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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Immediately to your south are the trolley tracks. On your left, the tracks diverge, leading towards the desperate, pleading faces of the track-bound.

On the other side of the tracks is an old grain silo preserved by a historical society. It looks freshly painted in white. In the distance, you see a block of slot houses all looking the same.

A woman in designer yoga pants is walking a panicked-looking husky.

The emergency alarm of the trolley is blaring.

What do you do? _

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (11 children)

The tram is a low-floor streetcar and you cannot see the wheels from where you are. You identify it as a Flexity from some time after 2021.

You hear an emergency alarm from the Flexity streetcar.

What do you do? _

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (23 children)

To the north, you see a quaint downtown district that shows signs of recent renovation, and even more recent sudden collapse. A gastro-brewpub advertises trivia on Tuesdays. There are two bearded men sitting at an outdoor table with their beers, watching in rapt horror as the trolley speeds towards the people bound to the tracks.

You hear an emergency whistle from the trolley.

What do you do? _

[–] [email protected] 93 points 7 months ago (62 children)

A trolley is heading towards 4 people. If you pull the switch, it will be diverted towards 1 person. Also, if you slip the switch by pulling it after the front wheels have passed but before back wheels do, it will probably come to a complete halt before hitting anyone, but there is a 20% chance that you'll fuck up and kill all 5 people. There are exits to the east, north, west, and south.

What will you do? _

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

They passed three pro-statehood referendums since 2012. It doesn't seem to matter. Presumably, if they passed a pro-independence referendum, it wouldn't happen either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The house of representatives is unjust in its uneven, disproportionate, and meager representation. Is that what you wanted to hear?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Puerto Rico is six times as populous and gets none

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

mfing brits will make tea and I ask what kind and they say "Lipton"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

pretty sure you mean canola oil and hfcs

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (8 children)

data center engineer here! incorrect

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

this but the opposite, Chinese social media companies are taking my data for profit, American social media is doing it to topple the US government (also for profit)

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