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Polo-Rican posted:Good article about how ridiculous 0-60 times have gotten and why they shouldn't matter In my personal experience, a lot of acceleration is needed to merge onto the interstate because they were designed for 55MPH cars in the 1960s and now everyone goes 80. That's part of the reason I got a Honda Insight over other hybrid options.
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More train posts what is your favorite Intercity Express train - 1, 2, 3, or 4? I prefer 1 and 2 because even though multiple electric unit trains are probably more efficient, the sound and power of the custom-designed locomotive on the 1 and 2 is really impressive. 
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zegermans posted:More train posts I'd really just go for any intercity express train that exists, which I can use, and which is real and not a figment of my imagination. That's my favorite intercity express train.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:I'd really just go for any intercity express train that exists, which I can use, and which is real and not a figment of my imagination. That's my favorite intercity express train. How about a trip from Beijing to Shanghai at a whisper-quiet 150KPH while you sleep in your own personal capsule hotel, costs like $40 btw 
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Only downside is those cabins lack enough privacy for loving
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zegermans posted:How about a trip from Beijing to Shanghai at a whisper-quiet 150KPH while you sleep in your own personal capsule hotel, costs like $40 btw when i see a picture like this i hear war drums in my head thinking of all the things Big Oil and related industries did to pave over every square inch of America
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ikanreed posted:Only downside is those cabins lack enough privacy for loving they have magnetically sealing curtains
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:when i see a picture like this i hear war drums in my head thinking of all the things Big Oil and related industries did to pave over every square inch of America  Ride, you fools!
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SKULL.GIF posted:Lol because of that article I looked it up and my tiny, high-efficiency Honda Fit has 130 goddamn horsepower. What the hell lol same 
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zegermans posted:How about a trip from Beijing to Shanghai at a whisper-quiet 150KPH while you sleep in your own personal capsule hotel, costs like $40 btw that's me in the lego shirt
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zegermans posted:How about a trip from Beijing to Shanghai at a whisper-quiet 150KPH while you sleep in your own personal capsule hotel, costs like $40 btw Very clever design with the alternating beds
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zegermans posted:a lot of acceleration is needed to merge onto the interstate because they were designed for 55MPH cars in the 1960s and now everyone goes 80 wow, it's almost as if this is what the article is about - cars all getting faster
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soon people will be siphoning newly-precious gas from street parked cars. let the beasts starve, I say.
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Polo-Rican posted:wow, it's almost as if this is what the article is about - cars all getting faster I guess what I meant was even those of us that aren't insane speed freaks are kinda forced into it for our own safety.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Poor people in LA ride the Metro. I rode it for years! It's a good Metro, if underfunded, and seemingly some of the cheapest public transit in the nation. Yes I know I rode it too. "No one" was hyperbole not literal. Millions of people ride NYC transit, not the same for LA.
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Just gonna head from Vienna for a day in Zurich, leave at 9:30PM, arrive 8:20AM. $160 for yourself, $104/ea if you split it with a buddy/spouse free breakfast and personal shower btw
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oh hey I'm just going to bike from Passau to Budapest on a continuous bike trail along a wide beautiful river, nbd
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Karach posted:oh hey I'm just going to bike from Passau to Budapest on a continuous bike trail along a wide beautiful river, nbd how easy is it to peddle to the tune of a waltz
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i have always and will continue to bang the drum for affordable sleeper-train transit. spending all day going to the airport, getting onto the airplane, flying, getting off the airplane, and leaving the airport sucks rear end. getting on your train, having a lovely sleep, having breakfast, and then getting off at your destination with a whole day ahead of you is amazing.
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Karach posted:oh hey I'm just going to bike from Passau to Budapest on a continuous bike trail along a wide beautiful river, nbd I'm gonna do a trip like this one day. There's another one in Japan that looks nice.
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cool av posted:soon people will be siphoning newly-precious gas from street parked cars. let the beasts starve, I say. That was solved by car manufacturers in like 70's 80's. Siphoning gas from a car is pretty difficult now because of the tank designs. That said in the mad max world we are careening towards, it'll be much easier/faster to just drill a hole in the gas tank and catch it with a shallow container.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm gonna do a trip like this one day. There's another one in Japan that looks nice. did a bike trip from Vienna to Regensburg, hopped the train to what an insanely beautiful trip. camped along the way, tried to cover about 100 km a day. what's the Japan one? edit: dumb memory Karach has issued a correction as of 19:11 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:i have always and will continue to bang the drum for affordable sleeper-train transit. spending all day going to the airport, getting onto the airplane, flying, getting off the airplane, and leaving the airport sucks rear end. getting on your train, having a lovely sleep, having breakfast, and then getting off at your destination with a whole day ahead of you is amazing. Another huge advantage for train travel. Whatever destination city you end up in, you'll be in the middle of the remnants of the down-town core which means that even if you have to take a taxi at that point you'll be probably 20min away from wherever you are going at worst. It owns.
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Karach posted:what's the Japan one? Shimanami Kaido. But looking at it now, it's not nearly as long as those. 70km
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Magic Hate Ball posted:i have always and will continue to bang the drum for affordable sleeper-train transit. spending all day going to the airport, getting onto the airplane, flying, getting off the airplane, and leaving the airport sucks rear end. getting on your train, having a lovely sleep, having breakfast, and then getting off at your destination with a whole day ahead of you is amazing. Lufthansa is offering a non-stop St. Louis -> Frankfurt flight starting in June, and I looked into visiting my sister in Linz. Turns out it's faster, cheaper, and easier to just take the flight, then take an ICE from the airport straight to Linz.
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ArmZ posted:Xi Jinping Thought is Supreme also going 300kph
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Another huge advantage for train travel. Whatever destination city you end up in, you'll be in the middle of the remnants of the down-town core which means that even if you have to take a taxi at that point you'll be probably 20min away from wherever you are going at worst. It owns. Trains just absolutely stomp and the USA's attachment to air travel over train travel is a mind-inverting malignant stupidity
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A lot of the local advocacy organizations were touting NJ's Safe Passing Law going into effect this week, but it's hard for me to get excited when no laws are enforced against drivers anyway. https://twitter.com/njstreetsmart/status/1498659798631464972 Everywhere I've seen this news posted on twitter or facebook, the first reply/comment is "actually cyclists need to be (licensed/hi-viz/off the road/etc.) and I should bear no responsibility for operating heavy machinery" car bad
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One of the best things about trains to my mind is that they can realistically be powered by fully renewable energy sources, while at this point nothing but the tiniest planes for the shortest distances can be.
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Blackhawk posted:One of the best things about trains to my mind is that they can realistically be powered by fully renewable energy sources, while at this point nothing but the tiniest planes for the shortest distances can be. Eh, depending on how you define "renewable" planes could eventually be powered by bio-fuels, so in the perfect high-tech green future, air travel still has a place. Today its absolutely easier for trains to be powered via renewables though.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Eh, depending on how you define "renewable" planes could eventually be powered by bio-fuels, so in the perfect high-tech green future, air travel still has a place. Today its absolutely easier for trains to be powered via renewables though. no, this stinks!!!
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pmcTRILOGY posted:A lot of the local advocacy organizations were touting NJ's Safe Passing Law going into effect this week, but it's hard for me to get excited when no laws are enforced against drivers anyway. italians need to learn to read first before any signage can work
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zegermans posted:italians need to learn to read first before any signage can work i a-smush-a the cyclist-a, eyyy! gotta wipe-a the viscera off-a my window, eyyy! who wants a free-a baby helmet, barely a-dented, eyyy!
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zegermans posted:More train posts Different country but also an Intercity Express, my favourite is this one which is bisexual colours and has the word trans on it:  But all Intercity trains are good trains.     
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Karach posted:oh hey I'm just going to bike from Passau to Budapest on a continuous bike trail along a wide beautiful river, nbd I did this from Budapest to Linz and it was indeed amazing      
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119quote:The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) specifies the use of biofuels in the United States and thereby guides nearly half of all global biofuel production, yet outcomes of this keystone climate and environmental regulation remain unclear. Here we combine econometric analyses, land use observations, and biophysical models to estimate the realized effects of the RFS in aggregate and down to the scale of individual agricultural fields across the United States. We find that the RFS increased corn prices by 30% and the prices of other crops by 20%, which, in turn, expanded US corn cultivation by 2.8 Mha (8.7%) and total cropland by 2.1 Mha (2.4%) in the years following policy enactment (2008 to 2016). These changes increased annual nationwide fertilizer use by 3 to 8%, increased water quality degradants by 3 to 5%, and caused enough domestic land use change emissions such that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher. These tradeoffs must be weighed alongside the benefits of biofuels as decision-makers consider the future of renewable energy policies and the potential for fuels like corn ethanol to meet climate mitigation goals. I don't think anyone here is going to be surprised by this study.
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God Hole posted:I did this from Budapest to Linz and it was indeed amazing I wanted to take my wife back and do a more relaxed pace and actually do tourist poo poo instead of blasting through everything as fast as possible. But, uh, that was before operation impending doom 3 was launched.
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