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Now, let me concede that most of the stuff City Nerd says in his video is correct. Rail routes have greatly diminished since the 1950's. But let's take a look at why they diminished. First, lets take a look at a popular journey of Chicago to Los Angeles. Per Amtrak the current travel time is 40+ hours.
The other thing that's worth pointing out is how many of those routes were to small towns. Sure, it would probably be a cheaper route to go from Podunkville, IL to Chicago, but still a major expense...and given the scorn for small towns, why should every single dinky town get a rail station?

It's not like anyone wants a train ride to Wheatfield, Indiana.
 
This whole "which one does the AI kill?" is such a fucking midwit meme it hurts. They're meant to be a thought experiment on who's more valued by society, not an actual dilemma you have to program into your self-driving cars. I guarantee you that your Tesla is never going to have a subroutine that runs in the background that determines who it runs over in the extremely unlikely event the brakes have failed and "just coast to a stop" isn't an option.

Anyone that takes these stupid meme thought experiments seriously deserves to be openly mocked and be actively screened from any job remotely close to tech. These midwits are the reason I have to deal with some retard have an apoplectic fit every two months about ChatGPT becoming Skynet all on its own without intervention from human coders. Somehow. It's right around the corner, man. The AI, they're like totally gonna become self-aware and enslave us all dood!
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Now, let me say that I have been on long distance rail travel spanning multiple days. I enjoy my roomettes. I enjoy these voyages, but I don't lament that restriction in rail routes or better trains. Personally, its a hobby for well off people with a ton of vacations days like myself that enjoy the journey to a destination.
It depends on the country in question as well.
Observe the folllowing. https://www.russiantrain.com/
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Moscow to Vladivostok is comparable to a trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Yet you are 100% in your analysis that long train rides (multi-day) today are mostly scenic tours for retired people.

However, there's no better alternative for real freedom of movement than a gasoline or diesel powered vehicle.
There is also something special about riding across America on a motorcycle with your friends.
 
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It's a mall parking lot and serves many businesses, not just one.

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By "BJs", OP is immature and think's that it's a reference to blowjobs:
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/r/fuckcarscirclejerk has been having a lot of fun with this:
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@quaawaa you'd think shopping malls would be totally okay since it's a wholly pedestrianized area with trendy shops, but whatever.

Anyway, I got this from 4chan. This was designed as as a "Russia BAD" post but it also inadvertently illustrates how shit commieblocks were and are. Clearly the toilets-per-person in those buildings were not the equivalent to the apartment complexes that were sprouting up in America during this time.

Remember this when some retard tells you "ACKSHUALLY Soviet housing was fine, it's just propaganda that they weren't".

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But lets take a look at air travel on a non shit airline in first class. Delta has a round trip first class fare costing $568 that takes about three hours accounting for time zones. So first class air travel is a 1/3 of the price and about 92% faster. The reason is clear why rail routes faltered
Air travel changed the game honestly. You don't have to pass over mountains or climb hills or go through signal killing tunnels, you just get on a plane, go Mach 0.85, and be there in a couple hours.
@quaawaa you'd think shopping malls would be totally okay since it's a wholly pedestrianized area with trendy shops, but whatever.

Anyway, I got this from 4chan. This was designed as as a "Russia BAD" post but it also inadvertently illustrates how shit commieblocks were and are. Clearly the toilets-per-person in those buildings were not the equivalent to the apartment complexes that were sprouting up in America during this time.

Remember this when some retard tells you "ACKSHUALLY Soviet housing was fine, it's just propaganda that they weren't".

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The 58 year life expectancy says it all. I doubt living in a cramped commieblock where your room doesn't even have a toilet is good for your health.
 
Just use a truck at this point:
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They hate the poor:
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/r/fuckcars doesn't realize that actuarials have already priced in the externalities of trucks:
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They're very mad about being called White Supremacist Bourgeoises:
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That bike lane obviously wasn't built to make cycling safer but rather to annoy the people who live there by forcing them to drive around the block.

Cyclists who don't pay anything for their infrastructure aren't being subsidized because they don't damage society like cars:
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because they don't damage society like cars:
Really activates my almonds when they talk about abstract bullshit like "damage to society". In reality, if there was such a tax it would be levied on homosexuals, immigrants, certain interests who happen to have Jewish ancestry, able-bodied welfare recipients, and so forth. In their twisted view, it would probably be applied to none of those groups and instead people like you.
 
Usually I hate the government regulating shit, but this once I wish they'd require you to have a driver's license, insurance and annual safety inspections for this contraption.
They don't realize that mandating that will mean all their precious illegals (and drunk driving Mexicans) won't be able to drive.
 
No fun allowed:
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Most of them think it's fun, but there are still plenty who don't:
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Drummer's name is Michael Pestritto of Pompano Beach, Florida and he has patented his drum trike:
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He has previously appeared on America's Got Talent:
 
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Drummer's name is Michael Pestritto of Pompano Beach, Florida and he has patented his drum trike:
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He has previously appeared on America's Got Talent:
These people are seriously the biggest no fun allowed sourpusses I've ever seen.
 
From /sp/'s 24 Hours of Daytona thread:
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Always precious and heartwarming to see Euros saying cheeky, naughty things like this. Especially a Swiss, as they have fairly stringent anti-car laws there.

Some German posted pics of his Dodge Ram 1500 on /o/ once, I kick myself for not saving them. He said he knows the transmissions are shit but he bought it for the comfy ride and to deliberately stunt on plebians.
 
No fun allowed:
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Drummer's name is Michael Pestritto of Pompano Beach, Florida and he has patented his drum trike:
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He has previously appeared on America's Got Talent:
The guy DOES have talent. Imagine bitching about a guy that retrofitted his motorcycle into a drum set. These people don't have a single creative bone in their bodies
 
No fun allowed:
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Drummer's name is Michael Pestritto of Pompano Beach, Florida and he has patented his drum trike:
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He has previously appeared on America's Got Talent:
Apologies for the double post, but you gotta wonder what their reaction would be if he put this all on an electric bike and drove it down a bike trail. Since redditors seem to have a fondness for dangerously overloaded monster bikes, I suspect it would be something along the lines of "look at how bikes bring culture back to the community!!!!"
 
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