Well, we're about to commit trillions of dollars for war against Iran to help out our apartheid client state. So if we can avoid that, we can use the savings to build rail! :)
doubtingtammy
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It is disingenuous to argue that High Speed Rail is profitable in China
Good thing that's not what OP or anyone else in here was arguing. Like you said, it's a public good. It doesn't need to be profitable to serve the public interest. In fact, profits run counter to the public interest. So why bring it up?
HSR is much more difficult in the US as the rights of private property are respected and projects need to pass a much higher threshold of review
We have eminent domain, and HSR has been built in Europe despite stricter envirobmental regulations.
There are many major infrastructure projects in China that turn out to be poorly planned and executed years after they have been completed.
Wow. Couldn't happen in the US. Never.
I wonder if engineers protested getting rid of the buttons. Who's responsible for that terrible design trend?
I have a Toyota from around then, and yeah it's the best. The great thing about that era is the milage is decent, and also I think it's when abs and traction control became standard on all cars. So I have a manual transmission and aux cord, but it's not ancient, it's still very safe and efficient
Bad analogy because invasive plants all come from an ecosystem where they're not problematic. Like, kudzu is fine in its native habitat.
Nazis are more like toxic waste - not good anywhere, except buried deep below the surface of the earth, along with signage about how this is not a place of honor
Wait, did I say as old as silicon? I meant born in 1970
Source:reddit.com
Embarrassing
Oh right, sometimes I forget people have computers other than old thinkpads
IDK if thats true in 2024. Debian 12 isn't much harder to setup than mint or Ubuntu, and the version of gnome it ships with is perfectly fine. I'm not a beginner anymore, so maybe there's something I glossed over.
Oh wait, I just remembered the thing I glossed over. Needing to install sudo would definitely throw a beginner for a loop. (Iirc, you only need to do that if you give a root password during install). And that's the problem with trying to learn Linux. Someone will tell you the thing is easy, but they forgot about some arcane step
Pipepipe is pretty good on F-droid, although Idk how it compares
The wim hoff method of curing depression
Why not just spend less on killing Muslims?