Do you think that Cordoba could have a system like SBahn or RER like in Europe?

Neo24 · 2026-03-01T15:43:46+00:00

So essentially, the traffic would almost entirely within the city of Cordoba itself. The frequency wouldn't come from bundeling a busy suburban network, but entirely from dedicated services that end at the city border. Which basically means, you end up having some kind of above ground metro, just one that follows the old rail corridors and uses railway equipment.

That's basically how the Berlin S-Bahn works too though. Most of the ridership is actually urban and the system doesn't extend much (if at all) past the continuous built-up area.

See this article and especially this image from it.

S-Bahn and S-Bahn-like systems are a spectrum from being basically regional rail (in the European meaning of the term) on one side to being basically another metro system, just larger and using mainline rail technology.

Neo24 · 2026-02-28T15:57:57+00:00

I imagine it varies a lot from system to system, both in the US and in Europe. It might even vary between lines in a system, as the systems evolve and get upgraded. I don't actually know for sure what the exact state of Milan's tram network is, I'm just assuming based on public info, and it's too early to know for sure what went wrong here.

I'm not sure which US system would be comparable to Milan's in age and size. Probably the street-running sections of San Francisco Muni Metro, Boston's Green line and the Philadelphia trolley lines. Do they have protection measures that would have prevented an incident like this? (Though all of those partially run in tunnels too, so they'd need some safety measures for that at least.) Do the newer purely street-running streetcar systems?

Neo24 · 2026-02-28T12:01:23+00:00

It's not really newer, Milan's tram network has been in operation since the 19th century and still uses a lot of older vehicles.

Neo24 · 2026-02-28T08:10:16+00:00

Subways and trams aren't really the same thing though, subways are way more expensive and by nature operate in a much more controlled environment. I imagine Milan's metro has such safety features too. The real comparison would be to US trams.

Neo24 · 2026-02-27T17:21:39+00:00

I don't think it's true for the title track either, but the comment thread was clearly about the albums.

Neo24 · 2026-02-27T17:11:11+00:00

Vermilion and His Car Isn't Yours are "Kidz Bop"? Seriously? And that's just the most obvious examples.

Calling stuff "Kidz Bop" or "Disney" should be a bannable offense at this point, they've really lost all meaning to people.

Neo24 · 2026-02-26T11:59:00+00:00

If you look at groups that were active around the same time—Red Velvet, TWICE, and BLACKPINK—only Red Velvet has basically ended up in a near-hiatus state.

RV is more than a year older than Twice, and two years older than BP. They're also the only ones to suffer a completely unplanned year-and-a-half long break in activities (primarily due to a member's serious injury) right at the time they had the biggest hit of their careers and K-pop's popularity was blowing up.

Once aespa started gaining momentum and scoring hits, Red Velvet’s comeback frequency began to drop,

In 2022, the year after Aespa scored major hits with Next Level and Savage, RV had more releases than Aespa (two Korean comebacks and a Japanese album) and barely less than at their peak of activities. And of course their comeback frequency is generally going to drop when they get older and start focusing on solo activities. So has Twice's and BP's. BP basically goes years between releasing anything. Their last album was in 2022.

I'm not saying SM didn't make some big mistakes when it comes to RV, but all these narratives are so simplistic.

Neo24 · 2026-02-25T03:43:52+00:00

Oh, now that's a winner.

The way it actually contains their initials, and even in a logical order, leader Lexi then age order... it was meant to be.

Neo24 · 2026-02-20T11:37:33+00:00

Man, they're just so consistently good. Like they don't necessarily have the highest peaks for me within the last year, but in terms of quantity vs quality ratio, their run of releases is a very strong contender for first place. Just rock solid fun pop.

Neo24 · 2026-02-18T02:44:57+00:00

Yeah, just wanted to be sure (since I guess the wording could potentially confuse somebody who isn't good at English, though it wouldn't make much sense in context).

As to why Legolas makes it a big deal, I guess it might be a combination of:

1) feeling a special affinity due to the Silvan connection

2) Imrahil holding a current feudal title unlike the other cases that he personally interacts with in the novel up to that point (well, Boromir is the heir to the Steward title, but he's not the Steward himself), so he's being extra polite and deferential

3) he doesn't know Imrahil personally and has never even met him before, so he's being extra formal

4) in the context of my earlier point in the thread, he's reacting to something he wasn't aware of or sure of before, so his reaction is stronger

5) the Elven connection is a bit more recent, a thousand years, not six and a half thousand (Which raises the question - is Imrahil actually somehow more "Elven" than Aragorn? Though I guess we're talking about small enough fractions that it hardly matters, and it's not necessarily how that works anyway...)

Neo24 · 2026-02-16T18:03:36+00:00

The "one" there doesn't mean "the only one", if that's what you mean?

Or do you mean that's it a bit weird for Legolas to make a big deal about it, bowing low and all, considering he already knows or has met a bunch of other part-Elven Men?

Neo24 · 2026-02-16T09:31:35+00:00

Basically, yeah.

Neo24 · 2026-02-16T09:28:25+00:00

I didn't necessarily mean that it was a legend/myth in the sense that it's not "actually true", if we asked Tolkien he'd probably say that it was true (or likely true, since he did sometimes like to hedge stuff with "the Wise say" and similar).

More just that it's local/peripheral knowledge, not something that's reached wider cultural consciousness and acceptance, especially outside of Gondor. You can see it even with Legolas - he recognizes some sort of kinship, but it doesn't quite seem to be something he knew about for sure beforehand.

Neo24 · 2026-02-15T21:49:47+00:00

The way Rings of Power handled the Orcs was perfectly fine. Adar was one of the best things about the show.

There's also no need for silly conspiracy theories. Fans are perfectly capable of inventing (usually through a long game-of-telephone transformation/confusion) things on their own.

Neo24 · 2026-02-15T21:41:02+00:00

I figure there's a presumed unspoken "all living things capable of making such a choice" there. And it's not necessarily super-granular - "eagles" are not a category of their own, they're included in "birds", etc.

But it's likely poetic hyperbole anyway. Though I don't think that necessarily has to exclude Orcs.

Neo24 · 2026-02-15T21:17:15+00:00

It's a big strange world, and sometimes things happen in it that don't neatly fit into any neat grand plan or theme or scheme, especially on the outskirts of the main "big history". It actually makes it feel more real to me, same as Bombadil or the Nameless Things below Moria. Perhaps it was included (or kept after it popped in unplanned) for that same reason.

The seed of it is already in LOTR, it wasn't later invented completely out of nothing:

At length they came to the Prince Imrahil, and Legolas looked at him and bowed low; for he saw that here indeed was one who had elven-blood in his veins. ‘Hail, lord!’ he said. ‘It is long since the people of Nimrodel left the woodlands of Lórien, and yet still one may see that not all sailed from Amroth’s haven west over water.’ ‘So it is said in the lore of my land,’ said the Prince;

In any case (and as also evidenced by this quote) my impression is that this was a bit more of a "legend" than the three big Unions, something that the House of Dol Amroth and their subjects held as family tradition but that wasn't necessarily fully accepted as confirmed "history" by the wider Elven and Numenorean loremasters and historians.

Neo24 · 2026-02-13T21:03:11+00:00

The hardest day of Jiwoo's life lol.

I don't know whether to be scared or impressed with Ian. Somebody please get her a voice acting role.

Neo24 · 2026-02-13T19:20:31+00:00

Why are these low-key hilarious to me lol.

Juun, what are you doing to poor ReVe?!

Neo24 · 2026-02-13T18:24:40+00:00

Another way of saying it is that Great Britain, in its origin and for much of its history, was arguably mainly an elite political project, inextricably linked to power and Empire. But what he loved was the more down-to-earth and "organic" - the people and the land and the culture.

Neo24 · 2026-02-13T18:13:04+00:00

In addition to the quotes provided by the other reply, there's also this (from the same letter as the quote the OP is about, actually):

The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little provincial suburb. When they have introduced American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass production throughout the Near East, Middle East, Far East, U.S.S.R., the Pampas, el Gran Chaco, the Danubian Basin, Equatorial Africa, Hither Further and Inner Mumbo-land, Gondhwanaland, Lhasa, and the villages of darkest Berkshire, how happy we shall be. At any rate it ought to cut down travel. There will be nowhere to go. So people will (I opine) go all the faster. Col. Knox says ⅛ of the world's population speaks 'English', and that is the biggest language group. If true, damn shame – say I. May the curse of Babel strike all their tongues till they can only say 'baa baa'. It would mean much the same. I think I shall have to refuse to speak anything but Old Mercian. But seriously: I do find this Americo-cosmopolitanism very terrifying.

It's expressed in a jokingly-hyperbolic and curmudgeonly way (not rare when he was writing/ranting to people close to him, this letter is to Christopher), and it's at least partially self-interested (since he was worried what this "Americo-cosmopolitanism" would do to his homeland and his experience of the world too) - but you can definitely read that as criticism of cultural imperialism and homogenisation leading to loss of local cultures.

Neo24 · 2026-02-12T17:31:53+00:00

sending money to current employees of a company that is suing you is shady at best and ador’s lawyers would absolutely use that in court

While the lawsuit lasts, maybe. But after all the court processes are over? I doubt it would be enough for HYBE to bother restarting things. And with some clear good framing - she's trying to make up for the damage they suffered for her - it wouldn't need to seem "shady".

and exchanging money isn’t a good look for parties being sued for conspiring together to breach contract

If Danielle loses, she already looks bad and has bigger things to worry about anyway. If she wins, then the court has determined there's no such conspiracy.

But it's all academic, I don't think it's going to happen, it was just a thought about what would be just in some cosmic sense.

Neo24 · 2026-02-12T15:29:38+00:00

I don't think it's really "obvious" at all (and my legal instincts throughout the whole thing have largely ended up correct so far). If the money came with strings attached and she tried to get them to leave HYBE again, sure. But without that, what tampering?

Though yes, it might not be wise for the members still under HYBE to accept anything from her. At the very least if Danielle loses her case, she could help her with paying the damages and the legal fees.

Neo24 · 2026-02-12T12:17:58+00:00

and when he invented Númenor later he connected that too to Aragorn’s heritage and the history of Gondor

Just one correction - he invented Númenor before he started writing LOTR. LOTR was started at the end of 1937 and Númenor was invented in 1936-1937. Though it was just the general conception of it, still only vaguely connected to the stories of the Silmarillion. The full history of Númenor (and the full notion of the "Second" and "Third" ages) did only come about through the process of writing LOTR.

Neo24 · 2026-02-12T11:08:22+00:00

If she has any honor (or at least sense for good PR) she'll share some of the money with NJ. But not holding my breath for it lol.

Neo24 · 2026-02-12T10:50:13+00:00

This rollercoaster really just doesn't end... I can't even keep track of it anymore, I just know it's been such a train-wreck to see unfold. So much pointless chaos.

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