I do a pretty mean slap the backboard layup and always put my cart firmly back in the corral though. HTH
Reading this post helped me pass about 10 seconds of time, instead of working. Responding gave me another minute to slack off. You, sir, are useful.
Is the amount of infrastructure needed to build out high speed train system in the US like there is in Europe really a net benefit? I agree that there should be enhanced regional options, but it seems like just using the air is a better use of time/resources than laying a million miles of new tracks all over the place. From Chicago I should easily be able to get to all of the major metro areas in the Midwest. I can't imagine the spend it would take to make a competitive option for going to Denver, Dallas, NYC, Atlanta, etc. It would be better to spend on supply chain infrastructure than personal travel. Am I totally off base here? Maybe we get to a hybrid system of some sort where instead of multi leg flights you fly to a major hub and then use trains to get to your final destination.
Glasses? I laughed bc calling a bunch of old white guys and a single POC, diverse, seems to be a little bit of a stretch to me. .
There is a bald guy, a guy with a beard, a few with glasses, a guy with grey hair, blue eyes, brown eyes. Sweet, sweet diversity.
now? no, but the regional high speed system would be gamechangers and if the US could ever figure out what makes us basically non competitive with every other foreign country on build costs and technology advances I could see the feasibility of starting to link the networks
No offense but that sounds awful. The last thing I’d want to do is fly to Orlando to wait to get on a train to take me to Miami or Tampa. I’d just want to fly there. Or fly to Denver to get on a train to Jackson Hole or SLC.
I shared this story because it happened to me yesterday with my group text with Buzz pperc kentucky_dawg Leeroy Jenkins! and g8r and I don’t know where else it fits. I ran into Publix on my way home yesterday to grab a few things for the weekend. Get back to my car and there’s an old woman hunched over in front of my car and before I can get the words out to say, “are you ok?” I realized what was happening. Lady was squatting and pissing in between the front of my car and another. I literally couldn’t not get words to come out of my mouth, she never saw me somehow and all I saw was her asscheeks hanging out of her brown suede sweat suit as she pulled it up and walked off to the store.
Thats about as random of a group text as I could imagine. Edit: I read that as JuliusLeRoy but point remains.