Feliz año nuevo gente! Casi un día tarde :p

That's not as bad I guess. I'm not in the US and I remember once watching an entire episode of House of Cards on my phone during the commercial breaks of a movie on TV.

I watched some TV with family during Christmas. I had forgotten just how much of a time drain commercials are. Sure it's more generic and some can be fun but it's not worth it to lose an extra half hour for a one hour show. And I don't think the times have changed, it was the same when I was a kid.

Regardless of the main point, how can you state multiple times that Paris was the best Olympics without even acknowledging the contaminated river once?

Yeah you got a point, I'm glad you brought these things up as they should be more visible

I tried to keep a positive note, after all it is progress even if the whole project wasn't exactly a success. I didn't know about the unfinished tests, that's pretty concerning given our track record with trains. You actually still can't pay with a card or buy reduced tickets but at least the machines give change now. The short line is not so much a problem as long as each extension doesn't take another decade. Pretty much spot on on everything else and I'd like to add two more small issues.

• Thessaloniki is terrible with parking and there was zero regard for parking spaces around the stations, adding extra load to these areas
• I don't know if this will be better maintained but the Athens metro has way too many elevators and escalators constantly out of order. The stations here rely too much on escalators and it will be a pain going two levels down when half of them are not working. There's also no phone coverage but maybe that's fixable.

Stopping here before this turns into a rant :p

PS thanks for the link, somehow I hadn't come across that community.

Yep! Added some text that didn't come along with the cross-post. There are still some issues but those will hopefully be resolved soon.

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Pretty sure the point of creationism is that everything was put on the earth when it was created, including fossils etc. You can't argue this with logic. My favorite spin off of this is Last Thursdayism where the earth was created last Thursday (regardless of what day it's now) which basically uses the same argument.

Guess what this post is

Wow didn't expect them to actually make a queue

Why does it feel like lately more and more articles fit Not The Onion or A Boring Distopia?