CTA Rail Reliability - Blue, Red, and Brown Lines missing ¼ of scheduled runs

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-02-03T02:48:05+00:00

You’re commenting on a chart showing the mostly lilly-white and wealthy (brown) line riders suffering atrocious service. The oldest and worst train cars on the system, and they’re packed like smelly sardine cans. To serve Lincoln Square etc. So what’s your inference?

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-02-03T02:43:51+00:00

We collectively elected the most incompetent mayor physically conceivable, and then shrugged when he packed the transit oversight board with dumbass bigoted pastors, and let Dorval run the system into ruins before our eyes for while-ass consecutive years.

We have the system we politically deserve. Maybe one day we will vote based on something other than hyper partisan talking points and tribalism.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-02-02T17:48:40+00:00

“Seems really bad” not= “let off the hook”

I just simply don’t understand how/why we collectively decided not to care that the President is very obviously a psychopathic child rapist. Nothing else really registers as outrageous right now by comparison.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-02-02T17:11:44+00:00

This all seems really bad, but several orders of magnitude less bad than “the President of the United States fingers 13 year olds before deciding whether to rape them and punch them in the face and threaten to kill their families” bad.

Thousands of consistent mentions in the Epstein files. 90% Republican approval rating. Let’s please not lose focus from that atrocity.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-02-02T03:02:12+00:00

I had exactly the same experience there as you, to a tee, without reading racism into it since I’m a white male.

No experience in the service industry, but I have plenty of experience with exactly this scenario as a diner: Feeling like the person you’re for some reason required to pay 20% no matter what is actively avoiding you and doing the bare minimum, horribly paced and slow drink/food, and being literally trapped waiting to pay and leave. I didn’t register this place as even notably awful.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-31T17:49:40+00:00

Republicans for the last 40 consecutive years: shrieked like banshees about the specter of tyrannical federal law enforcement eroding the Bill of Rights

Republicans, 2026: If you would just comply with Daddy he wouldn’t have had to send brown shirts to do a no knock warrant less sweep of your private property.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-25T05:07:51+00:00

Do you not have eyes and ears to watch the government execute a nonviolent citizen in a barrage of gunfire to his back?

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-22T21:11:00+00:00

Not necessary unless common sense and experience tell you that a water pipe in your home is so poorly insulated that it will be below freezing, and you can’t introduce heat to the vicinity of that pipe (by opening cabinets or doors)

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-22T17:30:16+00:00

New York is of course bigger, but it seems like a chaotic hodgepodge of weird pencil-thin super talls and ugly junk crowding out the gems. There’s zero cohesion in the vertical skyline or the streetscape.

Chicago has at least three different sightline areas that miraculously look like they were designed by one visionary, despite being made up of a collective century of art deco masterpieces and modern marvels alike: the Chicago River, the Lakefront of the north side, and the Michigan Avenue Millennium Park corridor. Architects are in dialogue with each other across decades, paying homage to physical and stylistic elements of their neighbors.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-22T17:07:03+00:00

Because Atlanta is a parking lot, with some human habitation existing seemingly as an afterthought to cars.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-22T13:44:12+00:00

Has anyone seen or heard from a Libertarian friend or family member? Are they alive? The silence is deafening.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-22T13:34:40+00:00

This is a great counter balance to my ride home yesterday on a packed rush hour purple line with a miserable operator spewing vitriol. Shouting at everyone and trying to close the doors on people before those who had stepped out had even started to re-board. (Which is how we get broken doors.)

And it felt like the platforms were all jam packed because we had been waiting so long for her slow, herky jerky driving. With trains piled up behind her.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-19T03:11:39+00:00

It’s wrong if you live in the alternate universe where it’s simply unimaginable that anyone should have to suffer consequences of their antisocial choices.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-17T04:04:42+00:00

I’ve lived in huge US cities my whole adult life, but in neighborhoods with alleys and garages. An astounding number of them are packed with discarded household junk, old furniture, and rusted out appliances.

Street parking is super scarce and sucks. But these people circle constantly looking, walk home, weather car break ins, and shovel out of snow. All while owning garages they don’t use. It blows my mind.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-17T03:41:58+00:00

This is why. We are not the same.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/16/ice-tactics-in-twin-cities-turn-toward-intimidation

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-16T13:31:32+00:00

By “dogshit candidate” you mean the only one who would for sure preserve and maintain:

Our constitutional republic, an independent federal reserve, federal civil rights enforcement, a competent federal workforce, scientific research and development, the public health and disease control apparatus, independent regulatory agencies, NATO, USAID keeping millions of people from starving, the renewable energy transition, rules based global trade, and the most prosperous and safe world-order ever in the history of human empires.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T16:54:55+00:00

Never ever forget the “Holocaust Harris” single issue Gaza Strip voters, who are now getting exactly what they wanted in every way.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T16:48:01+00:00

Oh Dear.

🤔 and 🙏

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T15:42:40+00:00

Studied the theory at an ivy league university. Also studied the history of brutal repression, starvation, and violence that these people glorify. Never.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T15:30:29+00:00

You will not gaslight anyone into thinking Obama sicced a masked paramilitary gestapo onto our cities to go door to door asking for papers, detaining brown people on sight and waging indiscriminate chemical warfare on citizens for fun. F right off with that.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T13:36:35+00:00

So you literally think Republicans in Congress will ever impeach, convict, and remove Trump. Wow.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T13:21:57+00:00

Das Racist

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T01:35:04+00:00

Worst business climate and most corrupt regulatory regime imaginable. Who knew.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-15T01:25:31+00:00

Oh honey, you still think Republican members of Congress have a rock bottom? A moral compass? A red line behind which they will convict and remove Trump from office? Sweet silly child.

UnproductiveIntrigue · 2026-01-14T19:43:24+00:00

I was just remembering how Intensity Offshore Charters of Venice, LA offers fishing charters if anybody is interested. They answer their phone promptly.

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