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Puzakistan wrote:- Vader's Snap -

Dear Mr. Puzakistan,

You have been warn yesterday that you are not allow to do RP in the RMB chat. This is the second warning that the commissioners delivers to you. Fail to comply with this second warning, we will be moving for a mute on your account in the RMB.

I hope that this is clear to you, since RP is not allow by the Rules of the European RMB.

Best Regards,
Second Deputy Commissioner NorthPortugal

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What he said.

Anyway, Harry Potter is MID

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Puzakistan wrote:- Palpatine's Snap -

We have been clear that all type of RP, including this phrase of yours, is not allow in the RMB!

Now, we ask you with kind to respect the rules and respect the warnings of the Commissioners.

Rary, Libertandonien, Kanokla, Eco-Paris Reformation, and 2 othersBerlin and Hanover, and Kirim tatarlari

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Yahlia wrote:You know it’s true. It’s full of plot holes and unbelievable world building, it encourages a system of education that’s damaging for children, and millennials have another psuedo-astrological personality classifier that they still base their existence on a decade later

Shaun has an excellent review on the series on YouTube that I recommend you watch. Poliet maybe not so much.

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I think he's just memeing

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Yahlia wrote:You know it’s true. It’s full of plot holes and unbelievable world building, it encourages a system of education that’s damaging for children, and millennials have another psuedo-astrological personality classifier that they still base their existence on a decade later

I can’t believe what I’m hearing smh 😤

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Hermione gets mocked in the books for opposing slavery and now that she's canonically black I think J.K should reconsider rewriting the whole thing

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Laver Island wrote:Oi, you have 24 hours to correct this grave mistake or shall we mention you in another post that reminds you that you missed

If it happens again, we will haul you into the European Correctional Court and bring you in front of our great lord and savior Yahlia

South St Maarten wrote:

The fundamental problem right now with having private rail systems is that they are responsible for all of the infrastructure between termini.

Take a man making a trip in a car, plane, or ship from Chicago to New Orleans in 1960

Chicago ----- (federally-funded highway) ----- New Orleans
Chicago ----- (air) ----- New Orleans
Chicago ------ (water) ----- New Orleans

Now look at a privately ran passenger train (Illinois Central, in this case)

Chicago ----- (thousands of miles of right-of-way) ----- New Orleans

Today Amtrak is a nationalized system, as VIA is in Canada, but other than a select few lines (northeast corridor, western michigan, etc.) they mainly run on the tracks that are owned by Class 1 freight railroads. These railroads, however, are responsible for the damage that trains eventually do to the tracks themselves, never mind the signals, bridges, switches, and tunnels too. Passenger train travel, in both long and short distances, will rarely be enough to cover its allocated costs so long as someone is responsible for the maintenance of the infrastructure on which it runs.

Additionally many freight railroads are able to alleviate their losses by consolidating trains; however, for passenger travel, it has been proven that frequency is extremely valuable to stimulating and maintaining ridership.

Railroad abandonment and a rebound in freight after the passing of the Staggers Act have also left many remaining corridors congested and therefore not applicable for increased service.

Finally, until 1971, many freight railroads held on to the passenger trains they did for one of two reasons:

+ They provided good press & attracted shippers for the company
+ They (until 1968) were sometimes able to be profitable due to US Mail Shipments that provided good revenue for even local trains

Today, freight railroads get neither of those benefits from Amtrak service, and thus, due to the aforementioned reasons, the holders and maintainers of the infrastructure on which most intercity passenger trains run are not supportive of large service-expansions

To me, The situation is backwards

We have federal and state entities running on trackage owned by private companies. This is the opposite of road, water, and air, where private companies haul passengers on federally-maintained (or free) passages. If you really want to make passenger train travel popular (which is important due to climate change, etc. you know the reasons) the thing to do is to make the tracks and the stations themselves public, and then have private companies run services on them.

Now, look at this situation:

Bob wants to start a passenger transportation company that takes travelers from Atlanta to Richmond. He has two options:
An Airline
A Railroad

But now, in both cases, Bob's major costs revolve around the vehicles themselves (fuel, vehicle maintenance, style, etc.) but not the infrastructure between it (the air or the tracks) nor the terminals (an airport or station) other than fees needed to operate there.

Now, it is plain to see that the case for a railroad looks much more feasible because of this, and the same goes for many medium-distance journeys. Of course, it would help to have European-style town centers instead of suburban sprawl, worse highway infrastructure, bike lanes, and more TOD, but I digress. We've got to start somewhere.

You definitely touch up on some very good points. One of the biggest problems with Amtrak is that (with the exception of the Northeast Corridor) almost all tracks are owned by freight companies. This means that freight trains are prioritized on these tracks, causing large delays and making the services less appealing to passengers, hurting profit. Despite the fact that the government spends tons of money on highways every year, I feel like Amtrak is put into a cycle of endless financial woes. One of the problems with Amtrak is that they’re caught between a rock and a hard place: many of their routes lose the company tons of money, but they can’t cut those routes, or they risk losing state funding. This in turn causes Congress to get upset about the fact that Amtrak is losing money, so they tighten funding. This creates a number of issues, such as maintenance, which keep the cycle going. Thankfully, with the infrastructure bill, Amtrak is finally getting the funding it deserves. Amtrak is also moving to cut a lot of their less profitable routes, which can help their financial woes a lot. (Wendover Productions has a good video about this!). It is definitely exciting to see that Amtrak is improving though - they’ve been replacing a lot of older trains with newer trains, updating infrastructure, etc. I’m certainly looking forward to see more improvement in the future!

One more thing - what are your thoughts on the increase in private rail in the country? We’re already seeing some private operators - such as Brightline - as well as numerous initiatives such as the Texas Central Railway promising to bring new [high-spped] rail services to the country. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts!

South St Maarten wrote:Even in US it depends, I take the train every day into work in NYC, but if you mean high-speed I take the Acela to Washington or Boston for work or pleasure quite frequently too, the other Amtraks I have done for fun but on vacation only.

What is the Acela like? I’m planning on taking it to NYC in the summer :)

Laver Island wrote:I don't think I could ever become a politician lol. In DK we have a tradition of making the last yearly parliamentary debate into a marathon debate that can last hours, and this year it was 14 hours 😩 Imagine showing at 9 and then debate until 23

My new head cannon: Denmark is secretly Donkey Kong country

Laver Island wrote:Hermione gets mocked in the books for opposing slavery and now that she's canonically black I think J.K should reconsider rewriting the whole thing

But Laver, you see, they like being slaves
Except the one that is mental 🙃🙃🙃

Tbf I love(d) HP, it was a magical (heh) thing to grow up with but JK truly ruined it

I don't agree the books are badly written, though

The New Nordic Union wrote:But Laver, you see, they like being slaves
Except the one that is mental 🙃🙃🙃

Tbf I love(d) HP, it was a magical (heh) thing to grow up with but JK truly ruined it

I don't agree the books are badly written, though

I think the thing that makes HP so special is not the writing, nor the plot, but the world that it takes place in. The Wizarding World is really cool, and all the different elements (my favorite is the Ministry of Magic :P ) make the series very unique. Other than that, it's not very special - there are way better books out there.

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The New Nordic Union wrote:But Laver, you see, they like being slaves
Except the one that is mental 🙃🙃🙃

Tbf I love(d) HP, it was a magical (heh) thing to grow up with but JK truly ruined it

I don't agree the books are badly written, though

I wouldn’t say badly written, but I think it’s fair to say it tried so hard to be wondrous to children (successfully) that it leaves a world that doesn’t make sense. Like the Felix Felicis luck potion, I don’t care how hard it is to make, that stuff would be mass produced.

The Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth wrote:I can’t believe what I’m hearing smh 😤

“They hates Jesus because he told them the truth”

The New Nordic Union wrote:But Laver, you see, they like being slaves
Except the one that is mental 🙃🙃🙃

Tbf I love(d) HP, it was a magical (heh) thing to grow up with but JK truly ruined it

I don't agree the books are badly written, though

Yeah J.K really ruined it, I think the fandom has identified numerous (some tone deaf) issues like Hermione getting mocked for anti-slavery while also being black

Yahlia wrote:I wouldn’t say badly written, but I think it’s fair to say it tried so hard to be wondrous to children (successfully) that it leaves a world that doesn’t make sense. Like the Felix Felicis luck potion, I don’t care how hard it is to make, that stuff would be mass produced.

I don't like searching for 'plotholes' like this. Might not even be one, maybe it's limited by some natural resource or another? But then again, I was always a fan of my magic being on the softer side - if everything is logical, it's not magic anymore

Like, for example, KKC. Their sympathy is a great concept and it's beautifully explained, but I wouldn't call it magic. Similarly the small science of the Grisha - they even call it a science because they don't want it to be magic;)

Yahlia wrote:I wouldn’t say badly written, but I think it’s fair to say it tried so hard to be wondrous to children (successfully) that it leaves a world that doesn’t make sense. Like the Felix Felicis luck potion, I don’t care how hard it is to make, that stuff would be mass produced.

There are lots of things irl that can’t be mass produced though. And the magic world in Harry Potter also seems to be slow when it comes to adopting new technologies, evident by the fact that owls are the primary means of communication over long distance. So it’s not a stretch to think that the industrial capacity needed to produce potions en masse just aren’t present.

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