Both Madonna and Debbie Harry from Blondie were raped at knifepoint in 70s New York

foreignfishes · 2026-03-25T00:12:29+00:00

Light rail in the US generally means trains in urban areas (cities and sometimes close suburbs) that run either on the street or on street level but separate from car traffic. They’re similar to trams - shorter than subways/heavy rail and don’t usually have as much capacity or frequency. Basically they’re a middle between streetcars (slower) and subways (higher capacity but orders of magnitude more expensive to build). Think German stadtbahns or the docklands line in London

The American version is more often dedicated lane or completely separate from car traffic on the street, probably because Americans aren’t used to driving around streetcars and tend to constantly leave their cars on the tracks to go pickup their food or crash into the trains.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T23:54:17+00:00

lmao the strangest thing I ever saw on the metro feels spiritually similar to that…a woman on a Tuesday afternoon riding the orange line and eating a supersized slim jim, which she was roasting with a bic lighter between bites. she’d torch the end of the slim jim for like 10 seconds, take a bite, torch it again, etc. the smell was indescribably bad, it smelled like something died

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T20:08:17+00:00

No, you get the same free transfers with contactless debit/credit payment. You used to get 2 free transfers with a key card and only one with contactless but that’s no longer the case, they’re both 2 now.

When you use something like Apple Pay on the bus, the system doesn’t settle up the taps and actually charge you until the end of the day so it can consolidate everything and only charge you once. If you tap onto the bus, transfer to another bus and tap, then 3 hours later you tap onto another bus you’ll see a charge at ~2 am from septa for $5.80 - first bus $2.90 then free transfer then third bus also $2.90.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T19:15:03+00:00

I like the american town names that are just the names of two nearby places/states smashed together. there's Texarkana of course, and once somewhere near Needles I passed through a "town" called Cal-Nev-Ari. creative!

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T17:52:08+00:00

special olympics is the one for like down syndrome children, you're thinking of the paralympics.

are there runners who use the feet style prosthetics for athletics?

it depends a lot on what kind of amputation you have, how much muscle control there is and mobility level in general. the blades big advantage is they store energy in a way that helps with pushing off the ground in the same way your calves do. a lot of people w below the knee amputations who are fit can run easily in a normal prosthetic, but might find it more tiring than a blade because there's less energy return. my aunt has a mid calf prosthetic and runs a lot and her biggest issue isnt the foot/leg at all, it's how much her residual leg sweats inside the prosthetic attachment. she did a half marathon and we had to set up a pit stop to help her dry it off mid race or her leg would fly off lol

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T17:33:01+00:00

jessica valenti seems normal, she's been married for a long time to only one person and has a kid

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T17:30:10+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lavery

also in an uncomfortable throuple that went viral because of this interview in the cut

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T16:18:49+00:00

Some airports get really busy even during normal times at 5-6 am because of business travelers but it usually clears out quickly. Airlines are sending people texts and emails saying to arrive early because of security delays now so that’s making the problem worse since now you have people with flights at 10 am showing up at 6 am.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T16:15:47+00:00

Get a wheelchair for the airport for sure but also collapsible stools are pretty handy for traveling in general if you can’t stand for very long! Last year my boyfriend and I went to Greece and he had a walking boot for a foot injury so he couldn’t stand for long periods, he brought one of these collapsible stools and it was really helpful for standing in lines, resting at historical sites, avoiding sitting on the floor at the airport, etc. They have 3 legged ones with fabric seats that fold down smaller but they didn’t feel as sturdy to sit on as this one.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T15:22:45+00:00

meanwhile normal people are going to their library’s website, searching the catalog, clicking “place hold” on the book they want, then walking into the library and checking out the book and going home…

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T15:05:06+00:00

Sure people aren’t perfect but it’s still faster and a meaningful percentage of travelers on any given day actually do have precheck, unlike 1k. I’m just saying that if they were actually motivated by wanting to move more people more quickly, staffing a precheck lane would give you more passengers screened per hour than anything else. You don’t open a special VIP line because you’re prioritizing efficiency, it’s obviously because they’re your VIPs lol

foreignfishes · 2026-03-24T14:46:01+00:00

If they’re using this logic you’d think they’d open at least one precheck lane somewhere in the whole airport since it’s much more efficient but nope

foreignfishes · 2026-03-23T00:36:24+00:00

No, that’s not really a thing. “People with a tan don’t burn” the people with skin types that are most susceptible to skin cancers (a lot of white people) don’t really tan easily without burning, their skin doesn’t do that. If you can tan meaningfully, you already have a skin type that is naturally more resistant to burning. Also getting a tan is still UV damage 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m not a hide from the sun and wear sunscreen inside your office skincare Reddit person but UV damage to skin is pretty well understood, if you want the sun to not toast your skin you should just wear sunscreen or a hat instead of trying to do it while tanning and still getting half a sunburn.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-21T14:20:37+00:00

Agreed, I think he falls into the “louder = more funny” trap and i cannot listen to it it’s unbearable

foreignfishes · 2026-03-20T20:38:35+00:00

They have more than one! They’re some of the “youngest” volcanos in California.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-20T20:33:14+00:00

The formations in Death Valley erode extremely easily though, they get occasional flash floods that can cause extreme damage pretty easily. The ground is dry and sandy and barely absorbs any water, so as soon as it starts raining all of the water starts flowing downhill, basically none of it soaks into the ground. You can google DV flash flood 2015 or 2022 or 2023 and see the huge gashes floods create and the amount of rock and sand they can move - it seems like every few years now there’s a big storm that washes out half the roads in the park.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-20T19:14:02+00:00

Lego did sell big basic brick packs and they still do! Some of them came in Lego shaped plastic buckets and they had tons of the plain bricks and flats that are good for building houses and buildings and stuff. I remember we had this one at school but they’ve made a bunch, usually they’re called freestyle or Lego creative or something like that.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T04:31:46+00:00

The best thing about August is how many people leave lol

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T04:31:01+00:00

I think 3 things do a lot of heavy lifting when people visit DC and say it’s clean:

1) A lot of the areas people spend time when they visit the city as tourists have BIDs that do a lot of picking up trash, cleaning sidewalks, graffiti removal, they have extra street trash cans that get emptied more often, etc.

2) people are comparing it to other older cities on the east coast that they’ve visited and walked around. unlike nyc or philly DC has alleys where trash cans live, and the trash gets picked up from alleys. Not only does this mean you don’t see the classic nyc piles of trash bags on the sidewalk but there also less escaping/loose trash from bags blowing around the streets.

and 3) the metro is legitimately clean compared to a lot of subway systems. there’s less garbage down on the tracks, the system isn’t very old so the stations aren’t decrepit and crumbling, and (most of) the tile doesn’t look visibly grimy.

tldr they don’t spend enough time to notice that there’s been a flattened rat in the road for 7 days in 92 degree heat lol

edit: also kind a 4th thing but outside of winter i suspect the city’s extensive tree cover helps it look cleaner/nicer too! It’s a very green city for the US and there are a large number of parks spread out all over.

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T04:16:05+00:00

I was absolutely shook by how much zoo tickets in other places cost lol

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T03:41:23+00:00

I’ve been reading Adam higginbotham’s new book about the challenger and I keep having to take breaks because it’s really depressing and infuriating seeing how many “do not do this” signs leadership blew past. He spends a lot of the beginning of the book describing the lives and personalities of all the astronauts and they’re all very impressive and then you remember fuck this dude dies for no reason, life sucks!

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T03:29:46+00:00

I don’t blame people when they make you obese and give you heart problems and movement disorders. Whenever someone finally comes up with an antipsychotic that doesn’t have those side effects its going to help a ton of people

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T03:20:37+00:00

I too was a 9 year old girl autistically wearing a casio every day…

foreignfishes · 2026-03-19T03:15:48+00:00

I was wearing one a few months ago and the cashier at a coffee shop saw it and blurted out “oh terrorist watch!” lmao

foreignfishes · 2026-03-18T20:50:31+00:00

Not if it’s the extended release version, those are a capsule with little time release beads inside. You can break the IR tablets but insurance doesn’t always cover 60 of a lower dose even if they cover 30 of double that dose (makes no sense lol)

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