They seriously named it Whoosh?
I love it.
Anytime there's a disapproval of the name they can just whoosh them for missing the joke.
what's wrong?
It's a bit silly for an official name for a train line. I like it, don't get me wrong, but an interesting choice.
Whoosh...
The ticket is ~$13, and it'll turn a 2 hours drive through a toll road (or more if there's a traffic jam, inside the toll road, which happen surprisingly often) that cost ~$7 for the toll alone into 40 minutes journey. So yeah, it's no brainer to use instead of cars if you don't need to carry too much stuff.
Even luggage is probably easier on the train lol
Unless you are moving or going to the middle of nowhere, you can easily fit half a week (if not a week) of essentials items in a backpack.
Ah the average American who always moves to the middle of nowhere half way across the continent carrying heavy equipment daily.
Sure, but Hyperloop could have carried 10x more people at 1/10th the price and for less energy than it takes to flip a quarter. And we can do it today.
Not sure if sarcastic...
Have things gotten that bad that you can’t tell if that was sarcastic?
Shit.
you sound like a tesla bro, so we really can't tell.
I honestly thought it was so far over the top that it’d be obvious. I will have to start including the /s
Have you met a tesla bro? I know one guy who insists Tesla's are the best cars ever made. You can hear him driving in a mile down the road from the body work whistling like a stuka siren.
I have bought drinks for Tesla engineers and have known that they were a terrible company with spit and chewing gum holding them together for years now. I think the point that broke Elon’s brain was the Model 3 shitstorm that could have cost him almost everything. I believe he admitted to Kara Swisher that he was sleeping at his desk for half an hour per night for weeks on end because of the amount of speed he was doing. He was always an asshole, but it was after that incident that he just went completely unhinged.
he was always uhinged, though. what changed was the PR filter that kept him looking like a genius.
It really should be taken as way over the top, but with shit like this said all the time without an ounce of irony... It was impossible to tell
Given that things like tone that are normally used to show sarcasm dont show through text, the only way if one doesnt explicitly state something to be sarcasm to tell if something written is sarcastic is if the statement seems so absurd or obviously wrong that nobody could seriously believe it. However, people have a seemingly limitless capacity to believe things that are factually untrue, and what is and is not absurd is to some extent in the eye of the beholder, so ultimately, one should not be surprised if one's written sarcasm is taken seriously, if you dont include some kind of signifier to replace the cues normally given in speech.
People took A Modest Proposal seriously, both when it was written, and when we read it in English class.
Are...are we not eating children? Hold on, I need to make a few phone calls...
The passenger volume, cost, and build-it-today claims are I think in line with theirs. The only outlier is the energy claim, which is so absurdly false that it falls into puffery (think 'red bull gives you wings') and is again believable.
It's clear HSR costs, and infrastructure in general, are getting out of control in the English-speaking world. It's not clear how to fix this, but moving from proven and understood technology to Muppet technology doesn't seem to be a good option.
:(
Okay, where is this hyperloop?
The real Hyperloop is the scamming we do along the way.
The end.
it's a loop. the scam just keeps going round and round, right?
... That's the joke
Lol
That's bullshit and you shouldn't be this ignorant this late into 2023.
Edit: this was supposed to go under that guy pretending to be the tesla bro. I totally missed the sarcasm as I know IRL people who still worship Musk.
I wonder; is it the people who miss the train get 'whooshed' or the people on board...
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