Excuse me while I flip through the racist dogwhistle rolodex…

So, Trump cares about MAGA farmers about “three-fifths” as much as Argentina’s president.

!superbowl@lemmy.world

From my North American engineering perspective:

The main thing is that when you look at a new transit project in isolation, the cheapest thing to design and build is a transit system that interacts with as few existing parts as possible. There are plenty of exceptions to this, such as using an existing rail tunnel through a mountain vs. digging a new one, or if an existing maintenance facility has enough spare capacity to avoid needing to build a new one. But in every place the new line interacts with existing infrastructure, it’s a cost to determine how the design can best integrate it both during and after construction. Take an interchange station with another line. Will it go beside, above, underneath? Can it be made without needing the close the station or the entire line, or with as little disruption to existing service as possible? Interchange stations are great for usability, but planners and design bidders evaluate and present cost-to-benefit tradeoff scenarios that will get approved or denied for both fiscal and political reasons. Let’s say between two distinct lines you want to have shared track. If the electrification type, rail gauge, signalling system, platform length, vehicle profile, boarding level height are different, you will have to spend a solid amount of engineering effort figuring out how to harmonize it.

There are many examples of light rail vehicles using track or right-of-way shared with heavy rail in full or partial sections of the line. Waterloo, Canada’s ION tram is one. Unfortunately it’s much more difficult and costly to have it the other way around-- i.e. heavy rail vehicles on light rail tracks. The tracks and roadbed are not meant to handle the weight and vehicles may not make it through the smaller bridges tunnels, and curves. To make a light rail system compatible without knowing what heavy rail trains would use it, is a major cost incurred for no forseeable benefit.

Ask for a year’s salary upfront before you open a single case.

“Hey guys, welcome to my unboxing video!” -bear

I watched it yesterday and only a couple things I have to add.

First is that the bipartisan CHIPS act basically shovelled taxpayer money into Micron’s pockets to increase their manufacturing, but they are reducing their consumer output anyway, so Steve’s point is consumers are not getting anything out of the subsidy they made.

Second is, since any potential increase in production is to cater to their largest data centre customers only, Steve is suggesting that this could be part of a push to move people to subscription-based cloud computing by making personal computing tha you buy and own unaffordable.

Reddit was like this in 2009, here’s a random thread from there to illustrate, 35 score, no comment votes. The years prior Reddit was even quieter despite having only one community they had to post to, before subreddits were a thing.

Give it time, promote it on Reddit if you want to !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com, tell your friends. As far as I know we are growing slowly, it will only blast up if Reddit does something extra henious again. Though the knee-high barrier of choosing a server and learning the etiquette will take a little time.

I think it’s okay as is, it doesn’t have to be more popular, but if it does become more popular then I don’t mind that either.

Pretty easy if you don’t care that you’re arresting innocents, or the Constitution.

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

FACT-CHECKING IS CENSORSHIP

He sings the songs that remind him of the Signal chat.

The Trump crypto value has nothing to do with any economic outlook. It’s the bribe gratuity funnel for the Trump family.

Well the October report has been withheld by the Trump admin.

ADP is a payroll company, I used to be paid by them at a previous Canadian job I held. My current job uses dayforce, so ADP’s not the only name in town.

I went in January, cold but nothing I’m unaccustomed to as a Canadian.

Clam chowder was decent at least what I tried. Public transit was usable. People were nice there in your typical American sense, but NYC shops had more heart for strangers and visitors comparatively. But I was only able to really scratch the surface from my day trip there.

Well we can assume political discussions have a lot of psyops and people with agendas. I appreciate that many of the loudest voices/posters make it very obvious ;)

Some of the craziest niches aren’t on here (like if you clean sewers and septic tanks, DM me, you ought to do an AMA) but I have encountered people replying on mostly tech related topics on programming, linux, asklemmy, no stupid Qs where someone with niche tech knowledge did answer (i couldn’t find the original comment link, sorry). My knowledge is in trains, electricity, Japanese and Japanese electric trains, you can ask me about.

The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)

Highest disapproval poll numbers of his career, congratulations.

Or, highest poll numbers of his career of people who want to see the full Epstein files on him.

Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here’s my overall advice:

• No need to get hung up over a few early downvotes on your comment that might cause its score to go negative for a bit. People can be strongly opinionated here. Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I do appreciate people willing to post honestly held unpopular opinions and play a reasonable devil’s advocate in threads. (This is different than just being a contrarian.)
• For your own and everyone’s benefit, try to engage in thoughtful, well reasoned and good faith discussion with empathy for others where it’s due. If you feel like a chain of replies is going nowhere good, there’s no shame in walking away from it.
• Report and block the jerks, trolls and spammers you might encounter like on any forum-like site. Don’t let them spoil your experience when most people here are respectful.

Enjoy your time here!

How often would you like to hear about Beef Stroganoff?

https://piefed.zip/comment/2434168

I have a feeling it’s the user mentioned in this comment.