When a person dies a library burns

I miss my grandmas :(

Lol this is the 1887 version of tech bros reinventing railroads.

What’s more efficient than one person driving a car? Carpooling!

In fact, if we made the car driverless it could hold even more customers.

Although we probably want to make designated roads where only driverless cars can go. That makes coordination and safety far easier.

We probably want signals specific to these roads that only the driverless cars need to be concerned with.

And you know what has lower rolling resistance than rubber on roads? Metal. If we make the wheels out of metal we would get insane fuel efficiency

Except now that rips up the road so we need to pave the road with metal too.

That’s actually expensive so maybe we just pave directly underneath where the wheels go

If we’re going to do all of this we need more passengers. Maybe we attach cars together and run them on a schedule? That should work for the most people?

Maybe we can run all of this on electricity too! No gas needed! With our metal wheels that’s some insanely low energy costs!

Daily reminder that if a road is designed to last 15 years, by definition that means you need to replace 1/15th of your entire road network each year. If you can’t replace that much you fall behind… And things break and stay broken.

It also takes longer to replace the roads you can work on because they’re more damaged than you planned for when you built them and planned out the lifecycle, meaning you end up even further behind.

Also the economic benefit of a road mostly happens when it’s brand new, or upgraded to carry heavier traffic it couldn’t before. That’s an actually return on investment. Replacing anxexisting road to it’s old state is replacing a broken window in broken window theory. It doesn’t cause lasting increases in economic activity.

All of this is to say, fuck cars. I hate them. I hate how much we spend on infrastructure that rots and gets invoiced by rent seeking construction companies and municipal and provincial/state governments being complicit in rent seeking with these companies.

I wish we had more trains and less sprawl. It would cost a lot less and would actually be sustainable. Oh well… The hard way it is…

I agree but this looks like peeling potatoes? That’s why it says kitchen

Mao accidentally killed like 40 million people over sparrows. That one’s isn’t debated either it was well documented…

Here, have my shitty meme I made to bring your comment to life visually

Yeah me too! I never thought wasp extermination would be so chill and ASMR ish

DDG is getting worse but it’s not this bad. I’ve tried Kagi’s free sample (about search 30/100 rn) and it’s excellent. I still don’t know if I’ll buy a subscription to it but I like the incentive model.

“lowest bidder and manufactured as shittily as possible without violating the contract” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same.

Trains and trams and busses.

God I wish… It costs me $250 a month for my car and I own the fucking thing (if you include maintenance costs) so I drive to work twice a day, five times a week, and try to get errands done during my return commute. I might drive once or twice on the weekend, and there are about 4.4 weeks per month on average. That means I spend $5.28 every time I drive. That is WAY MORE THAN TRANSIT COSTS!! Especially if we spent the money we spend on roads and cars, instead on trams or busses

For reference I also pay for car centric stuff through my utility bills. 10-30% of my utilities might be effectively me paying for the externality of ripping up roads to replace buried infrastructure, that then needs to be paid for AGAIN using my taxes when potholes form over prior ground disturbance, and paid for AGAIN when the road fails early and needs to be ripped up to fix the subgrade.

How what if we built a parkade? We could charge $40 per stall but have 10 or 20 times more cars in the same land!

The sheer volume of cars would saturate the bridges and tunnels in and out of Manhattan, meaning that people would drive just to park, just to drive and queue to leave. The useless mindless illogical economic activity we would be creating would spike GDP so high! It would look great for the economy!

You just reminded me of this exterminator guy I watch on YouTube who actually collects wasp nests and rehomes them on his property. He says they kill mosquitos and basically nay pest you’d be concerned about.

The aggressive species get fed to his chickens lol.

Edit: I think it’s hornet king Link

I wish the video was long enough to hear the sound of my prime membership going up in price

Yeah that’s a good strategy. Good for chicken feed too then they can be the new CEO of breakfast

Are you DESPERATE ENOUGH to WORK HERE!?

It’s why they weren’t afraid to go to open war with mine owners and the US government, who bombed them in the first use of aircraft to bomb “combatants” by the US military

I don’t even want to eat them. They’re hardly even worth being hog feed and I wouldn’t want to feed too many of them to my hogs. There’s an obviously high level of heavy metals in them.

We do this with every single new revolutionary technology.

Pets.com

Computer boom and busts

Even fucking railroads. They were building tens of thousands of kms of railroad to literal nowhere. “Towns will settle as long as you build a station and run a service there!”

Which is partially true in land that was a PITA to get to, and couldn’t access lucrative markets. I.e. a lot of prairie in the Midwest, which only truly settled around rail due to grain elevators and a more structure co-op system.

You might want to replace the LED with a normal silicon diode since if I were a piece of shit TV company I would measure that circuit as a voltage divider, and for a complete circuit. No current flow and no 0.6V drop, and that means I activate my out of warranty self lobotomize routine.