Selling off Conrail is still an inexplicably stupid decision to me, even looking at it from the full neoliberal brainrot angle.

Honestly? I really doubt that, unless you consider the events that lead up to Conrail as already having had their Boeing days. The American rail industry is an absolute disaster, and has been for decades. Derailments happen quite frequently (on average 3 a day in the US), you just actually hear about them now due to East Palestine. None of this is new.

Because asking nicely stopped fascism the first time

Yeah no, this is one where I'll almost always say you got to go with your gut.

I don't have basis for this being the case here, but often time people are able to hold out when the threats are against them, but it's a whole other story if there starts to be credible threats against your family.

That's part of it, yes

But there is also a hardcore contingent to which controlling women is the goal. Theocratic Fascists tend to be that way.

Oh trust me, if It was drivable, I would've kept it.

Unfortunately a younger, much more sleep deprived me flipped it one morning.

Loved that damn car

We did routine oil changes between 5-6k miles until it started burning oil. I assure you, that was not the issue. We spent a while trying to figure it out before saying fuck it because it never gave us issues.

Had an old accord that started burning oil at about 100k miles. Lasted another 100k with only a handful of oil changes (I think none in it's last 50k, just topping it off as needed). Still worked perfectly fine besides very slowly burning oil when I totaled it at 200k miles.

I miss that car. I'm convinced I could've gotten at least 300k miles out of it.

Oh they're well aware that they're blatantly lying. Chuds don't argue in good faith.

Basically this. Anyone who is surprised by this has been paying literally zero attention to how these things usually go. The majority of the time when a game explodes that much, this happens. Sometimes to a lesser extent, sometimes to a greater one. A good chunk of the people who buy the game in the first place buy it to play with their friends, and when their friends move on to another game, they will too.

While you will have games that are the exception, such as PUBG which has had massive a player count for forever. they are indeed the exception.

All things considered, that's a pretty lucky path if it doesn't drift north into the larger Caribbean islands

Plus at least part of the walls will be exposed to the ground, not the air, and since past the first layer the ground stays consistently relatively cool, that helps a lot.