NaturalsNotInIt [any]

This level of service is pretty much the norm in the US for a town with less than ~75k.

https://www.newsweek.com/will-why-liberals-love-trains-68597

Time was, the progressive cry was “Workers of the world unite!” or “Power to the people!” Now it is less resonant: “All aboard!”

I was a drug addict with a godly line of credit.

Just be rich, that’s what they all are.

The ruling class is very racist against Russians.

The US literally has a naval base and a prison camp on the territory of a country we’ve been openly hostile to for 60 years.

A lot of it is projection as well, another form of Capitalist Realism. If you’re a STEM/adjacent person in the West, odds are you work in Defense, Oil&Gas, Auto, Aerospace (which rely on the first 2), or Tech/Entertainment (which makes money the same way tobacco or alcohol or gambling companies do, addiction).

Regardless of what exactly you make, odds are someone down the line you come to realize that what you do for a living is based on either killing people, or killing the planet, or making people miserable by selling them more pointless shit to coerce them to keep working for the empire. So it’s definitely possible for you to develop a mindset where you can’t even imagine the things you work on being used for anything but Bad - prime example is how Silicon Valley leaders shelter their kids from tech more than fundamentalist Christians. You hear about AI, and of course your brain goes to “how are we gonna use this to sell ads, get people addicted, or bomb other countries”? Because that’s what the capitalist world makes technology for.

Creating new alts helps you avoid the crazy reddit/4chan people most of all. It’s questionable if it works with Feds tbh, doubt it hurts though.

Interestingly, China doesn’t even consider them part of Taiwan (the province). They’re part of Fujian, the mainland province right next door.

A source with direct knowledge of the matter, who was not authorised to speak to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity,

:doubt:

Told Reuters the carrier Shandong sailed close to the Taiwan-controlled island of Kinmen, which sits directly opposite the Chinese city of Xiamen

Around 10:30 a.m. the CV-17 appeared around 30 nautical miles to the southwest of Kinmen, and was photographed by a passenger on a civilian flight," the source said, referring to the Shandong’s official service number

Let’s check the map

https://www.google.com/maps/search/kinmen/@24.4712622,118.5626342,10z

30 nautical miles to the Southwest… Looks like a Chinese carrier was spotted near the coast of China. How provocative!