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This was supposed to be c/traingang, so post as many train pictures as possible.

All about urbanism and transportation, including freight transportation.

Home of train gang

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Trainposts highly encouraged

Talk about supply chain issues here!

List of cool books and videos about urbanism, transit, and other cool things

Titles must be informative. Please do not title your post "lmao" or use the tired "_____ challenge" format.

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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN

"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende

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[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

none of these chumps are thinking coherently about what security looks like in a society where your money isn't worth anything

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Was it spez who had the idea "what if the security guards have to wear bomb collars linked to a fail-deadly dead-man's switch, to keep them in line?" At least some of them are thinking of cartoonish ways to do it, and I'm sure some of them are quietly thinking about more realistic setting-oneself-up-as-a-warlord fantasies.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a real criminal, not some bloodless nerd, is gonna roll these guys so fast

I think only Bezos has what it takes for warlordism

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Bezos will be an absolutely miserable warlord as soon as he realizes he's got to work for a living.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

morshupls nerd and then we clone the super soldier security guards to be at my command and then -

stalin-gun-1 [local warlord]

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unironically a good idea for a sci-fi novel to critique capitalism.

The ruling class intentionally creating all of these problems because they're bored and this is their idea of fun.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Going to fill my house with explosives. And also lots of flammable materials. What could go wrong?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

These idiots are tech engineers first and foremost. They don't have the political knowledge nor do they have the financial knowledge to grasp power.

The finance bougs are more likely to set themselves up as feudal lords. These idiots will try and Saw their way through things with no understanding that this will only temporarily work until someone finds a gap in the system they've engineered and offs them.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

you can only pay security guards in buckets of dehydrated potatoes for so long

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Normal person: We're killing the planet and I'm going to have to live in a bunker in the apocalypse dean-frown

Billionaire: I'm killing the planet and I'm going to have to live in a bunker in the apocalypse dean-smile

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe his fresh air ventilation shafts get filled with lots of lava.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

get the red guard to drill a hole and pump in noxious gas

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

The only difference between him and a Bond villain is that the latter call it an "underground lair".

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

castles at least had administrative functions

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this the One Piece I keep hearing about? is-this

This is Crocodile coded the way that he's manipulating the people of the island and destroying the ecosystem to further his own ambition. If he's harboring a poneglyph down there in the bunker, then we know "Cyborg" Zucc is seeking the treasure

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

the mind that imagines they can personally insult and steal from hundreds of people connected by identity, blood, geography, traditional ecological knowledge, shared history and culture and then avoid the swift retribution that would surely follow the collapse of the social order that facilitated the theft.

it's like being the warden of a prison, relocating all of the toilet paper and food to your personal office under armed guard, and then expecting to be in a great position when all the guards walk off the job during a riot.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

"Western culture is superior because we are the only people who respect property."

[–] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

elect me president and I will drone strike the zuccc