Anarchists are not intellectual to put it mildly

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I've been told that you can switch clients to avoid this, there are a few options other than deer.

Jack meanwhile has maintained his status as Lord of the Carribbean Sea despite spending ten years without a consistent ship, crew, or even firing his pistol. And yet according to Elizabeth he’s managed to sack at least one settlement without it.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

I never really thought about it before but busses are one of the safest ways to commute to work I can imagine. I’m not ever worried when I take the train but if I had to pick which I’d feel more safe on it would be the bus.

I used to travel between towns late at night when I was a teenager/young adult woman and it would be straight up cozy and a nice way to end my day.

That really happened, in the US. Only instead of the villain being an evil cartoon posing as a judge, the villain was General Motors and Ford and all the big car companies. They bought public transit lines and dismantled them. They lobbied congress to fund the interstate highway system and they CONTINUE to lobby the us govt to keep trains and public transit from having any money, while making sure the roads get lots of it. They are responsible not only for the dismantling of public transit but also the public's perception that public transit is bad and even dangerous.

Despite the wishful thinking of Communists, who do not understand "wrong" the way that fish do not understand "wet," large companies do not work in concert with their competitors to annihilate value that they could have used as a part of long-term plans to vaguely harm "workers" that they do not directly benefit from. The reason the car companies were able to buy the streetcar companies was that the streetcar companies were failing and going bankrupt and not worth very much! Streetcars were shit and useless by the time they were bought out, and not making any money, because people didn't want to use them, because streetcars fucking suck the moment cars exist because they still have to wait in traffic but you can't control where you can go. Once cars existed, people did not want to use streetcars. Car companies bought them, when they were purchased, for their manufacturing capabilities. Most of the time that didn't even happen.

The United States Army.

Yes, that's right.

There is a reason that the full name of the system of roads and bridges that we shorten to The Freeway is the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

You see, starting all the way back in 1916, the U.S. Army commissioned a series of studies and exercises to determine how long it would take to move an army from one side of the nation to the other in the event of an invasion. The conclusions reached by these studies were not pleasant reading. If anything, the reports from the actual test transits were even worse. On average, transit time was 62 days of pure road travel. As in, not including time spent replacing broken axles, hauling trucks and tanks out of the mud, cleaning desert dust out of intakes and radiators etc.

Obviously, this is far too slow to keep up in a modern war and the Army made sure that Congress knew all about it. Improvements to roads were made slowly and in a piecemeal fashion all the way through WWII, but because the states themselves wholly owned and independently designed the highways they were in charge of, there was no standardization of road widths, materials or strength. A tank carrier might be fine crossing a bridge in one state, only to find that a nearby bridge in the next state over wasn't rated for that weight. Assuming the bridge was marked with its limitations at all.

So what changed?

General Eisenhower went to Germany and saw the Autobahn. While he hated everything that Nazi Germany stood for, he had to admit that Hitler was right about one thing and the German transport system was it. So when he returned to the U.S., he carried that inspiration with him and made it one of his top priorities during both of his presidential runs. This finally culminated in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which not only provided the funding, initial routing and legal justification for our freeway system, it finally also standardized our highways.