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One of my favorite copypastas:
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn’t there the moment before. I looked down: “Rail? WTF?” and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife’s pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC’s pulling, and 2 Dash-9’s pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
Your PiHole probably is (blocking the ads). Shoutout to the PiHole team!
Banned from Television was another in the 90’s.
If the tech is offline (in our case it is) it’ll always be alive. Even if you move out, companies usually don’t take the lighting with them after they Reno a space
Get checked everyone! If you listened to the album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” in HS, it’s time for a mammogram and/or colonoscopy.
TIL I’m older than you.
Some files are more particular than others about being closed properly.
White castle fries show Robin Hood: Men in Tights
…I don’t know why one WOULD do such a thing…
The biggest reason is that now you don’t have to pay electricians to run cables; you pay low voltage guys who are much cheaper and are probably already running g low voltage cable for network connectivity. In addition, each light can be addressable meaning you can have specific light fixtures do certain things.
Source: I’ve seen it deployed.
Don’t forget to 3-2-1 backup!
Wait, which sub (or whatever) am I in again?