destructdisc @ destructdisc @lemmy.world Posts 49Comments 41Joined 2 yr. ago
India trains are the best trains in the world.
Ehhhh...no, not really. There's a lot of room for improvement there, honestly. They're absolutely pretty inexpensive, but even then they're sorely lacking in basic amenities, and successive governments (especially the current one) have steadily been ignoring the railways more and more in favor of roads and airlines -- because rich people tend to either drive or fly, and mostly only poor people take trains. I guess the powers that be think that means the railways aren't worth caring about.
It's causing a runaway effect where more and more people are being forced to use roads because the trains are either in terrible nick or overcrowded or both, which means there's even less focus on actually improving the trains, and so on and so forth.
A trans woman who's attracted to other women would be a trans lesbian, if that's what was tripping you up.
Lol sure, if you can call flying middle-seat economy on Indigo once every few months "rich people" behavior
...and then he went to a village of 265 people, which still has a bus stop with a bicycle rack and buses that come every 12 minutes.
Dalit man killed after brutal assault for calling caste-Hindu shopkeeper’s son “beta” in Gujarat
Higher-caste. Dalit is the lowest caste in Hinduism
A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US
Dalit man killed after brutal assault for calling caste-Hindu shopkeeper’s son “beta” in Gujarat
Activists in Toronto are currently demonstrating outside the Ontario Food Terminal in support of the Palestinians being forced to starve in Gaza
I'm in Mumbai. The 37km north-south journey from one end of the city to the other costs 20¢ on the local train. $1.20 if you want to ride the fancy train with AC. East-west is 13km and costs 50¢ on the elevated metro line.
This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area
As someone forced to ride my bike right next to thundering trucks and cars on the roads every day, I can't begin to enumerate how many close calls I've had because there are no bike lanes here.
They're also trying to make a movie about Hind Rajab's murder while her family is still stuck under the genocidal occupation that killed her
Just about every state and province in North America could claim that title once you're outside the bigger cities
93% of gynecological research is conducted on men? Research into ovarian cancer? Development into drugs for preeclampsia?
That's not what that means at all. It means gynecological research + research into other issues that only affect female physiology only accounts of 7% of all medical research. The other 93% is either focused on general or male-specific issues (and conducted mostly on men).
Issues that affect both women and men still often tend to affect both in different ways -- but the majority of medical research tends to just take what works for the standard male body and apply that to everyone regardless of sex instead of investigating sex-specific effects and tailoring solutions around that
Open letter to the Bluesky moderation team about their treatment of Palestinian accounts
There's no "might" about it -- the entire system is dyed bright saffron and the ruling regime has mastered the art of keeping it that way to maintain their iron grip on power and cover for their gaping failures in economy and governance
Medical science is in fact terribly biased against women because the standard baseline is almost always a typical male body
Spoon found in kitchen
Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses
I'd honestly love to take my cats along on a motorbike ride, but that would mean subjecting them to the hellscape that is Mumbai's traffic, so...I'm not about to do that. Props to the guy who did, but nah
The organizers seem to be the usual trance-rave "boom shankar" fuckwits who do this kind of nonsense on the regular -- but I do notice Paytm Insider, BookMyShow, and Skillbox selling tickets for this as well
I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide
I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide
I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide
I know lol. This is like when the CIA put out that one recruitment video aimed at Chinese citizens a few weeks ago -- the video was supposed to lament the terrible conditions of Chinese workers, but inadvertently turned out as a brutal critique of American capitalism
