Ed Winters

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Ed Winters

Ed Winters

@EdWinters102

New Jersey, USA شامل ہوئے Nisan 2018
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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@cocainechippy @DeepNotShallow Are you basing that on data? The reason I shared the rail classification data is because the speed standard you are using greatly exceeds the existing operational system. Can we do class 7 or greater on abandoned ROW, no probably not, but class 4 seems well within reach.
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Cocaine Kitty
Cocaine Kitty@cocainechippy·
@EdWinters102 @DeepNotShallow I don’t expect it to just exist I am saying that most abondonded right of way are not good enough for intercity rail to run effectively on said ROW
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Deep Singh Badhesha
Deep Singh Badhesha@DeepNotShallow·
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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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@ContraPoints Do you have an example or are you just resorting to strawman arguments?
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SarahAnnRhoades
SarahAnnRhoades@SarahAnnRhoades·
@megbasham I'm a traditional, conservative Catholic, and he's our enemy, as well.
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Megan Basham
Megan Basham@megbasham·
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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Tom Jandron
Tom Jandron@TomJandron·
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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Handre@Handre·
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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Russell Dobular
Russell Dobular@russelldobular·
And if you go posting pictures of Chairman Mao, Elon will have a white grievance meltdown anyhow . . .
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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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Seth Harp
Seth Harp@sethharpesq·
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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Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@pollypocketmode Salary and benefits required at 20 hours a week, add requirements that limit employees to total labor hour ratio.
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Zy@ZyMazza·
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!
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VB Knives@Empty_America

Intensely Blue Coded.

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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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Bradley Brownell
Bradley Brownell@PluginHyBrad·
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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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@chicfryrice Clearly the folks posting this slop are math illiterate. You lost them at "median."
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Xoxo
Xoxo@chicfryrice·
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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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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@orthodoxmason·
Morning shop scenes
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Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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DM Petruzzi
DM Petruzzi@dinosaurforsure·
@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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Ed Winters
Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
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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Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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Ed Winters@EdWinters102·
@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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Ben Burgis
Ben Burgis@BenBurgis·
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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