awful.systems sounds a LOT like it's probably involved with SomethingAwful...

Knowing how important the site is to the fandom, I'd be surprised if anyone lets it go under.

That being said, as a precaution, a PixelFed instance attached to pawb.fun and pawb.social might be nice to have.

From a technological point, yes. That being said, there are some complications. The US runs double-stacked intermodal freight so clearance is a concern, first of all. It's doable, in fact India has many electrified lines that allow for double-stacked intermodal freight, but it does add a little to the cost and effort. The second issue is, unfortunately, cost, but not because it's outright "too expensive". Rather, it would eat too much into the short-term quarterlies of the various publicly traded rail companies that own a vast majority of the US's rail lines during the installation. And as publicly traded companies, even if one of the major rail companies wanted to spend the money to electrify, they would get sued by their shareholders for doing so because there's no immediate return on profits. And the final issue? NIMBYs already hate rail as-is, they'd hate the overhead lines even more.

So, yeah, a lot of challenges to electrification unique to the US, almost all of them political in nature. It would be really nice to put in electrified rail again (late PRR and New Haven were almost fully electrified but most of that was ripped out after the Penn Central merger. Seriously, everyone likes to rag on New Haven for screwing that up but honestly the evidence all points to the New York Central's management team being the real culprits).

Posts a lie to the lies community.

Gets downvoted anyway.

For a moment there I thought we were back on Reddit...

This is really interesting, as it also has implications for life elsewhere in the solar system. Scientists have been debating back and forth whether life could exist in Europa's oceans below its icy surface. Things had been leaning towards "unlikely" due to the reduced light being that far out from the sun, but if non-photosynthetic biological oxygen production is possible on Earth, it could also be possible on Europa.

12ft.io

Yes

Just the art for me, really. Fatfurs just look so cuddly and huggable. I'm not really into the more darker or messier aspects of this subset of the fandom either, just the whole "big round and soft" part.

Now, if I were to wake up one morning as my fursona, I would be willing to give it a try if I'm in my fursona's world as well, but that's partially because one of my fursona's friends is a witch who makes all sorts of body altering potions including a temporary weight gain one. If I was still in the real world as my fursona I'd probably only consider getting huge if it was through sumo training.

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data "for development purposes".

Pretty sure if they're a wolf that sometimes turns into a man, they'd be a wolfwere.

Small brain: Wearing a fursuit for trick-or-treating

Large brain: Wearing a costume with your fursuit for trick-or-treating

Galaxy brain: Wearing a costume based around your fursuit for trick-or-treating. (For example, wearing a Starfleet uniform with a feline partial suit for a Caitian Starfleet officer).

Border Collie

It's a regular collie