This is a genuine question. I’ve considered myself pro-train, but I’ve apparently never realized how vulnerable rails are, given the derailments in the UK due to heat. Is a large rail network even possible in the US? Would tornado season kill it in the midwest? Would the huge daily temperature changes in the southwest cause derailments?

And you are correct to do so.

Yeah, yeah, communists, whatever. Did you know that some people still pretend to be Finnish here?

You are correct.

I like soggy fries. I want to eat mashed potatoes with my bare hands in public.

I also like soggy cereal most of the time. You can suck the cereal milk out of it. If you want crunchy cereal, stop putting it in liquid.

Why is it that everyone associated with Harry Potter gets to be a star? There was a thread yesterday about whoever played Lavender Brown, and she also got called “Harry Potter Star,” even though nobody seemed to remember the character even being in the movies. There has to be a cutoff somewhere.

“Tower, we’re losing altitude rapidly.”

“Skill issue.”

It loses a bit of the poetry on her part, but it still works.

Damn. She’s going to get him no matter who’s in the way.

Not that the real lyrics are much better. “Get with my friends” means different things to different people.

I always thought it was Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief. Thought the guy repeating it was a Native American beating a drum.

If we’re thinking of the same song:

I want you deeeeead (time is a wheel in constant motion)

I want you deeeeead (always rolling us along)

I want you deeeeead (tell me who wants to look back on their years)

I want you deeeead (and wonder where those years have gone)

I think too many sites run on Google AdSense (if it’s even still called that) for that to be a problem. If they give up on Google, there’s not much point.

Plus there are podcasts that use those subs for content, so people submit their “creative” writing to see if they can get featured.

Shit. Good point.

Boy George was convicted of imprisoning an escort and beating him with a chain, so he probably feels a bit of kinship with the invaders.

Minus the lobotomies, that’s still happening.

It’s wild that this is directly under the “worm-like creatures found in drinking water at ICE detention center” for me.

6. I mean, the Gamecube was basically a home defense weapon. Actually, the original XBox controller was pretty hefty, too. Sony really dropped the ball unless we’re giving the PS2 slim a pass as a throwing star.

One of the food delivery apps labeled something “long distance delivery” at five miles. I could walk that. I didn’t, but I certainly didn’t pay someone else to drive it.