regul

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[–] regul@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I see you went with option two lol.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

OP, at a certain point there has to be a word to describe what is happening. Just because someone uses it in a derogatory manner doesn't mean that you have to abandon the word or that every usage of it is derogatory.

See: gay

Alternatively, make a third meme about it on a niche Internet forum.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

don't forget you also have to beg the freight companies to let you run those trains

[–] regul@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

You can go to Lagos and ride it, if you want!

[–] regul@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Both fascists.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I think battery buses require extra road maintenance because they're so heavy. They'd be required to use truck routes or their roads would have to be updated to handle those weights.

Also EV charging infrastructure is not nothing.

In general, trolleybuses are probably the best electrification method, but people get mad about catenary.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] regul@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like they're praising it in Japan and saying "of course it could never work here, Americans are just genetically predisposed to cars".

[–] regul@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Which public transport? Tokyo Metro is publicly-owned. Some of the JR branches are still publicly-owned. JR was only privatized in the late 80s as an anti-labor move and to deflect from the unpopularity of closing unprofitable rural lines. But of course the government built most of the network, including the first shinkansen lines.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

very funny to see this coming from Reason, a libertarian rag that hates public transit

[–] regul@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, bud. That was my point.

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