Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@ehyde oh neat! seems like its pretty high cotton content

@draco yeah i like our trains quite a bit! amtrak is generally punching well above its weight class in terms of funding per acre

@rigormorphis i mean its not like it undermines your point

@draco anyway as someone who’s done the coast to coast train trip themselves (washington state to philladelphia via chicago) you can tell your brother that I’d be picking the train over the plane every single time if they could triple the speed. Which would probably only require switching to the class 7 track we already use for most of the east coast, rather than true highspeed!

because the real problem with US rail is that for some godforsaken reason freight has right of way and so you can end up pulling into the chicago a full 8 hours behind schedule because you were stopped so many times in montana.

@draco its a strange argument because high speed rail provides the fewest benefits in dense areas where the trains are stopping regularly — the faster you’re going the earlier you have to start breaking and the less time you spend at top speed

@wallhackio weirdly enough not *every* person on fedi is a lesbian

@wallhackio incorrect

@wallhackio yum

@wallhackio how was it

@bright_helpings well i suppose thats better than nothing

@TheBookewyrme @goldgust @villainousfriend glad i am not the only one deeply baffled by the whole “didn’t know they were dating trope” 😅

especially since like, even if you *are* unusually date like in your behaviors with this one person…surely its still not dating if you haven’t actually talked to then about it? isn’t the whole “mutual agreement on your expectations re:this relationship and eachothers behavior as it pertains to said relationship” what defines dating???

@bright_helpings kind of fascinated by this, since it feels like such an obvious way to describe all the water that’s in the air—do they just use relative humidity? or wet bulb temp?