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Even when you amortize it across all of the little cities

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France spends ~$15 million/mile for high speed commuter rail. Which means that line would cost $1.5 billion.

I don’t think it’s bringing in that many more people. Even when you amortize it across all of the little cities it would go through

For #6, I don’t think we necessarily have to move away from the idea that being a man means being a provider and a protector. At least to me those are some of the core tenants of being a man.

The person above you mentioned the men in Avatar the last Airbender. But I also want to add in the men in LOTR, Gomez Adams, Ted Lasso, Kratos in the newer god of war games, and Steve Rodgers.

These are men who are caring, loving, emotional and they are (mostly) able to show those emotions, capable of growth, and able to admit when they are wrong. But they are still men. Men who struggle with anger, men go to war and protect their families, men who are incredibly strong in the face of struggle, men who sometimes make “inappropriate” (to the left) jokes, and men who strive for nothing else but bettering the lives of those in their care.

I sometimes hate that what counts as “positive masculinity” is really just feminity but dressed up in a blue bow. Men are not women and telling them that they can’t be super competitive, can’t be angry, and can’t fail is just setting them up to fall into toxic masculinity. This might just be me talking about the culture I was raised in but those things aren’t necessarily a bad thing, and erasing what a “man” has been for generations isn’t going to win you any extra fans.

These small towns would still be an hour+ away from large cities, even with European speed high speed rail.

Like for me, the nearest “big town” is about 100 miles from me, which is about a 2hr drive. And, at least from some quick googling, it looks like most commuter rail in France tops out at about 100mph. A train would not bring in more people haha

7% is low in France. From what i can see online thats the lowest the unemployment rate has been since at least 1990 (thats as far back as i could find reputable numbers)

The US freight rail system is actually extremely robust. We move more rail miles of freight, than Europe does people.

It’s just a shame we built our rail for boxes and not people

So wouldn’t that mean that child birth is less painful? Because pain receptors and memory are also evolutionary traits?

Id say religion tends to be more of a reflection of what a society finds as civil. Look at other religions around the world, or historical religions and there are some things that would be entirely unacceptable in my local society at least.

This! Im gonna get down voted for this im sure but I’ve been using Lemmy instead of reddit for almost a year now or so but the hive mind is almost worse here than it is on reddit! People here seem to not be interested in actual discussion unless you agree 100% with them. It’s frustrating, I was hoping Lemmy was gonna be better.

Oh well, at least there’s less bigots and my app still works haha

That subtle stuff has been bothering me. Like, I don’t agree with any policies from the Republicans but at least they just tell me to go fuck myself and dont pretend that they really do care

But remember you also gotta protest in ways the Dems would like too. So nothing too aggressive, and if your idea is anything less than perfect we should just not do it anyways.

(Actually we should protest like the French with fire bombs and guillotines)

It’s called “cheese cake” not “cheese pie” so I don’t think so

From the article for anyone who cares, NASA uses 15 digits (3.141592653589793) because at Voyagers current distance from earth (~48 billion kilometers) that would give you an accuracy of less than half an inch.

The Phantom VI (the Phantom available in 1980) cost nearly nearly half a million pounds new. The Silver Spirit (or Spur depending on where you were) is probably the rolls you are thinking of, and it had a MSRP of a little over $100k new.

According to the CPI inflation calculator the Phantom would be about $1.4 million today, and the Silver Spirit would be about $334k.

This year’s phantom starts at around half a million but (IMO) it’s more of a “luxury car” compared to the ultra high end Phantom VI. But I think the Phantom is less of a car you buy and more of a modular platform you build your car on top of so I imagine there’s so multimillion dollar phantoms rolling (hehe) around

They aren’t fool proof, and relatively easy to detect from the source.

Source: high end AV tech for like half a decade

I feel like without oil the middle East would be like northern Africa. No real natural resources to kickstart an economy leading to seemingly perpetual poverty.

Ah you see, I’ve found a flaw in your plan! If they dont make unimaginable amounts of money how can they give the US president a $400m jet as a bribe gift???

Yeah but how would shell and the Saudi royal family make unimaginable amounts of money if we move to renewables??? I bet you didnt think of that liburul

Hasn’t Iran been talking about ramping up nuclear weapons production since like the end of last year? I don’t think they’re actually a nuclear capable nation but I could see them posturing like they are