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Brightline never made sense to me, even as a privately funded venture
Outside of the NE, unfort train travel doesn’t make much sense in the US - there is a last mile problem- we have poor public transit and low density so you need a car anyway when you get to your destination.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Florida's High Speed Rail Operator Brightline Seeks Rescue to Avoid Potential Bankruptcy
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@RevivedLotor @RaccoonRailroad I live here and feel the same way. I want the place to suffer for their hatefilled voting choices here. bunch of midwest fat pigs moved down here in droves and ruined it. go to the west coast of florida. never saw so many midwest fat slobs.
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Brightline didn't fail because it's a passenger train, it failed because it's a private company. Public transportation isn't profitable and that's fine.
Now nationalize it.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Florida's High Speed Rail Operator Brightline Seeks Rescue to Avoid Potential Bankruptcy
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@Kevin_Rutois I like them all. I am just glad Miami has finally overcome the height limitations that held development back for decades.
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Miami is about to have 3 supertalls within blocks of each other, right in downtown:
1. Waldorf Astoria (Currently on floor ~60)
2. Okan Tower (Currently on floor ~50)
3. Delano Residences (Just Launched F&F Sales)
Which one stands out the most?
I have opinions, but curious what people not in the RE business think.



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@AustrianEcon201 @ryandcrypto If we remove blacks from the population, the US government could recover about 1 trillion dollars annually in costs for their high demand and impact on social services and society as a whole. Upfront costs would be large but it would go a long way towards resolving the deficit.
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@ryandcrypto 🤝 Unpopular Opinion;
There is still time to reverse this but not without devastation
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Of course, I don’t approve of this negativity toward men. It’s repulsive
But the effect of having a gender skew toward female might be positive. Is there a reason to believe we wouldn’t all be happier with, say, 55% women and 45% men?
staysaasy@staysaasy
I hear people say this and it is so sad man. Smart people say stuff like “oh I’d never want a boy. I have to teach them to not be a violent predator.” This framing is fundamentally antagonistic to half the population and a huge problem in society.
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@WethePeople4God @CSUNSHINE I’m sure all those no longer in their employ are appreciating that their employer is no more and that one less airline exists to compete with the rest.
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@CSUNSHINE It’s not about having the money you communist dolt. It’s about the absolute NEED for privately owned companies to die if they can’t make it. They must be allowed to fail.
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@peterke60628957 @NotThatHughes And then all of those workers and many more like them would be forever unemployed and unemployable.
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@NotThatHughes If you cant pay your workers a living wage, you shouldnt be in business.
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@ZeroPageX @BigBrainBizness @FrameworkPuter “I’ve never had water ingress, therefore it doesn’t happen”
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@BigBrainBizness Holy bullshit. I've never had "water ingress." I have had glass break. Not just the front, but the back too. Some phones make that glass for some reason. Now I buy an expensive case to avoid the absurdly expensive repair cost. Waiting for @FrameworkPuter to build a phone.
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John Ternus, Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering, explains why Apple deliberately made the iPhone harder to repair, and why the math says it was worth it:
In a conversation with MKBHD, John frames the design challenge by asking you to imagine two extremes:
"Sometimes for me I find it helpful to kind of think about the book ends. Like if you imagine a product that never fails, right? That just doesn't fail. And on the other end, a product that maybe isn't very reliable but is super easy to repair."
His position is clear:
"Product that never fails is obviously better for the customer. It's better for the environment."
When pushed on whether infinite repairability and infinite durability have to be mutually exclusive, John acknowledges they aren't always, but explains why the tension is real, using the iPhone battery as an example.
Batteries wear out. If you want to extend the life of the product, they need to be replaced.
But in the early days of iPhone, one of the most common failures wasn't the battery, it was water:
"Where you drop it in the pool or you, you know, spill your drink on it and the unit fails. And so, we've been making strides over all those years to get better and better and better in terms of minimizing those failures."
That work led Apple to an IP68 rating, the point where customers fish their phones out of lakes after two weeks and find them still working.
But there was a cost to achieving that level of durability:
"To get the product there, you've got to design a lot of seals, adhesives, other things to make it perform that way, which makes it a little harder to do that battery repair."
That's the deliberate tradeoff. Apple chose tighter seals and stronger adhesives, knowing it would make battery replacement more difficult, because the reliability gains were worth it.
John argues the math backs this decision:
"It's objectively better for the customer to have that reliability and it's ultimately better for the planet because the failure rates since we got to that point have just dropped. It's plummeted, right? The number of repairs that need to happen and every time you're doing a repair, you're bringing in new materials to replace whatever broke."
His conclusion reframes the entire repairability debate:
"You can actually do the math and figure out there's a threshold at which if I can make it this durable, then it's better to have it a little bit harder to repair because it's going to net out."
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@BreTweetz So she was raped and is disgusted by the idea that her biological son might not be a fan of this? What?
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This lady has only ever done the BARE MINIMUM for her biological son… and now that he’s starting to form his own beliefs that differ from hers, she wishes he were dead.
What a disgusting woman.
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
> Baby is put up for adoption > Kid is 15, becomes a Republican > Bio-mother wishes she aborted him
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@PDS013033 @guideforlovers God forbid you express to your life partner that you’re nervous about going under anesthesia for a procedure you have no control over.
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@guideforlovers “I had told her that morning I was nervous and worried about the surgery.”
This is why she doesn’t care.
Man up.
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@einfach_Nizi @Teamfreiheit25 @Europarl_EN That’s like ordering food at a restaurant eating half of it and then giving it back saying that you didn’t want it and don’t want to be charged for it.
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@Teamfreiheit25 @Europarl_EN Ja ihr Sardellen - wenn ich mich mitten im Geschlechtsverkehr entscheide das ganze abzubrechen und mein Gegenüber das nicht akzeptiert und weiter macht, dann ist es ab diesem Punkt eine Vergewaltigung!
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@diebatdie @MattWardel @Psikobilim_ Those people are paid immense amounts of money, as they should, most men do not work in these hard jobs. Most women do give birth and raise children. You are not expected to be a mineworker, women are expected to leave everything behind and become mothers and wifes.
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@BrianAtlas Wearing stilts like a clown in a circus and getting agitated that those who don’t aren’t taller on their actual feet.
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Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.
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@fandompulse Star Wars is firstly for children, and originally for boys. It seems pretty misguided to attack boys like this. What’s the point?
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, hired to direct the next Star Wars theatrical film starring Daisy Ridley, on her filmmaking philosophy:
"I like to make men uncomfortable. I enjoy making men uncomfortable. Recognize that I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable."
Is this the right philosophy for the director of the next Star Wars film?


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