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Well too fucking late, you got replaced by AI and the realtor got fucked regardless, making you commute all these years for nothing.
r/fuckcars / Not Just Bikes / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design
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Palantir
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Exactly, I've never understood anyone who likes going into an office. They must hate their wives or something.
It was quite funny when I worked for a law firm just after covid and spoke to a partner and asked why they paid to renovate the office when no one comes in anyway. Reading between the lines they spent 100's k plus on this building renovation just so they could justify not closing the office and making people work from home instead and just have a smaller hub office with meeting rooms.
They basically spent money to make sure they could keep spending money.
I do wonder how many businesses are run into the ground by people with boomer mindsets ("If you want something done right, do it yourself" [micromanagement], "I hate my wife" [Work is my entire life])
HUSTLE & BUSTLE
They MUST be able to get their coffee from their cafe that also serves mediocre doughnuts!
What I think a lot of people don't think of, is that if we all Worked from Home, then there would be loads of suburb cafe's and MIXED USE areas.
I think some businesses are addicted to spending money on pointless shit.
AI will not replace most office jobs. Most people don't have a clue how to use AI (even the so called trainers), most people, especially bosses can't comprehend what it can and more importantly CAN'T do.
AI will increase demand for highly skill software engineers who will need to review the AI code and draft the issues. AI effectively just replaces the grunt work of typing the code.
Sure, now anyone can bash together a prototype of discord, BUT:
- Do you understand distributed systems
- How will you replicate your database
- How do you get 5k people online at once and 1 message needs to be sent across 3 continents in 1 second
People are NOT shipping these prototypes, they are shipping small feature changes that AI bashed out in 2-3 hours vs. 2-3 days.
Most of these "I oneshotted XYZ" is basically the equivalent of a college student writing a basic messaging app and saying they've beaten Teams but have only managed to send a message between two connections over a localhost.
AI is great, but it's just a cotton jin, you still need someone to run the machine, check the work, manage those works, maintain the machine, update the machine with new patterns etc.
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As if that's going to stop C-Suite execs from trying anyways. They don't even have to necessarily use AI (despite their claims), just outsource everything that isn't nailed down to India and let the single, lone american who remained to pick up the pieces.
Palantir
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Sure they'll try, and fail.
It's more likely that India will actually lose out here and those previously outsourced roles will in the future be done with AI.
> “AI adoption is a major challenge for India. Entry level routine jobs are being displaced, and mid-level jobs are transforming,” said Sonal Varma, chief economist of India and Asia ex-Japan at Nomura.
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There's zero chance any kind of bullet train would work from coast to coast, or be any way affordable and then be cost efficient for passengers to choose over just flying.
Bonesjones
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"What do you mean it would cost 50 billion dollars in land purchase alone? We can just take it"
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Installing the infrastructure would be an absolute nightmare. Airports are rather self contained so if you got funds and a good size chunk of land you can get one set up. Meanwhile we saw the shitshow of California's railway. Fights over what communities will be getting a stop, needing to aquire long stretches of land, red tape like environmental concerns that will stall things, lots of contractors that want a piece of the pie leading to financial fuckery. Now multiply that across an almost dozen states. Even if a few states had their shit together and got their portion of the HSR finished and ready on time and on budget, all they have now is a big liability because the whole point was to facilitate transnational traffic. If some states are fucking around like California did, then the states that do finish their leg can mainly use it for is local traffic. I don't think there are a lot of Midwestern states that need a maglev for local travel, so it would be a waste of money upkeeping it.
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A lot of the problems with modern work is expecting people to have boomer slave-devotion to work without boomer work rewards. Hiring qualified people for peanuts, expecting extra work on weekends but cutting hours (and thus not gaining on productivity), and other stunts only works if you can guarantee raises, moving up through the ranks, and other perks.
The thing about going to the office...I can get it if WFH is impractical (if it's harder for your co-workers to contact you, or you have to jump through hoops to qualify) but they aren't helping their case if it's just a row of computers in an open office setup, especially if it's located somewhere like New York where you either are forced to commute on transit or pay out the nose for parking (and in New York's case, pay out the nose for just for driving on the streets).
I don't that one guy understands where electricity comes from. "Electricity from wires, not from fossil fuels". What do you think fuels power plants? And if the answer happens to be "renewable energy" forget about any cost savings from wire.
I think when it comes to HSR they have this idea where the pricing system is just a little more expensive than the municipal rail system, so that maybe an adult ticket costs $20 a head and subsidized if you're a student/disabled/non-white, even though pretty much every HSR system on Earth is competitively priced with airlines.
If you look at things that way their obsession with HSR makes much more sense.
Michael McDoesntexist
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They're probably gonna convert at least some of them to residential. I know there are some they're doing that to in DC over by Massachusetts Avenue, near Embassy Row. Meaning it will be expensive, but at least more inventory will help broadly. Cause DC fucking needs it.
Plus the years and years and years and years and years of permitting. Especially going through states like New York, California, and even others like Maryland (look at the Purple line in the DC area and how long it took for them to break ground. And in all that time nobody thought that building a light rail network at street level with level crossings s a HORRIBLE idea for such a commonly used rail line. But I've already bitched about that part). Land, permitting, political graft, materials, then the actual construction itself. It'll be at least twice that $50b (probably more)
That's the other rub for this aside from niggers. The fact that we refuse to accept the objective benefits of using more nuclear.
Where would they run it? The only really big one is Chicago, but it would be largely empty aside from that. And if you run it south through the big Texan cities, you can't easily run it to Chicago. HSR just makes no sense there. In the northeast corridor from DC to Boston sure or in California from San Diego to Sacramento. Or like the one Florida built from Miami to Orlando. I have family down there that's taken it and they seem to like it.
Palantir
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A fucking library.... Wonder if it'll have 15 bomalians sleeping on the desks like mine does.
Do cruise ships have libraries? If they do no one's ever highlighted it as a perk.
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You also have to have a use for all the cotton... which is a major thing the "AI will solve everything!" people don't get.
I fill in potholes for a living.
What is AI going to do about that?
They used to before technology advanced to the point you could get the internet everywhere.
There were not only libraries but studies and writing rooms so you could do your correspondence like letters and postcards to drop into traditional mail from the next port.....
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Can you work a bit harder mate, the roads round here are fucking atrocious.
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If you listen to the hype, someone will just ask the AI to design an automatic pothole filling machine and then you'll also be out of a job.
The "AI will solve everything!" people are religious zealots.
Palantir
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This also goes for the retards who are super scared of it.
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Two different sides of the same "I'm fucking retarded" coin
skol
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If cyclists feel it’s reasonable to strap a giant dildo to their bikes to separate their personal space on a road, car drivers should be equally reasonable and start installing these rotating blades to the wheels you used to see in the oldschool action movies.
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After rant posting in USPG about the state of passenger rail I was requested to post in here for your enjoyment and information. As a heads up, most of my information comes from the southwest as that's where I work out of so I might not be able to answer questions in regards to ground level stuff out of Chicago for example.
My previous post
I will be talking about the train locomotive of the surfliner in this post.
This is a Siemens Charger diesel electric locomotive. If I remember correctly this particular one's door is stuck on the left side that is visible in the photo.
Amtrak decided to purchase these locomotives after a trial process that ruled out many very functional and tried designs from freight because Amtrak decided to listen to their marketing department instead of just buying something that works. These chargers have many similar traits that many German automotive brands have. They run great until they don't, they are overly complex, and a pain to maintain. The phrase "if you properly keep up with maintenance on your Mercedes you will have a new car every three years" seems to be how these need to be maintained. This is absolutely not happening in the slightest. Every time I'm up in the cab there are maintenance alerts about something or other. Once the mechanical department figured out how to reset the regular maintenance required alerts they started dismissing them immediately. They weren't doing the job mind you, just dismissing the alert. This causes issues as you can imagine. These things are really starting to fall apart and I personally have had multiple locomotive breakdown on me.
One hilarious critical design flaw was the overheat sensor for the computer brain was right next to a hot exhaust pipe so the train always thought it was overheating when the engine was running. There was a period where they would not turn the motor off unless it was the last resort as it took at least 30 minutes for that sensor to cool down to allow you to turn the motor back on. The other reason they didn't want to turn the motor off is they are so run down that half the time they wouldn't turn back on anyways after cooling off.
I personally have had one of these catch fire after the supercharger air intake fell off onto an oil line and sprayed oil all over the engine compartment. The solution to this was have us sit for 8 hours while management tried to figure out what to do. We ended up getting a second motor pulled up to us but after we hooked it up we found out it was broken too. This is a pretty good snapshot of one of Amtrak's major problems, the lack of good leadership.
Feel free to ask me anything, I do better when prompted than off the top of my head.
My previous post
I will be talking about the train locomotive of the surfliner in this post.
This is a Siemens Charger diesel electric locomotive. If I remember correctly this particular one's door is stuck on the left side that is visible in the photo.
Amtrak decided to purchase these locomotives after a trial process that ruled out many very functional and tried designs from freight because Amtrak decided to listen to their marketing department instead of just buying something that works. These chargers have many similar traits that many German automotive brands have. They run great until they don't, they are overly complex, and a pain to maintain. The phrase "if you properly keep up with maintenance on your Mercedes you will have a new car every three years" seems to be how these need to be maintained. This is absolutely not happening in the slightest. Every time I'm up in the cab there are maintenance alerts about something or other. Once the mechanical department figured out how to reset the regular maintenance required alerts they started dismissing them immediately. They weren't doing the job mind you, just dismissing the alert. This causes issues as you can imagine. These things are really starting to fall apart and I personally have had multiple locomotive breakdown on me.
One hilarious critical design flaw was the overheat sensor for the computer brain was right next to a hot exhaust pipe so the train always thought it was overheating when the engine was running. There was a period where they would not turn the motor off unless it was the last resort as it took at least 30 minutes for that sensor to cool down to allow you to turn the motor back on. The other reason they didn't want to turn the motor off is they are so run down that half the time they wouldn't turn back on anyways after cooling off.
I personally have had one of these catch fire after the supercharger air intake fell off onto an oil line and sprayed oil all over the engine compartment. The solution to this was have us sit for 8 hours while management tried to figure out what to do. We ended up getting a second motor pulled up to us but after we hooked it up we found out it was broken too. This is a pretty good snapshot of one of Amtrak's major problems, the lack of good leadership.
Feel free to ask me anything, I do better when prompted than off the top of my head.
General Zigger
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any linear arrangement of copper creates electricity, you have to wrap it in plastic or rubber to keep the electricity fairies inside though.
Why does any train ride take about twice the amount of time to travel regardless of distance? I always wanted to ride a train just for fun one day, but if a flight can take me from city A to city B in 45 minutes (lets say 3 hours total with the whole process at the airport), and a car ride takes about 4-5 hours between the same two cities, why is it that a faster train takes about 8-12 hours? Sorry I have never ridden Amtrack before so this may be a stupid question.