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President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country

For at least 30 years middle Georgia (USA) has asked for rail commute to Atlanta and Savannah.

Now see.....this rail used to be a passenger rail. Somehow this ended and we can't get it back.

With the abysmal traffic in Atlanta, this would seemingly call for enthusiasm. Somehow the issue always dies quietly after a poll is given.

Living in Savannah, I'd really just like the old passenger schedule to re open.

Not gonna happen anytime soon.

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With DeSantis absent, Biden surveys storm damage in Florida

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Two other instances come to mind as well, him looking lost in white rubber boots last year when Biden gave federal money for hurricane recovery, and just last week DeSantis was booed so loudly you couldn't hear his voice. He may wish to stay out of black communities after making it illegal to teach crt, among other past tells.

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I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

I went to join Planet Fitness, they insist on an app. They watched me leave. Kroger charged more than advertised, ooooh it was a digital coupon only available through the app. I left the item with the cashier. Order out? Only on an app? I guess I didn't want to eat that so much anyway.

Edit to add: I don't know how we are going to deal with apps that are forced upon you, that feels really gross especially if you are younger, like at your school. Forced commodification should be illegal.

Not going to do it, it feels controlling and abusive and I've worked too damn hard to let that shit go on.

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I suddenly became a hit writer – but I felt my husband treated my career like an interruption of my domestic work

Wow, mine did the same thing. Eventually he treated my work as an enemy to compete with, which was detrimental because my work is a part of me, it's not a place I go to, it's my craft. Much like being a writer. I was the one who would "not work" if the kids were sick etc, he thought very little of my contributions (which were good) to our bills etc. Like I should just presto magic money into being after not being able to work, he'd act as if I was just not working hard enough.

Even at tax return time, he literally was shocked when I told him we should be sharing the refund and he refused.

Eventually, he lost this war , and I'm happily growing in my field. I really wanted to be married, I didn't want to end our marriage but I couldn't face myself with this treatment and he couldn't understand what I was saying.