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The D.C. Metro system is planning a return to self-piloting trains in coming months, 15 years after automated trains were turned off in the wake of a crash on the Red Line that killed a train operator and eight passengers.

Though officials later determined that the disaster had nothing to do with automatic train operation, it set off years of crisis and disruption within Metro.

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@dgarcia By taking unethical behavior and rebranding it ethical, presumably because of a certain Supreme Court justice, the Judicial Conference is enabling corruption.

@nursefrombirth Aside from the ethical issues of assisted suicide, what's with this?

"...the 3D-printed device that cost over $1 million to develop."

It's a small sealed chamber that fills with nitrogen. That's high-end Ferrari money.

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@CanisPundit "He has close ties to Opus Dei"

That seems to be coming up a lot with people like Leonard Leo, JD Vance and Kevin Roberts.

If Trump is elected President in November, will NBC bring back Johnny Carson?

@matuzalem @damselfly59 Greater familiarity has certainly increased my contempt for him, but he also seems to have gotten much worse -- possibly a combination of drugs and Peter "I no longer believe in democracy" Thiel.

@AI78 One of the few features that made Twitter tolerable in the pre-Elon era was the ability to block trolls, especially Nazis. Otherwise they came out like cockroaches

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