If he left and sold all his property, then that would’ve been great, but there’s nothing here that says he’s sold shit. He’s only moved his legal residency to Monaco.

We still need a #WealthTax

Rule 1 of talking on the internet: assume your interlocutor is an idiot.

The EU better step in and tell Goolag to fuck off with their anti-competitive bullshit.

“sideloading guardrails”. Call it what it is “anti-competitive installation prevention”.

That’s exactly what I said 🙄

“I can neglect my kids and chase my dreams”. Sure, we could all do that, but would you have happy kids or a good relationship with them?

Plus, I mentioned one of my activities. Not all of them.

Part of a political party that is for a #WealthTax. They haven’t joined the fediverse yet, but I’m trying to convince them. And physical, political activism is part of the activities.

Not sure it’s something to get jealous of, people aren’t necessarily nice when you talk about taxes, but sometimes their eyes light up when they understand and that’s the joy of doing it.

Fuel is subsidised, health effects of pollution from cars in all forms is simply ignored and left for individuals and society to pay for like second hand smoke, roads are also heavily subsidised. Drivers are paying nowhere near their fair share.

Billions for AI, pennies for public transport and people.

Fully aware and taking advantage of it. A previous colleague asked me “just what are you doing with your time that you can’t make time for kids?” It was very difficult not to laugh out loud. When I ran down the list of activities and projects I was working on, it looked like they had died inside a little. The response was a meek “oh… I see”.

Who knows, maybe the response was an “poor guy, doesn’t know what it is to be happy with kids” or “I wish I had that sort of time”. Regardless, I’m enjoying my free time. Especially travelling off season and outside of the school holidays… you can definitely put a price on that.

What kind of sickness do you call what it is he has contracted from social media?

Fuck De Beer

USAians will make train porn, won’t they?

Haven’t you heard? USA good, China bad. So say the media, so you must say.

Honestly, things would be indeed way better if guys who are insecure of their dicks just got penis enhancement and sucked themselves off. The world would be much better off not having to deal with cars running over kids or people road-raging.

Sounds like a tasty dish. Dough with a tasty filling.

The problem is that planes are heavily subsidised. If those subsidies were just removed, train would be the cheaper option. If the subsidies were shifted to rail, buses, and bikes, things would be much cheaper.

There’s a reason these trains are max 350km/h. Its simply infeasible to build and maintain the track and the train that runs 500kmh.

Where are you getting this information from? I’d like a source. It sounds interesting. Would fit really well into an episode of “Real Engineering” or something.

Username fits perfectly.

Yes, just yes

Since the 1955 record, where France recorded a world record of speed of 331 km/h, France has nearly continuously held the absolute world speed record. The latest record is held by a TGV POS trainset, which reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) in 2007, on the newly constructed LGV Est high-speed line. This run was for proof of concept and engineering, not to test normal passenger service.

That’s the record.

As of 2022, the fastest trains currently in commercial operation are:

1. CR400AF/KCIC400AF, CR400BF: 350 km/h (220 mph) (in China and Indonesia)
2. TGV Duplex, TGV Réseau, TGV POS, TGV Euroduplex: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France)
3. Eurostar e320: 320 km/h (200 mph) (in France and United Kingdom)

The are current trains.

A direct train on straight track in the land of the lack of regulation could easily have a 500km/h average on a separate line. The US could be *plastered with train tracks making train travel much more convenient that a plane.