What are you listening to just now?

[T]

[Amara 94]

Tube nerdom.

Just notice how door speed isn’t entirely door speed or dwell time. With Jubilee And Northern line despite fast door speeds they always need to slow down towards the end of opening or closing which increases door time. Seems improved with the Victoria Line gen of trains. The S Stock at the end don’t appear to have faster doors however the doors open at the most consistent speed which probably actually makes them faster. The pic line seems to have smooth quick doors as well though I think it takes time before the door actually closes, there is lag between the drivers action and doors closing I theorise.

[anxiouslondoner]

^ not very accurate, 90% of the time there will be a family of tourists with huge backpacks blocking the closing door...

[Amara 94]

There is also a video of that although I never watched it yet.

[Amara 94]

[Tubbs]

RIP Shane MacGowan He was a real one.

[Merritt]

^ Ashamed to say I've always been completely ignorant about his work Other than hearing Fairytale of New York every year, obviously. The Pogues are like The Fall, one of those revered bands I'm aware of but never gone out of my way to listen to. I'm almost afraid to, in case I just end up thinking 'Yeah, it's alright, I suppose...'

[Mike.Kzov]

^ I was similar, I just knew them for the one Christmas song I quite like, but The Pogues are def worth delving into. How they fused traditional Irish music with punk rock was so brilliant. If I Should Fall from Grace with God and Rum, Sodomy and the Lash are ruddy good albums.

[Your Mum]

If I Should Fall from Grace with God is a great album. My dad had it on cassette back in the early '90s. I wasn't allowed to listen to it, because it contains a very small amount of swearing ("Dad, I'm fucking nine years old"). So I borrowed it and copied it onto a blank tape.

Some odd stuff on the album too, like this...

[Mike.Kzov]

^ Your Dad was right, no nine year old should be exposed to Shane Macgowan.

Two more good ones:

[Amara 94]

[Amara 94]

I think I find new tube like trains a bit weird because they seem like the category in-between trams and metro trains like NY Subway or even the sub surface Underground trains. The rolling stock seems more similar to DLR than older tube like trains that seemed more similar to heavy rail trains.

Even looking at the new tube for London if you see the train family it comes from Siemens Inspiro, other trains of this family seem closer to DLR trains than heavy rail trains.

This is my opinion but I may be wrong.

[Amara 94]

She makes my uni experience so far feel like it’s open uni since most of the classes are online and so far all of the content has been available in digital form.

[Perhaps]

[Amara 94]

The door sounds at 0:38 reminds me so much of buses.

[Amara 94]

[Merritt]

2:00 onwards makes me go all wibbly.

[R.H.I.N.O.]

Will Carver- Psychopaths Anonymous audiobook.

[Amara 94]

What he is speaking about in the beginning also applies to Gen Alpha. I’ve seen videos about how them being in iPads is disturbing even from a few self help subscribers so it’s a popular topic it seems right now.

[Mole58]

[Amara 94]

Quite fascinating, made me randomly think of I should learn how to make motors.

I need to watch it multiple times to understand it properly, and would probably need to try building motors, but so far I understand that modern and old train motors kind of try to do the same thing but with modern ac motors they have figured out how to make the motors work more precisely and then even modern motors are still similar to each other but certain stuff makes them sound more different. But my understanding is really basic.

[Merritt]

Ill-advised to listen to late at night after a few drinks song #472

[Laurel]

This- never heard this before and it's 12 years old:

[Bluebear]

https://youtu.be/-gsDBuHwqbM?si=snWvmStVwjFCqXqW

Bob Dylan - Shelter from the storm

[Bluebear]

https://youtu.be/yXr2EFomFkU?si=ItjNmHHvhQBxCFmx

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

[Amara 94]

It's interesting whilst I think late age teenagers don't look too different to 20-somethings and some 30- somethings, the content of their childhood seems like it would be different to someone in their 20's. It definitely shows here, even people in their mid 20's I think because they experienced 2000's internet and whilst they got a phone earlier than someone my age, 29, it definitely wasn't an iPhone as a first phone.

[Amara 94]

[Amara 94]

It annoys me when people think having autism that isn't eay to notice, means that the autism shouldn't be a big deal. Or when people say stuff such as "Autism being over-diagnosed and not meaning much." This is where I think experience and understanding is actually more important than awareness. From my experience, awareness means that you are aware of the label. However, you can still lack an understanding or idea of what the disorder may entail.

[Merritt]

[Merritt]