Every time I travel I compare the trip in air vs land… Trains are fucking expensive, I would rather not fly ever again but I cannot afford to go by train
Planes are subsidized. Let’s subsidize trains just as much and also stop letting planes dump all their CO2 in the air.
I find it crazy that I pay for an industry that’s constantly trying to fuck me over
Fucking love the concept of monorail tbh. Why does everyone shit on it? (I’ve never actually been on a monorail)
They accomplish the same thing as a train, while being more expensive, easier to kill via vendor lock, and more expensive to expand.
They do have a place similar to guided buses, when you need an elevated rail, but have too many hills for steel on steel.
Monorail takes all of the concepts of trains, makes it harder to implement, places a max speed on it, and introduces a thousand more little complexities. Just build trains.
I would love to ride this.
The funniest thing about using Tumblr was having to explain to new users that “official” doesn’t mean shit. That’s how you know a site is unmonetizable.
Tumblr is the social media equivalent of those little hellstrips of lawn squeezed between the sidewalk and the street - useless for any profitable purpose and generally full of dog shit. I love it so much.
I miss it. 😔 I know it’s still around but my entire community got nuked during the nsfw ban so I split.
Give airline subsidies to Amtrak instead. GG
Bullet trains are cool and all but have we considered bullet zeppelins?
The minute there is a Hindeburg II, I’m booking a ticket and getting on it with my tailed tux and top hat.
America murdered everyone on it by refusing to sell the Germans Helium in the past. I’m sure today it will just be corporate greed because Hydrogen is so much cheaper. Same outcome. Get a picture on Wikipedia forever. Win win.
America murdered everyone on it by refusing to sell the Germans Helium in the past.
I see a lot of people shitting on the US on Lemmy. But this is the first time I’ve seen someone shitting on the US for refusing to sell a military resource to Adolf Hitler.
So what’s your view on the SR71, specifically the titanium sourcing…
Sanctions are good except when I need them?
Idk what that has to do with you claiming that the US murdered people by refusing to sell military resources to Nazi Germany. I have a feeling I don’t even give a shit where you’re coming from so I’m not even going to address it
Just to connect the dots for you, the US refused to sell Helium to Germany because of war sanctions. A beloved tool of the USA much more powerful today with global banking and the SWIFT network. Even though it was a civilian application, there were obviously some military uses and therefore blocked. That directly led to the deaths of everyone.
The SR71 is built out of titanium. The only supplier of titanium was the USSR. The USSR had sanctions against the USA for the same reasons. The US built fraudulent companies, forged paperwork and entire companies. They smuggled and stole and evaded the sanctions to get enough titanium to build the SR71.
Any US history about the SR71 tells it like a hero’s tale. Having to outwit the bad guy for the greater good of the country.
Today, any nation that doesn’t play ball with the US is blocked from global trade even if it means millions of deaths. Evasion of those sanctions by third parties is treated just as badly. And they get put on lists. The US is all about sanctions to control and talks about global law and order when it benefits them. But when they don’t benefit from the sanctions, they have zero shame to evade them and brag about it.
There’s a lot more, but that’s a cursory look. If you’ve never ready the story of the SR71 acquisitions, it is an interesting read no matter what you think of the politics.
And what does any of that have to do with you calling the US murderers for refusing to sell helium to the Nazis?
You’d only get the same outcome from using a balloon made out of thermite. If it’s just hydrogen, a leak would flare (if ignited), but it wouldn’t explode until enough oxygen mixes in with the hydrogen (again, if ignited). And something like a nitrogen tank being used to displace the lost hydrogen would prevent that from happening. The main thing would be getting to the ground before buoyancy is lost, but that would also be the case for a breached helium zeppelin.
Airship gang rise up
