Trans Megathread for the Week of 2024-10-07 to 2024-10-13 - ETR 600
Trans Megathread for the Week of 2024-10-07 to 2024-10-13 - ETR 600
The ETR 600 is a class of trains built by Alstom, and are used on the routes between Roma-Bolzano and Roma-Trieste. The train tilts, using Pendolino technology, allowing higher speeds to be maintained through corners without causing discomfort to passengers. The trains are operated by Trenitalia, originally under the Frecciargento (Silver Arrow) branding used for trains capable of travelling between 250 km/h and 285 km/h, In 2022 they were rebranded under Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) after the Frecciargento branding was retired.
The ETR 600 has also been adapted for use in China as the China Railway CRH5 Hexie. Initially 60 sets were ordered, of which nine were manufactured by Alstom and 51 by CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles. Since, another 80 sets have been created for a total of 140, operating across China's north from Beijing to Ürümqi.
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not sure if I should spoiler. What should I even write as spoiler? Weird... existential moment?
I've had these weird moments where I have some existential moment where I go "wait all of this is real, this is reality" and my perspective...shifts? Into 3D. Its quite a surreal moment. What's your surreal/existential moments?
Had a bad one yesterday that was pretty unnerving
sad, depersonalization, ennui? idk, Big Sad diary ass post, sorry
Went for a walk in the woods yesterday and it was a lot less busy there than it usually is, but pretty much every time I saw other people there, it was a couple together or a family, then I'd go like 15 minutes walking alone before I'd see anyone again and I had a weird existential kinda depersonalization where I felt like my sense of awareness of myself on the trail was from a bird's eye view above the trail (not like visually seeing myself in third person, just the sense of space and my surroundings). Mentally I knew cognitively that it was just temporary and I'd see other people soon enough again, but something about it made me feel emotionally really strongly that I'm ALONE and even when I'm around other people, they don't really see me and just being overwhelmed by loneliness.
It was a nice day and I was getting out and getting some exercise and in a beautiful forest trail and usually feel good about that, but I wanted to cry for awhile and couldn't. I often feel distant from others irl and like whatever my spectrum-y ass brain is like is just fundamentally magnetically resistant to intuitive interactions with most people, but it's normally just a dull background frustration to me in my head, and this was really visceral and upsetting. I got home exhausted and it was a grueling chore to make myself shower and get ready for bed and I was overwhelmed by feeling profoundly lonely and wishing I had a partner to cuddle up with and hold me and fall asleep with my head on their chest wrapped up in their arms.
My kitties were happy to see me though
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When I was younger I would have those moments of profundity. And then, eventually, I'd have to poop. Those moments of existential wonder don't survive contact, for me, with that particular physical sensation lol
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Lol the other day it felt like my arms weren't corporeal and I kept going back and forth in my head between "well, logically they are physical" and "yeah but it doesn't feel like that so am I really sure?"
That happens to me.
Getting caught in rain unprepared generally brings it on for me. Something about the physical sensation and discomfort brings me out of my head and back into the world.