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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    toScience Memes@mander.xyzDolph is prime human
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    2 days ago

    I’ve never seen the originals, as he’s not that popular in Europe. My only exposure is “Bill Nye Saves The World” on Netflix. I couldn’t get past the first episode.

    I’m a big fan of Sagan, and while I don’t think NDT’a Cosmos: A Space time Odyssey was as good as the first series, I was mostly looking at Nye’s show with the same lense and trying to draw comparisons between them.









  • Weird, I have the opposite experience. After an S3 Mini and a Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro, my gf let me try her iPhone 8 for a bit and I was amazed by how smooth it was running. I’ve bought a 11 Pro in early 2020 and have been using it ever since. Still works like on the day I’ve bought it, no slowdowns, smooth as hell. I did do a battery swap after the fourth year though.

    I wouldn’t mind trying a Pixel with GrapheneOS though. But all Pixels are so large compared to the iPhone Pro lineup.










  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    That’s not how it works. HSR could be used to alleviate traffic in dense urban regions, without actual cross-country interconnectedness.

    So-Cal, Nor-Cal AND something connecting the two with a couple of stops in between.

    Salt Lake area.

    Houston - Forth-Worth-Dallas - Austin triangle.

    Florida.

    Urban areas connecting the Great Lakes.

    I won’t address the East Coast specifically, as it’s quite evident that it’d have needed something around the same time Japan, Europe or China made strides.

    Just to do a quick jump over the border, various governments have been attempting to build a HSR in the Windsor - Quebec City corridor for decades, but the political will is simply not there, and we still have the worlds widest and highest traffic highway that costs a fortune to maintain instead (along with the catastrophe that is the 407ETR).

    Meanwhile as the latest example, Italy built up a new HSR system by 2015, in an area that is comparable in size and density to Florida. It has a monthly pass system that even allows you to take your bike on every route. It’s also a national corporation. How come transit in NA is not allowed to be national, except when it comes to funding roads from tax payer money?