Living the dream right there. See? It's totally doable if you skip the avocado toast and stop buying the latest model phone and going out so often, or at all.

I know I've made posts about this locomotive before, but just look at it. It is the best-looking locomotive ever made. While it never officially broke the world record for speed, there are rumors, the fastest of which was rumored to be 152mph, leaving the Mallard speed record of 126mph far in the dust. While I doubt that actually happened, doesn't it look like this train could keep that pace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_S1

Imma be honest, these should be for storage or something, not residential.

What a pain in the ass to pump tires with these things

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New and wired: Using "dutch courage" to being overly optimistic about what you can carry on a bicycle and then just doing it

Hi, I thought'd i'd make a separate post on hexbear for HSR/CRT. The main china summary post is on lemmygrad if yall wanna check it out.

I rode the HSR 3 times total, and I've said this a couple times, but the biggest compliment I can give is my lack of complaints.

The experience was super smooth, very quick security check and quick ticket check into a very smooth train ride. I will say I really do not like how loudly people speak on calls but that is more of an old person thing and noise canceling headphones do the trick.

As for the Chongqing Rail Transit, the CRT was probably the cleanest metro i've ridden on before(I've only been on the NY subway and the Toronto TTC before).

Pricing was from 1-7 yuan(0.15-0.95 dollar)

There was communist imagery(only on line 5 though)

images aren't uploading so i'll try and edit with them or add them to the comments

There were different AC settings on different cars(a lot of older chinese don't like too much AC), and overall very good experience. Not too notable either except cleanliness which I think is a plus.

I visited Valencia a couple months ago and this park is so beautiful. The entire thing is built into a dried-out riverbed, so the trees have the space to grow up to and above street level.

Valencia is a beautiful city in general, so much greenery, but this park in particular stood out to me as a great integration of urbanism and nature.

Five tenants unions from around the country convened Tuesday to announce the launch of a new national organization to take on the power of multistate real-estate capital. The Tenant Union Federation marks the first major national effort at tenant organizing in 40 years.

. . .

Billing itself as a ​“union of unions,” the federation is seeding a movement that hopes to turn tenants into a political force that can’t be ignored.

At the local level, the group’s five founding unions have already racked up an impressive streak of wins spanning a wide range of organizing tactics.

In the last year, the Louisville Tenants Union passed far-reaching restrictions on public funding contributing to gentrification in Louisville; KC Tenants defeated a billionaire-backed stadium tax in Kansas City; Bozeman Tenants United banned new short-term rentals and elected one of their own as mayor in the Montana tourism hotspot; the Connecticut Tenants Union negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with one of New Haven’s largest landlords and Chicago’s Not Me We won ballot referenda backing a landmark anti-displacement ordinance covering the area surrounding the new Obama Presidential Center.

Note the nice cushioned seats