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not a wolf, not a dog, but a secret third thing

the thing about the cybertruck being marketed towards people who are afraid theyll get shot driving through a city is that no other vehicle on the market psychologically invites violence and bullets as strongly as the cybertruck does. you see a cybertruck and you wanna empty an m16 into it

really turns me into the joker hearing people be like "oh citizens of the DPRK can't travel to other countries or work, they're all trapped there" when that was literally a UN thing. like the UN is the one who decided that not the north korean government.

“okay 💖 yay💖” really changed a generation

People who talk about what population density is necessary to "justify" a rail system are wrong but they're wrong in the opposite way from how they think. Even in Japan which has more than twice the population density of China the rail system is not profitable. JR makes most of its profit by operating malls and collecting rent from vendors. If you blindly follow profit instead of considering the broader social benefits the result will always be putting your rail system into a death spiral of rationalization. Stop expecting public transport to turn a profit that's not what it exists for.

The point of transit is to move people and goods from one place to another. If you expect that to be a profit center, you're expecting a private tax on all commerce as if that were a good thing.

the same people who complain about public transport not turning a profit also expect their government to build and maintain roads for them to "freely" drive on, as if those were not horribly costly. but that's road infrastructure, it justifies itself, it doesn't have to make a profit, what will we do without it, they will clamour, not realising THE SAME APPLIES TO OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION

tbh i don't think people really understand how dire the water situation is in the west bank. the last time i was in palestine, i could only shower once a month. ONCE A MONTH. we simply did not have enough water to sustain my whole family, because israel controls palestinians' water supply and does not give us enough to sustain ourselves in the long run. plus the water isn't very clean so it was very easy to get sick all the time. when we say that "palestinians drink more olive oil than water", it's not genuinely such a silly hyperbole as you might think.

^^ this is very true. the last time i was in the west bank, i was sick constantly and threw my guts up violently almost every night, to the point where i was bedridden almost every day and could literally never leave the house. i lost a violent amount of weight as well. the water simply is NOT clean and it's really unsafe. this same water is being used to grow plants and food, wash our clothes and dishes, and bathe, amongst other things. along with rising temperatures and harsher restrictions on the water supply, palestinians are not only chronically dehydrated, but are very susceptible to getting severe illnesses. people NEED to be paying more attention to the situation in the west bank, while also caring for gaza and the other occupied territories that are suffering as well.