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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 61 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No, it was insane back then, people were just too busy sucking elons dick like he was the second coming of Nikola Tesla instead of the hack Nazi he is.

I distinctly remember articles from the time calling out the hyper loop as a bullshit method to stop public transit. I'm entirely unsurprised California fell for the monorail salesman instead of just building the fucking rail system