atro_city
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USAians will make train porn, won’t they?
Haven’t you heard? USA good, China bad. So say the media, so you must say.
Honestly, things would be indeed way better if guys who are insecure of their dicks just got penis enhancement and sucked themselves off. The world would be much better off not having to deal with cars running over kids or people road-raging.
The problem is that planes are heavily subsidised. If those subsidies were just removed, train would be the cheaper option. If the subsidies were shifted to rail, buses, and bikes, things would be much cheaper.
There’s a reason these trains are max 350km/h. Its simply infeasible to build and maintain the track and the train that runs 500kmh.
Where are you getting this information from? I’d like a source. It sounds interesting. Would fit really well into an episode of “Real Engineering” or something.
Since the 1955 record, where France recorded a world record of speed of 331 km/h, France has nearly continuously held the absolute world speed record. The latest record is held by a TGV POS trainset, which reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) in 2007, on the newly constructed LGV Est high-speed line. This run was for proof of concept and engineering, not to test normal passenger service.
That’s the record.
As of 2022, the fastest trains currently in commercial operation are:
- CR400AF/KCIC400AF, CR400BF: 350 km/h (220 mph) (in China and Indonesia)
- TGV Duplex, TGV Réseau, TGV POS, TGV Euroduplex: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France)
- Eurostar e320: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France and United Kingdom)
The are current trains.
A direct train on straight track in the land of the lack of regulation could easily have a 500km/h average on a separate line. The US could be *plastered with train tracks making train travel much more convenient that a plane.
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Europe@feddit.org•Volkswagen, Audi to recall almost 1 million cars in Germany
3·2 days agoThings are going well in the German auto industry. Who could’ve predicted such a decline! /s
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Argentina’s poverty rate rises above 30% under President Milei, reversing recent decline
2·2 days agoIf they vote for him again… well, maybe they need a harder whip?
Sure, how many make breakfast, pack lunch, their schoolbag, and get to school on time?
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World News@quokk.au•US rapper Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour after Ed Sheeran fallout
18·2 days agoJoin the fediverse and tell people about it. Youtube can be pressured by Israel to take down videos and shit, but not the fediverse.
That actually makes me wonder: can owls change their facial expressions? Or is this one doomed to have perpetually stunned look?
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Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•French far-left presidential candidate Melenchon blames Ukraine's deep strikes for war escalation
5·3 days agoWhat the fuck is he doing… that probably cost him lots of voters.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Vouliagmeni beach: Man, 82, dies after beach fight with 76-year-old over sunlounger in Greece
9·4 days agoSounds like Greece alright
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Crazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•This happened in Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
153·4 days agoHedley pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Brown to his severe injury, ** permanent impairment **
Fuck me… that’s rough. He should be forced to pay for the rest of his life, get anger management courses, and psychological help.
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Europe@feddit.org•German far-right AfD wins second state election in major blow to Merz
1·5 days agoYep! I’d rather have a million small ones than a few large ones.
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Europe@feddit.org•German far-right AfD wins second state election in major blow to Merz
1·5 days agoThe Linke is very present on social media too. I remember watching Deutsche Welle English and they compared the number of accounts and number of followers for each party in the German parliament and The Linke was not that far behind AfD. The problem is that the platforms they are on are owned by uberwealthy, right-wing billionaires.
We need a #WealthTax and for more people on the fediverse where companies don’t control the algorithms and surface right-wing stuff all the time.
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World News@quokk.au•The 'quicker, easier, nastier' national security threat: Australia's intelligence chief says China is "nation's top hacking threat"
2·5 days agoNot that these you questions have anything to do with the linked article’s topic
How do technological backdoors have nothing to do with hacking? The Australian state is also trying to force its children (and thus adults) to hand over ID to access social media. That’s just more data for hackers to retrieve and use for nefarious goals. Especially if it’s biometric.
How is increased surveillance not an issue? A car that surveils you is definitely a hacking target and the more the state legislates that there should be more surveillance, the more things there will be to hack.
How does tech sovereignty not prevent hacks? Opensource stuff has more eyes on it and the more states use it, the more paid people will develop it and check it.
And you’re talking about cars: imported stuff from China means it can come “pre-hacked”. Local production will mean less chance of backdoors by foreign actors.
I think it has very much everything to do with the article’s topic.


























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