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[–] 127 points 3 months ago* (23 children)

Kind of like how our highways weren't meant for hundreds of thousands of semi trailers on them every day, but we just keep jamming more fucking trucks on the road. Humans will just overdo something until there is a catastrophic failure, sometimes they keep doing it after that.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Safety laws are written in blood. Because it's unprofitable to prevent disasters before they happen...

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    But look at them over regulate and red-tape anything that could possibly maybe harm their profits by actually innovating and improving quality... Working in biotech and knowing we could fix a lot of the issues with world hunger and vaccines by using tech we already know is safe but is barred from use because established companies would not profit as much is infuriating...

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Funny, I’d rather have more trailers and leave the roads to them and make sure people have good transport like subways, rails, etc. you’re always going to have a last-mile issue you can’t solve with mass transit so that works better for me.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    I'd rather all the cargo moved by rail. Trains can be automated way better than a truck and the efficiency is enormous for longhaul.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    And last mile how?

    Progressively smaller gauge railways, until your Amazon parcel arrives via a 1-inch track on the regular 3.15pm service from the end of your street.

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    I think it’s a disturbing function of human group behavior. One human can be smart. Humans en masse seem to groupthink ourselves into self-affirming decisions

    We thought the fauna of the plains of Africa were so plentiful they could never go extinct, until we drove a number of them to extinction

    We thought the ocean was so vast that the solution to pollution was dilution, until we created garbage islands and watched corals die off

    We thought we were too small to affect the global climate, until we started watching anthropogenic climate change.

    We just never fucking learn.

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