I did a little digging and it seems like there’s a tiny kernel of fact at the core of this giant turd of a hype-piece, and that is the fact that they electrified this little spur line from Berlin to the new German Tesla factory by using a battery-electric trainset. Which is not a terrible solution for electrifying a very short branch line that presumably doesn’t need frequent all-day service, even if it’s a bit of a janky approach compared to overhead lines. But hand that off to the overworked, underpaid twenty-two-year old gig worker they’ve got doing “editing” at Yahoo for two bucks an article, and I guess it turns into “world-first electric wonder train amazes!”
For a second, though, I read the headline and wondered if Musk and co. had finally looped all the way around to reinventing commuter rail from first principles after all these years of trying to “disrupt” it with bullshit ideas like Hyperloop and Tunnels, But Dumber, And With A Marketing Department.
Greg@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah, it’s not all electric, some of the train is just regular matter
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Wait until you learn how molecular bonds work…
endlessvoid@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Sure that part’s electric, but what about the bonds keeping the quarks of the train together?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t respond to this @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub, he’s trying to get your grand unified theory before you publish.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
this is the internet I don’t learn
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The founding principle behind chatGPT.
az04@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You could learn this internet if you decided to.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So it does matter?