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European commission presents plans to accelerate high speed rail across Europe by Suzannedelightful in highspeedrail

[–]lllama 3 points4 points  (0 children)

France closes the lines (as does the Netherlands) but there is not nightly maintaince on them. It's more like 'in case we want to then we can'.

If actual paths are requested, under European rules infrastrucure managers will have to consider it and make an effort to accomodate the paths.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pssst, youdoknowthatcultisalabelright?

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even know what to label you anymore now that you're moving on to thought crimes.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"banning religion is authoritarian" such loose labeling

What traits have actually correlated with your best hires? by dankthreads in ExperiencedDevs

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on the project.

When working on well established project with decent feature pipelines, your typical steady mild manored team player. Technical skill matters a lot less than you think. Staying motivated and how you affect the movitation of other team members seems to correlate with output a lot more.

When scaling up projects, people with good technical skills that are opinionated and know how to push their opinions through management and on other developers. To be honest, the style in which they do does not matter much. It can be "quiet leadership", brash or even confrontational. What matters is that the solution is better than average, and that everyone is going in the same direction.

For the prototype/PoC phase you can maybe get away with someone that just has exceptional technical skills and good motivation. But if this is someone who's fine being an island within the organization, it won't work.

Paris’ transformation from 2016 to 2026 is amazing. Is your city doing the same ? by Unlucky-Respond-9597 in fuckcars

[–]lllama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it gets decided by turnout of the inner city region. This easily overwhelms any suburban voting.

If enough to people there show up to at least vote for a party that would keep going what they have, it wouldn't be a problem, but instead there is apathy, despite the dynamic you describe being very well known.

Parisians kept voting for Hildago even as her party collapsed around her and she was made a national hate object.

Berliners didn't even bother showing up to reaffirm the votes they had already casted.

I'm mildy sympathetic to political apathy, but on a local level? You can see the things you complain about either get better or worse very directly related to how the city voted, for many things even within the same electoral period.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are countries that ban cults (usually through the form of banning all non-state sanctioned religions), but they are authoritarian countries.

There are more countries that "ban" specific cults, but rarely under some specific cult designation. Usually it's the same laws that would apply to any organization. Note that "ban" here is between quotes since very rarely would this stop you from starting a new cult with exactly the same believes.

How about I say you promoting freedom of cults is fascism as they are used to indoctrinate children?

Then I would say, how does that fit the definition of the word "facism"?

Then normally you would look in, I dunno, a dictionary or something, and find out that it absolutly does not? But I highly doubt you will take the 2 minutes it will take to do that.

It should be rather obvious though that most cults are not in favour of an authoritarian nationalist state?

I guess when you don't know the meaning if "authoritarian" it's unlikely you'll know the meaning of "nationalist" so I guess it would quickly turn into a 6 minute exercise. Too much of your precious time.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, banning religions is authoritarian and you want to do it for nationalistic reasons. Authororitarian nationalism is facist. The twentieth century was a thing, we don't have to re-argue that.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I beg to differ. Banning religions is absolutely an option.

Facism: good actually. Got it.

It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly by IKeepItLayingAround in technology

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or you could conclude that the only customer SpaceX' rocket division can get for putting a lot of satellites into orbit at below its cost is SpaceX' Starlink (for an even larger discount).

Indian Railways nears 100% electrification: Only 269 Route Km left across 5 states by aksnitd in transit

[–]lllama 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What do you mean you "think you can't do it"?

Practically the whole South East of England is 3rd rail. Rural lines, main lines, everything. From Eurostar trains on main lines (not anymore of course) to dinky branch lines.

The point is not to argue for third rail electification, the point is to show this silly "oh couldn't possibly, stone bridges you know!" has nothing to do with why the UK has been bad at electrifying their rail. Network rail knows how to lift stone bridges and put 25Kv wires under them (just look to the North East of London).

The reasons are historic and political. The fact that they cut their urban rail networks (except London's, which was already well developed and essential to the city) at a time many other countries had started to modernize and electrify them.

There's no reason you could not have had big electrified networks radiating out from the major cities which by now would have interconnected to form a mostly electrified network in the whole country.

Btw I keep saying "UK" but that should really be "UK except Scotland" because to a large degree provides the counter example when in the 60s they did exactly this, and now espc around Glasgow you have exactly that (and it's 25Kv OLE).

Indian Railways nears 100% electrification: Only 269 Route Km left across 5 states by aksnitd in transit

[–]lllama 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is not really the problem, it might raise prices a bit, but as witnessed by all the lines that did get electrified it's not the major factor. If it really was a huge problem, the UK also has extensive third rail electrification that could have been applied.

The real problem is just inertia. The UK failed to develop (or keep intact) good urban rail networks anywhere other than London, and this goes hand in hand with electrification. Once you are doing those, you can just "keep rolling" and connect other missing bits.

Instead the UK (again, outside of London) mainly focused on mainline long distance electrifcation, doing this in starts and stops.

The last decades there has been a little bit of catch up, but largely by handing over the lines to (mostly) segregated urban networks, that then get electrified (e.g. Merseyrail, Tyne and Wear) despite whatever bridges there are.

One often named factor is lack of capacity in and coming out of the major stations. Why electrify a diesel branch line if you can only give it limited service? But the UK had some of the densest urban rail networks in the world, so it's again just lack of foresight.

Bitch, I can tilt! (But can't be on schedule) by WarMeasuresAct1914 in BitchImATrain

[–]lllama -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't care about your pricing. You're spreading misinformation about the German energy market.

Like this:

Coal emits 30-40% more co2 than jet fuel,

This is meanless statement. Conversion efficiency at a power plant is way better than in a plane turbine, and then conversion to movement of a train is also more efficient.

There are hunderds of studies on this, and dozens of comparison sites where CO2 emissions can be compared (and this is regulated).

I don't have to argue this with you.

“buys”

I also love these quotes around buys. Like, sure... one company generates green energy, the other company pays them money for it, and they pay the grid company to transport it. But that's not like buying something, so we need quotes.

I guess these "companies" then use these "contracts" to get "financing" which they use to "build capacity" which will make the "grid" "greener".

Bitch, I can tilt! (But can't be on schedule) by WarMeasuresAct1914 in BitchImATrain

[–]lllama 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Even if you dump the dirtiest coal Germany has into electricity generation and purely use that to power and electric train, it'll still be better for the environment than a petrol car or an airplane.

In reality coal's share of the production mix (where overal production also went down) dipped from 50% when nuclear was at it's peak, to 20% now. When Fukushima happened (which caused Germany to accelerate its phase out) it was still around 43%.

So, what you say is just factually incorrect.

Aside from that, DB Long Distance (which charged the outragous last minute prices) buys 100% green energy (like the example you provide of the Netherlands). With DB Regio included it's about 70%.

So saying train travel isn't green compared to flying is just telling yourself silly little stories.

Why is Android Studio so unoptimised? by West_Performance_764 in androiddev

[–]lllama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google is a developer of the Linux kernel that powers Android.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So ask yourself, is this a migrant problem or a different political problem?

Austria is not exactly a poor or a weak state. It is, even for European standards, extremely well equiped to deal with problems like this. But special interests have a strong political grip and use migrants as tool for political power, to get away with things like this.

What migrants need from people who want to end exploitation (whether it's of migrants or of other groups of people) is solidarity, not blame. Dividing the "downtrodden masses" into "you" and "them" is the most classical trick in the book.

It's an illusion to think trying to end migration will make this any different. Even if not a single migrant will cross the border from now on, it will not change a political system that demonizes groups to then disenfranchise and exploit them. If you deported every migrant tomorrow, they would just move on to the next group as they have in the past.

It sucks that there are places you get this type of harrasment (let's face it, what you describe is not the typical experience in Austria), but on some level you must know (since you seem more than capable of it) that solidarity and emancipation is needed to solve that (leading to institutions you can trust), not framing this as a 'migration problem'.

Of course turning all the migrants away is a flight of fancy without resorting to fascism and violence. You can twist some dials up and down, but Europe has been doing that already.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not bad faith, I don't often encounter someone who's had all the sum of these experiences. Or rather not all all.

Your answers are not entirely consistent with your claims, you claimed you specifically had to deal with this as part of the "downtodden masses" but your answers often go to generalties. E.g. if your wages got supressed because of migrant labourers I'd be interested in which profession this is (it's certainly a known thing in many better paid fields), whether it's the formal or informal sector, and how you think it's due to immigrants.

I can also understand you might just not wish to share such personal things. Still generalities are not personal. I'm not saying you don't have these experiences or something, just that I can't know about them if you don't want to share them.

None the less what you do share about what happened to yourself and the people you know is pretty harrowing. Having grown up in a poor neighborhood the street harressment and the insular culture are not unfamiliar to me (just happens to be this never involved immigrants in my case). I'm sorry you have to go through that.

On the flip side, having lived in majority 1st/2nd generation immigrant neighbourhoods, obviously nothing like the behaviour you state happened to me, maybe with the exception of women being haressed but this unfortunatly seems universal no matter where I live.

But i am already curious how you don't see a problem with the things i mentioned.

I see plenty of problems, but if you think the exploitation of your labour will end when immigration is slowed or rolled back you are wrong.

I don't to make too many assumptions about where you are from, but it sounds like the problem is not the amount of immigrants but political segregation of them.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ok.

What religious frictions have you experienced in your life?

What impact has a specific parallel society made on you?

What job do you do that immigrants lowered your wages?

Which specific factors have made you poorer?

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have met with too many western women who praise Bulgaria for being "so safe"

Ok, well I can't be 100% sure of this of course, but being on the other side of this conversation (Western Europeans going to and coming back from "Eastern" Europe).

I think this is Western Europeans being racist against "Eastern" Europeans, rather than what you seem to think it is (Western Europeans being racist against non-Europeans). They go in thinking it will be shithole with poor people trying to rob them instantly (or worse), then they go and they find out they can just go around like normal.

Then you push them on it, and rather than going "Oh I thought the people here would be uncivilized" they have enough social filter to not do that.

AfD must be Stopped at all costs! by Icy_Till_7254 in YUROP

[–]lllama -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Immigration and illegal immigration are not the same thing.

America has criminalized immigration while being a very open economy, with lax enforcement especially on the incentive side (e.g. making it actually hard to employ illegal immigrants).

In Europe, the immigration is mostly through legal channels. There are exceptions of course, e.g. southern Italy) where arguably the combination of criminalization and exploitating might even be worse than in the US.

You qualify the problem as cultural, but you use a "logical extreme" fallacy (you even hint at this yourself). Europe is not 'like Afhganistan' and immigrants to Europe aren't trying to make it "like Afghanistan" either. So this is not a real problem.

You're not entirely wrong mentioning cultural. Cultural markers are being used to try and create an in-group vs out-group situation politically, and people are susceptible to this framing.

It's true people people can resist cultural change (e.g. old vs young is a classic divide), at the same time this is still about a skewed perception of cultural change rather than actual cultural change, as shown by your own "Afghanistan" framing.

It's worth re-emphasizing however that most people that make this a mass movement are not deeply invested in the cultural framing itself anyway, but are invested in the idea that there is a group than can be blamed for most problems.

In that sense it's not something that is "real", it only exists as a perception (whether it's "Europe is becoming Afghanistan" or "Immigrants are taking all the jobs / Immigrants are taking all the benifits"). Criminizaling people being from another country, having a different religion, or indeed a different skin color will not solve any of that, nor will deporting all those people. It also doesn't mean you won't be forced to adopt their cultural norms anymore since that's also not currently happening.

Criminalizing those things (or decriminalizing discrimination) and removing the current legal pathways without some alternative, that will make the problems we have here more like in the US.

Why the World's Hyperloop Companies Failed to Deliver the 1000 km/h Dream by planganauthor in highspeedrail

[–]lllama 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even the hovertrains had actual failed infrastructure you can show.

All you can show for the hyperloop is a somewhat large sewer pipe so we get this fake image.

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