Nevada doesn’t even own most of Nevada.

Ace Combat

That actually looks like a fun game.

Ok, cool. But I don’t think your experience would still be very good if you were joined by an additional trainload of people riding 4x4s right alongside you. It’d be time to pave over that canyon so that the people visiting it can park.

Completely missed the point. Less “general public” is the entire idea of offroading in remote locations with no cell service or anything else. It takes actual skills to get up there, and the more-skilled people tend to be more respectful of the lands. But I digress.

And trains aren’t mutually exclusive with cars. I might take the train to visit my parents a few cities over, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a highway for the moving truck to drive along when I had to get my stuff over to where I live now.

For sure. I don’t disagree with that at all. I’ve moved across the USA twice, and both times it was more cost-effective to just drive. Paying a transporter to haul a minivan, paying a moving company to ship my family’s stuff, and loading us all on a plane to live at the in-laws while we wait for our stuff to arrive - was our first choice. However, I did the math and found that sending my family on a plane while I rented a UHaul trailer and just towed it with the minivan was over $1000 cheaper, despite the 5-day drive I had to do. But I enjoyed it.

No-one is saying no-one should drive a car. Rather, that the right tool for the right job should be used. In the US, cars are used for a lot more than what they’re best at. That you are using them effectively for personal use, is not a reason to also have them used where they aren’t as effective (in this case in comparison to trains, large volume transit of people who are mainly transporting themselves between hubs of human activity).

Absolutely. I just get really fucking tired of seeing the “fuck cars” morons beating a dead horse over and over again with “all cars are bad and should be illegal right now”.

In Tokyo, Shinjuku train station routes 3.8 million people to where they are going, EVERY, DAY.

And it’s a beautiful thing. The fact that Japan is roughly the size of the entire US east coast and somehow manages with trains just fine is an engineering marvel.

Interstate 5 in the US, the busiest in the country, does a pathetic 0.75 million a day on its busiest strip. And the cost-effectiveness of trains beats out cars waaay before you hit capacity on such a highway.

I don’t disagree with this either.

Honestly though, for general “getting around”, I just prefer my bikes.

Of course; do you not?

A train can’t take me up remote roads 15 miles up a canyon to destinations that only a capable 4x4 can reach (this is the point of those roads), then take me out the other end of the canyon via those trails into a small town with a delicious diner and ice cream shop. All while checking out abandoned mines (no I don’t go in), ghost towns, and other history from before my time.

And yes, I do this often.

I know, just saying out of all the unrealistic bullshit that comes out of Trump’s mouth hole, this isn’t that unrealistic.

Ah, this makes sense now. I was wondering why it hadn’t been updated in a while, that was my only hangup.

Because this dude is running for NYC mayor

George Carlin said it best: ”Pre-born, you’re good. Pre-school, you’re fucked!"

in under 12 hours the US cleared the entirety of Iran of air defense systems

Given how insanely powerful the US Armed Forces can be, objectively speaking, that’s honestly not entirely unbelievable.

I tried reading that book. Couldn’t get past the first chapter.

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That’s a big-ass bruise. If it was a hole, that man wouldn’t be standing.

I have that bumper sticker on my vehicle. Hasn’t been vandalized yet.

Gesundheit

You can get a Dell micro Optiplex for less money and have a full fledged i5 or i7 processor with similar power usage.

Absolutely, I’ve got a cluster of mini PCs with 7th/8th gen T sku i7s, plus an Optiplex SFF running a standard i7-7700, and everything together draws less than 100W on average.

The author of the article wrote it that way. That’s how headlines work.

What if I decide to digitize my entire movie catalog? I would have to rip those DVDs and blurays…

Synology is already enshittifying itself

The Great Orange Baboon’s (TGOB) parade is this Saturday. Lots of protests are going to happen on Saturday specifically because of this, and many other things. TGOB has repeatedly alluded to using armed forces against protesters on Saturday.

People are going to die on Saturday.