@cocainechippy @DeepNotShallow Expecting class 7 track to just exist is unrealistic and not what most trains run on today.
Track classifications | Trains Magazine share.google/Hw2c8PYDY87pUB…
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Ed Winters
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@EdWinters102 @DeepNotShallow Most abodnonded ROW in the U.S. does not have the geometry to run effective 90-125 mph intercity rail service.
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Trains in America cost 4-5x more and take 10-20x longer to build than in France and Japan.
Those countries have stronger unions, higher wages, more environmental protections, and more red tape.
The real difference? Eminent domain and a government that actually functions.
Kyle Clark@KyleClark
There's finally a plan to complete the train to Longmont, only two decades after taxpayers started funding it. (Giving us a chance to update our highly-sophisticated tracker)
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@ContraPoints Do you have an example or are you just resorting to strawman arguments?
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Would you guys be this mad, for this many years, if [male leftist streamer] talked to Obama?
Domhnall (Cogito)@CogitoEdu
You had a war criminal in your house
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@SarahAnnRhoades @megbasham You can't disagree with the Pope and be Catholic. Basic doctrine, go back to CCD.
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@megbasham I'm a traditional, conservative Catholic, and he's our enemy, as well.
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So maybe I don’t get this because I’m not Catholic, but even if I believed this story, the pope is obviously a lefty. He blessed a piece of ice in honor of climate change for Pete’s sake. I don’t get why the Trump Admin would want him at any events.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture. America, Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side. As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will. That scene, broken this week by Mattia Ferraresi in an extraordinary piece of journalism for The Free Press, may be the most remarkable moment in the long and knotted history of the American republic’s relationship with the Catholic Church. substack.com/home/post/p-19…
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@USNRCEC @TomJandron @LPNational @AP @GOP @TheDemocrats What's the ROI? Lay it out, explain it carefully.
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@TomJandron @LPNational No understanding of "soft power" and how we strengthen #UnitedStates through investment overseas.
This should not be a blank check or doe without oversight by #Congress, but the Return on Investment is vital to our security and prosperity.
@AP @GOP @TheDemocrats
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Globally, there are 195 recognized countries, and the United States typically allocates funds to approximately 180 of them annually, totaling around $68 billion.
These funds could significantly address domestic challenges within our own nation.
This is your money, my money & our kids' money. It's far more important that it remains in your pocket.
Tom Jandron@TomJandron
End all foreign aid
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Every socialist scheme boils down to the same formula: take wealth from those who create it and redistribute to those who vote for you. They dress it up as "justice" but socialists fundamentally believe productive people owe them something simply for existing.
Look at Venezuela's oil revenues or Cuba's sugar wealth—socialists always inherit functioning economies, then systematically destroy them through redistribution schemes. They call entrepreneurs "exploiters" while living off the taxes entrepreneurs pay.
The productive class builds civilization. Socialists then vote to confiscate it. Pathetic.
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@russelldobular Is it wrong to wish an &elonmusk twitter fight on you?
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And if you go posting pictures of Chairman Mao, Elon will have a white grievance meltdown anyhow . . .
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@TornadoNate The left in the US is super tiny and only starts at the DSA. This definition aligns with the other 96% of the world's political definitions.
Utopianism is deeply mocked by left thinkers.
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Its good to be back. Neal is on a good one. Ridiculous enough to piss people off, but the kernel of an idea that makes it not completely dismisable.
Of course the Dead are not right wing but the music isn't utopian left either
BoiltOwl@nealjclark1
Ween are the true inheritors of the Grateful Dead legacy. And that legacy is distinctly right wing
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All the time you spend getting bluetooth devices to connect exceeds by a factor of ten all the time people in years past spent plugging in cords, and that is as succinct an illustration of the illusory nature of technological innovation in the 21st century as I can think of
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@pollypocketmode Salary and benefits required at 20 hours a week, add requirements that limit employees to total labor hour ratio.
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@ZyMazza @aspiringpeasant Conserving capitalism and conserving nature are opposing objectives
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I will never understand how it came to pass that American "conservatives" managed to completely cede the core value of "Conservation" to the American left.
It's downright bizarre!
VB Knives@Empty_America
Intensely Blue Coded.
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@PluginHyBrad That's self-contradictory. How did it help the car makers if it didn't hurt the used car market?
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Fuck it, I’m going to say it.
Cash For Clunkers was good policy, and saved the U.S. auto industry. It had near-zero effect on the affordability of anything, and doesn’t affect the used car market today even a little bit. You just want to justify your racism against Obama.
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@chicfryrice Clearly the folks posting this slop are math illiterate. You lost them at "median."
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Every BOOMER with this take should look up the job they had in their 20s. Find the median pay for that job NOW. If you went to college make sure to include the cost of student loan repayments NOW. Include the cost of insurance NOW. Then look up the EXACT SAME first house you bought and let me know if you can buy it NOW.
OTHERWISE STFU ABOUT THE DISCUSSION
Lee in Iowa@Lee_in_Iowa
Boomer here. I bought my first house after ten years of saving like crazy. And the interest was 14.5%. I don’t know where kids got the idea that they were due a house and new car at college graduation, but that’s NOT how it ever was.
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@aspiringpeasant @orthodoxmason Not at this level obviously but you can volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, we'll put you to work. And also, you wont have to change careers.
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@orthodoxmason Every time you post these things I want to quit my job and come apprentice.
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@dinosaurforsure @aspiringpeasant Fetterman Pittsburgh rust belt dystopia that's been hollowed out by Neoliberal policies, wow, very compelling.
At least you can look at Falling Water and wonder at past greatness.
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@aspiringpeasant I'm not a boomer, I'm older GenX. My son (28) is currently looking at homes in the 250K range. That's about 3x his salary. There are plenty of options. Quit your bitching
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HOW MUCH DID IT COST, KAREN? AS A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR INCOME.
Lee in Iowa@Lee_in_Iowa
Boomer here. I bought my first house after ten years of saving like crazy. And the interest was 14.5%. I don’t know where kids got the idea that they were due a house and new car at college graduation, but that’s NOT how it ever was.
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@alanthefisher Long haul freight rail would probably be pretty hard to electrify reasonably. Short lines and urban areas out to the first yard should definitely be electrified.
Good news is that even diesel freight rail is way more fuel efficient than OTR trucking.
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The Class 1 freight railroads told us that it would be too expensive for them to electrify, so now everyone gets to see how problematic our logistics network is and how its completely tied to oil prices. Great job everyone
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The FedEx fuel surcharge is now 26.5% for most packages, an additional cost that the company has tied to the price of gas.
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@AndyMasley The chances that data centers will be used for the good of humanity seem incredibly slim. Further evidenced by the total lack of attempts at persuasion based on positive use cases.
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I really think that the public's understanding of how data centers physically interact with their communities is bordering on a low level mass delusion. The actual numbers and impact just do not at all bear out how people feel about them.
CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil@CBSEveningNews
Days after voting in favor of a new data center in Indianapolis, Councilman Ron Gibson says his home was struck by 13 gunshots while he and his family were asleep. He says a handwritten note reading “No data centers” was found under the doormat.
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@SwampCommunist @tiberiusfiles And also, judging the world by GDP only makes sense from a capitalist POV. Capital growth can't be the measure of effectiveness if humans come first.
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Science experiment where you test the growth of plants in two types of soil but deprive one side of sunlight and water
HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△@HotSotin
Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.
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@BenBurgis What are the chances that his "thought process" is relatively common among the upper end of capitalist leaders?
Is this chud really just showing how leaders really think?
Is the CIA or whomever might be feeding him info, really any smarter?
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It would be fine to kill vast number of Iranian civilians by taking out all the bridges + power plants.
Why?
Because Iranians are "animals."
Why are they "animals"?
Because their government killed (even taking his numbers seriously) a fraction of that many Iranian civilians.
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I have to think there are enough Republicans senators with self respect that this won’t happen.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Fox News reports that among the people on the shortlist to replace Pam Bondi as AG are Jeanine Pirro and Alina Habba. Habba, a former Trump attorney and former U.S. attorney for New Jersey who was disqualified by a judge, appears to have launched a campaign for the job. Yesterday she posted a photo of herself with Donald Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office, writing: “Always an honor 🇺🇸” No idea who the next AG will be, but they’ll probably be worse than Pam Bondi.
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