Trans Megathread for the Week of 2024-10-07 to 2024-10-13 - ETR 600
The ETR 600 is a class of trains built by Alstom, and are used on the routes between Roma-Bolzano and Roma-Trieste. The train tilts, using Pendolino technology, allowing higher speeds to be maintained through corners without causing discomfort to passengers. The trains are operated by Trenitalia, originally under the Frecciargento (Silver Arrow) branding used for trains capable of travelling between 250 km/h and 285 km/h, In 2022 they were rebranded under Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) after the Frecciargento branding was retired.
The ETR 600 has also been adapted for use in China as the China Railway CRH5 Hexie. Initially 60 sets were ordered, of which nine were manufactured by Alstom and 51 by CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles. Since, another 80 sets have been created for a total of 140, operating across China's north from Beijing to Ürümqi.
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my primary desire for everyone to be paid the same is so the shithead doctors who only entered the profession for money no longer have a reason to practice medicine (most of them)
there's a tendency in the uk to take any criticism of the nhs as a desire to privatise it. i personally think that every high-ranking member of the nhs deserves the wall for the institutional harm inflicted on trans people, doesn't mean i hate the institution inherently. i actually think the nhs is a good thing generally speaking
while we're on the topic, whoever made testosterone a controlled substance also gets the wall for just making transmasc (and transfem in the case of those who want to avoid genital atrophy) diy hrt literally a criminal offence. i realise this was probably a drug minister, not an nhs person, but still