, I walked past this the other day and was a bit baffled. Is this a thing?

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I don't think this is widespread outside the US at all. Individual public transit operators may (or may even be required to) report such things for transparency purposes, but probably not to a national database.

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Happy birthday, young man!

I wonder if it’s a missing preposition or missing punctuation. You could imagine a comma there or something.

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Same. Not at all clear to me whether proceeds from hypothetical development would accrue to FEC the railroad or FECI the Brightline parent. But either way, it’s a long-term thing, not something that would help with the immediate problem of paying off the construction debt.

Does FECI own the land FECR sits on though? (I’m genuinely asking, I don’t know the answer.)

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I could be wrong but I assumed the real estate was still owned by FEC, which is now a totally separate company from Brightline.

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They’re going to rebuild the Palast der Republik, but gay.

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I probably should have, but frankly, they left me with bigger things to complain about, such that I almost forgot about this.

I recently paid extra for a seat assignment on a flight (because of a previous experience with that carrier not assigning me until the *gate* otherwise) and then an equipment change left me with a totally windowless window seat. 🙃

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I don’t usually post photos here at all, but I decided to make an exception in this case.

(A friend had the answer: a red sky at night being a sailor’s delight presumes that bad weather comes from the west, and nor‘easters come from the east, so this is the equivalent of a red sky at morning.)

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I would much prefer that! (Actually I saw someone encouraging people in their own city to step up the sunset photo game and sure, go for it!)

(Here’s a nice one from London a couple of nights ago…so they do happen in other places, provided they’re sufficiently large and important cities of course.)

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Anyway, about a sunset of all things? I realize “haha New Yorkers are assholes who think they live in the only place that matters” is an easy way to get engagement but step back and consider that you are *mad at people for enjoying the sunset*. I’m not sure the sunset enjoyers are the assholes here.

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(I could, if I wanted to, complain that there are cities with 1/10 of the population whose local affairs are also inescapable here due to demographic and economic factors, but truly who cares?)

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The complex this site has about NYC is so bizarre. Yeah, you’re going to see a lot of posts about it, because a lot of people live there. Nobody talking about the sunset or the weather are claiming other places don’t have such things, there are just (unfortunately for you, I guess) a lot of us.

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I have seen more people on here making fun of New Yorkers for posting photos of the sunset than I have seen photos of the sunset.

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Wow, Berlin has changed a lot in the three days since I was last there. I didn’t hear that the Soviets took back over, but gay this time.

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If the sunset in NYC is so red why is the weather forecast bad?

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The service gets very good ridership by US standards. There’s definitely a market for it; it’s not like they’re running empty (or infrequent) trains. The problem is that’s not enough to turn a profit, so extremely high ridership projections were needed.

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We can still talk about it sometime!

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And it’s not as if the ridership is *low*! Just lower than the probably unrealistic levels needed to actually make money.

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Clearly they thought they’d figured it out, and in spite of doing a really good job by many measures, it seems they didn’t. This should not come as a great surprise to anyone.

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I am sure you could find some mistakes (everyone makes mistakes) but whatever they were were likely trivial in comparison to “think you can make money building and operating a passenger railway,” a thing that basically no one has figured out how to do.

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It’s not like there’s a track record of companies building and operating passenger railroads profitably in other countries. This is just a company that chose a business it’s wideky regarded as almost impossible to make money in and showed that, yes, it’s almost impossible to make money in.

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Ah, fun. I love documentation.

No worries! I have no expectations of conversationally from people who bump into me thousands of miles from home. And yes, I had a great time!

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OK. I have made my point and don’t really have more to say on this matter.

I think that is likely the case! Nice meeting you too!