The biggest concern with that setup is how inefficient it is to reach the Pacific Northwest region, LA is a serious bottleneck on top of being a common endpoint in and of itself. A line that goes straight to either Seattle or Portland from the Northeast simplifies things a lot.
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The most efficient would be 3 major east/west lines, Boston to Seattle, DC to San Francisco, and Atlanta to LA, connected by a series of north/south lines to form a grid. On the east coast, just extend the Acela down to Atlanta.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’English
1·3 months agoThe rich and powerful will have access to the vaccines, the ban is only for us commoners.
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politics @lemmy.world•"You have no say in this at all. Federal law is supreme and federal law will be enforced."English
1·5 months agoGreat Value Goebbels.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Rages At Walmart For Raising Prices Over TariffsEnglish
1·6 months agoPerfect malicious compliance opportunity: the price tag stays the same, but add an itemized Trump Tax for the difference.
Hell, you can give away 990 million of it, buy a house, put what’s left in a high yield savings account, and live comfortably on the interest alone for the rest of your life.
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memes@lemmy.world•Now you know to double check file types.English
12·6 months agoThe fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•What If We Made Advertising Illegal?English
41·7 months agoHow exactly do you define advertising? An overly broad definition would forbid, for example, a dentist from putting a sign in front of their office saying they’re a dentist.
“Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?”
My conspiracy theory is it was chosen to deliberately harm the optics of environmentalists. Something with minimal useful impact and maximum inconvenience would turn people against the whole idea of environmentally friendly alternatives.
That’s not how that works. It’s not a DnD sphere of annihilation, it’s an infinitely dense point of matter.
The set of all possible universes does not include impossible universes. If you assume all possible universes exist, you’ve already eliminated universes that are the only universe as impossible.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.English
1·10 months agoThe ID verification is the purpose. Keeping minors off is a smokescreen, tracking every citizen on social media is the real reason for this law.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Oppenheimer executive producer receives empathy for his house burning downEnglish
1·10 months agoThat’s unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.
Dolphins are pretty much the only other animal to display straight-up malice.
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Games@lemmy.world•What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?English
1·1 year ago“Guess what! I’ve named a boil on my ass after you. It, too, bothers me every time I sit down.”
-Gheed, Diablo 2.
Bin Laden was supposed to be person of the year in 2001 but there was backlash from idiots that didn’t know what it meant.
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The Onion@midwest.social•DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from ThisEnglish
971·1 year ago“To all those growing skeptical of this party’s strategies and overall agenda, let me just say we hear you loud and clear. Rest assured we will be doing everything short of interpreting that sound into words and responding to those words in any way shape or form.”
This is an all-timer.
90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.
It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection unless you want necrotic frostbite) is about 150 F warmer than that.


1800 people have already been “lost track of” (read: murdered until proven otherwise) in the Everglades concentration camp.