Gilroy-Palmdale is still very much alive and almost certain to happen.

Let’s face it: There will never be enough political will or public interest to justify the monster costs of extending the high-speed rail into both downtowns. However, Gilroy-Palmdale will still be successful enough to be profitable for these key reasons:

1. Even though it doesn’t directly** **go to San Francisco or Los Angeles, it still goes into both metro areas, both of which already have adequate public transportation that will take you to both cities’ downtowns (San Francisco’s Caltrain and Los Angeles’s Metrolink)

2. The fact that it goes from one region of California to another (unlike the IOS) will make it much more attractive to riders, even some that currently fly from LA-SF.

I’m not sure we’ll ever see high-speed rail between Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown San Francisco, but we will definitely see it between the two metro areas at some point.

It’s pretty fucking obvious that nobody was stranded on that island and just happened to have a damn anemometer, satellite dish, windsock and hammer casually with them 🤣🤣🤣 And there’s also no way production explored that island and just found that shelter in the middle of the jungle. Just say you guys planted all that shit there for them.

Now there’s something I never thought I would say.

Persona and Mark Zuckerberg are very clearly lobbying the living fuck out of politicians across the country to pass this shit. But not because they actually give a shit about children…

No, they just want to have the ability to TRACK EVERY FUCKING AMERICAN DOWN TO THE WIRE!!!!

It is a blanket invasion of privacy and they KNOW that; That’s their goal.

We pride ourselves as a free country and yet ever since age verification laws first became commonplace (starting with adult sites), billionaires and CEOs have just asked for MORE AND MORE POWER over everyone else. It’s basically become a cycle for them: Get something that might give you more power >>> Find it to be really successful >>> You suddenly realize you could have more control >>> Get more control by any means necessary

They know exactly what they’re doing. The core values of America are being shattered before our very eyes by the ultra-wealthy and those in power.

Ok maybe I was exaggerating a little when I said I’m considering leaving, but I still don’t know how to fix this problem.

I’ve seen some people saying that based on how long it took to open Phase I, Phase II will open just before the Olympics and III will not open until after them.

But it’s overly pessimistic to assume that it will not be ready in time for the Games. Two major things happened in Phase I that caused it to take so long, which Phases II and III will not have:

1. The D Line had to be connected to Phase I before they started testing because Wilshire/Western was the western end of the line so they were not connected. Phases II and III are already connected to Phase I, so they won’t have that little delay in testing.

2. Phase I had 3 stations, the most of the extension. Phases II and III only have two stations each so it will not take them as long to finish the station interiors.

Additionally, Phase I testing was messed up because there were power outages on the line and they couldn’t continue testing until power was restored. What are the chances that happens again?

I’m not saying that it definitely will happen before the Olympics; I have been disappointed before. But I would be shocked if they don’t open it before the Games.

Fucking shitty-ass job market.

I just got my BS in Business Administration about a couple months ago and I still don’t have a fucking job. I’ve applied to multiple jobs ever since I graduated and am even taking an online course for an application (PowerBI) just to see if that’ll help me.

I’ve actually been applying since the start of the school year. In total, I have applied to about 200 jobs (I was applying more aggressively after graduation) and received… wait for it…

ONE FUCKING INTERVIEW!!!!

And of course, that interview led to nothing.

I don’t want to flip burgers for the rest of my life. I specifically went to college to AVOID that. If I end up having to get one anyway, the five years I spent in college will have just been all for naught.

I know a piece of it was shut down in December 2016 and that it planned to reopen in either 2019 or 2020 but then COVID-19 came and idled the entire plant again. They haven’t officially said it’s out of business as far as I know but the flags at the office are gone and the office itself looks pretty dilapidated. Furthermore, the railroad tracks at the plant are overgrown as well as much of the plant itself.

Have they just abandoned it?

Is anyone else having trouble with that question?

The box plot visualization tool doesn’t work on my virtual machine. I put in all the right variables and all I got was a blank screen where the box plot would be.

Mamdani killing QueensLink basically confirms what I’ve been saying for months:

The MTA WILL NOT give in to calls to reopen the Rockaway Beach Branch, even if the mayor supports it.

The MTA has faked multiple studies over the past few years about why reopening the RBB is “not feasible/cost effective,” which in reality is them telling every supporter of its reopening, “SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! WE WILL NEVER TOUCH THAT GARBAGE!!! EVER!!!!”

Can you blame them though??? A landowner also seems opposed to it and the MTA has enough on their plate already; Another lawsuit regarding expansion plans would just add onto their problems.

This was not a Mamdani decision, this was an MTA decision. And even if it ultimately was a Mamdani decision, they clearly had way more say in it than they want you to think.

Comments I’ve recently made with ** ** and ~~ ~~ don’t format the way they’re supposed to anymore; They just show the text and those marks. Have y’all discontinued bold and strikethrough?

The meeting where Sound Transit’s board of directors decided to “defer” the 1 Line extension north of Seattle Center is basically a dead giveaway that they have absolutely no interest in building it all the way to Ballard. The only reason they haven’t flat out said it yet is because they know if they say it now, everyone will be pissed. But they’re still axing it: Why else do you think they’ve been so damn silent about when it might eventually be completed? If the freaking 4 Line, which doesn’t even SERVE Seattle, was chosen to move forward over the full buildout of the Ballard extension, that says a lot about where ST’s priorities currently lie.

At best, either King County Metro will improve the D Line or Sound Transit will build a streetcar line to bridge the gap between Seattle Center and Ballard.

But light rail? That ship has sailed.

For some time I have been applying to multiple jobs per week (originally 4+ per week but now 2+ per day, including on weekends) and have started to just stop caring. I know I shouldn’t stop caring but I just don’t know how. I also began a certification program about a week ago to increase my chances of landing a job, and combining both has made me exhausted.

Is this a real feeling or am I just being fucking lazy? I want to think it’s real but I can’t help but feel like it’s the latter just because my mood is so down right now.

At lunch, I ate a turkey sandwich with toasted bread and I noticed a slight discoloration on the crust. I couldn’t tell what it was, but it wasn’t on the bread, so I thought it was fine.

I was about to make myself another one when I noticed the same discoloration. I looked for other slices and the discoloration in some cases was actually ON the bread. Now I’m pretty positive I ate fungus-infested bread at lunch. I really hope I didn’t accidentally do something dangerous.

I have seen a lot of doomerism about the HF in recent weeks so I’m just gonna go ahead and say that its discontinuation is highly unlikely to happen.

Yes, Texas stripped funding last year. Yes, Oklahoma also stripped funding this year. It definitely looks very bleak for the HF’s future. But unless the TX Legislature decides in 2027 to continue to not fund it, I’m not gonna give up on it.

Both ODOT and TxDOT are still actively exploring ways to fund their shares, and Oklahoma state politicians have even outright said they are open to hosting an emergency session to restore funding if Texas funding goes through.

Remember last year when Texas stripped funding? Everyone was panicking about its shutdown and that it was inevitable and yet the NCTCOG stepped in and redirected toll revenue to fund Texas’s portion, and that was done with a much shorter window.

Both states have much more time to work something out now and even if the train does end by the end of the year, the Texas Legislature meets up in January 2027, and they may suddenly decide to resume paying their share, so that’s another way it stays alive.

Only if both legislatures pull the plug on it after their 2027 sessions will I be convinced it’s gone for good. Not until then.

I tried logging in with my regular email and password. Didn’t work.

So I tried resetting my password, and it told me the token was invalid.

So I am totally locked out. What the heck is going on and is there anything at all I can do? I already tried contacting the support team but it’s just a freaking bot.

So here I am thinking I have two job interviews lined up that are only an hour apart from each other. I call my mom to tell her the good news…

She looks up both companies, Elite Generations and Zion Capital, AND FINDS OUT THAT THEY’RE JUST THE SAME FUCKING PYRAMID SCHEME!!!!

I can’t believe I was dumb enough to fall for it. My mom just saved my ass from a lifetime of hell but it still pisses me off that neither of those jobs was real.

Fuck MLMs.

I am so fucking pissed off rn. Here I was thinking I had two legitimate job interviews an hour apart from each other and I called my mom to tell her the good news…

She went to look up both companies, Zion Capital and Elite Generations, AND IT TURNED OUT THEY WERE BOTH PART OF THE SAME GODDAMN PYRAMID SCHEME.

Here I am desperately trying to look for a job as I am fresh out of college and this MLM company is taking advantage of my situation and exploiting it for their own benefit.

I can’t believe there are actually assholes out there that have nothing better to do than exploit vulnerable individuals.