Even Wuhan (“The Chicago of China”) has a pretty nifty metro system. It only has 12 lines currently (compared to Shenzhen’s 17), with ~520km of track (compared to Shenzhen’s ~580km) serving 312 stations (compared to Shenzhen’s 398). Like Shenzhen it’s ultramodern, smooth, fast, and comfortable.

Here’s Wuhan’s lines and start dates. (There are extensions to almost all of these that were built over ensuing years.)

And here’s Shenzhen’s:

Both are awesome systems that are constantly growing. (Both Shenzhen and Wuhan are constantly extending lines on each end: line 11 in Wuhan just opened a new extension on December 28, 2024 that dramatically lengthens its run and connects it to several other lines.)

Note that both of these metro systems started building in 1999 (Shenzhen) and 2000 (Wuhan). The New York City Subway opened in 1904 and now, 120 years later, has 36 lines, 472 stations, and about 1400km of track. In a sixth of that time Wuhan has constructed a system that has ~33% of the lines, ~66% of the stations, and ~37% of the track. For Shenzhen those percentages are ~47%, ~84%, and ~37% respectively. Picture how much larger they’re going to be in another 100 years…

I helped a friend’s child going to school in Canada to write a presentation on Canada’s 2008 apology for the residential schools scandal. Said child observed that all of the available topics were positive things only and she was utterly frustrated by this.

So I showed her how to turn the residential schools thing into something that shoves Canadians’ faces in their history. The introduction mentions the apology and the important step forward that it represents, but also says it’s pointless to talk about the apology without knowing what Canada is apologizing for.

She then (with some guidance) wrote a harsh and merciless summary of the residential schools, highlighting in the history section the terrible motivations for them, the cruelty of them, and, above all, how LONG they lasted. Then she turned her words to the complicity of the Canadian government in them. Finally she painted a dreadful picture of the aftermath of the residential schools and how they continued to cause harm for decades after the last one was finally closed with other impacts that last to this very day.

Then, in her conclusion, she stated factually that the PM apologized on behalf of Canada in 2008. She closed off then with, “with Canada apologizing, everything’s good now” delivered in the degree of sarcasm that only a 17-year old girl with a grievance of her own about Canadian racism could provide.

Her teacher was furious, and about half the class shared the teacher’s reaction. The other half cheered her. (I’ll let your imagination figure out where the dividing line was between anger and cheering…)

I’ve never been so proud of a child that I know in my entire life.

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It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture …

… time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

I highlighted the parts you missed. You might want to clean your screen so you can see all the words before responding.

They work better than following people does, though.

Nope.

Pilots can opt out.

Hams cannot:

If you do not want your home address to be public information when the new license is issued, an alternative address, such as a PO Box or work address, would be acceptable.

That’s the only bone the RCC will throw your way privacy-wise.

Yes. The noted popular-to-vulnerable-people hobby of flying an airplane.

Quick question (and an honest one: I genuinely don’t know): can I get the name, address, and telephone number of any aircraft pilot? 'Cause I can with ham ops.

I know the public registry has, in the past, been a barrier to entry. Nice to see that it’s still in place so only people who don’t have targets painted on their backs can enter the hobby.

Don’t follow people. Follow hashtags. It’s a much better experience.

Do you still get doxed by policy as a ham? If so, that’s going to drive off several vulnerable groups.

This right here. There’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more to theatre than acting and a lot of fulfillment can be drawn from being the base upon which the performance rests: set design and building, costuming, etc. Hell, my absolute first community theatre experience had me just turning pages for a piano player and that was itself actually kind of fun!

I worked behind the scenes in community theatre before finally stage managing a production of Twelfth Night.

It was fun—lots of fun—but it’s also a major time sink if you’re really into it.

On my Mastodon I follow … maybe a dozen people? Total?

I follow, like you said, topics in the form of hashtags. This gives me a much better feed than Xhitter or Farcebook ever did.

I frequently purge connections that have gone dead. I didn’t realize that people didn’t do this routinely.

Now compare Lemmy, a phone, or the Internet to “a machine in the likeness of a human mind”.

Dune is full of machines. It just lacks machines that think. Which we do too, but the things they’re trying to push as thinking are already causing extreme damage to our culture, so … time for the Butlerian Jihad before things get so bad you need an existential war to fix them.

Traditional ones are more than a month’s salary for me, where the tongued ones are affordable, even on the upper end. That’s why I was a bit alarmed to hear recommendations not to go with one. 😀

The stones I’m practicing with need a really sharp and solid chisel to work. And I have no idea how people get those straight, clean lines with them!

The modern version of “it is written in scripture” is “studies say”.

The modern equivalent of “I’m a flaming asshole” is to attribute negative characteristics like “alcohol problem” without evidence. (Ironically this is also anti-science, but let’s not sprain what passes for your brain too strongly here.)

Why avoid the tongue ones?

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Huh. TIL.