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Just think how wide you could make the trains. You could have a train big enough to swing a cat in.
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Why don't we have sunroof trains, anyway? Obviously for overhead-wire systems it'd be a bit boring (and a bit dangerous, I suppose) but drat it would be nice to be able to look up a bit. Also while I have solidarity with my RMT and ASLEF comrades, we need ATO on all lines so everyone can have the DLR experience of sitting at the front and pretending to drive. (My mate had the idea of selling little stick-on fake controls you could stick on top of the control panel cover at the front of DLR trains to complete the experience and I still think he could make a fortune with both kids and certain adults by doing that)
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Literally completely unrelated to the above, but anyone know when the store is back? The perfect new username has just popped into my head and I can finally dump this placeholder name that's old enough to vote.
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https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/1316116556628340742 What an extremely cool and good public sphere this country has
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Why don't we have sunroof trains, anyway? Obviously for overhead-wire systems it'd be a bit boring (and a bit dangerous, I suppose) but drat it would be nice to be able to look up a bit. The Americans had trains with bubbles on top you could look out of, they died because  basically.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_car OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1316084903990173701 See I thought May would have handled the pandemic better. I'm always wrong.
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OwlFancier posted:The Americans had trains with bubbles on top you could look out of, they died because God, imagine if the Americans had really gone all-in on passenger rail. We'd have had nuclear-powered 3-mile-long trains crossing the Atlantic on a bridge made out of all the poo poo they didn't make cars out of.
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I loving know right? You've got this flat-rear end country the size of a continent mostly built after the invention of the railroad and you're like "nah we need interstate highways lol" Let's demolish big chunks of city. Why? Because MORE CARS. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 22:28
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goddamnedtwisto posted:(My mate had the idea of selling little stick-on fake controls you could stick on top of the control panel cover at the front of DLR trains to complete the experience and I still think he could make a fortune with both kids and certain adults by doing that) Anybody who wouldn't do this is too preoccupied with what random strangers will think of them and/or lacks any joy in their life. They'll also 100% do it when nobody is looking.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:God, imagine if the Americans had really gone all-in on passenger rail. We'd have had nuclear-powered 3-mile-long trains crossing the Atlantic on a bridge made out of all the poo poo they didn't make cars out of. I have this memory of a Thunderbirds episode where they were mining a tunnel across the Atlantic for a train & I just remember wishing it was real even as a kid.
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Miftan posted:Anybody who wouldn't do this is too preoccupied with what random strangers will think of them and/or lacks any joy in their life. I used to do it on the top of the bus but I stopped when I started being able to drive and now I try as hard as possible to not remember driving when on the bus  forkboy84 posted:I have this memory of a Thunderbirds episode where they were mining a tunnel across the Atlantic for a train & I just remember wishing it was real even as a kid. I think the easiest way would actually be to go north from Norway to Greenland across the arctic circle, rather than digging under the atlantic. Same route as nuclear missiles At least you would be able to go overland, conceivably, across part of it rather than digging as much tunnel. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:See I thought May would have handled the pandemic better. I'm always wrong. It's a weird story because journalists are focusing on the fact Johnson "mansplained" what SAGE means to May, but actually "the S stands for Scientific" is a perfectly appropriate response to the loving ghoulish idea of stacking it with yes-men because you didn't like the advice. Also I've always thought Boris is, if anything, better than May. He's an incompetent fuckhead, but his childlike need to be loved might mean he accidentally does something that benefits someone, unlike May who couldn't give a poo poo how much everybody hated her. jabby fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Frankly I'm surprised the counterargument wasn't some sort of "business science" person.
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Or trampling over the science with wrong science that you got out of misunderstanding a textbook, like his cousin Alan*. *This is canon now.
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"Economics is a Science!"
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Which is why we're going with Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Medpro registered in Sark.
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OwlFancier posted:I loving know right? You've got this flat-rear end country the size of a continent I mean the size is kind of the problem. It'll work a lot better in 2000AD when everyone's in megacities though.
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I do enjoy how "oh no Labour did call for it but only if it was safe" gets blown to gently caress when it turns out "nope, re-open, I am saying nothing about how efficient it should be, just re-open" Also we are probably going to lockdown again soon. I don't know for how long or what purpose atm though.
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noted flat country the USA
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There's a lot of flat bits in it. On average it's flatter than my bit of the UK and my bit of the UK still has trains in it.
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OwlFancier posted:I loving know right? You've got this flat-rear end country the size of a continent mostly built after the invention of the railroad and you're like "nah we need interstate highways lol" It was called the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” because Americans were paranoid they'd need highways to evacuate the cities when the Russkies nuked them. How much of that was actually a motivating factor is debatable.
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OwlFancier posted:I used to do it on the top of the bus but I stopped when I started being able to drive and now I try as hard as possible to not remember driving when on the bus
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I definitely don't think you'd get me on a tunnel under the atlantic. I haven't ever even been on a city underground much less that far. gently caress knows about the chunnel. Also once I got to the other end I'd be in france.
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An Atlantic tunnel would have to cope with the pretty loving big wall of fire all the way across it. Although I suppose you could stop off in Iceland for duty frees and the penis museum.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An Atlantic tunnel would have to cope with the pretty loving big wall of fire all the way across it. Although I suppose you could stop off in Iceland for duty frees and the penis museum. Only a coward would let plate tectonics get in the way of the train. Train cannot be stopped
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forkboy84 posted:Only a coward would let plate tectonics get in the way of the train. Train cannot be stopped Did you see that film Snowpiercer? quote:The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, John Hurt, and Ed Harris. It takes place aboard the Snowpiercer train as it travels a globe-spanning track, carrying the last remnants of humanity after a failed attempt at climate engineering to stop global warming has created a new Snowball Earth. Evans stars as Curtis Everett, one of the lower-class tail-section passengers, as they rebel against the elite of the front of the train. Filming took place at Barrandov Studios in Prague, using train car sets mounted on gimbals to simulate the train's motion. The people at the back of the train are low class, they eat some kind of protein slabs (which we find out what they are made of part way through the film), and plan a revolution and try to make it to the front of the train. The train continually follows a global track. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer
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The train is a metaphor for capitalism, as far as I know, which is why it keeps going despite the fact that it clearly shouldn't (I have not seen the film)
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OwlFancier posted:The train is a metaphor for capitalism, as far as I know, which is why it keeps going despite the fact that it clearly shouldn't (I have not seen the film) Yes it is a metaphor for that. It's designed to keep going but when the guy leading the revolt finally makes it to the front of the train he finds out how it is kept going. It's a good film, worth watching. Ed: seems it's been made into a series this year. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Josef bugman posted:I do enjoy how "oh no Labour did call for it but only if it was safe" gets blown to gently caress when it turns out "nope, re-open, I am saying nothing about how efficient it should be, just re-open" To stop the NHS collapsing. If it wasn't for that hard reality they wouldn't give a gently caress.
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Always a good read Twisto  --- Entirely unrelated, at least someone is finally putting to rest an age old thread debate: https://twitter.com/walkers_crisps/status/1316013709316161546
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jabby posted:Delay is literally all you can do unless a vaccine emerges though. Delay via effective track, trace and isolate would be far preferable, but if the government can't achieve that then I'll take delay via repeated lockdown. It's not though, several countries have managed to sort their poo poo out without a vaccine.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Always a good read Twisto I was talking about that in discord the other day. The ‘new’ shapes are loving awful. They’ve got a different texture to them; smoother and less crumbly. They’re basically like Space Invaders, and quite a lot smaller than the old style.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Always a good read Twisto Didn't the old original 80s ads showed these were footprints.
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Lungboy posted:It's not though, several countries have managed to sort their poo poo out without a vaccine. The countries that have "sorted their poo poo out" did so with an effective initial lockdown followed by very good test, trace and isolate programs. They are maintaining their poo poo-sorted status by continuing those programs in conjunction with stringent travel restrictions. New Zealand, for example, still has practically closed borders. Does that sound like a long-term solution to you? Because it's not. Covid is either still moving through the populations of those countries, albeit slowly, or it will do the moment measures are relaxed. The only way out of continuing rigid population movement controls and test/trace/isolate systems is to vaccinate, or you go back to exponential spread as we are currently discovering.
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jabby posted:Also I've always thought Boris is, if anything, better than May. He's an incompetent fuckhead, but his childlike need to be loved might mean he accidentally does something that benefits someone, unlike May who couldn't give a poo poo how much everybody hated her. Jabby, as a doctor you're absolutely the last person who should be thinking that. Johnson U-turns on or half-arses every COVID safety measure that would have an effect as soon as he sees they're unpopular, because he wants to be loved by the people. And May is much more likely to have done what was necessary regardless of whether it was popular because again as you say, she didn't care if she was hated.
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happyhippy posted:DUP won't do poo poo without Boris' permission. I'm sorry. This is an horrendous situation 
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