San Francisco mass exodus

[Thermodolia]

Not sure on that one. Though they did have that look I have seen from some Japan shots. They were a real smooth ride. Once had a horrible flight and was exhausted. Could not stay awake. Luckily a conductor nudged me awake for my stop.

I’m talking g out the Texas project. European lines I think use European models. Been a while since I’ve been really into trains however.

The Texas Central Railway will be using Japanese bullet trains. As you could probably have figured out I’m a big fan of trains

[Saiwania]

I mean, if I had to choose between some dude on YouTube and the guy who just sent his roadster into orbit...

Sending his car into orbit is stupid. What end is accomplished? To simply say that he's the first person to do some odd milestone? When you do a deep analysis of the Hyper loop, it is a foolish and unworkable idea from every angle and by every metric measured.

Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire who has more money than he knows what to do with. He probably has many solid business plans but along with that are the stupid ideas that'll prove to be nothing but a money pit or disaster. This is one of them unfortunately. He should watch Thunderf00t's devastating debunk of the idea and if after doing a cost benefit analysis, if it is too impractical to engineer effectively as to get past every concern- it'd be wise for him to just shelve that idea.

[Sovaal]

I’m talking g out the Texas project. European lines I think use European models. Been a while since I’ve been really into trains however.

The Texas Central Railway will be using Japanese bullet trains. As you could probably have figured out I’m a big fan of trains

ITs been a while for me. Guns and to a lesser but growing extent dinosaurs take up more of my interest.

[Hakons]

*luxury

And no it isn't.

Yes it is. Its a problem in many major cities all they build is luxury apartments that the average person can't afford unless they make 50,000 or more and even that is stretch. Its like they want housing to be for the rich only. There ought to be limits on what you can charge for rent and if that's anti capitalist i really don't care.

It's not just anti-capitalist to support rent controls, it's actively against the interests of the lower income groups. When rent prices are artificially suppressed, it simply isn't profitable to maintain or create new moderate/low income housing. Eventually the rent controls cause the cost of upkeep to overtake the rent income. Landlords would be better off by letting the rent controlled houses lay vacant and decaying than have them occupied by low income residents (as we have seen in places with rent controls). Some landlords get around this by charging an upfront fee when a resident moves in, in order to offset losses from the rent controls. This has the effect of pricing out low income residents who can't afford the upfront fee. The upfront fee, mind you, that is created by the rent control. The rent controls go further by discouraging the construction of new housing. It isn't profitable to create new housing when the prospective revenues for those apartments are low at best and in the negative at worst. Discouraging housing construction would further aggravate a shortage.

In the long run, rent controls create a perpetual housing shortage that further drives up prices in non-controlled buildings and destroys the rent controlled apartments.

[Corrian]

The Texas Central Railway will be using Japanese bullet trains. As you could probably have figured out I’m a big fan of trains

ITs been a while for me. Guns and to a lesser but growing extent dinosaurs take up more of my interest.

I used to have a train calendar....

I mean, if I had to choose between some dude on YouTube and the guy who just sent his roadster into orbit...

Sending his car into orbit is stupid. What end is accomplished? To simply say that he's the first person to do some odd milestone? When you do a deep analysis of the Hyper loop, it is a foolish and unworkable idea from every angle and by every metric measured.

Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire who has more money that he knows what to do with. He probably has many solid business plans but along with that are the stupid ideas that'll prove to be nothing but a money pit or disaster. This is one of them unfortunately. He should watch Thunderf00t's devastating debunk of the idea and if after doing a cost benefit analysis, if it is too impractical to engineer effectively as to get past every concern- it'd be wise for him to just shelve that idea.

Because he wanted to. And why not? He was testing the rocket anyway.

[The Black Forrest]

I mean, if I had to choose between some dude on YouTube and the guy who just sent his roadster into orbit...

Sending his car into orbit is stupid. What end is accomplished? To simply say that he's the first person to do some odd milestone? When you do a deep analysis of the Hyper loop, it is a foolish and unworkable idea from every angle and by every metric measured.

Stupid? *shrugs* Why not? They had to test the rocket so what the hell? It was a great Heavy Metal moment.

[Cannot think of a name]

I mean, if I had to choose between some dude on YouTube and the guy who just sent his roadster into orbit...

Sending his car into orbit is stupid. What end is accomplished?

Provide a disposable payload for a test launch of an experimental heavy rocket with reusable boosters that’s currently the most powerful in the world? Oh, I’m sorry, you were trying to be rhetorical.

To simply say that he's the first person to do some odd milestone? When you do a deep analysis of the Hyper loop, it is a foolish and unworkable idea from every angle and by every metric measured.

Well, you wouldn’t be able to put that on the internet if it weren’t true, so I’m sold!

Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire who has more money that he knows what to do with. He probably has many solid business plans but along with that are the stupid ideas that'll prove to be nothing but a money pit or disaster. This is one of them unfortunately. He should watch Thunderf00t's devastating debunk of the idea and if after doing a cost benefit analysis, if it is too impractical to engineer effectively as to get past every concern- it'd be wise for him to just shelve that idea.

All the best advancements in the world go through guys with names that use zeros for o’s.

[Corrian]

And he was remarkably successful ON THE FIRST TRY. Even he was shocked it didn't just blow up.

[Grand Britannia]

I’m talking g out the Texas project. European lines I think use European models. Been a while since I’ve been really into trains however.

The Texas Central Railway will be using Japanese bullet trains. As you could probably have figured out I’m a big fan of trains

Yes, that explains why the shilling for the impractical kind in the US.

[The Parkus Empire]

There are plenty of states shittier than California.

Including all the Republican ones.

They all have higher unemployment and crime than Cali?

No

[Grand Britannia]

Including all the Republican ones.

They all have higher unemployment and crime than Cali?

No

It's only ok to hate and stereotype red states, please don't criticize blue states.

[Sovaal]

Including all the Republican ones.

They all have higher unemployment and crime than Cali?

No

Just remember, it’s only bad to make fun of an entire state when conservatives do it.

[Corrian]

The Texas Central Railway will be using Japanese bullet trains. As you could probably have figured out I’m a big fan of trains

Yes, that explains why the shilling for the impractical kind in the US.

Except they aren't impractical if done, as Therm has mentioned a million times already, just between certain cities.

[Cannot think of a name]

Including all the Republican ones.

They all have higher unemployment and crime than Cali?

No

Surely these are knowable things that are readily available and you guys can skip to the end and provide that.

[Ethel mermania]

Opps. Sorry. Hope it works. I used the ones in France and they were amazing.

If I remover correctly they bought rights to used Japanese designed trains.

That schedule is aweful agressive, and they don't have funding lined up for it. The wiki article doesn't have a cost estimate.

[Corrian]

Including all the Republican ones.

They all have higher unemployment and crime than Cali?

No

Most states with the highest crime rates are in fact Republican states

Unemployment appears mixed

Also, California has a very average unemployment rate. Like the national average.

[Saiwania]

They all have higher unemployment and crime than Cali? No

Blue states tend to have a higher GDP per capita than many of the red states. Which must mean that their standard of living is higher.

[Ethel mermania]

I mean, if I had to choose between some dude on YouTube and the guy who just sent his roadster into orbit...

Sending his car into orbit is stupid. What end is accomplished? To simply say that he's the first person to do some odd milestone? When you do a deep analysis of the Hyper loop, it is a foolish and unworkable idea from every angle and by every metric measured.

Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire who has more money than he knows what to do with. He probably has many solid business plans but along with that are the stupid ideas that'll prove to be nothing but a money pit or disaster. This is one of them unfortunately. He should watch Thunderf00t's devastating debunk of the idea and if after doing a cost benefit analysis, if it is too impractical to engineer effectively as to get past every concern- it'd be wise for him to just shelve that idea.

Sending his car in orbit was fucking genius, he was on the cover of every major newspaper in the world that day.

That said I have no comment on the hyperloop feasibility

[The Corparation]

Not surprised. I've met people with 100k a year salaries in the bay area who had issues with affording a place even remotely close to their work. Its not surprising people are finding it not worth the expense of living there anymore.

But that would Ben about it, maybe a couple lines connecting it to the north east. Anything west of St. Louis is goin g to be too out of the way.

Oh ya. And nobody is advocating for that. You will probably have every big city east of the Mississippi, including Texas, connected by high-speed rail.

And then parts of the west coast will have high speed rail. Everything else will be airplanes. In the future 3-6 hour car trips will probably be replaced with high speed rail.

The US is not getting widepsread high speed rail like that anytime soon. Its been a hard sell in California and I'm skeptical of other states' ability to pay for lines. We all know that the Federal government isn't going to pony up enough cash to pay for them and not every state can afford to offer up nearly 10 billion in bonds.


EDIT: Also regarding Hyperloop, it starts to make a lot more sense once if you look at it not as a company but as a recruiting contest for Space-X engineers. Elon knows he's not going to be building the things on any large scale but damn if he isn't getting a lot of college students who want to work at space-x demonstrating their practical engineering skills.

[Sovaal]

If I remover correctly they bought rights to used Japanese designed trains.

That schedule is aweful agressive, and they don't have funding lined up for it. The wiki article doesn't have a cost estimate.

Eh, in general I think trains for passengers are just impractical in North America.

[Berdan]

I mean, if I had to choose between some dude on YouTube and the guy who just sent his roadster into orbit...

Sending his car into orbit is stupid. What end is accomplished? To simply say that he's the first person to do some odd milestone? When you do a deep analysis of the Hyper loop, it is a foolish and unworkable idea from every angle and by every metric measured.

Elon Musk is an eccentric billionaire who has more money than he knows what to do with. He probably has many solid business plans but along with that are the stupid ideas that'll prove to be nothing but a money pit or disaster. This is one of them unfortunately. He should watch Thunderf00t's devastating debunk of the idea and if after doing a cost benefit analysis, if it is too impractical to engineer effectively as to get past every concern- it'd be wise for him to just shelve that idea.

He needed a heavy disposable payload and sending his car up into space not only gave him that payload, but also got his projects an extreme amount of free advertising and publicity, which will also factor into government contracts and people buying Tesla's.

[Finswedeway]

That schedule is aweful agressive, and they don't have funding lined up for it. The wiki article doesn't have a cost estimate.

Eh, in general I think trains for passengers are just impractical in North America.

People forget just how big the US is, especially compared to European countries

[The Rich Port]

I have noticed this goofy ass trend in a lot of cities.

Everybody moves to the ghetto because it's trendy, and then the ghetto becomes the rich neighborhood.

The ghetto inhabitants move out to where the rent is cheap, and that then becomes the new ghetto.

And then the rich people move to THAT ghetto and the cycle repeats itself.

My point is, rich people are clearly the main vectors of crime.

[Finswedeway]

I have noticed this goofy ass trend in a lot of cities.

Everybody moves to the ghetto because it's trendy, and then the ghetto becomes the rich neighborhood.

The ghetto inhabitants move out to where the rent is cheap, and that then becomes the new ghetto.

And then the rich people move to THAT ghetto and the cycle repeats itself.

My point is, rich people are clearly the main vectors of crime.

Trends are the foundation of economics, so not much of a surprise there

[Kramanica]

Careful not to step in shit.

Fox

And?