• dubteedub@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It really sucks to see just how much money and time was wasted on such a monumentally stupid idea. I just want to see a string of mea cuplas from all the government officials, venture capitalists, and others that were duped by this and set back the growth of high speed rail by half a decade.

  • MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Elon Musk should get directly sued from the State of California for active sabotage of it’s public infrastructure.

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    1 year ago

    @throws_lemy Hyperloop is a solution for a non existing problem. There are already fast landline based systems. You can go really fast on rails (see Japan) or you can use a maglev.

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      Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies. I don’t understand how they think that cars or this stupidloop is better than high speed rail. Traveling by train is far more relaxing, way less infuriating and leaves time for you to do something else meaningful. US is probably the only country that went back on rail transport. Every other country is taking it as far as they possibly can.

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        I walk an extra half hour so I can take the train instead of the bus for my morning commute. It’s worth it.

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        Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies.

        Consider both: we know the auto companies controlled the populace by destroying any choice. We also know that public transit is looked on as a plebes travel mode ripe for gutting at every turn so the rich (and those who are gonna be rich any day now) can benefit.

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        It is so weird that people are still regularly linking to this Nazi’s website like it’s a totally fine thing to do.

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          It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

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      Musk HATES hates public transportation. Which is weird because he’s in a private jet when he travels anyways.