<div dir="auto">High speed rail is much more energy and economy efficient than planes though, once you have the infrastructure. It's an investment in the future. Nobody here seems to give a shit about the future, which is why we have toxins in our food and water and air and soil and why we are finally coming due for the checks we wrote with things like 0% FFR and QE, and the spending and hiring practices of corporations, especially big tech. You can see it happening with Twitter, which I know you agree with me on--they overhired and overextended based on taking out loans and goodwill on a trumped-up valuation, now Elon is holding that bag into the ground. (Guess they found a greater fool, lol.) Problem is that same thing seems to be happening everywhere. And I think investing in planes instead of trains is yet another example of short term profits being prioritized over long term stability. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">China plays the long game and it's why they are so scary. They are the old bull who's going to walk down there and fuck all those cows. We're the young fool here. I think we do have a pretty crafty foreign policy apparatus who has to play that game to contend with rivals like China, but our domestic situation seems like everyone sucked the last drops of milk outta this tit and now my generation is like uh what's going to happen when the milk is gone</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 7:06 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-9086752300906058200WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] vaccines again<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…High speed rail fails in this country…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Agreed.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…because of economically inefficient lobbying with war chests filled by monopolistic corporations…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Will this change? No. Currently we have the absurdity of federal government underwriting a high speed rail system in California. So people in the densely populated east coast are paying for a railroad track on the west coast. That makes no sense to me, and this is from one who lives near a proposed high speed rail station. Imagine how the others must feel.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…Our regulations actually promote this, we pretty much have a monoparty crony capitalist kleptocracy in my humble opinion…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ja. So let us not allow them to pay for a high speed rail system. If that is going to pay, investors will come. But investors didn’t.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…I am pro market, anti big government, anti big corporation. At least as it stands, both are too susceptible to rot…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ja. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Plenty of economically successful countries have high speed rail, and most of them have better test scores than us too…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">No worries, we have the option to go to one of those successful countries to ride that. it makes as much sense as having high speed rail on the opposite coast.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I'm all about freedom and I love America…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I do too Will. All that is needed is a period after that sentence.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">High speed rail will cost a ton of money but never pay off. We have aircraft for what that system is supposed to do. Investors came. They paid. It paid. Done. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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