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USAians will make train porn, won’t they?

Haven’t you heard? USA good, China bad. So say the media, so you must say.

Honestly, things would be indeed way better if guys who are insecure of their dicks just got penis enhancement and sucked themselves off. The world would be much better off not having to deal with cars running over kids or people road-raging.

Sounds like a tasty dish. Dough with a tasty filling.

The problem is that planes are heavily subsidised. If those subsidies were just removed, train would be the cheaper option. If the subsidies were shifted to rail, buses, and bikes, things would be much cheaper.

There’s a reason these trains are max 350km/h. Its simply infeasible to build and maintain the track and the train that runs 500kmh.

Where are you getting this information from? I’d like a source. It sounds interesting. Would fit really well into an episode of “Real Engineering” or something.

Username fits perfectly.

Yes, just yes

Since the 1955 record, where France recorded a world record of speed of 331 km/h, France has nearly continuously held the absolute world speed record. The latest record is held by a TGV POS trainset, which reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) in 2007, on the newly constructed LGV Est high-speed line. This run was for proof of concept and engineering, not to test normal passenger service.

That’s the record.

As of 2022, the fastest trains currently in commercial operation are:

1. CR400AF/KCIC400AF, CR400BF: 350 km/h (220 mph) (in China and Indonesia)
2. TGV Duplex, TGV Réseau, TGV POS, TGV Euroduplex: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France)
3. Eurostar e320: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France and United Kingdom)

The are current trains.

A direct train on straight track in the land of the lack of regulation could easily have a 500km/h average on a separate line. The US could be *plastered with train tracks making train travel much more convenient that a plane.

Things are going well in the German auto industry. Who could’ve predicted such a decline! /s

Sounds like Greece alright

Hedley pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Brown to his severe injury, ** permanent impairment **

Fuck me… that’s rough. He should be forced to pay for the rest of his life, get anger management courses, and psychological help.

Yep! I’d rather have a million small ones than a few large ones.

The Linke is very present on social media too. I remember watching Deutsche Welle English and they compared the number of accounts and number of followers for each party in the German parliament and The Linke was not that far behind AfD. The problem is that the platforms they are on are owned by uberwealthy, right-wing billionaires.

We need a #WealthTax and for more people on the fediverse where companies don’t control the algorithms and surface right-wing stuff all the time.

Thanks for explaining. It kind of is what I expected but not fully.

I’m not sure if you’re doing it out of conviction or for fun. If it’s for fun, there’ a good chance just providing a place for children to get to know each other and play, regardless of belief, might introduce you to a diverse and bigger crowd. In the world of mobile phones and social media, parents of all walks of life probably would like their kids to hang out more with others and gain social skills.

I’m curious, what expectations do Catholic parents have and how would a multi-faith group not fulfil those expectations? This isn’t an aggressive question, I genuinely do not know what religious youth groups do. My guess would be reading their religious book, re-enacting parts of it, praying together, maybe even studying the religious scripts. So I am curious what your group does / would do.

Why not make it an all-faith group? That way the children are always exposed to all faiths and experience diversity all the time. That could bring all people together.

Not religious and child-free: if I had a child and had made the decision to take it to religious youth groups, it would’ve been multiple so that the child finds out about the differences in beliefs. It would’ve been a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and whatever other religion I could find. If it were only Christian groups, then no.

A child should grow up to know that the world is diverse, learn how to think critically, how to question things, and how to think for itself. Once it’s adult, then it can join whichever group it wants. Introducing a child to a single view of the world would be counter-productive to its critical thinking skills and diversity of thought.

100%. Teach them about all the different religions, but don’t force any upon them. Secularism is the way to go: let people make up their own mind. Don’t shove it down their throats. Threatening children with going to the bad place for eternity is just indoctrination.

Same with DotA for me. Used to play a lot, but then it just became a chore. The community was (is) shit, Valve doesn’t care about DotA, and the meta doesn’t change often enough. The game is slow and lacks innovation. There’s only one supported e-sports version of DotA and it barely changes.

Now I just watch once in a while, but mostly it’s in the background to make noise.