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Cake day: February 22nd, 2024
  • we is doomed!@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a busEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Many stops and 100 yr old alignment, we don’t take public transit seriously in most of Australia and particularly in Queensland. It can take longer as there is only a service ever 30mins.

    One time it was pouring rain, I had to stand on the seat at Eagle Junction Station becase the cover where you wait is like a bus shelter and it was blowing in.

    It also shares the line with freight in parts, and our spangly new inland rail freight line will end in suburban Brisbane where they’ll the offload to trucks to transport it 50km to/from the sea port and it does’t extend to the next biggst freight port a few 100km up the state at Gladstone. Many of us seem to think this is a marvelous idea.

    Was watching a video of the new metro line in Vietnam and sighed :(

    I used to live on the Gold Coast and caught the train all the time as well as the tram on the Gold Coast (was car free living there) My mother asked one time how long it took to come up and see her, I said I don’t know, i was engrossed in my book. She refused to catch the train :)

    Another balls up, instead if going to the airport on the Gold Coast they’ve decided to turn Burleigh Heads into a giant bus stop and use buses and Trams.

    A decent argument was to be had over should it be extending heavy rail (my pick) l, or light rail to the Gold Coast airport, the new government chose buses …wtf ?

  • we is doomed!@lemmy.worldtoLeopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Trump voters are afraid that he would hold his promise to cut medicaidEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Foolosh ? stupid

    These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

    1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.