:train-shining: :xi-clap:

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Chinese engineers are actually incredibly good at what they do, the west has some serious brain rot- and imports basically all its talent

    • W_Hexa_W
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      11 months ago

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      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Imagining a world of cooperation where the Cali HSR works hand in hand with China in order to bring in experience and economy of scale in order to speed up development and lower the costs

        :sicko-wistful:

      • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Half of Canada's population lives in a straight line 1000km from end to end (windsor-montreal) and we can't get a single HSR line across even a portion of this lmao

      • RedCoat [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The Sino craniometry is incapable of the free thought that enables innovation

      • GottaJiBooUrns [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        And they all are FORCED to work just to be able to make enough money to barely cover food and rent!

        Also, Xi PERSONALLY whips every single person who even thinks a negative thought about the CCP.

      • Juiceyb [any]
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        2 years ago

        Yo. There’s this r/science thread about China overtaking the US in terms of research papers and it was steering and coping with this.

    • buh [any]
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      2 years ago

      All american “engineers” know how to do is learn2code, eat soylent, and lie

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Noooo China just steals everything from blessed USA :wojak-nooo:

    • Lymbic_System [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The hard part for america is China is fully willing bascily fund your masters and PhD in a suprizing amount of fields. Give you multipul assistants and resources along with an insane salary for Chinas cost of living.

      • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's same story in a lot of places, parts of social reproduction have been pillaged to produce profits, and that fundamentally compromises the entire system.

        Northern EU gets tons of educated workers from southern Europe not because they don't produce them locally but because there's been basically no capital investment happening in southern Europe.

        That serves to lower the salaries in aggregate, and drains all the most productive workforce from countries, preventing them from ever really having a realistic financial independence.

    • PasswordRememberer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine living in a society where it's reasonable to believe the future will be better than the present

      Death to America

      • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        And WHAT are we being forced to sacrifice so much for, anyways?

        For billionaires to spoil themselves even more?! For white CHUDs to be babied so they can feel better about themselves?

  • buh [any]
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    2 years ago

    :geordi-no: flying cars

    :geordi-yes: flying trains

  • homhom9000 [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I took an engineering class in high school where we built mock maglev hotwheels and had to race each other. I thought it was the coolest thing and couldn't wait for the future where that would be our transportation source. Turns out the future is in China

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    "F*cking magnets! How do they work?"

    :floppy-parrot:

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      2 years ago

      US: Thinks about maybe building tunnels in some decades.

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have no idea how practical or cost efficient this is but it's cool as hell and I want to ride it. :comfy-cool:

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Gadgetbahn: :geordi-no:

    Gadgetbahn, China: :geordi-yes:

    Only you can prevent gadgetbahn fixation. I would say “just build a train” but I really don’t need to because the PRC is actually pretty good at doing that.

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      wait what's the meta on gadgetbahns these days? I don't really see what's wrong with this because even if it's impractical or limited in other ways it's still an engineering achievement that advances China's technical capabilities in ways that might be hard to see right now.

      EDIT: No creativity allowed if you're an engineer. Only do things already proven to work. No innovation, only work. Like, what? Maybe I'm being dense. Help me out here, please.

      • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        reflexive anti-techbro-ism

        (it's cool shiny new tech so it must be bad)

      • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It’s a product that looks very high tech and fancy without offering any actual benefit over proven existing technology, usually for the purpose of convincing some small branch of the government to find some silly project.

        • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]M
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          2 years ago

          Yeah this gadgetbahn doesn't seem to be actively hindering construction of infrastructure at all.

      • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        This seems to be implemented positively in the one place its implemented, since it takes up so little space on the ground along with the energy efficiency thing. It seems needlessly cynical to just write it off as nothing but a novelty like one of those chairs that just hold themselves up with string.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Me before watching video: "Wait, aren't all maglevs floating in the air? Isn't that the whole point?"

    Me after watching video and realizing they meant suspending it from above: :xi-pog: :cmnd-marcos-pog: :isaac-pog: