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California: Hang on, we got another rich land owner suing us because the rail path would cut through their lucrative almond orchard that they pump ground water to use for flood irrigation because fuck you.
We just foot the bills, we don’t select the items.
But how else am I going to show off my $60k+ 4x4 with $12k+
useless junkmodifications during my once-a-year trip to a national park?this must be the hyperloop I’ve heard so much about
Fuck cars, but not train cars, right?
Yes
Won’t someone think of the poor oil profits 🤣🤣
US consumes 20 million barrels a day. What, exactly, do you think this little blip of a train will change to that?
1270km, 2.5h, so 500km/h avg?
Just no.
1147km straight line, so 450kmh average. Not out of reach for a vehicle with a 500kmh top speed, assuming minimum distance which entails all straight.
I agree ‘could’ is doing a lot of work there, but ‘just no’ is also pretty far off imo
I have the utmost confidence in the TSAs ability to make rail stations just as bad as airports.
TSA is a justification to violate rights. It may have started as a reaction for safety at some levels but the rules have been bent and abused to an insane degree. Now they use the special zone airport rules so they can search your devices and myriad other constitutional violations completely unrelated to stopping a 911 style attack reoccurring.
Oh you complain now, but as soon as someone hijacks a train and steers it off course into a building, you’ll be begging TSA to grope you before letting you cram yourself into a reasonably spacious train seat that a public entity runs and has no reason to maximize the number of bodies it can cram into one area to create more shareholder value.
(I’m not crying you are………)
They already do the inspections for rail stations and they’re about 1/10th as annoying and time-consuming as the ones for airports.
Trains just don’t have the capacity for a 9/11 so I don’t see that changing any time soon.
But that would mean admitting china is miles ahead.
Nice try, commie, but a train doesn’t help GMAC make more car loans, nor does it help Exxon-Mobil sell more gasoline. Worse still, if people are commuting together they might build community and solidarity and then how will we keep them all working for 1/10 of the value they produce, huh? Next time think about Wall St before you go suggesting crazy ideas like high speed rail!
You also forgot about the private interests in building the rail. We can’t have the government doing this, that’s insane. Instead we need to find a way to funnel money to Union Pacific so they park their 2 mile long cargo trains for 3 hours blocking all amtrak trains. Then they can keep collecting maintenance fees which they pocket for decades until a train derails, at which point they begrudgingly replace some of the rotting lumber that’s been there for 200 years.
That’s the true american capitalist way. Anything else is just too expensive.
As a Londoner I can tell you straight up that commuting together does not build community and solidarity
Nope, they don’t. And most of them refuse to believe you when you tell em.
But, but, but, trains are communism!
Seriously, though, far too many Americans still tie their identity to their vehicle. The stupid notion of rugged American individualism has really held the country back.
There are plenty of other things, but I’m just pointing out this one.
that’s probably not helped by trains being more expensive and slower than cars or planes, and not even letting you have any spontaneity in your trips.
Speed ideology
Michelle, Tamika, and Tonya wanna ride this train.
American here, we’re dumb.
Its all the lead in the pipes, it makes the frogs gay with all the chemtrail fallout on this flat earth being watched by Jewish space laser satellites.
He’s trying to make his followers feel better, match their energy so he doesn’t come across as an elite billionaire
or he just learned about the B in dumb
Honestly I’d give shit like that a pass, silent letters are stupid and sometimes don’t even exist in certain spellings for the same word looking at you soder, sodder, solder. Also if anyone brings up the l in solder being pronounced, not in my dialect nor in most other older dialects I’ve encountered only the ones wherein they reromanticized random words.
We pronounce it in Australia
Pretty sure you guys were effected by the reromanticized effect, that broadly speaking started around the 1850s or so in England though wasn’t fully finalized until about the 1970s or so. Solder was just one of the more unified examples of a word being effected due to it being rarely used outside of blacksmiths up until the industrial revolution and it being a relatively easy thing to assume the l was pronounced by the developing metal working tradesmen unless the region had the soder or sodder spellings instead of with the traditional spelling.
Who cares? The point is that the spelling is better for us now. Dialects exist. Universalising English is stupid.
Oh most certainly but also I’m going to take every moment to shit on anything and everything the English aristocracy has ever done if it’s even the least bit stupid. I will shed the blood of Saxon men.
Bro’s starting out with ethnocentrism and ends with it full circle “reromanticized”
Impressive performance, I envy
How is that ethnocentric? I’m a Californian Redneck barely a culture and sure as shit not a ethnicity. My point was to moreso directly shit on the English in particular who reintroduced the l pronunciation and indirectly caused a bunch of random fuckers to get pissy with me. In hindsight I probably should specified, regardless I am unfamiliar with any dialect pre 1900s who pronounced the l in solder.
Why use mass transit when AI transit do trick?
We’re dumb? I though we were winning!
