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  • From the article,

    terrain Boring will have to navigate: the tricky, sinkhole-prone limestone bedrock of middle Tennessee. The construction risks range from collapsing the ground beneath a heavily traveled state highway, to knocking out utility connections, to flooding the tunnel with groundwater.

    The ability to cut the rock is not the only challenge in boring tunnels. Regardless of the type of rocks it runs through, making tunnels using a TBM is one of the slowest and most expensive ways of making a tunnel. Its best to use other techniques, unless a TBM is the only option, which it isn’t for this project.

    The proposed airport line runs directly beneath sr41, and the second line is under sr70s. Just like Vegas it goes directly under preexisting roads, so they don’t have to deal with the administrative headache or costs of acquiring the rights to dig under private property. In cases like this it is far cheaper to use cut and cover.

    In cut and cover, you build a shallow tunnel by digging a trench, putting the tunnel in the trench, then burying it. Its the most cost effective way to make urban metro tunnels in most cases, but it does require shutting down part of the road to construct. However those carbrained enough to think chauffeur driven cars are mass transit, will consider temporarily closing a few lanes on the surface during construction to be unacceptable.


  • Cities will start and end school zones within a quarter mile of each other. The safer option would be to have the street stay a school zone for its entire length, but no. I’ve seen many cases of “end school zone, speed limit 35” signs just before the start of a school zone. There’s no way that isn’t fine to farm tickets at the expense of children’s safety.

    American streets are dangerous for children. The solution should be to make the streets safe, everywhere all the time. A temporary speed limit in a few spots doesn’t fix anything.



  • Everyone in the files should be investigated and charged if anything is actionable. But from reading the article, this sounds like a business relationship. The article mentions many emails about referring clients, and donations to his offices, but not emails about attending parties.

    The emails also show Ting asking whether he could bring his children with him to Epstein’s Manhattan residence for a meeting. In a May 3, 2013, email, Ting wrote that he needed to pick up his children earlier than expected and asked whether Epstein was available at 4 p.m. or, if not, “does he mind if I bring my 3 young kids with me when I come? They could sit and wait in the foyer.”

    I don’t think a reasonable person would volunteer to bring their children to epstein without being genuinely unaware what epstein did to children.


  • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGender Abolitionist Proposals
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    Hard disagree on the sports part. Men and women are different, and those differences are huge at competitive levels in most sports. It’s bad that women’s teams and leagues are less respected and lower paid, but the alternative in reality is not an integrated league with both men and women, but one where women don’t have a chance to play professionally.

    You can see this historically. Most women’s leagues are a new thing. The world cup started in 1930, the women’s world cup started in 1991. Profesional basketball leagues in the US started in 1935, and the first american women’s league started in 1978, which lasted 3 years. At which point there was no women’s league until the WNBA in 1996.

    We have 61 years of football without women’s divisions, and 58 years of basketball to look at. Despite no statutory ban on their participation, women didn’t get a chance to compete without their own segregated league. They are needed.

    Every sport is different, and some work fine with intergrated leagues. But for those that are not, a lack of a women’s division is a de-facto ban on half the population. That’s a bad thing.







  • I’m sorry to hear that. Virtual hug ❤❤❤❤❤

    I also had my first panic attack after starting HRT. I now have emotions, but not yet the ability to manage them. On T I would become uncontrollably angry when thinking about negative things, and I imagine that was effective at venting the frustrations. But now that doesn’t happen, so I have to actually deal with the feelings, and it’s not gone well several times.

    Take care, but rest assured it is a normal part of the trans journey, I think. (i hope)




  • I practice safe handling with the handheld barcode scanners at the hardware store checkout.

    • Do not point the scanner at anything you do not intend to scan.

    • Keep your finger away from the trigger until you’re ready to scan.

    • Be aware of your surroundings including what is behind your target.

    I would extend it to any gunlike, or vaguely gun shaped object, even those that cannot cause harm. Don’t become complacent with safety practices even when it doesn’t matter.



  • There are 3 trains in the morning, a 6 hour gap with no service, then 10 more trains, with the last at 7:30, and no service on weekends. This is why.

    That was the south sounder. The north is even worse. 6 trains per day, and that’s being very generous counting the amtrak that goes the same route.

    I assume seattleites are not interested in an inconsistent train that is likely to strand you on the rare occasions it is even plausible to use.

    Every time I’ve needed to go to Seattle I checked the sounder schedule. Every time its been unusable.

    In contrast, the light rail’s 1 line has about 130 trains per day with the last train after midnight, and it operates weekends too. This is how you schedule a train properly.