Highspeed rail is B$it

[Jibartik]

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[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I cant imagine that this is realistic in 50 states:

Not to mention this is already totally inefficient with people having to go all over the fricken place just to get to the next town over so Id drive every time.

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(not to mention in this thought experiment I did this to the entire Oregon coast:

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Well it makes those cities elite cities every other city off those hub is a no longer a cool city so it creates a class of ppl that can go to any city for work if they are able to live on a train and outside of a bathroom prefect for progress imho.

Also much easier to get ppl into the concentration camps when they can't hack that lifestyle.

[magnetaress]

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[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well it makes those cities elite cities every other city off those hub is a no longer a cool city so it creates a class of ppl that can go to any city for work if they are able to live on a train and outside of a bathroom prefect for progress imho.

Also much easier to get ppl into the concentration camps when they can't hack that lifestyle.

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Shifting to EVs is not enough. The deeper problem is our car dependence

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[Tethler]

Adding on to what has been said about high speed rail in Japan, anyone living here knows that bullet trains are generally more expensive than domestic flights. From my own experience traveling on them, it's usually a difference of roughly 10-20%. Also, you need to pay extra to reserve a seat. If you don't, you might be standing in the isle throughout that 4 hour trip from South Japan to Tokyo. The only real benefit is the relaxed security vs going through an airport. The trains are also more resilient to weather and are less likely to have trips canceled during typhoon season compared to air travel.

All that said, I pretty much never use them now unless family visits and wants to ride the bullet train for the experience.

[Jimjam]

Security at an airport is crazy.

“ we don’t want you taking potentially explosive chemicals on a plane of 200 people so we’re gonna make you pour them all away down the same drain in a hall full of maybe 1000s of people”.

[magnetaress]

Really smart security theater.

I would issue jump suits with shock collars and diapers and strap ppl into their chairs with restraints.. They wouldn't be allowed to bring anything at all. Could just take it a step further and just have auto injection of Ativan via robotic needles. You're there to be transported in order to do your duty keeping the economy going. Not look good. Have fun. Or hydrate. You should have done that before your trip. Flying on a plane is a privilege. It's not a right. Not enumerated. No where does the constitution mention airplanes.

People mad about air travel security theater are really big overgrown babies.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Security at an airport is crazy.

“ we don’t want you taking potentially explosive chemicals on a plane of 200 people so we’re gonna make you pour them all away down the same drain in a hall full of maybe 1000s of people”.

This was a metaphor for how awful goverment is to me.

First goverment made it illegal to bring water across security.

Then goverment didn't do anything to stop people on the other side of security from charging $16 for a bottle of water.

This is 110% an example of why goverment sucks and everything they do is bad and dumb and hurts poor people.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is 110% an example of why goverment sucks and everything they do is bad and dumb and hurts poor people.

Says Jib as he sits with his security ensured by his government's military, his bathing/drinking water government-ensured to be safe, his roads that he uses to get everywhere maintained by his government, the money he uses to buy everything secured by his government, his ... you get the idea.

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[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Says Jib as he sits with his security ensured by his government's military, his bathing/drinking water government-ensured to be safe, his roads that he uses to get everywhere maintained by his government, the money he uses to buy everything secured by his government, his ... you get the idea.

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All of that provides is consumerism that makes everyone nilhistic and depressed and angry and eventually it'll invent the AI that kills us all if the machines we built 200 years ago dont already.

I cant wait for all this satanist temptation to be gone and we can go back to living off of and enjoying being a part of the fat of the land.

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