Joined: 6 May 2016 Age: 63 Gender: Male Posts: 3,968 Location: Missouri
01 May 2021, 2:41 pm
Since I no longer work, I'm celebrating today as Amtrak's 50th anniversary. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation began operations May 1, 1971. Hey, wait a minute, call it Railroad Workers day! https://www.amtrak.com/50th-anniversary
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On May 1, 1971, when the first Amtrak train rolled out of New York City en route to Philadelphia, no one could have imagined what lied ahead. Yet, here we are today with more than 17,000 dedicated employees and a national system connecting more than 500 destinations across 46 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces, on more than 21,400 miles of routes.
_________________ "There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good." Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011
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Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Age: 41 Gender: Non-binary Posts: 34,272 Location: Right over your left shoulder
01 May 2021, 4:15 pm
I'm still not sure how running around a pole is going to contribute to emancipating working people.
_________________ There's no such thing as a free market. If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X Just a reminder: under international law, an occupying power has no right of self-defense, and those who are occupied have the right and duty to liberate themselves by any means possible.
queensday? or workersday? the first day of the queenbee flying off, in good weathercircumstances how extraordenairy coincidental; hivemind aka swarmintelligence
queensday? or workersday? the first day of the queenbee flying off, in good weathercircumstances how extraordenairy coincidental; hivemind aka swarmintelligence