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SunnyvaleCA says

What if we solved the air travel security problems/hassles so that you get to the airport 1/2 hour before your flight instead of wasting 2 hours. You might find that the cost of air travel on some of these standard routs is cheaper than that of a train with the huge up-front infrastructure costs and also some running costs.

TSA Pre. I only get there two hours before for a drink(s). 30 minutes tops if I wanted to cut it close to boarding or sleep in a little longer for a morning flight. Traffic is a bigger concern than security when I travel.

SunnyvaleCA says

California could run two high-speed rail lines that at least break even

Not really. The cost isn't just the ticket but also time. And since this train will be making many stops along the way..

Why marriage is a shitty deal today:

One of the thing that would help fix marriage would be making it just as painful for the woman. Alimony and child support should be based on a fixed amount based on average mans income in the US. Women should know that getting married is going to financially suck if they get a divorce. If a man or woman wants to pay more out of kindness that's on them not the courts.

RC2006 says

One of the thing that would help fix marriage would be making it just as painful for the woman.

It is if she is the higher earner. My wife's cousin is an actress that was a regular on a daytime soap, a guest star on "CSI" and did some movie roles. She had a short marriage to a lower income guy who took her to the cleaners in the divorce.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

And since this train will be making many stops along the way..

Bingo. Why HSR will never work in the states. Maybe the northeast. Everyone will want a stop. We can make trains go fast, probably faster than other countries, we can't stop politicians that want stops in their district/town. We got to 120mph, shit we gotta stop in 3 minutes.

It would have to be end to end with no stops. Sharing tracks with freight doesn't work either. It really is a non-starter in the US. There are and will be regional lines, but 250mph trains ain't coming any time soon.

HeadSet says

RC2006 says

One of the thing that would help fix marriage would be making it just as painful for the woman.

It is if she is the higher earner. My wife's cousin is an actress that was a regular on a daytime soap, a guest star on "CSI" and did some movie roles. She had a short marriage to a lower income guy who took her to the cleaners in the divorce.

See my last sentence, "If a man or woman wants to pay more out of kindness that's on them not the courts."
Divorce is driven, profited, and taken advantage of mostly by women.

RC2006 says

Divorce is driven, profited, and taken advantage of mostly by women.

Agree.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Meth or crack? The left photo isn't attractive either. No serious athletic person I know wears makeup running or doing whatever. Was covering it up early. Hot chicks don't wear makeup except at events.

WookieMan says

Meth

Meth. Loss of front teeth are a dead giveaway.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Meth. Loss of front teeth are a dead giveaway.

Yes, not paying the dealers gets one punched.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Goddamn, fuck.

I think Trump needs to take all the convicted criminal rapefugess, load them into locked steel containers, and set them adrift out to sea, where they can roast and cannibalize each other until they die. The remainder who haven't committed crimes can just join in the mass deportation.

stereotomy says

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Goddamn, fuck.

I think Trump needs to take all the convicted criminal rapefugess, load them into locked steel containers, and set them adrift out to sea, where they can roast and cannibalize each other until they die. The remainder who haven't committed crimes can just join in the mass deportation.

This lady has the right idea:

https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=2128926

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Ouch... 5'2"? If JD runs he'd be a god damn midget next to him. Even Desantis would tower over him. Sorry, short men are angry. He's Jewish if I recall (Shapiro... lol). So he loses a ton of votes right there. Loses women votes because he physically looks weak. Loses all muslims. 10% deficit out the gate unless he's that charismatic.

Dems have no one currently. They're going to go for a woman of color is my prediction. This is an extremely precise prediction. Lauren Underwood, IL as the Female Barack Obama. I don't think she has the foreign policy balls, but I think she'd do well domestically. Her current staff are solid people. Biased because I've met her multiple times, but she's got Michelle Obama attitude without the dick. It could win and she'd be 42. Old enough and she hustles.

I wouldn't vote for her, but don't be surprised if you hear the name in 2026-27. In heels she probably pushes just under 6' but doesn't look like a gorilla. Shitty black hair, but that's common. If I was a Dem strategist she's top 10 on the radar. Mostly rural purple IL district, so from what I know she's not extreme left.

One surprising thing about my nephew's's Stanford 'elite' 'children of the Gods' friends was how lawn ornament short many of them are. One had to wonder if there was some kind of karma regression there.

Shrubbie Bush also had a rep for sucking his fellow student's cocks at Yale. How Skull & Bones & Monarch Scherf of him.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

SunnyvaleCA says

California could run two high-speed rail lines that at least break even

Not really. The cost isn't just the ticket but also time. And since this train will be making many stops along the way..

Weird, I never wrote that. I text-searched this entire thread. Plus, I don't think any high-speed train could be profitable in California.

SunnyvaleCA says

Weird, I never wrote that. I text-searched this entire thread. Plus, I don't think any high-speed train could be profitable in California.

You 'posted' it. https://patrick.net/post/1379958?start=70#comment-2126095

stereotomy says

I think Trump needs to take all the convicted criminal rapefugess, load them into locked steel containers, and set them adrift out to sea, where they can roast and cannibalize each other until they die. The remainder who haven't committed crimes can just join in the mass deportation.

Anyone invading the US should be met with heavy machine gun fire.

I mean it. Either we have a border or we don't.

https://menafn.com/1108321209/Kenneth-Darlington-Is-Sentenced-To-48-Years-In-Prison

Patrick says

Anyone invading the US should be met with heavy machine gun fire.

I mean it. Either we have a border or we don't.

Should just be motion sensing machine guns. You don't need anyone besides maintenance. Easily doable. If within 100'-200' you're getting 500 rounds a minute tossed your way. Put down land mines in front and behind the wall. Build a basic cheap fence and put 4,000 german Shepard's 1/2 mile off the US side of the wall for those that trench. Trained to attack. Male and female so they can fuck and reproduce. Make sure the mines need 100lbs of force to discharge.

Could also put some fresh water sharks (bull sharks) in the Rio Grande. We should be putting animals to use more often. We used to have a service put German Shepards in condos being built for security so copper and tools wouldn't be stolen. Animals are great weapons.

OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething says

Quote from patriots.win:

Look, Roberts is about to be the deciding vote in the very obvious Dellinger case which will allow trump to fire any executive branch employee appointed by the president. Roberts doesn't want to look like the supreme court is biased. so he's basically putting on this case. If you read the order, the majority basically tells the district court to set a timeline for the funds that is feasible. The trump admin already laid out a timeline, and if the district court says no to that timeline the the administration can appeal.

Basically Roberts will step in and give the admin as much time to review the contracts as they need. There's the issue of jurisdiction, but again, Roberts knows that the TRO itself is basically toothless so he's not going to address that now (he's the swing vote because Barrett inexplicably will vote witht he left on every key issue)

Roberts isn't what I'd hoped he'd be. But I think more than anything he's trying to keep the court relevant. If he rules the wrong way in the Dellinger case, trump will just ignore the order. But this case is a big nothing burger to begin with. The admin never said they werent going to pay for legitimate work performed. Just that they were reviewing the contracts. They now have the time they need to do that.

Not a perfect decision, but not a train wreck.

Lemme guess...she forgot to set the thing to vibrate.

The year is 1972. The RAND corporation proposes building a cross-country networks of maglev trains in vacuum sealed tunnels to carry passengers and freight at 14,000 mph kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth.

We used to dream.

DeportLibtards says

She musta already won something from Mack Truck.

America is sooooo fucked!

DeportLibtards says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

DeportLibtards says

Cool. Just stole that to use on X: