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A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 164 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This kid just got 10k for saying rail infrastructure is failing due to a lack of maintenance. Specifically the springs at junctions. The main failing here in the US though is that rail maintenance falls to rail companies that have little financial incentive to spend the money on safety. That may be changing, however if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/fact-sheet-rail-safety

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-us-rail-system-works

https://www.publicrailnow.org/site/assets/files/1036/putting_america_back_on_track_final_6-30-24_single_pages.pdf

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 145 points 3 weeks ago

The main failing here in the US though is that rail maintenance falls to rail companies that have little financial incentives to spend the money on safety. That may be changing, however if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

Sounds almost as if critical infrastructure should be owned by the public.

[-] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 62 points 3 weeks ago

But that stinks of communism, doesn't it... 😄

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 18 points 2 weeks ago

I can't wait until Mccarthy has his final death and nobody remembers him anymore...

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

Need to remember the bastards to remember to piss on their graves.

Much as I understand your sentiment, I think it's important to remember the people who did horrible things like McCarthy, and use him as a warning to our younger generations who didn't see the problems they created.

You know, and the grave pissing.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks to how history is being recorded, there's no chance that he will be forgotten until civilization collapses.

I wouldn't want history to actually forget any shitty person (or good person) because that makes it way easier for someone with similar ideals to take power again.

It's more the sentiment.

I have a metaphorical bucket of piss just for Margaret Thatcher. ^26+6=1^

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Given that you yourself are remembering him, you can't wait until you die / have dementia?

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 19 points 2 weeks ago

Life is one endless torment after another, soooooooo.......

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