Given the ratio of users between the countries, I think the post ratio is about right. So yep, I agree, it's the same thing, which makes you a hypocrite.
Tbh I'm surprised you havent blocked me by now, your post indicated you were into that.
I'm cheating slightly because I'm considering distance in terms of the direct train. The other is faster but goes another few hundred km wayyyy out of the way so I'm considering that to be the average speed for comparison purposes.
The other fatal flaw in the analysis is that while gas (actually I used VW+diesel) is pretty flat rate, trains can be cheaper off-peak. But I was mostly looking to confirm that the general economics aren't that different.
Where the us is real dumb is we actually have a shitton of space. Like the whole LA-SF train if we built it would be literally just next to i-5 in the middle of a redneck wasteland....plenty of space to get up to speed, and pretty much no reason to stop between sf and la. But we don't do it because we suck.
Literally not a single soul on all of lemmy has ever said the US is the best. You might be thinking of a different social media with "truth" in the name.
Ah, so they just didn't read the context. Thank you for the translation.
They don't view it as a fire or frying pan, obviously
I don't know what that sentence is saying. It doesn't seem relevant?
No, that's boring. Someone did do that to me but I'm not sure what the point was. Here you're just a jerk and it seemed worthwhile to point out what a hypocritical person you are.
All you can do is hope people realize they are not good and choose to improve themselves. If you choose not to do that for whatever reason, that's your choice to be the worse man.
..and completely avoid any and all Chinese products. Good thing their global influence isn't increasing constantly.
If you mean to say "trains with high average speeds have high average speeds" I'll agree, but even in countries trying to get faster average speeds it's still relatively new outside of Japan.
There's also cost to consider. You can get a fast train Paris to Berlin and it's 4 hours faster than driving, but costs more than 4x to transport 1 passenger vs a car which can bring 5. The main route is slow, matching the speed of a car. (If you had a family, would you pay 60 euros to drive, 520 euros to train at car speeds, or 932 euros to train faster?)
However the "fast" train is still only reaching normal highway speeds (120-130 kmph) on average...it's just the roads are so bad google is estimating an average car speed of less than 80 kmph which is essentially like...suburb/business area street speed here in this country.
Some guy in California fed raw bird flu milk to his cats and killed 2 blinded a third, iirc.
So...on the way.
Lol you're insane if you think this changes anything for anyone anywhere
Many are, genx is now the conservative generation.
They are slower than driving except in peak traffic. Caltrain san Francisco to san Jose is about 2x driving time, and on neither end does the train get you into real downtown. San Jose is close but still a 15 minute walk before you get to anything interesting. Francisco is in a relatively shady area near a stadium, also 15 mins from market.
If you don't have to park, getting to the airport by transit involves switching from Caltrain to BART at a random suburb so as an example San Jose to SFO is 30 mins by car, 1:30 by train. Note the tracks for the Caltrain and Bart are parallel here.
I honestly don't even know what your point is.
Op is saying they dgaf and will use what they want. It's a boring, uninteresting post with minimal value, but I definitely don't understand your issue with it.