She was also driving north on the southbound tracks. After that station, you head into a long underground tunnel as the train passes through the downtown.
Hope might spring eternal, but every bit going forward was actually more dangerous than the bit before for her and the thousand people on each train.
Its not several miles, but it was at least a quarter mile. The station is elevated, but about a quarter mile away the tracks are level with the road. They are up a large curb, there is “no car” signage and you have to literally drive off a road, over a gap and onto train tracks, but its not miles away. You can almost see the station from the place she likely entered:
There apparently is video footage from the transit system, but it wasent been released yet so we don’t know where she entered the tracks yet.
Seattle’s local satire site “theneedling” hitting all the right notes as usual:
No bus costs $95/person to operate, especially when running at capacity. Its just gouging, plain and simple.
You know its gouging because these trips already operate daily at $10-20/person, so its a 5x-10x markup for the same service offered the day before to literally anyone but the captive audience.
That’s explorative, and should not be part of our infrastructure like public transit systems, regardless of who it serves.
There are some echos here, but likely not the intent. The artist tends towards absurdism. With their work in mind, I read this as a literal take.
Here are a bunch more examples and they dont have the stink of transphobia on them:
https://pleated-jeans.com/2024/04/10/new-dark-humor-comics-beetlemoses/
An interview if you want to dig deeper:
It’d already causing breaking changes:
The descendants of Lafayette will likely end up northward in that kind of conflict, in which case the US is fucked.
Its Camus, a famed French existentialist, so the buddist take is likely more in line with his intent. The core premise of his philosophy is that life has no instrinsic meaning, so you have to make your own with the radical, total freedom you have as a thinking being.
Trucks are still tricky, but new EVs cars are about the same cost as new ICE cars. Used EVs are basically entirely reasonable and in some cases cheaper than used ICE.
Nothing new is going to beat a paid off car for affordability, but that’s a pretty apple to oranges comparison no matter how you slice it.
I have it working without issue just via steam now. Deleting the game and enabling “proton experimental” in the games comparability settings downloaded the modern game. On start, it opened a browser tab and had me link my steam/epic accounts, and bobs your uncle.
I have heroic launcher installed for gog/epic, but its not involved with this. Its good to know there is an alternative install path possible if I need it.
Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.
They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.
They are giddy because its almost time for payday.
Which version of proton? I can start the game and play bots, but the multiplayer is not availble for steam/epic friends. Literally no multiplayer browser loads at all.
EDIT: Jesus. I’m still testing, but it looks like steam installs the defunct “Linux” build of rocket league that has not been updated for 6 years. You need to install the proton version instead by enabling proton experimental in the comparability mode.
Subscriptions are moving to usage based. Ain’t gonna be $200/month/Dev soon. Gonna be $3-4k/month/Dev.
Let’s keep this party going with a segue into the gorillzas ram ranch mashup:
The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.
I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.
Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”
If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.
That was such a wildly stupid move. They lost a hundred million dollar lawsuit, and also inspired the hardware hacker geohot to breach the PS3s DRM for the first time. The same DRM they had crowed about for 3 years for being “unbreakable.” I’m pretty sure he breached it in a week.
Turns out all the nerds just left the PS3 alone because the “other OS” option that shipped Linux with it let them do all the things they wanted to do with the PS3 already, things they bought the $800 console for. Things that sold more consoles!
They burned goodwill, lost hundreds of millions in a lawsuit, lost console sales, lost their anti-piracy talking point, and all for what? To remove easy Linux access for a few thousand niche users who were doing cool shit like making clustered super computers.
Sony had people turning their gaming consoles into SUPER COMPUTERS and instead of shouting to the rafters about how rad they were and basking in some reflected glory, they decided to fuck with them instead.
Idiots, but not a big surprise from the “let’s hide rootkits on audio CDs” people.
Barnes and Noble is another book store example that’s following a similar arc. They were on a severe downward trend for years, but new leadership let each store set its own content and suddenly they opening stores instead of closing them.
I can repeat the same refrain as above, but instead I’ll say that if the wide cultural impulse is to keep times loose, then there is no disrespect of peoples time. Casual starts and stops for an event that everyone understand are very respectful, as they grant everyone full autonomy.
You may not enjoy a loose time table, but that dosent make the trait “shitty.” It makes it something you dont like is all.
I’m still waiting for “human resources” from the same devs.
Hell, bring back super Monday night combat even.
Any used SFF PC will blow away a pi5, even something with like a 4th gen Intel chip. Form factor is roughly the size of a DVD case instead of a deck of cards like a pi, but as long as that not an issue you should be fine getting something cheap and used.
They are absolutely in their element with this one. Another great blitzkrieg on it :
https://theneedling.com/2026/05/02/mount-baker-station-celebrates-opening-of-new-park-and-ride-to-psychiatrist/