That works fine in nowheresville like the Nevada desert. Unfortunately, the bulk of America east of the continental divide is too populated to legally pull that off in any reasonable amount of time.
Much of the cargo lines through much of the country are pretty flat and straight. Tracks and such would have to be upgraded, but doable.
Bigger problem though is my previous mention. They own the lines, so passenger rail is a second-class citizen.
Amen. It’s necessary.
SGEs are forbidden from this kind of conflict of interest. Wonder how they will spin this.
Not as long as the cargo railroad companies hold all the power. America needs an alternate timeline with no fascism, sane governance, and making all railroads public.
Many of their FWD V6 vehicles had this asinine fate.
I’ve quite literally drank Flint water. Not for a humble brag (far from it) but I really hate that they became some kind of trope. They have needed help for decades and could have recovered faster if America ever cared about people. Good people there. Shitty America management. It’s like they keep them down for the Internet points.
As for municipal water. Stop by Altoona, Iowa sometime and drink their water. It’s just so terrible. Ground water full of stuff they can’t filter at scale. I don’t hate them for it, it’s what they can suck out of the ground, for maybe a few more years before it becomes brine.
It is hard to produce drinking water that is safe, and also tastes good. Is my global point.
Personal filters can improve that. Otherwise, buying water just leads us to a human future that is by far the worst reality we could ever impose upon ourselves.
Edit: TL;DR: bad tasting municipal water isn’t a conspiracy. It’s just the reality you have to work with at the time.
And Al Gore in 2000. 9/11 would have never happened and we'd have flying cars that could go through Stargates.
That's already existed for years: https://www.eightblack.com/
They run a side-hustle of sometimes on-time airport shuttles (not armed.)
Have drank tap water across the US for decades. Some municipalities are crappier than others, but a fridge filter tank takes care of those places.
Why are people not freaking out?
The 88% that didn't vote for him are. US Governance is slow to react to anything and has yet to figure out this is a real problem, those that aren't bought and paid for by Orange Burger Troll.
The US has a lot of contributing factors that make it more difficult for individual citizens to react, so far.
Among many other reasons.
At least the 22% that voted for Orange Turdius.
Probably the most sobering part. This is exactly what they're doing, as Muskrat is too dumb to understand how they work (and don't.) Meanwhile, the 19 year old kids accessing old COBOL systems are trusting hallucinating AIs to access them, but since the kids don't actually have the knowledge and wisdom of how COBOL works, they'll blindly trust the hallucinations.