Wanderer

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

More of a joke.

American trains do suck compared to other trains.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You're right, nothing compares to one man's anecdotal evidence.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Averages are much better than edge cases in this sort of comparison.

20 years vs 14

https://insideevs.com/news/763231/ev-battery-degradation-life-gas-car-comparison-age/

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I think steam engines are awesome. They worked amazingly well. Ended up being superior to the German car industry during WW2and helped win the war. But everyone got to admit a diesel (and especially electric) train was always going to doom the steam engine.

This says more about how great solar voltaic is than anything else.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

That's batteries of the past. The rate of change in batteries has been so dramatic it has left people's understanding behind.

Batteries will far outlive when a ICE car would have been scrapped.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Safer than American trains.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

More evidence Britain's the best country in the world.

Drinking on the train to go somewhere sporting, night out. Is a time honoured tradition. Wouldn't change that for all the Trumps in the world.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rich people owning land and trying to get a mark up on the value or a backhand. Or just being near it.

I know this website is pretty communist and I'm not. But surely anyone with half a brain even a die hard capitalist can see the gain in buying land and resetting the market for what is most valuable now not legacy at what was most valuable in the 60's.

Anyone that is against heavy funding in public transport, tax on land/ reallocation for more density and education isn't a capitalist they are just a cunt.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honest fuck this.

So you love driving and more people on the road will get off the road and take the train. It means you can drive even more! Why wouldn't you want that.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

what does that even mean? You can't have nice things because black people exist?

It kind of is though.

Can't have nice downtown because blacks live their so all the whites go out to the suburbs. End up with shitty inefficient suburb hell and under funded downtown.

No one wants to use public transport because of a sense of crime so only the lowest income people use it meaning further funding loss.

Nothing in America is for "the people" paid by the state except highways, oil and pouring water into the desert everything else needs to run a direct profit ignoring externalities.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a tax on housing. It doesn't make a difference how it's applied. But I like how it incentives less luxury.

Good job America isn't the only country in the world. The transition to renewables isn't even slowing down without America.

 
 

Closing those lines and not leaving them in a state where they could be reopened if needed is a mistake.

If Wales haven't spent so much money on their London to Birmingham rail line they might have had some money left over to do something in Wales.

 

For a country that people shat on a lot for closing their nuclear plants Germany is on the right track reducing their C02.

 

I've gone down a rabbit hole here.

I've been looking at lk99, the potential room temp superconductor, lately. Then I came across an AI chat and decided to test it. I then asked it to propose a room temp superconductor and it suggested (NdBaCaCuO)_7(SrCuO_2)_2 and a means of production which got me thinking. It's just a system for looking at patterns and answering the question. I'm not saying this has made anything new, but it seems to me eventually a chat AI would be able to suggest a new material fairly easily.

Has AI actually discovered or invented anything outside of it's own computer industry and how close are we to it doing stuff humans haven't done before?

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