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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so infinite Yuan is a hyperbole, but for something so relatively cheap and so massively beneficial as rail, profitability really doesn’t matter. China has more than enough resources and influence to eat the cost now and reap the benefits for the next century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue we didn’t fully understand the theory of electricity until we understood the atomic structures of metals and semiconductors, and that was properly developed in the early 20th century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When was this written?

  Given it has a color photo attached to it, it was definitely published when we already understood the theory of electricity really well, so it doesn’t get a pass.

  We don’t know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are

  I’d argue that for fundamental forces, “what they are” and “what they do” is the same, by definition.

  And in any case, mains supply in your home is not just electromagnetic waves vibing around, it’s electrons engineered to move through wires in very specific ways, transferring power from a moving magnet or (increasingly) a photon falling on a semiconductor junction, to move another magnet, heat up some metal, or (increasingly) bounce around some electrons between some semiconductor junctions and then emit photons from other semiconductors junctions.

  Finally, most of the text is bullshit even if you don’t think we know what fundamental forces “are”:

  No one has ever felt it

  You can easily feel electric discharge. Just rub your hair on some wool.

  No one has ever heard it

  Just be around a thunderstorm. Thunder is the sound of an electric discharge.

  We cannot even say where electricity comes from

  You can see where the energy that moved the electrons in your wires came from: app.electricitymaps.com

  It was written by a complete and utter buffoon, and it can’t be redeemed with any amount of handwaving or philosophizing over what it means to “know” or what things “are”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they wasted money on building HSR on a lot of places where it’s not needed

  There’s no such thing as “HSR where it’s not needed”, especially in a country that’s building housing at an insane pace. Each HSR station will just get a city built around it (hopefully not a car-dependent hellhole) and people will flock there.

  this means there’s gonna be a debt that never gets paid by the utilization of the rail. Bad investment.

  Chinese government can print an infinite amount of Yuan out of thin air. They don’t care about internal debts, what they do care about is popularity among their people, and “build more HSR” is a really popular policy in China because it obviously and immediately improves quality of life for loads of people.

  Thinking about everything in terms of “profit motive” is exactly why the US is the way it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I’ve been a vegan for long enough that I don’t remember the names for all the animal bits, even in my native tongue let alone english :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The really offensive part is having >2 liters of milk, per person, in a work fridge. What the fuck do you need so much for? I bet that fridge smells like a mix of spoiled milk and utter distrust for other human beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sitting and shitting on my high horse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Upon further inspection, it’s almost definitely AI. Look at the better-quality original: in.pinterest.com/pin/937874691150982659/

  In particular, note the nonsensical reflection in the mirror (which is inexplicably placed on the floor?), weird toilet paper roll, and half-unicorn horn half-third ear thing sticking out from the head.

  And if you check out that Pinterest account, it’s full of AI-generated crap too.

  Which mostly just demonstrates how good the AI has become, to the point where if you scale down the image somewhat, it fools humans and AI detectors alike.