You're right. I'll put my pitchfork away.

I think of this when Europeans on Reddit make blanket statements about the US without recognizing places like Massachusetts exist. Heaven forbid any of us live anywhere but Florida and Alabama.

This exists?! I must have it.

That act actually just opened community health centers in lieu of state run facilities. It didn't really shutter mental health support in the way Lanterman-Petris-Short did.

> requires more human touch

As a counter argument, I believe a human touch can include anything all over the map. I don't blame someone looking to get more of an unbiased or more reserved iteration before submitting anything important, especially if you conclude it does a better job than you of conveying meaning. I sometimes struggle at getting to the core of what I mean through words. It's one of the reasons emoji's were created.

We've had like 4 proper cold days this entire year. We've had so few cold days I thought that -10 day was kind of a fun time. Even being 30s this week with "snow" coming barely counts. We haven't had an actual winter in years, but this is by far the warmest I can remember.

We have more than enough money to do both. The US was sending resources to Ukraine without even affecting its 2022 military budget. The US spends like 3% of its GDP on military infrastructure. Freight railroads are often a PPP between state/federal/private entities, but legislation needs to exist (and are up to date) to ensure minimal standards are maintained. We've been rolling these standards back since 2016, so this was bound to happen.

Unfortunately train derailments, like any other hazard/disaster cannot be reduced to 0%. The difference we can make is to implement the policies at a national level proposed during the Obama administration which standardizes EBS in freight rail, and invests in continuous improvements to aging rail lines. States themselves do also bear responsibility in ensuring rail infrastructure is held to at least minimal standards of safety, and parts of the line near East Palestine were well below standards. Screaming on the internet about one rich CEO is not how you fix this stuff though. It's how you get laughed at.

They'll be mad at someone else next week once everyone forgets about this, rather than actually doing anything about it.

The dust caused by something not even related to the train derailment in Ohio, which is not directly the responsibility of the current CEO of Northfolk Southern, a company literally everyone in this community likely relies upon in more ways than they can count. This community is becoming embarrassing.

What's more interesting is how it'll exit the news cycle about as fast as it entered it. We'll have the same Trump/DeSantis articles for months and months though.

Looks like it was cosponsored by reps Carlos Gonzalez (10th Hampden) and Judith Garcia (11th Suffolk). Might want to check and see if they've donated their brains.

I dunno it feels like we've been getting less and less winter for the past 10-15 years aside from a freak record breaking month in 2015. I'm taking my dog out at night with no coat in the middle of January. It's not normal.

I just tried this question myself and it repeatedly dodges the question and claims such a thing is not possible. That being said, ChatGBT isn't designed to offer actual advice like this. In its current form it's not doing a heck of a lot more than mirroring information it's able to scrub that's related to the topic requested. I shouldn't say "that's all", because that's impressive as hell, but it's not to the point of offering credible advice.

Your food looks just lovely, Bloodfart2112.

I'd say I would travel, hike, get into gardening like all these other wonderful people but I'd probably just play a lot of video games, spend even more time on youtube and reddit.

What if that's already their profession?

Always love getting lumped into the "Must be America" chatter regarding absolutely anything dumb on Reddit. Like OK buddy, whatever you say. Really living it up over there in Belarus.

This is a post is an advertisement literally from Apple Insider. What the fuck, /r/gadgets?

Looks like Blackstone must have just removed the sexual assault investigation specialization for him from their site.

If you read the actual text of this it applies to businesses, institutions, and municipalities. This doesn't apply to residential waste, nor would it even be enforceable if it were. You are still 100% free to toss those old socks in the wastebin.

I feel like I've been watching this racing towards us at breakneck speed and unless you're just into this stuff you don't notice it at all. So I mention this concept to friends and while they can clearly see the quick progress, they don't see really where it can be applied and how that can impact people.

I am absolutely convinced the world is just a couple of years removed from a very rapid change in nearly every facet of life. I liken it to the internet boom in the 1990s but its impact is far wider and faster. Way faster.