This picture is not from Wikipedia, but it is of the same incident. The picture was taken at noon. The smog was so thick the street lights had to turn on.

Source: https://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-DD

If money is no object you can buy your own custom-built private car and pay Amtrak to pull it on their lines.

I don’t know if it’s directly related, but that is the year Richard Nixon effectively killed the Bretton Woods system and took the US dollar off the gold standard. That move is sometimes blamed, at least in part, for America’s recession and stagflation in the 1970s. If inflation is rising more than the minimum wage, then the “real” minimum wage is dropping.

FediDB has listed the overall Lemmy monthly active users at about 45k for a while now. It’s anyone’s guess how many actual humans that represents, since the number includes bots and alt accounts.

That number only includes accounts that post, comment, or vote. I would love to know how many silent lurkers are out there.

I was really hoping this was a case of intentional malicious compliance to draw attention to the stupidity of this new policy. No such luck.

Police officers tried to starve the engine of diesel fuel and shut it down by shooting at the red fuel cutoff button

Lol they thought they were in an action movie.

Now I’m curious to try “good” lutefisk. I grew up hearing about how exceptionally awful it is.

Northwest US: smoked salmon with a side of berries. Sockeye with little or no sugar added is the best IMO. The berries should be native varieties if you want to try for authenticity, though the invasive blackberries are really tasty, too.

Claudius:   Now Hamlet, where’s Polonius?

Hamlet: At supper.

Claudius: At supper? Where?

Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.

Assembly Bill 666

Matt Moneymaker, a longtime Bigfoot researcher

I know we’re in the bizarro timeline, but really?

“Tassie” sounds like a great name.