it’s not federally funded the way most federal stuff is handled though. It’s ‘federally chartered’ and nominally a for profit corporation where all the stock is owned by the feds and the feds choose the leadership. It’s supposed to make money not just spend tax money.
I have enjoyed the sleeper cars! I’m a fan of rail travel which is how i know that the user experience hasn’t changed in 30+ years!
My favorite is the observation cars on the coast starlight.
The trains are still infrequent, often not to schedule and with minimum available routes. Short hops are far too expensive for the experience you get as well. The only thing keeping Amtrak from working seems to be Amtrak.
Okay I think Amtrak is not really remotely interested in providing a positive passenger rail experience, but is instead used by the automotive and railroad industry to provide a poor experience, ensuring that people keep buying cars and gas and keep the rail lines free for commercial usage.
Here is my primary piece of evidence; in e-commerce web design to increase sales your goal is to remove barriers between a motivated customer and them clicking buy. A company the size of amtrak should have a decently sophisticated process of multi variable testing and focus groups to at least someehat improve the process over time and make it easy for people to plan route trips and buy tickets.
And yet in the decades that Amtrak has been operating they user experience has barely changed and seems to do just the minimum to keep up with the times and not look stale. And it’s not an overly complicated item they are selling. A very small in house team would be able to make a very usable experience in just a couple of years. But it’s absolute shit. It’s so frustrating and to try and plan a train trip and it always has been, for absolutely no reason.
Either this massive company has had absolute fools in charge of their web dev for decades leaving piles of money on the table due to incompetence… OR they actually just don’t care about making sales for whatever reason. I think that reason is that they exist just to keep the rail experience shitty.
My secondary piece of evidence is how poor and shitty the actual train service remains after so long in business. Train travel has not gotten better at all in my lifetime, only worse.
loll good idea really
my shitty old man would get drunk and wax on about him and his buddies cruising around drinking beers in their car with no seatbelts and dropping the empties through a hole in the floor and the cops didn’t give a fuck and to him that was living
I snagged this to send to my partner in a suggestive fashion 😅 haven’t found the perfect time yet though
i use tmux with named windows on each server and just terminals locally
oh hell yes.
well think of it as trends and it may make more sense. Around me there’s a time of year where half the local fast food restaurants are pushing sweet potato fries or onion rings made from local onions that are in season. Most of the ‘obsessions’/trends seem to tie in to seasonal food that’s discounted.
I recall when tiny burgers were an obsession in the 90’s though; burger king had the BK Buddies and suddenly every fast food joint started serving a slider. There was a big salad push in the 2000’s.
I read to my child every night while they were in the womb and when they came out my reading voice was like drugs it would knock them out so quickly if they were sleepy!
i mean ya gotta keep the monsters off
to add to this, ‘you can beat the charges but you can’t beat the ride’ is a saying coined by our american police, their extrajudicial punishments include rough rides among other cruelty
your rights aren’t a shield.
ah those glasses on the end cap at the drug store that say like +1 will fix that if you have those! Love my granny glasses. i think they may call them Reading Glasses but you don’t need a scrip forv them were i live and they are as cheap as sunglasses
yeahhh i usually just use her birth name if I must refer to her at all. Some folks weren’t meant to have kids and don they best to prove it.
my first tape was The Goonies so i know that entire movie word for word. We also got ET but that’s not actually a fun movie to watch at all i never watched it much.
even the cutie who stops in my 7-11
i was mildly embarrassed about wearing my (black) pair of fitovers around until two seperate young people complimented them and then i realized they are old looking enough to be sort of retro!
now that i know they are Certified Cool i strut in em 😎