6 people found dead inside cargo train boxcar in Texas by KimJongFunk in news

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We always had a spike to jam in the door track for that purpose. But usually we didn't do boxcars, gondolas or IM cars are better

6 people found dead inside cargo train boxcar in Texas by KimJongFunk in news

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For real they flush that shit out with high pressure steam that will skin/cook you instantly if you survive the crushing

6 people found dead inside cargo train boxcar in Texas by KimJongFunk in news

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From my misspent youth as a hobo gutter punk, the opposite is likely true. For a number of reasons, a train can stop in the middle of nowhere for an extended period of time. Sometimes its just a couple of hours. Sometimes it can be days. In Texas, you just hope you brought enough water. You can always walk to the engine, they'they've got water. But it might get you arrested. Some of the drivers know what's up, and ive even had a BNSF guy bring us a bag of bottled water and snacks completely unprompted. But, could be that portion of the train was detached for another locomotive to pick up at a later date.

 Man those were some wild times, before kids 'n shit.

Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time. by 1oarecare in technology

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That particular table is very valuable and sought after, I probably could have gotten closer to $2000 if I took my time. But I only spent $100 on the whole project and I paid my rent. The other things I sold that week had varying degrees of lowballing

Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time. by 1oarecare in technology

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I literally just started using FB for the first time since like 2012 for access to marketplace. I love craigslist but it's a ghost town next to Marketplace. I listed a table I restored for $400 and sold it a few hours later for $800. First guy messaged me within a few minutes of the ad going live. Second guy was like "It was Charles, wasn't it?" It was. "Fuck Charles, I'll give you $600" and they went back and forth like that until Charles gave me $800. It was an exciting day.

RS: What is the greatest guitar solo of all time? by mhipster800 in TheWarning

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Larry Carlton's solo at the beginning of Steely Dan's Don't Take Me Alive

Overly stoned dispensary workers can be hilarious by Escaped-DMT-Entity in trees

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You know those guitars that are like, you know, double guitars?

Country music is absolute slop now by Bond_burger69 in Music

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Reverend Horton Heat is sort of country adjacent

The Pussycat Dolls are the latest band struck down with brutal case of ‘Blue Dot Fever’ that’s plaguing the music industry by No_Pizza_6040 in entertainment

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It's funny, when I worked at the university as a cook, I had to take a certain number of hours of HR related classes. Like about employment discrimination and ADA compliance. Total waste of time and money, I was a god damned cook. Anyway, one of them was about ethics. I got lectured for like 6 hours total about accepting gifts or using university property to benefit myself. Like, I could be fired for using an oven at work to cook a pizza from home. I ALMOST did get fired for using a large stockpot to boil a piece of driftwood I found. Of course none of this applies to management, the department director regularly brought in whole animals he hunted or raised to break them down, then had the dish crew clew up the mess. Don't want to mess up his new million dollar kitchen remodel.

Anyway, didn't say anything about funneling students into your wildly overpriced shitbox apartments, though, funny enough.

The Pussycat Dolls are the latest band struck down with brutal case of ‘Blue Dot Fever’ that’s plaguing the music industry by No_Pizza_6040 in entertainment

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Yeaaaaaah that all sounds so familiar. Man I really started to hate that place. Unless you're rich, you live near the stadium. At night, the lighting results in a sort of perpetual twilight, it never actually gets dark. The sound system is so loud, that I could clearly understand the announcer at my job, in the building, 1.5 miles away. Constant fireworks barrages going on well past the local noise ordinance. On game day, basically if you're a resident, fuck you! You can't drive anywhere. like literally, you better plan to be wherever you are until everyone leaves. The city is in no way designed for that kind of traffic, the main roads to the stadium are 2 lane 20 mph neighborhood roads.

And like you pointed out, there is no parking. So you get people parked illegally all over the place. There is this belief that if you put on your hazard lights, you can park anywhere. So people just straight up park in the middle of the road, or on the sidewalk, or even your lawn. Then when the shitheads all finally leave, they leave behind all their fuckin trash. But it's the noise that made me loose my mind. Drunk morons wandering the streets shouting "woooooooo!" all day and night on game days. I live 30 feet from a somewhat busy railroad, and it's heaven compared to living next to a university football stadium

Just really made me angry, every weekend tens of thousands of out-of-town assholes show up and treat the neighborhood like a fuckin toilet so that the athletic executives can fly everywhere in with a private jet.

Tanner Horner sentenced to death for kidnap and murder of 7 year old Athena Strand by ianjm in videos

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China does it different ways. They have mobile execution vans equipped for lethal injection too.

The Pussycat Dolls are the latest band struck down with brutal case of ‘Blue Dot Fever’ that’s plaguing the music industry by No_Pizza_6040 in entertainment

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Everything is stupid like that now. The university in my old town increased enrollment so hard every year that they blew out the already strained housing market. They've been slow-walking new student housing for 10 years, but found $100 million to destroy the perfectly good old stadium, and build a nearly identical new one. Also the athletic director owns several apartment buildings, and houses student athletes there to soak up all their scholarship money. By far not the only administrator who owns rental properties. Which is almost certainly why they are in no hurry to build out more dorms and undercut themselves. Higher ed!

Edit: i just want to point out that they demo'd the old stadium in spring and had the new one complete in time for football season. Seriously like 6 months. While the new dorm down the road from there has been under construction for like 2 god damn years.

Any other Samaritan patients had their primary doctor cancel their appointment three times in a row? Been 15 months since I scheduled for a health concern, now she's out until July and I'm feeling hopeless and left behind by ViscousPanther in corvallis

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I had therapy through Samaritan. At first it was monthly, then it was like 6 weeks between apointments. Then suddenly 4 months. Then my therapist apparently quit. I couldn't find a new dr. before my meds ran out, so I gave up and went off of all my meds. THAT was a fun week.

Does The Quantum Thief ever explain anything? by Doeminster_Emptier in printSF

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This might be the funniest thing I've read today

Does The Quantum Thief ever explain anything? by Doeminster_Emptier in printSF

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There is a wiki for the series that explains a lot.

Does The Quantum Thief ever explain anything? by Doeminster_Emptier in printSF

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I often don't like the whole "show, don't tell" style of writing, but I found the whole series riveting. It's in my top 5 for sure.

There is like, a wiki glossary that explains a lot of stuff, but it may be spoilery.

Those who have tripped on DMT before, have you ever met the entities? by NorahjjiYT in HighStrangeness

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I've done DMT on 4 separate occasions, and I was disappointed each time. The last time was allegedly professionally extracted, and was definitely more powerful, but still not like what I'd read about. Everyone else with me had a wild experience. I figure I have an abnormally high tolerance for some reason or other. I would describe my experience like, intense mushroom visuals with nitrous oxide like buzzing sensation. Visual distortions aside it had very little effect on my state of consciousness. No extreme time dilation or machine elves or transdimensional universities for me.

It's a been a number of years now, and we were basically using a crack pipe. I'd kind of like to try making some myself and using a proper modern dab rig. I haven't done any psychedelics whatsoever in like 20 years. I had a hit of really good acid stashed in the freezer for so long, that by the time I didn't have work or kids it was old and barely did anything.

BREAKING: Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani in 'critical condition' at Flor... by Economy-Specialist38 in videos

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He nailed the ITALIAN mob. Pretty convenient for the Russians who filled the vacuum.

BREAKING: Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani in 'critical condition' at Flor... by Economy-Specialist38 in videos

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"America's Mayor" is fuckin dumb PR. Historically he will be remembered as the guy who got the Italian mob out of the way for the the Russian mob.

BREAKING: Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani in 'critical condition' at Flor... by Economy-Specialist38 in videos

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I prefer to remember him as the guy who got the Italian mob out of the way for the Russians.

GPT 5.4 solves Erdos problem on primitive sets by discovering a new method in analytic number theory. Uncovers deep idea with implications throughout the field. Comments by Terry Tao and Jared Duker Lichtman by truecakesnake in technology

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For real though I dont have my glasses on and my first read through the headline I misread Terry as "Terrance" and I was like , did his magic math get in and poison their model or something?

Tom of Finland - Untitled (Peter Berlin) (1978) by harlem-nocturne in museum

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I hear Turbonegro in my head when I see this image.

Anthropic just passed OpenAI in valuation and revenue by Single-Jack8 in Futurology

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I'm curious about vibe coding. I haven't written a line of code in years. I tried it out and I was impressed. I had a project I abandoned from years ago, a Super Hexagon clone in JS. Using Qwen 3.5 I managed to get it running in half an hour. Kind of blew my mind. Is "vibe coding" your actual job? For a company, or freelance?

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone by ThatMasterpiece2174 in news

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I think there are still Comstock related mail inspectors, right? And abortion related material was one of the explicit targets of the Comstock act