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clam the gently caress down posted:So I applied to work for the Trump administration. I'm wondering if I receive an appointment would it be a good idea to take it? I plan to apply to graduate schools, but would this totally gently caress my resume to have Trump Administration on my resume?
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Grouchio posted:Is Trump interested/in favor of high speed rails? As a fun engineering project he probably is, but whatever his follow-through on it would be would most likely involve lots of tax cuts and relaxation of eminent domain laws.
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My dad is barely making it by on Medicare as it is, if they gently caress that up for older people I'm not sure what will happen.
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zxqv8 posted:I think that, ideally, a fully-fleged not half-aborted passenger rail system like we have now would be supported by other methods of mass transportation. Like buses, or light rail/trams. sim city is a fun game but is kind of softly despised in planning circles for being extraordinarily unrealistic and causing people to greatly underestimate just how difficult urban planning is in practice america. sim city never vetoes your decision to build a rail because local residents hate the noise, for example, and voted for a new mayor who cancels your neat transit plans fortunately, lots of cities across america voted on election day to expand mass transit. los angeles, seattle, san fran, atlanta, and there are others i'm forgetting. but this deals with commuter sheds in metropolitan areas, which are not at all the youngstowns and flints and eau claires and dozens of other regional small cities where trump carried voters. mass transit is largely dealt with on a local scale in america, and the federal government is almost entirely powerless from a legislative perspective further, high speed rail is great for moving people between vibrant metros hundreds of miles apart but has little/no impact on commuter patterns, and there's not going to be a lot of high speed rail stations stopping every 20 miles to pick up commuters because this completely removes the "high speed" from high speed rail. it's about as realistic as expecting people to commute by helicopter
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boner confessor posted:there's way too many small towns in america for rail to be a viable option. any place where you can commute in less than an hour by train is already adequately served by car. on the other hand, there's plenty of places that are outside of reasonable commuting distance from a viable metro - much of eastern kentucky, southeast ohio, huge chunks of the midwest prarie states - places where rural poverty is already an endemic problem. short of teleportation these places are going to continue to decay That's why it would be high speed rail. The fastest commuter train is 361 mph. Illinois is 200 miles wide at its widest point and 374 Miles long at its longest. Kentucky is 384 Miles long at it's widest point. Ohio is 224 Miles Across at it's widest point. High Speed rail would change the entire country. Not even super highspeed just rail that's 250 +.
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succ posted:My dad is barely making it by on Medicare as it is, if they gently caress that up for older people I'm not sure what will happen. To be honest, I think the plan is to gently caress it up for young people because they know old people are a giant and vindictive voting bloc. We will see if it happens because the Dems just need to send out the message "they are trying to kill Medicare" to rile the population up.
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Glazier posted:Depressingly I must agree, I've resigned myself to the fact that I won't survive the next four years. I just hope they make it quick so we don't suffer. If you're serious seek therapy. Like, tomorrow. I have resources that you can use if you need them.
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OH MY GOD WHO THE gently caress STILL USES CLUB PENGUIN?
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Can the autists take the train chat somewhere else, some of us are trying to plan out what to do in our last few years, thanks.
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Hollismason posted:That's why it would be high speed rail. The fastest commuter train is 361 mph. Illinois is 200 miles wide at its widest point and 374 Miles long at its longest. who are these people who are so important that they need to commute hundreds of miles in less than an hour every day? if we were gonna do that it would be more efficient to just subsidize light aircraft and expect people to commute by cessna. shipping people around on a daily basis on 200mph trains is an utter fantasy, full stop commuter trains stop frequently to pick up people. that means they do not travel very fast, because they need to speed up and slow down often. high speed rail is used in the same way jet airliners are used, when you need to travel long distances for a specific purpose, like vacations, family visits, etc. not daily use. e: i mean this as politely as i possibly can but you really haven't thought about this much and you're kind of just tossing around buzzwords boner confessor fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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Grouchio posted:OH MY GOD WHO THE gently caress STILL USES CLUB PENGUIN? C-Spam, where i find a lot of these tweets.
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yellowyams posted:I've been completely terrified and shaky and nauseous for a week, I can't tell when people are being serious or not anymore, are people in this thread just joking or are we actually going to die from this? We have no choice in the process? you're probably not going to die, but buckle up for a rough couple of years
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boner confessor posted:sim city is a fun game but is kind of softly despised in planning circles for being extraordinarily unrealistic and causing people to greatly underestimate just how difficult urban planning is in practice america. sim city never vetoes your decision to build a rail because local residents hate the noise, for example, and voted for a new mayor who cancels your neat transit plans I didn't realize SimCity even actually reached into the zeitgeist of urban planning, though it's not really surprising given how popular and mainstream gaming has become since SimCity. Understanding that Will Wright was something of a starry eyed libertarian type really changed a lot of how I viewed the game, and urban planning in general.
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Glazier posted:Can the autists take the train chat somewhere else, some of us are trying to plan out what to do in our last few years, thanks. Ok good you're not actually serious because I was just about to waste time sending you a PM with resources to help you.
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boner confessor posted:who are these people who are so important that they need to commute hundreds of miles in less than an hour every day? if we were gonna do that it would be more efficient to just subsidize light aircraft and expect people to commute by cessna. shipping people around on a daily basis on 200mph trains is an utter fantasy, full stop I dunno I live in Chicago and I take the Metra and it takes like literally 2 minutes to get the gently caress off the train and it to start going again. I just don't see how high speed rail wouldn't improve the country. This is one of the big projects I think Obama was pushing for but got killed by the Republicans. I think it's possible we could see it come back at Trump so he could name it the Trump Train.
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yellowyams posted:I've been completely terrified and shaky and nauseous for a week, I can't tell when people are being serious or not anymore, are people in this thread just joking or are we actually going to die from this? We have no choice in the process? I'm serious, I have no faith that LGBT people won't end up stripped of rights and targeted for extrajudicial killings. I plan on getting a CCW so I can hopefully take some of them out with me but I'm not making plans out longer than four years. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Ok good you're not actually serious because I was just about to waste time sending you a PM with resources to help you. Well it is after all a comedy forum so got to keep it light, even if it is gallows humor. Gynocentric Regime fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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Hollismason posted:I dunno I live in Chicago and I take the Metra and it takes like literally 2 minutes to get the gently caress off the train and it to start going again. I just don't see how high speed rail wouldn't improve the country. the metra is not high speed rail, it is commuter rail. they have completely different uses. it's like saying a sports car is an effective vehicle to man a bus line because it goes fast the only place in america where high speed commuter rail is viable is the northeast corridor, and amtrak already services that market pretty well. it could definitely be augmented but there's no realistic scenario in which building high speed rail across america will improve people's access to jobs zxqv8 posted:I didn't realize SimCity even actually reached into the zeitgeist of urban planning, though it's not really surprising given how popular and mainstream gaming has become since SimCity. pretty much every urban planner under 35 has an opinion on sim city and it's a very popular series but it is so, so, so unrealistic, which is only a bad thing because it's the average person's only real exposure to urban planning, land use development, infrastructure planning etc. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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Hollismason posted:Rural towns and neighborhoods would be benefitted by high speed rail and fiber internet services . You'd probably have more start ups and people moving to smaller towns if you could get on a train and get to the city in 30 minutes. this is kinda how it is in the place i live now. it's a suburb of paris, but very small and it's got a university. bus service and rail into paris really help a lot. even tiny towns in france seem to have bus service and rail to hubs near them edit: to be clear, the university is between two small towns. i could walk from mine to the other town in about 45 minutes Condiv fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/797984611628421120 His supporters are the dumbest fucks.
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boner confessor posted:the metra is not high speed rail, it is commuter rail. they have completely different uses. it's like saying a sports car is an effective vehicle to man a bus line because it goes fast
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Grouchio posted:Any good resources on correctly learning about these things - well enough to become infrastructure savvy? i dunno, google around? i'm sure there's some urban planning 101 stuff out there. i've always suggessted crabgrass frontier by ken jackson as an introductory text to the history of american suburbs and how they work
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Apparently Steve Bannon gets paid Seinfeld royalties? http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/steve-bannon-seinfeld
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Covok posted:His supporters are the dumbest fucks. No but you see truly it is the other side to blame and we must eat each other to live in harmony and annex czechslovakia.
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I think people are sorta hoping for a Japanese style passenger rail system which mixes commuter and high speed to get people around the nation on the cheap. This doesn't work for a lot of reasons, most notably the size of the US vs Japan, but I agree with the poster who said rail is treated in a maximal way. It's loving absurd that I can't hop on a train to go to Columbus, OH from Chicago. There's literally no extant option, despite Columbus being a notable population center. Seems to be a few of my fellow autists in the crowd here, would any of you know of any good resources to read/view about the death of US passenger rail? I know some of the rudiments of why, but I'm positive my understanding is waaaay too limited on the subject.
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zxqv8 posted:I think people are sorta hoping for a Japanese style passenger rail system which mixes commuter and high speed to get people around the nation on the cheap. i dunno, but i just wanna note that i wanted to take amtrak to the next state over and back and they wanted $500 for the cheapest tickets
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If Trump spends the majority of his effort as President just trying to boost his brand by using government resources and skimming from the top of whatever resources he can Ill take it.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Apparently Steve Bannon gets paid Seinfeld royalties?
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boner confessor posted:the metra is not high speed rail, it is commuter rail. they have completely different uses. it's like saying a sports car is an effective vehicle to man a bus line because it goes fast I wasn't saying it was a high speed rail I was saying that having a lot of stops would not hinder it that much. High Speed Rail could also be used for shipping etc.. It's just a useful infrastructure. If each state had it's own independent rail system that consisted of high speed rail and smaller transit trains the entire country would be better off. It increases the mobility of the working class. Like if I wanted to if I didn't have a affordable apartment like I do now I could use the Metra to go to some place that does have affordable rent and still visit Chicago pretty easily. I know friends who rent a house for a absurdly low rate and if they have to stay the night in Chicago they'll just do a AirBnB. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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zxqv8 posted:I think people are sorta hoping for a Japanese style passenger rail system which mixes commuter and high speed to get people around the nation on the cheap. sure, but the federal government is literally forbidden from exercising this kind of control over american travel patterns on a micro scale, and on a macro scale we basically handle this via airlines because it would cost huge wads of money to build dedicated new high speed rail right of way across america. typically the DOT helps out with local transit through block grants and these are certainly one of the things to be cut in trump's next budget
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Like it sucks so loving bad that this died http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/263782-obama-high-speed-rail-stuck-in-station quote:
Lol, Rick "gently caress your 2 billion Dollars" Scott Condiv posted:i dunno, but i just wanna note that i wanted to take amtrak to the next state over and back and they wanted $500 for the cheapest tickets Yeah because Amtrak is only functional on the east coast and every where else its total poo poo.
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I still loving hate Scott Walker for (among many many other things) turning down money for light rail as part of the stimulus package and now he's gonna take Trump money for the same ugghh I hate him so loving much
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Grouchio posted:This is something I find hilarious. hidden gem: quote:Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart—who is on temporary leave and got his start as a Goldman Sachs mergers-and-acquisition dealmaker
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We're ranked 19 out of 20 in high speed rail. https://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/29/us-is-19-out-of-20-in-new-high-speed-rail-ranking/ quote:
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