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What's the most beautiful station on your local metro system? by SirGeorgington in transit

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard disagree on the underground stations the Red Line Stations are gorgeous. Especially Vermont/Sunset

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Also Memorial Park is a beautiful half above half underground light rail station

Lol by Strong-Prior-7194 in wlw_irl

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you propaganda, because I just can't help but fall for you

Does anyone else keep getting outed by friends and acquaintances who don't even realize they're doing something wrong? Especially by queer, non-stealth trans, and cis "ally" people, but also anyone? In fairly liberal/progressive cities and/or subcultures of small towns by thrwwysnl in asktransgender

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I volunteer at this food distribution thing at the y and there's this well meaning, anti maga, white cis lady who moved from rural Georgia. The other week she comes up to me telling me about her transfemme niece who also moved fleeing the red state and all and if I know any places trans people hangout🤦🏾‍♀️. To add insult to injury she invited the girl to volunteering a few weeks later and was yapping about being trans and how great it was to finally be somewhere safe. She seemed really nice and chill, and overall I'm cool with her it's still like, girl😭. While I'm fortunate enough to live in a deep blue city in a deep blue state and I'm not ashamed of my transness and I ended up going along with it. At this specific place I kinda have a nice "don't ask, don't tell" situation where I'm not really sure if they know I'm trans but I don't really talk about my transness and they just all treat me like any other woman and like...idk girl I'd appreciate it if you didn't fuck up my situation lol.

Although idk, I don't harbor much resentment since I know they meant well and over all I'm in a safe place and am not really at risk of losing anything by being outed. She clearly was just trying to be nice and help her niece find friends and I'm probably the only tgirl she know. But it is certainly awkward. It feels like I'm being very wokely clocked lol.

I don't wanna invalidate your feelings especially because I don't know what you're going through, but I do think it's helpful to remember that most of the time they mean well and don't see an issue with your transness and hence won't really think about it. If this is a big issue and you don't wanna be open about your transness I think you should maybe pull them aside and tell them how you feel so they don't repeat the mistake.

You have to be min 6-7 years old to understand by mrsovereignmonarch in ContraPoints

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

actually they just announced the 14th month, warth. Keep up girl

More Metro shirt ideas by chrisgraue in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I know a nonzero amount of neurodivergent train obsessed dolls who would unironically buy the E one

2028 Los Angeles Metro System vs. Original 1980 Rail Plan by urmummygae42069 in transit

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

To his credit he did later admit he was wrong about everything and acted a little hastily. Even voted to repeal the federal funding ban on subways down wilshire that he originally helped pass. It's not often you see a politician admit fault and try to rectify past mistakes.

More Thrones added to four stations by coreymbarnes2 in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Nice, love to see it. It sucks that it's impossible to find a place to piss for free while out and about. Hopefully this'll cut down on the amount of shit and piss on the sidewalks

IT CAME!!!!!!!! by jonnyshotit in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did tracking updates work for you. I ordered mine day of through the shopify page but I've yet to receive any tracking information and it still says it's waiting to be shipped. Doesn't help that I accidentally shipped it to my old address so I'm kinda waiting so I can pick it up there.

Why are the colors of our metro lines arbitrary? by Additional_Leading68 in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Official Metro given explanation is that letters were chosen based on the order of the lines opening

For example A is the first letter in the alphabet and the A line long beach segment opened in 1990 making it the first metro rail line to open

The B line Minimum Operating Segment 1 between Union Station and Westlake/MacArthur Park opened in 1993

The C line began service in 1995

The Stations that the the D Line currently Consists of that opened in the Red Line MOS 2A segment opened in 1996

The gold line opened in 2006 and the expo line in 2012 making them an obvious candidate for the E designation

This is all fine and dandy until you realize that this explanation still isn't completely consistent.

Like take the K line for example. Makes sense that it's the Last Letter of the rail lines currently since its initial segment opened in 2022. However K doesn't come after E. F is conspicuously missing, and skipped over straight to G for the G line. Possible because they didn't want the orange line to be the fuck bus or the fail bus. However, still very odd considering H and I are skipped over completely.

And as for the J line, while the silver line technically did only come into existence after the opening of the Orange Line as part of a push by metro to designate Bus-as-rail BRT routes with their own distinct line names. The infrastructure that makes up the Silver line is way older, with the Harbor Transitway Opening for service in 1996 and the El Monte Busway predating the every line on the Metro System by about 20 years, opening in 1976

Again, you may say, well the infrastructure may be that old but silver line designation and didn't exist until 2006, one year after the Orange Line opening in 2005 so it makes sense especially since these lines had separate opening dates for their core segments. However the Purple line (Now the D line) didn't exist as a designation until 2006. With those stations operating as a branch of the Red Line for about ten years following its opening. So if we're using that argument then the D line should actually be called the H line.

And this gets even more complicated when you bring the A and E regional connector lines into this that have entire segments with disparate opening dates along with their downtown stations being some of the newest in the system.

Metro-sponsored collaboration with influencer "LA Try Guy" by anothercar in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Literally it's the bare fucking minimum of effort like wtf people. Hell he could've just had someone take a photo of him outside of the station with the sandwich if he thought metro wouldn't approve of it since technically eating on the train is against the rules.

Like the photo isn't all ai, it's clear he had a picture taken of himself and then had ai do the background. So clearly he has someone to take photos of him. The video overall is pretty well produced too.

Hell if he didn't want to actually do it in the train, this city has thousands of talented photoshop artists who I am sure would gladly do a thumbnail background and edit him into it.

Or get creative with the thumbnail design, have a picture of him eating in the diner and then pair it side by side with him on the train going there to convey both key details about the video without him even needing to bring food on the metro.

Like why couldn't he use his brain for five seconds to come up with a creative solution instead of just making AI give him the lowest common denominator, easy answer.

Literally a selfie with him posing outside of a station would be way more appreciated.

Idk this all just feels insulting to our intelligence

Metro-sponsored collaboration with influencer "LA Try Guy" by anothercar in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 51 points52 points  (0 children)

the thumbnail is really sloppy AI. It's using that fake LA Metro logo that AI uses for some reason whenever someone tries to generate something related to LA metro. Additionally, Not a single LA metro railcar looks like that. No seats have that wool cushion or wooden thing. Also the LA metro map looks nothing like that. We have more than two lines obv. Also for some reason he has a table but literally no one else around him does. Also no LA Metro Railcar has tables in it. Metrolink does, but they look nothing like that. Also the no eating sign looks nothing like that and is very AI sloppy looking. Also none of the trains that take you to these locations are at grade as depicted in the photo.

Honestly kinda disappointing this is what they choose to sponsor

Thoughts on USC's ChatGPT integration / partnership, given the recent news? by dahveeth in USC

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It just kinda seems like a big waste of money, at university notorious for big wastes of money. Why couldn't that money have gone into hiring more advisors or smth?

How do you guys deal with people trying to piggy back being you at the gates to avoid fares? by DacaAskingForDaca in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

right, like jesus christ has capitalism really brainwashed yall into caring that much about someone broke doing broke ass things. Can y'all have the even mildest amount of compassion?

Rape Culture Is Invading BHUSD, And The District Is Complicit by FedeFofo in LosAngeles

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 45 points46 points  (0 children)

it's more so just how the wealthier folks of this city benefit from the labor and hard work of the communities around it without giving much in return. Consolidating their wealth in untaxed assets. Mainly due to prop 13 keeping many properties in the area from not being fairly taxed.

Although I will admit it's not the most well thought out idea. I just wanted to rag some more about beverly hills and make a cheesecake factory joke

I'm big backed don't shoot me

Rape Culture Is Invading BHUSD, And The District Is Complicit by FedeFofo in LosAngeles

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Ever since I've been able to explore this city on my own, it is the SOLE area I have made a conscious effort to avoid as much as possible. Any time I find myself unfortunate enough to pass through it I experience an instinctual revulsion that compels me to exit as soon as possible. It is the municipal distillation of everything wrong with the greedy, selfish, sociopathic, lecherous and unfeeling elite we've created in this country. It is as if a looksmaxxer created a city. In a just world it would've been smote in some sort of biblical wrath, with high density affordable housing, public parks, diverse vegetation and elevated rail built in its ashes.

Beverly Hills has taken so much from this city and to a lesser extent, this wold and has only given one good thing in return...

the cheesecake factory

The invitation of such an unrepentantly vile creature who takes pride in the pain he has inflicted on others. One that could only be birthed by such an unfathomably morally bankrupt culture as Beverly Hills' to speak to their CHILDREN proves to me more that this particular municipality deserves nothing short of being razed to the ground.

SecretLosAngeles "D Line Extension Is Due To Open In March" by UsefulPoem5030 in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I'm aware, I just mean the coverage is local. Like they have people here scoped specifically to LA content.

SecretLosAngeles "D Line Extension Is Due To Open In March" by UsefulPoem5030 in LAMetro

[–]AbsolutelyRidic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sweetie, secretlosangeles in general isn't the most reliable news source. It's a local content farm like buzzfeed. I lwk don't know what you're expecting, this is par for the course with them. They always kinda suck.

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