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(He/him) Marxist-Leninist and amateur writer. I like cats, foxes, sci-fi, science fantasy, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Message me for my roleplay ideas!

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Do you seriously think a community called “fuck cars” is trying to defend gasoline cars over EVs? This is a public transportation gang good sir, madam, or otherwise.

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It also destroys the very infrastructure that it’s trying to clear snow from. We eventually need to recognize that rubber wheels on asphalt simply isn’t a very efficient or durable method of moving large amounts of stuff long distances. Steel on steel is superior in both efficiency and longevity.

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Which is why the real solution is PUBLIC transit, not private motor vehicle ownership of any kind beyond small electric personal mobility like an e-bike or scooter.

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So can transit vehicles, in fact they last even longer so I don’t see this as an advantage for EVs. In Vancouver, Canada for example, there are fully self-driving electric trains from the 80s that are still running perfectly fine today, and the only reason they’re getting scrapped soon is because they’re loud and uncomfortable compared to newer trains, which even then I personally don’t like the transit agency’s decision to scrap them because that’s super wasteful, they could probably run another 40 years with good maintenance.

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Except EVs still have a significant carbon footprint from their manufacture. So do train cars and buses, but to transport everyone in cars instead of public transportation would require orders of magnitude more materials, and therefore a much higher carbon footprint. Not to mention the poor land use that car dependency causes, which both leads to deforestation and impedes reforestation, which is a further climate change contributor.

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Road-rail vehicles are totally a thing! Mostly for doing inspection and maintenance on rail corridors.

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The US has in fact shrunk down to the size of Europe which has excellent public transportation.

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Good design is good design.

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Also, a surprising number of people don’t know that precentages are more often than not represented as decimals between 0 and 1 as opposed to actually a number out of 100 when used in calculations (because the concept of a percent doesn’t really exist in math, it’s just a context specific way of formatting a decimal). A lot of people just enter 69 when calculating a formula that operates on a precentage instead of 0.69 which obviously makes the formula useless, or if a formula is supposed to output a precentage, they assume that it output 0.69 percent instead of 69 percent.

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Close in second: The guy who tried to ban alcohol in America

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But even with more modern methods like cladistics and genetic analysis, birds are still found to be directly descended from contemporary dinosaurs.

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That’s not “science,” that’s just an arbitrary convention that can help simplify communication of complex toppics. The genetic data that the convention is derived from is the science, in the form of a lineage of genetic relations between organisms and nothing else, because biology has exactly zero built-in categories or labels, and those are all human-made.

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IIRC the current theory is that many (likely most) had feathers but few of the large ones had actual wings beyond just a row of longer feathers on the forearms. The bodily structures that allow flight are absent on the vast majority of dinosaurs so it’s thought they mostly used their arm feathers as rudders for better control when running (which the ostrich and other large flightless birds still use). However, it is thought that some smaller species likely did have wings which they used to glide much like a flying squirrel. Eventually they evolved larger chest muscles and a keel for attaching said large muscles, and at that point you could reasonably just call them birds, which are to this day a subset of dinosaurs.

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He lives in the back of a cyanide factory and in his drunken stupor accidentally hit the emergency release switch instead.

HiddenLayer5,
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Pumpkin is the bouncer at the corn and bean club

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With a light dusting of racism.

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    The first verifiable use of singular they for when the gender is unknown was in a novel some 100 years ago. The concept of ‘they’ as a personal pronoun was only developed in the latter half of the last century in the UK and has only been formally taught there for about three decades.

    Shakespeare used the singular they in his works. itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/…/002748.html

    I think I would prefer two new sets of pronouns: one for when the gender is unknown, and another as personal pronouns other than he/she.

    One could also think of they as that new pronoun. A lot of languages reuse sounds (including English) even in fairly common grammar components so one could think of this as a new word with a familiar sound assigned to it.

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    “But it’s not proper English grammar!”

    It’s not? Shakespeare used it and last I heard that dude had a pretty good command of the English language.

    “But it’s not how it was used traditionally!”

    So what? What is a human language if not fluid and constantly evolving? Language should reflect culture and social ideals, and our culture is rapidly shifting toward things like gender inclusively and social justice. When was the last time you used Æ or Þ?

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    I don’t know if French still does it that way, but in high school French class we were taught to use il (he) for gender neutral. Basically everyone (English native class) thought it was super sexist. The teacher basically explained it as “languages are all really old so they retain a lot of obsolete ideals.” IMO that’s not really an excuse for keeping those obsolete parts.

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    Also, you know what else goes comically over budget and over time? Car infrastructure projects! But when talking about highways it’s “an investment for the country’s mobility and ultimately its economy” yet with trains it’s “a pointless money sink that will never succeed due to this one very commonly experienced setback.”

    (Full disclosure I’m not in the UK, I’m annoyed at him for the people there too, especially since their politicians’ attitudes toward high speed rail seem pretty similar to attitudes in Canada where I am.)

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    I’ve legit heard people say things along the lines of “The largest SUV or trucks are safer for Americans because it can hold up better in a collision with deer which we have a lot of.” (Because apparently large wildlife aren’t common anywhere at all in the rest of the world.)

    They have a point though, and they’ll hold up especially well against a specific, extremely common subspecies of deer called “humans.”

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    Oversized and/or overpriced cars owned by men are also often referred to as “compensators.”

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    Nah, because that would involve the slightest reduction in personal freedom which as we all know is a fate not only worse than death, but worse than hellfire itself.

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    Also makes your skin feel tight and dry as it draws out water, and can even cause it to crack.

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    For a holistic home remedy, rub garlic on a wound to immediately intensify the pain.

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