Dude's just into locks man

p.s. I've never been to #Denver so looking forward to checking the city out a bit too. If you have suggestions for things to do (read: eat), let me know! 😄

Dude, grew up in the place that Randy Bachmann wrote Prairie Town about. ;)

Great suggestion though.

Any other quirky #ClassicRock bands I should be on the lookout for? Open to suggestions for sure :)

Why BÖC? I was inspired by playing a Godzilla pinball game at the arcade & their quirky song of the same name was on the soundtrack (obviously?). I was like "dang this slaps what is this?" Anyway if you like weird rock about ghosts and monsters and stuff, you might like the album it's on: Spectres.

Anyway I've listened to four albums now and… it's pretty hit and miss. What's good is extremely good, and what's bad is absolute trash, and there's a lot in between. I guess if you've been active as long as they have, consistency is going to be an issue.

i.e. it's not all "Don't fear the Reaper" :P

I shouldn't have said "no rights", but yes, it's fundamentally about through-ticketing. To be fair, that's also an issue for air travel—if the operators for a multi-leg route have nothing to do with each other, & the tickets are issued separately, then a missed connection is the passenger's problem.

…there are no EU rail rights, as there are for air travel. Imho, that's the reason the thing doesn't exist. It's not a computer problem—it's a business problem. Spending the time and money to build this doesn't result in a viable business, because the regulatory environment makes it impossible. 🫤

… but, could you actually buy those tickets? Debatable—even if you go direct to the operators in some cases! And (again, as you've pointed), what happens when things go sideways? Even if the hypothetical solution _could_ sell you the tickets, a delay on one leg screws you for the rest, because…

…it's certainly not, like, a week-end job, but it's all entirely within the realm of what is technically possible. As you've mentioned in the past, the real hurdles are institutional. Could such a Rube Goldberg machine generate a "good" answer? Yes …

Are there technical hurdles to offering a comprehensive overview of rail routes and ticket availabilities in Europe? Yes—but speaking as a professional computer person 😆, that's not actually the hard part. API calls, a data lake, some stats modelling, and maybe rub some LLM on there…

Nah. Macron was all in on the "start-up nation" like 8 years ago. This is nothing new.

And yet, they would never fine somebody for smoking or vaping on the platform—which is, literally, the _only posted fine_.

Chapeau, SNCF.