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CW: California High Speed Rail + Wendover Productions Rant
I really like Wendover Productions, but the California High-Speed Rail: An Autopsy video he put out today is pissing me off.
Spoilers, but the conclusion it comes to is that California HSR is too ambitious and it failed to be pragmatic because it checks notes actually services people in the Central Valley. Based on the way the video started, I expected to think that the California HSR authority made a bunch of stupid decisions that drove the project costs up. By the end of it, all of the stupid decisions basically boiled down to, "It's going to service more people." Like. :neodog_what:
Just to go point-by-point:
- "It'll increase travel times between LA and San Francisco." So? Everyone deserves to have access to the line. People in LA and SF can sit on a train for an extra dozen minutes if it means tens of thousands of more people can use the line.
- "Putting it through downtown corridors is more expensive." That is incredibly short-term thinking. Americans have a plethora of park-and-ride rail systems that are failing because getting in your car in order to use a train is inconvenient and, frankly, fucking stupid. More people will use the network if it's more accessible, ultimately costing the project less in the long-term.
- "The costs are too high." California has a staggering gap between what it pays per-capita into the federal government vs what it gets back. If California wasn't being bled dry by failing red states it's forced to subsidize, it would have no problem paying for the rail project. The federal government needs to suck a big fat one and pony up to pay for it, because they owe it to the state at this point. It'd cost 10% of the pentagon's annual budget, which is less than the amount of money that disappears from the Pentagon's budget every year when it's audited. It's not too expensive.
I'm so tired of people doing autopsy videos on the California HSR project like it's somehow dead. It's not. It's being built, and it's being built (mostly) correctly.
#California #CaliforniaHSR #Rail #HighSpeedRail #Trains #WendoverProductions #Wendover
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New on the map: a King George V Wall Box in Wendover, Buckinghamshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/HP22-87 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #KingGeorgeV #WallBox #StandardRed #Wendover
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This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
This Saturday we have a wonderful festive winter walk around the beautiful Chiltern hills of Wendover.
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersgb #hiking #walking #wendover #hampshire #chilternhills #winterwonderland #winterwalking #santaclause #christmastime #wintersolsticecelebration -
We get lots of Trailing Bellfower in Swindon on the old walls, but this one caught my eye because it was growing from a wall at the Catholic/Baptist/URC church in #Wendover, #Buckinghamshire. Yes, that's an *extremely* rare set of denominations to be sharing a church building. The sharing arrangements include Catholic statues having cloths draped over them during Free Church services. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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Some plants from around #Wendover this weekend. Hairy Bittercress from my mother's garden path, Shining Cranesbill and Cowslip from a road verge and Yellow Corydalis from the shared church building that's either St Anne's RC church or Wendover Free Church depending on the time of day.
#WildflowerHour #Buckinghamshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography -
#Wendover has just released a worthy piece of video documentary on the #Arctic, with a title and focus on #Greenland.
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A Daisy. Because why not. On a road verge in #Wendover #Buckinghamshire just before Christmas. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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My first open catkins of next year - male Hazel catkins on 23 December in #Wendover, #Buckinghamshire. I did search for female flowers but not seemed to be out yet. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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Not actually in flower, and seen from a great distance, but I felt I had to share this Absolute Unit of a Mistletoe clump seen in #Wendover, #Buckinghamshire on Boxing Day. It's in a Beech tree which had its leaf buds still very tightly closed so this was the only greenery in the picture. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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One from today for #WildflowerHour - Mexican Fleabane. It grows wild in cracks in the paving at my mother's place in #Wendover. My late father panted its ancestor a couple of decades ago and it's fended for itself ever since. #Buckinghamshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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Just enjoyed my lunch while watching something that kind of feels strangely familiar...
What was it again...?
Meh... can't remember, but lunch is over, so I'd better get back to my desk!
...WHILE I STILL HAVE ONE!!! 😳🫣
#NorskTut #AllHeimen #Wendover #PrivateEquity #Job #Union #Fagforening #FFS
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Professionals talk logistics. #wendover
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Clematis for #WildflowerHour. On a walk round #Wendover #Buckinghamshire this morning before the weather deteriorated. There's loads of this in the hedges at the moment. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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My mother's garden in #Wendover, #Buckinghamshire, gets a whole better class of weeds than mine does, despite my large collection of dandelion-relatives. It helps that her garden backs onto some unmanaged woodland and the plants there see her garden as a sort of clearing to set up home in. Here are Nipplewort, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Herb Robert and Mexican Fleabane. Two woodland species, one urban and one garden escape. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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Not daisies, but Mexican Fleabane. My father planted one in a pot many years ago and now its descendants grow in cracks in the walls and paving around my mother's house. It's a plant that feels at home in the UK and escapes from gardens regularly. #WildflowerHour #Wendover #Buckinghamshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #plantscience #photography
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My mother's pride & joy is the climbing rose that grows over her seat in her garden. It's pretty spectacular, but it's long finished flowering for the year. So she was rather pleased when I found this interloper growing up the rose yesterday - Honeysuckle. #WildflowerHour #Wendover #Buckinghamshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #plantscience #photography
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Dollar Stores are destroying America (from Wendover):
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpUV--2Jao
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-dollar-stores-quietly-consumed-america/
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I like to listen to long-form video essays on YouTube while I'm doing jobs around the house. But Christ Almighty, the frequency of the ads lately has made it all but unbearable, so I've been using Nebula. I've been subscribing to it for a couple of years. It's run by and for creators, and it really shows. Here's the story of how they got started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM#Wendover #PhilosophyTube #NotJustBikes, #AnswersWithJoe, #JacobGeller #LindsayEllis #PhilosophyTube #TomNicholas
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A bluebell in #WeondoverWoods, #Wendover, #Buckinghamshire this morning. There were rather a lot of bluebells but this one wanted its portrait taken. #WildflowerHour #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #plantscience #photography
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Some vernacular architecture from the edge of the Chilterns.
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I like a lot of Nebula creators. If they had a Nebula instance they could benefit from sharing a consistent social platform and easy cross-discoverability. I was gonna just list a few but I just found all of them I regularly watch:
#Wendover, #NotJustBikes, #AdamNeely, #BrainCraft, #CityBeautiful, #LindsayEllis, #PhilosophyTube, and #TomNicholas
