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mcbobgorge commented on Japan's Creepiest Station   tokyocowboy.co/articles/d... · Posted by u/ewf
jonnybgood · 21 hours ago
Japan train stations are interesting. Another interesting set of stations are the so-called “train stations of despair”. These stations, particularly in Tokyo prefecture, are in the middle of no where at the end of a line. If you live out towards these stations and you’re coming home from a night out in Shinjuku on the last train and you so happen to fall asleep and miss your stop, you’ll likely wake up at one of these stations of despair. There’s no return until the next morning.
mcbobgorge · 21 hours ago
There's something similar in Philly- I went to Temple University and many drunk kids would either fall asleep on the Broad Street Line or mistakenly take the last express train, which skips over both of the Temple stops. As a result, you have to get off somewhere in North Philly (the worst part of the city) and wait for someone to pick you up.

Different kind of despair than Tokyo lol

mcbobgorge commented on White Mountain Direttissima   whitemountainski.co/pages... · Posted by u/oftenwrong
mcbobgorge · 15 days ago
I grew up in New Hampshire and the White Mountains are such a good playground for stuff like this. Big network of trails, all kinds of terrain. Four very different seasons, lots of weather.

Basically anything you want to find in mountains, you can find in the Whites. Ice climbing, mountaineering, multi-pitch trad climbing, bushwhacking, easy trails, empty trails, whatever. I was very lucky to be able to hike there.

mcbobgorge commented on Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?   nber.org/papers/w34033... · Posted by u/lxm
p_ing · 16 days ago
Often advocacy groups or municipalities will perform counts on specific days each year.

So while one does not need to say "literally" in that sentence (it wasn't figurative, after all), it is possible to say "zero homeless folks" as there may be data backing the statement up.

mcbobgorge · 15 days ago
Yes- I live in a pretty affluent Los Angeles suburb and we recently just hit "functional zero" street homelessness.

"To achieve Functional Zero, the number of individuals placed in interim or permanent housing must be greater than the number of individuals who become homeless over a six-month period, and the homeless population, as a whole, must have a median duration on the streets of less than 90 days."

The data is gathered by the city as well as local nonprofits.

mcbobgorge commented on TikTok’s ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral   forbes.com/sites/emilybak... · Posted by u/LLcolD
photonbeam · 3 years ago
Go make an app with a heating button under EU control please
mcbobgorge · 3 years ago
Spotify has this for artists

u/mcbobgorge

KarmaCake day5February 25, 2018View Original