in case you missed it, someone else corrected us and its Two Point Hospital I was thinking of, not Project Hospital

oh shit you’re right!

It’s Read The Fucking Manual not Fuck The Reading Manual

I remember watching a documentary about the chunnel back in the early 00s and the narrators highlighted how it’s enabled day-tripping to the other country for some folks, and spoke with a British couple who went to France to do some shopping that day

Gridscale batteries also have the benefit of being a very good place to reuse tired automobile batteries that otherwise would just be dumped. If we can get batteries that last 10-15 years in an automobile then another 10-15 in a grid scale deployment that’s far better than just lasting 15-20 years in an automobile. It also sucks that batteries completely die and have to be disposed of somehow because that’s not sustainable at all, but maybe there will be advancements in the future that make that less of a problem

I’m currently hemming and hawing over upgrading the drives in my server. I’ve got a pair of 4TB drives are are mostly full, and it looks like I could upgrade to 10-12TB for less than $300 (I also have a new chassis that I might put into service at the same time which can hold a lot more drives, plus my wife’s old CPU and MOBO would be a decent side-grade, so maybe I’ll also shift to RAID-Z1 with 3-4 drives over time and an external backup drive via PBS now that it officially supports external drives)

I live a few hours drive from Chicago and have family in LA, I would love the option to take an autotrain to visit family. The ability to bring my car to visit folks in such a car dependant place would make the cost really make a ton of sense, especially if we opted to only drive one direction and take the train the other direction.

We’re actually planning on driving out this thanksgiving (partly decided by cost and partly by making an added stop to visit family in Arizona which Amtrak and flying would both make extremely expensive in comparison) it also helps that our car was totaled by hail damage this year so since it now has no resale value despite being fairly new and fairly low mileage, there’s just no incentive to avoid putting tons of miles on it anymore. But if we could pay a couple thousand dollars for the experience of riding the rails just one direction, we probably would go that route

The account is also less than 2 weeks old and seems to mostly make comments like the above. Either they’re as much of a whiny Republican when challenged on their talking points as they present themselves to be, or they’re a troll/astroturfed. Either way, blocked

I love how you rant about people staying addicted to welfare programs because of one of the exact things the commenter above you was advocating to remove (upper limits to receive benefits)

I was going to reference Valentine as well with the hats. Trump gives some serious Velntine vibes asthetically

Realistically any distribution will meet your list of requirements. All supported distros are brilliant for security and privacy (well, except for (Red Star OS)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS], but I’m sure that wasn’t on your short list anyways) there’s packages for Steam on basically every distro, and flatpaks make it easy to install other launchers on most distros too. Most desktop environments have a Mac-inspired preset as well

I’d say start with either Linux Mint for more general computing (it’s based on Ubuntu but excludes some of Canonical’s less popular changes to Ubuntu and ships with a more sane desktop environment) or Bazzite is the new hotness giving a very steamdeck-like experience with dedicated gaming mode or desktop mode. Their site appears to currently be experiencing some SSL issues though

There’s also rumblings of potentially setting up a new Auto train route from NYC to LA. I have wonder if they’ll do the obvious thing of making a stop in Chicago as well given most long distance Amtrak services stop in Chicago

https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/intercity/private-company-ameristarrail-proposes-cross-country-auto-train-service-with-amtrak/

Mumford and Sons is currently running a tour by rail using Amtrak’s services!

https://railroadrevival.com/

But I’ve also heard of private groups pooling together to buy an old passenger car and keeping it maintained and up to whatever the current Amtrak requirements are so that they can do this regularly. Alternatively there’s several private companies who you can rent and charter a car or several with if you don’t want to commit long term to owning a railcar. I’ve specifically seen this one on private charter before for some model railroad events: https://261.com/cedar-rapids/

Amtrak does have the “auto train” which runs from just outside DC to just outside Orlando. You load your car on the train and ride the train rather than driving that distance. It’s apparently really popular with both snowbirds as well as vacationers

It’s absolutely goofy. Honestly it plays almost identically to Theme Hospital. I played both around the same time and I can’t remember what was from which game now

It’s an animated Disney show from around 2015 or so. Honestly it’s way better than it has any business being and it’s worth watching beginning to end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Falls

Another animated kids show with similar vibes that’s worth watching is Owl House. Unfortunately Disney did them dirty and Owl House didn’t get as clean of a wrap up like Gravity Falls did but it’s definitely worth a watch too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_House

Elmo how could you! How dare you display data on a format that poorly communicated the data! You were supposed to be better than this!

The town is too small to have any traffic lights at all. The new sidewalk in front of the school directly connects to the sidewalks of the nearest streets that intersection with the state highway that the school is on, but ideally the houses on the other side of the state highway would have a walking path to reach the school as well (they don’t)

The school is also the school, it’s shared between two neighboring towns and contains all of the elementary, middle and highschool classes. My wife graduated in a class of about a dozen from this school

There’s somethin’ gross in the fridge today / It’s green and growin’ hair / It’s been there since July / If you can name the object / In that baggie over there / Then mister, you’re a better man than I

There’s a town near me where the school is technically on a state highway. Any student who walks to school gets instantly suspended for the day for walking on a highway. In the last few years they started building a nice big sidewalk connecting to the actual town streets so that kids can legally walk to school, but it is pretty bonkers that that school is so far from where kids should be walking or biking