This world would be a much better place if more autistic people could be excluded from this painful useless 24/7 success-and-social-status cosplay and hipster's snowflakery bullshit and just do whatever they like to do.
Also removing the need to sing one's work to avoid negative personalized attacks (from those with sub-100 IQ) and being able to get just truth-motivated anonymous feedback for correctness and/or new ideas is a huge productivity boost.
This BTW confirms the ancient maxim that losing one's personality (in the context of seeking to attain any social status or recognition whatsoever) liberates one's "energy" (which is otherwise wasted on building up and supporting that ephemeral social construct). We could call it social relaxation, if you wish - a necessary precursor for proper concentration or so-called state of flow.
With airlines pissing so many people off you'd think the trains would be catering to customers.
Instead, they are just using the excuse to be frustrating and expensive. Take Amtrak from NYC (Penn Station) to D.C. and you'll understand the lost opportunity.
It's only a tiny bit better, and a tiny bit cheaper.
(I commute from CT to NYC on Metro-North and have the same
problem with them. In 5 years, my Metro-North monthly has gone up $200 and ride times are 50% longer.)
I was expecting something along the lines of an anime character saying "charge moar 4 Jews and kill niggers TOP KEK" so yeah. Low expectations work well for modern cinema too.
If the government can't do anything positive to improve train travel then they should just get out of it. All they have to do is guarantee the easements for routes -- and there should be no prohibitive taxation and inordinately burdensome regulation on these easements and there needs to be plenty of them covering all parts of the country for both freight and passenger. Private industry can work out the rest.
But, if the government would like to do something proactive, they could start a big project to build-out double-wide high-speed rails across the country. It would be a huge boon for our economy.
Unfortunately none of it will ever happen because oil and airline lobbyists have their claws far too deep into our congressmen.
(P.S. Example of how government regulation is the problem... ever take a train from Florida to Texas? Would you have ever have guessed the route goes thru Chicago? By law.)
They do, but only on one route that runs down the Southeast to vacation destinations in Florida. (This one: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train)
Expanding Auto Train service is one of the suggestions in the linked thread, and it strikes me as a very good idea. I'm not sure if it's something that could be done without a lot of unrealistic up-front expense (upgrading track, buying new rolling stock, etc.) though.
Although I would agree that we shouldn't link directly to 4chan because the threads disappear - archives like the one posted elsewhere here should be preferred.
It's not often stated so explicitly, but I can't count the number of times I've seen valley based HN users express the same sentiment towards other parts of the country.
Also removing the need to sing one's work to avoid negative personalized attacks (from those with sub-100 IQ) and being able to get just truth-motivated anonymous feedback for correctness and/or new ideas is a huge productivity boost.
This BTW confirms the ancient maxim that losing one's personality (in the context of seeking to attain any social status or recognition whatsoever) liberates one's "energy" (which is otherwise wasted on building up and supporting that ephemeral social construct). We could call it social relaxation, if you wish - a necessary precursor for proper concentration or so-called state of flow.