@bookishbrews Freight rail is a special case. The owners operate at duopoly in each region & only reinvest subsidies. Meanwhile they overwork & underpay the employees to bring in obscene profits for the shareholders. Before the massive mergers the railroads were a massive national asset. Now…

@AlexKintnersMom I’m not smiling, you’re smiling.

@twitchbunny @JayBlanc Well, if this works, why not Muppets #StartWars ?

@DeepPolka :0170:

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.