• LiberalSoCalist@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Imagine that the Wright brothers’ first experiments with flying machines all failed because the automobile interests sabotaged each and every test flight. And then the good and god-fearing folk of the world looked upon this, took notice of the consequences, nodded their collective heads wisely, and intoned solemnly: Humans shall never fly.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t have to imagine because in Canada and the US, that’s exactly what happened with trains. Now the two countries are extremely car dependent and barely have any trains, despite the fact that trains are really great.

      And for a very recent example, there’s Elon Musk trying to prevent high speed rail with his incredibly dumb hyperloop or whatever they’re calling it. The freaking tunnel for cars that tries to poorly emulate a subway.

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        1 year ago

        hyperloop or whatever they’re calling it. The freaking tunnel for cars

        You’re conflating two different things. Musk’s tunnels and the hyperloop are different ideas.

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          1 year ago

          Probably. I admittedly stopped caring about getting the names for Musk’s products right after it became clear that his ideas were all shit. Not gonna call Twitter “X” either.