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https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1581771471038582784 17 Billion for NYC subway
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eXXon posted:Me too. I'm going to go out for a drive to relax after I finish this wine. its 1130 in the drat morning you freak. wino bum
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1581771471038582784
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mystes posted:drat the us sucks at everything
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Oct 17, 2022 19:30
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one of my friends is talking about buying a car and steam is shooting out of my ears, my bowtie is spinning around, hat flew off my head. disgusting machines.
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Oct 17, 2022 19:32
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turns out when you underpin every single system with the goal of "making as much profit as possible" several systems devolve into a series of middlemen whose only job is to extract value and actual work stops being done
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Oct 17, 2022 19:32
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Smythe posted:its 1130 in the drat morning you freak. wino bum don't sign ur posts
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Oct 17, 2022 19:36
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Ham Equity posted:We're actually really good at giving enormous amounts of money to grifters in the law enforcement, military, and pharmaceutical industries. also real estate and finance!
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Oct 17, 2022 19:43
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Lib and let die posted:don't sign ur posts honestly i would LOVE to be half in the bag right now. its a beautiful day and i'd like nothing mor than to take out the lawn chair and get into some beers / vino. ICED vino. but alas..... work, school, mid terms, grad school applications..... loving BUll poo poo. should have done this when i was 22 instead of 37. FML
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Oct 17, 2022 19:44
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president biden, garvin newsome, eric garcetti ---- i require another RONI lockdown with MEGA BERNIE BUCKS once again. Thank you. 
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Oct 17, 2022 20:42
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1581771471038582784 It takes a lot of money to make it look frozen in time for 50 years
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Oct 17, 2022 20:57
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How much would it cost to build out that Korean subway on top of an existing system that had been patched together in multiple stages over the last ~120 years.
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Oct 17, 2022 22:30
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don't think korea has to worry about c.h.u.d.s either
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Oct 17, 2022 22:49
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That video doesn't mention a bunch of other stuff that you can see in it, like that they have modern open gangway carriages, which improve capacity and reduce overcrowding hotspots
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nyc is getting some new cars though! one dayquote:Planning for the R211 order started in 2011. quote:“The universe of competent, qualified car builders that are in the U.S. are down to two. We’re all very mindful of some of those consequences,” said MTA chairman Janno Lieber. “What we’re trying to do is help Kawasaki get back on the straight and narrow.”
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Oct 18, 2022 07:59
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I hate cars though
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Unclear where train cars fit in.
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Oct 18, 2022 14:28
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Trying to get in the brainspace of a Hyperloop stan Trains can only go 270mph. Absolute loving loser numbers. Too slow. Obsolete! A Hyperloop went 107 mph. It's so fast! Incredible! Human ingenuity conquers nature! Air resistance makes it impossible for normal vehicles to travel faster than 70 mph.
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Oct 18, 2022 15:42
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Trying to get in the brainspace of a Hyperloop stan these are defense mechanisms from people who will never want to admit their entire life was and for bullshit
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Oct 18, 2022 15:45
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Trying to get in the brainspace of a Hyperloop stan i think the (flawed) idea behind Hyperloop adoption is the idea that you can put it "on top" of existing systems, like the example they always pump up is the idea of your Tesla self-driving to a Hyperloop station, which then puts it in a Hyperloop vacuum capsule and sends it through the loop tube to wherever. I mean it's fantasy no matter what, but it's the same kind of sunk-cost fallacy thinking that leads people to think any investment in public transit is a waste of money because "look at how close we are to getting self-driving cars that collect taxi fares for you while you're at work and drive you to your vacation spot while you sleep!"
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Oct 18, 2022 15:48
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"what if you had all the things you loved about public transportation, but with the privacy and convenience of having your own car?" this is their "dream": a system as efficient as the south korean trains, but without the possibility of encountering a homeless person
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Oct 18, 2022 15:50
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I had never heard of those double doors on the subways in Seoul, that's cool as hell. The hot piss smell air and dust blowing all around you on the platform is the worst and the main reason I avoid the subway and use uber when I work in NY
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Pryor on Fire posted:I had never heard of those double doors on the subways in Seoul, that's cool as hell. The hot piss smell air and dust blowing all around you on the platform is the worst and the main reason I avoid the subway and use uber when I work in NY these doors has been standard in singapore's underground stations since....1987?
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Oct 18, 2022 15:54
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/gumball_eyes/status/1581778623744266240?s=20&t=ZUL_2g2lKIl5sIDXM70Q0g Sadly all my city is willing to put up are either the plastic paddles that don't stop anything and get torn off after a year or a small concrete step that a car can cross easily but a bike can't.
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Oct 18, 2022 16:00
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1581771471038582784 I'm hoping to visit Seoul next year, and riding the trains everywhere is one of the things I'm most looking forward to. I've ridden the ones in Incheon, which look about the same as these. The glass doors in the terminals around the tracks are really cool.
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Oct 18, 2022 16:05
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Pryor on Fire posted:I had never heard of those double doors on the subways in Seoul, that's cool as hell. The hot piss smell air and dust blowing all around you on the platform is the worst and the main reason I avoid the subway and use uber when I work in NY i don't think they solve the piss problem. they're all over the place now (paris and london have then in places too) since they cut suicides and improve reliability (junk getting onto the track etc)
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Oct 18, 2022 16:05
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Trying to get in the brainspace of a Hyperloop stan The train is also 0.0000001% as likely to turn you into confetti due to a breach anywhere along the supposed thousands of miles of tube
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Oct 18, 2022 16:33
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Yeah, the hyper loop is just a scam to hopefully get some public money that would go to useable infrastructure. Elon already bilked tens of millions from Las Vegas tax payers for his Tesla tunnels (you could literally just have some shuttle buses driving around for a fraction of the cost).
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Oct 18, 2022 16:45
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the hyper loop is just a scam to hopefully get some public money that would go to useable infrastructure. Elon already bilked tens of millions from Las Vegas tax payers for his Tesla tunnels (you could literally just have some shuttle buses driving around for a fraction of the cost). Yeah, but you would have to share a shuttle bus with poors.
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Oct 18, 2022 17:03
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the hyper loop is just a scam to hopefully get some public money that would go to useable infrastructure. Elon already bilked tens of millions from Las Vegas tax payers for his Tesla tunnels (you could literally just have some shuttle buses driving around for a fraction of the cost). bad comparison. the shuttle buses would be able to communicate/coordinate with each other and run on a schedule, so there would be very little chance of getting a traffic jam like they get all the time in the vegas Tesla Tunnels
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If you want to reduce air resistance on your trains, just build your tracks at 60000 ft and laugh at the tiny insect airplanes below you. Call it Hyperloop-de-loop.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the hyper loop is just a scam to hopefully get some public money that would go to useable infrastructure. Elon already bilked tens of millions from Las Vegas tax payers for his Tesla tunnels (you could literally just have some shuttle buses driving around for a fraction of the cost). It's obvious why The Boring Company won that "people mover" bid. That Tesla Taxi Tunnel is cheap as poo poo to build because it's a shoddy sewage that ignored all safety features for humans. Tunnel fires are no joke. It's maybe 1/4 the capital cost of an elevated monorail, maybe even less. It's definitely way more expensive to operate though. gently caress, I hate the phrase "people mover". God drat stupid.
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Oct 18, 2022 21:20
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Yeah those hotel taxes are still taxes (ie public money) that could have gone to the public good instead of funding a complete boondoggle. Also, a convention center really doesn’t need a monorail or people moved anyway. It could have been easily handled by shuttle buses. It was about grifting if not outright stealing from the public.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah those hotel taxes are still taxes (ie public money) that could have gone to the public good instead of funding a complete boondoggle. Also, a convention center really doesn’t need a monorail or people moved anyway. It could have been easily handled by shuttle buses.
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gotta step it up. we've been getting our asses kicked 123 years https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1582495516449210368
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mortons stork posted:there's a guy named ashton in the comments who is absolutely ventilating the author ~~with facts and logic~~ and getting him increasingly pissy and mad I know this is a ways back now but I just read all this and it’s extremely funny
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Seeing so many of those little one-wheel things that I kind of want one. I don't understand how they fit in legally though. Do they do on the street or sidewalk?
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Oct 19, 2022 15:31
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:17 Billion for NYC subway to just operate for a year china builds ~170km of new subway for the same money
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