It’s likely you haven’t heard of it because it’s a US thing mostly

Crazy, people get shot in their cars here

Every single city community group in the US has a vocal population that swears the local bus service is filled with nothing but homeless murderers and thieves and that’s why public transit should never be built and will never be used by anyone normal

The only time going to school isn’t worth it is if you’re already burnt out in your job, genuinely have no time to do it, and make so much money that adding university classes on top of that isn’t worth the effort or time investment. Having said that, if you need the degree to increase your earning potential, even in your 30s or 40s or whatever, then it’s worthwhile despite all the challenges. My mom got her degree in her 30s and massively increased her earning potential and that has paid off over the decades, and I’m currently getting my degree in my 30s to increase my earning potential as well.

There are remote school options where you don’t need to attend classes so those are much easier to fit into your schedule, and much cheaper, places like Western Governors University.

Visited there last year, but the meme is lying. There is a trail directly to the top of the rock, but it’s unofficial and somewhat dangerous to climb on top. Awesome hike, though

So far, the 2025 box office (top 200 movies) has made $17B compared to 2024’s total of $22B or 2022’s total of $21B. However, most of the largest movies of the year have not released yet, including Zootopia 2, Wicked: For Good (actually releasing tonight), Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, a new Spongebob Squarepants movie, Hamnet with Pedro Pascal, Rental Family with Brendan Frasier, and the new Avatar: Fire and Ash (and a bunch of other movies). https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2025/

Anecdotally, I’ve enjoyed a lot of the movies this year, namely Bugonia. Angel’s Egg also got a 4k remaster and release in the US this week.

It takes longer than 10 minutes just to dry my hair properly

You forgot to include someone calling OP a tankie

The Shinkansen network in Japan was infamously extremely expensive and during its construction, many Japanese hated it and doubted it would ever amount to much. Today, it is held up as the best public transit system ever created.

Here in Seattle, the Link Light Rail system is also extremely expensive, though this is due to many factors, notably the fact that between the time the project got started and initially set its funding goals, the Covid pandemic happened and massive inflation, both in currency and in raw materials. However, the lines that are finished are extremely nice. The Link system is shaping up to be some of the best in the entire US, and the biggest and most important section hasn’t even opened yet: the world’s first rail line to travel across a floating bridge. Once the bridge section is complete, it will connect the two separate systems on the west and east sides of Lake Washington into one system and allow fast, efficient transit from the east side into downtown Seattle.

Anyway, my point is that just because a system is expensive, doesn’t mean it’s bad. I think you’re just furthering car-centric propaganda and reinforcing the belief that public transit is expensive and therefore bad

5% but 3% can be fulfilled with infrastructure spending like roads and bridges that can support tanks

Drinking alcohol doesn’t give adults birth defects either, but drinking alcohol while pregnant causes birth defects in the child 🤯

Absolutely not

Of course I do. Mostly because I avoid communities that I know will be toxic as hell and full of chuds

This seems to be the opposite experience for many who have expressed that they don’t check—they feel entitled to be present and post in every space regardless of any context

Yeah! If women want their own space they should sequester themselves into a backroom with no advertising and an onerous sign-up process requiring an ID check that no one ever sees or hears about but somehow all women will know it exists because they have a psychic sense for those kinds of things

Alright, but none of that was really relevant to this comment. Why are you soapboxing on it?

As usual on Lemmy, the answer is just for women to shut up and listen to what the men want

Yes, trying to warn other women about a man you dated who abused you or gave off weird vibes is definitely the same as getting your nudes or porn video of yourself leaked against your will onto the public internet for everyone to see

The app required ID uploads ostensibly to verify that you were a woman signing up, men were not allowed to join for obvious reasons

I suppose you also believe that RT isn’t Russian state propaganda either, for the same reasons.

“But that’s not the same!” ok

The source is American propaganda https://about.rferl.org/faq/isnt-rfe-rl-funded-by-the-cia/

Sure, it’s not “literally” funded by the CIA, but it is “literally” funded by the US federal government