We’ve abandoned passenger rail, but not freight rail. The USA consistently ranks as one of the top users of freight rail (and by many metrics it is the top user of freight rail). The issue is that most American cities outside of the northeast corridor tend to be far enough apart that you are going to be better off flying. High speed rail hasn’t really caught on yet, but I suspect in another 15 years it’s going to be lot more common now that it’s starting to look commercially viable

The thing that’s even funnier is that I lost Apollo at 3:55 PM, so they didn’t even wait until 00:00 GMT

Boost is a kbin upvote, while upvote is a Lemmy upvote. So if you want promote some good content on kbin, you have to use boost

Reddit has clearly gone the route of TikTok and Facebook: engagement >> user experience

It’s no mystery why Reddit feels so negative these days