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stephenthinkpad posted:Is the CA HSR even happening, haven't heard any news in a while. It was pretty much cancelled, there may be a segment that goes from Bakersfield to Merced. If anyone has lived in California, they will know exactly how useful that is.
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Mar 26, 2021 08:25
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VideoTapir posted:Isn't it great we as a species decided to cover half the land in our cities with carcinogen reservoirs? god bless america
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Mar 26, 2021 08:28
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fart simpson posted:god bless america I'm looking out my window in China at an asphalt road right now. Though to their credit, China has a lot more (CO2 intensive) concrete roads than the US does. Plenty of doom for everyone.
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Mar 26, 2021 08:36
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How can American create such inefficient decision making system for long term city planning? Spend billions on the HSR and then cancel it. Both east and west coast can use HSR for future growth. How about just double the spend of the commuter train system for the next 100 years? Do I have to bring up China has plan for the national 600kmph maglev syatem. Mean while I ride ebike to work because the NY highway system is over crowded. I guess we can forget about better commute ever and go straight to telecommuting huh?
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Mar 26, 2021 08:37
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VideoTapir posted:I'm looking out my window in China at an asphalt road right now. im looking out a factory window in china at an aquaculture farm right now
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Mar 26, 2021 08:40
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stephenthinkpad posted:How can American create such inefficient decision making system for long term city planning? Spend billions on the HSR and then cancel it. If you will always be on top, why change? Our urban planning besides maybe some gentrification really hasn’t change and probably won’t. Also too much of it is already baked in and our cities are still based around cars with minimal public transportation. Even Portland if anything has been back sliding over the years. It is also why I don’t think being truly competitive with the PRC is in the cards. We would have to start making sacrifices and it just isn’t going to happen. It is a lot easier to use a bunch of money and then throw up your hands.
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Mar 26, 2021 08:48
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fart simpson posted:im looking out a factory window in china at an aquaculture farm right now You mean an antibiotic poison lagoon?
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Mar 26, 2021 08:52
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Now begins America's Century of Humiliation
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Mar 26, 2021 08:53
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If you think about it, shortening the gap in infrastructure building can also be achieved by bombing Chinese infrastructure. Please allocate 50 trillion to the defense budget, tia
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Mar 26, 2021 08:59
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stephenthinkpad posted:How can American create such inefficient decision making system for long term city planning? Spend billions on the HSR and then cancel it. Personally, I blame neoliberalism. More generally though, in both the political and economic spheres it has become increasingly apparent that we are incapable of any great work or great action. We lack the ability to build for the future. Can you imagine the US in 2021 undertaking and completing any of the great infrastructure or technological feats of the past? Could 2021 US build the Hoover Dam or go to the moon?
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Mar 26, 2021 09:33
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Well the moon mission happened because it was half of a military project. So if you can sell any infrasturcture project as military (like the internet or starlink), you can still make it happen.
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Mar 26, 2021 09:45
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VideoTapir posted:You mean an antibiotic poison lagoon? you know the ones
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Mar 26, 2021 09:47
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stephenthinkpad posted:Well the moon mission happened because it was half of a military project. So if you can sell any infrasturcture project as military (like the internet or starlink), you can still make it happen. the us has lost the ability to do even halfway efficient military projects as well, so even if you managed to sell something as military spending what would happen is that all the graft and waste means that you'd get something half-assed about a decade late and at ten+ times the original projected cost
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Mar 26, 2021 09:51
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Cerebral Bore posted:the us has lost the ability to do even halfway efficient military projects as well, so even if you managed to sell something as military spending what would happen is that all the graft and waste means that you'd get something half-assed about a decade late and at ten+ times the original projected cost this is the point I was trying to make. The systems in the US have reached the point where, as has happened elsewhere and in other times, the amount of inherent graft and incompetence has become unsupportable.
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Mar 26, 2021 09:56
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bedpan posted:Personally, I blame neoliberalism. the US probably couldn't build a new library without at least questioning the utility of simply allowing books to be "borrowed" for "free"
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Mar 26, 2021 10:10
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Both the US library system and the UK NHS are not possiblr with the current governments. Now that I think about it, how come Disney didn't push for any law that ban VHS rental in libraries?
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Mar 26, 2021 10:17
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stephenthinkpad posted:Both the US library system and the UK NHS are not possiblr with the current governments. don't worry libraries are being slowly destroyed by digital books and streaming subscription services. the more things become digital the less ability the library has to help you pirate books
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Mar 26, 2021 12:35
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Rutibex posted:don't worry libraries are being slowly destroyed by digital books and streaming subscription services. the more things become digital the less ability the library has to help you pirate books he’ll yeah
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Mar 26, 2021 12:49
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Admittedly, it isn’t only the US, the crossrail project in London has 5 years longer than it should and is now one of the costliest transit projects in history.
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Mar 26, 2021 12:53
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Ardennes posted:Admittedly, it isn’t only the US, the crossrail project in London has 5 years longer than it should and is now one of the costliest transit projects in history. they are the US
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Mar 26, 2021 14:28
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Baykin posted:Is there historical basis to the idea that China would be willing to sanction and blockade Taiwan if the US wasn't involved? I'm honestly asking as someone that has only relatively recently started learning in depth about China, so I don't want to come off as a big proponent of Chinese propaganda if I've fallen for it, but from the bit that I've dug into I'm unaware of them acting in such a way. If they have, I'd very much appreciate any examples so I can continue educating myself. lets ask some white ivy leaguers what they think since apparently theyre the only ones who have to capability/allowed to advise our govt on such things
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Mar 26, 2021 15:16
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Ardennes posted:A 3 trillion dollar bill is both possible (that’s only 300 billion a year btw) and it will be mostly on highways and random non-sense. but arent drones doing all that poo poo already?
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Mar 26, 2021 15:17
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Cerebral Bore posted:the us has lost the ability to do even halfway efficient military projects as well, so even if you managed to sell something as military spending what would happen is that all the graft and waste means that you'd get something half-assed about a decade late and at ten+ times the original projected cost bro the pentagon doesnt even know the real number of bases they have around the world and are relying on a loving author's speculation
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Mar 26, 2021 15:20
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Agrajag posted:bro the pentagon doesnt even know the real number of bases they have around the world and are relying on a loving author's speculation you gotta be loving kidding me
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Mar 26, 2021 15:41
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dead gay comedy forums posted:you gotta be loving kidding me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YR2TxHkb4c
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Mar 26, 2021 15:57
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lol, of course Johnny Harris had an internship with NATO and idolizes Madeleine Albright
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Mar 26, 2021 16:19
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incredible, just incredible they had a literal army of accountants and they couldn't do it, this is right off wh40k bureaucracy stuff lmao and yeah I gotta admit I admire how creatively they spun that one, though - "THIS ORGANIZATION IS SO drat HUGE AND POWERFUL AND MASSIVE THAT WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXTENSIVE IT ACTUALLY IS" gives a strong america gently caress yeah feel until the inconvenient idea of "wait but how effective it truly is" comes up
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Mar 26, 2021 16:48
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remember when the US lost $12 billion dollars in iraq, oopsie lol
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Mar 26, 2021 16:59
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dead gay comedy forums posted:incredible, just incredible at least the Imperium of Man has 1,000,000+ worlds to administer as their excuse. the US military has like 750 bases? you can't keep track of 750 things? Goonswarm has more bases than that and we manage to keep track of them
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Mar 26, 2021 17:03
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THS posted:remember when the US lost $12 billion dollars in iraq, oopsie lol yup "lost" directly into my hidden caymen islands bank account
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Mar 26, 2021 17:09
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keeping a list of my army bases in a txt file and losing it cause the porn site i visited locks my work laptop
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Mar 26, 2021 17:21
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Agrajag posted:but arent drones doing all that poo poo already? The f-35 was designed back in the 1990s. It seems like it was designed around essentially a Persian Gulf style conflict.
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Mar 26, 2021 20:04
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Can an F-35 run Doom?
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Mar 26, 2021 20:50
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VideoTapir posted:Now begins America's Century of Humiliation Americans don't care though. It's like when we get destroyed in soccer.
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Mar 26, 2021 21:58
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THS posted:they are the US Absolutely not. They have a monarch. Don't put that evil on us.
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Mar 26, 2021 22:02
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UK will join Oceania once Megan destroy the monarch.
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Mar 26, 2021 22:19
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Ardennes posted:A 3 trillion dollar bill is both possible (that’s only 300 billion a year btw) and it will be mostly on highways and random non-sense. We already had good ground attack jets in the A-10, the f35 was nominally intended to replace both ground attack and aircraft fighting all in one but it sucks at both lol
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Mar 26, 2021 22:31
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Relevant Tangent posted:Absolutely not. They have a monarch. Don't put that evil on us. their monarchs are now just reality TV show stars. the UK is the 51st state, 2nd fiddle junior partner in the american empire - especially since brexit. their nationalists should be humiliated and ashamed - a leashed chihuahua collared by their former colony
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Mar 26, 2021 23:38
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THS posted:their monarchs are now just reality TV show stars. the UK is the 51st state, 2nd fiddle junior partner in the american empire - especially since brexit. their nationalists should be humiliated and ashamed - a leashed chihuahua collared by their former colony And still can't get a FTA from the Yanks, lol.
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Mar 26, 2021 23:48
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Maximo Roboto posted:Maybe a Swiss type system of militarizing the entire populace for guerrilla resistance tbf it said "destabilize" and they got the Ethiopians to do that in 2007 by restarting the civil war PawParole has issued a correction as of 01:13 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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