Mind-bogglingly poor comprehension from a social imperialist.
This is so obviously wrong, that without context I will continue believing this is a joke. No particular love for Matt Bruenig, but I do think he has some understanding of reality.
All of Bruenig's tweets are automatically deleted after a day, apparently, so it's hardly OPs fault there's no link.
Also his favourite thing is to take an obviously wrong statement but put it in q context where it's somewhat right to get people mad at him. It feels like this is what he's doing here so I'm curious how he sets it up. Like a lot of his posts are essentially wonk Don Hughes, like him or hate him you gotta appreciate the craft.
Yes, because trains have a separate gasoline engine for each passenger
They have to bolt your car engine to the train engine or else it won't have enough horsepower to pull your dead weight around.
He was articulating his opponent's position sarcastically. Matt Bruenig is not this stupid.
King shit, I will never give up my induction stove. Stove purists are like audiophiles.
There are a handful of things you just can't do with induction, like charring veggies, flame searing meat, toasting marshmallows, or continuing to cook while tossing something. It's just as good for like 95% of things, but we can't just ignore that the other 5% of things exist and that certain food makes heavy use of them. It's nearly impossible for say, a Chinese restaurant to get by with just an induction stove, from what I've heard.
My stove is old, with old, shitty induction burners. They take forever to get up to heat and they lose heat randomly and have to be reset. At a relative's house there is an old, shitty gas stove, the only gas stove I have ever used. However, despite being old and shitty, once that flame is lit it doesn't go out and is easy to regulate. A much better cooking experience than on my home stove.
By these two anecdotal pieces of evidence I assume that gas stoves are inherently superior to induction stoves and will brook no argument.
Generally that's not the case with modern induction stoves, really the only issue that most people would experience with a decently modern induction stove from the last 20 years or so, would be that you can't use copper or aluminium because the coil can't induce a current.
Those old ones where it's not actually induction and they just put a sheet of glass over a regular old electric stovetop, though, those suck ass.
off-topic but the faux leather on my old pair of headphones was coming off so i was going to get a new one. decided that this time i was actually going to get a decent pair instead of just getting the cheapest ones from okay brands. looked at audiophile shit and found some budget options that would "rival headphones in the several hundred of dollars range". obviously i was pretty excited as i felt that i would be listening to music "properly" for the first time. i can barely tell a difference lol
the only time it really makes a difference is when songs have AWFUL mixing, but then it just makes the song unbearable to listen to :guaido-despair:
What headphones did you end up getting, what did you used to have, and what kind of music do you usually listen to? Sometimes people will heavily exaggerate how they say that certain headphones will punch above their weight, but people won't be able to tell the difference if their last pair were also decent, or if they listen to music where having flat levels across the range or good clarity isn't actually helpful.
for the majority of the past few years i used a Phillips O'Neill and i also used a JBLT450 every now and then. i ended up going for the Superlux HD681 Evo.
i know it's a very common answer and that most people say this, but i listen to a little bit of everything. since i got the headphones i've listened to "hard" rock (Muse, Wolfmother, RATM), pop (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Blackbear), pop punk (MGK, KennyHoopla), rap (Kanye, Denzel Curry, Juice WRLD) and classic rock (gta v rock radio station)aside from music sounding a bit better in a way i can't quite explain i can hear some shit that i couldn't earlier, like the singer breathing or licking their lips. the sound staging for gaming is better too. like, it's better but nothing groundbreaking. maybe my expectations were too high.
So, the headphones you got are good, with a bit of modding. I wouldn't say they'll punch into the "hundreds of dollars" range, but they'll definitely get to the "around a hundred" area, for much less. Another thing a lot of people will fight about is the "burn in" period. Some people insist all headphones need to be burned in, others insist it's not a real thing. If you're spending a lot, my opinion is that it's not something to worry about, but a lot of the more "budget hi-fi picks" like the superluxes do seem to benefit from just being played for a number of hours, and then the sound seems to be better after some number of hours of use, a commonly cited time frame being 40-50 hours.
The real budget killer stuff for headsets under 100 will require some modding. My understanding is that the HD681 Evos have a tight headband which you may want to stretch to make it more comfortable, throw on some different earpads, and they skew kinda treble heavy, so you may want to play with EQ or even modify the headphones.
When the peak of your praxis is screaming on Twitter about how much you love Sous Vide
If you put someone in a dump truck instead of a corolla, you've done nothing because they use the same amount of gas. If you take a family out of a minivan and move them into six separate minivans the same amount of gas is used too. I am very smart.
I know he fucks around on Twitter all the time and cannot for the life of me tell if this is serious.
This isn’t even remotely true in any way. Trains use less fuel to move the same amount of mass, and move significantly more people per amount of mass. What a weird, blatantly wrong take.
Oh yeah also that, pretty sure roads take way more emissions to build and maintain than rails do
He autodeletes all tweets after a day. Honestly probably the most optimal way to use Twitter.
I don't think that's how Lenin would use Twitter. Gonna have to keep an eye on you,,,,, comrade
Trains move more people per amount of fuel used, so moving someone from a car to a train quite literally does lower the amount of fuel used.
This assumes that people have infinite consumption though. Any future in which there is sufficient political energy to build public rail in America would also be one that would counter the trends that drive excessive consumption.
Technically correct in the same way that productive efficiency doesn't reduce overall labor time or resource expenditure under capitalism. This is something Marx talked about. I remember reading about it in Value, Price and Profit (I think?), recently. Less fossil fuel use by cars in the capitalist market would just mean cheaper fossil fuels, which would mean more fuel usage for other purposes as a necessity for capitalists to stay in competition. Emissions need to be capped and both fossil fuel infrastructure and entire (worthless) industries need to be outright dismantled (in the imperial core) by the state in order for climate change to actually be stopped. The problem is capitalism, which I would assume is his point but I don't know the context.
I mean he's still a lib but I don't think pointing out this tweet is as much of an own as people are making it out to be. Also he annoys me so I don't keep up with his politics but I'm pretty sure he's pro-train?
the sncf (french train authority)
I'm sorry, I don't speak Frog.
i couldn’t find an english version of the page
Curious. And this was posted 5 hours ago. The start of the Paris workday.
So flying is actually better than driving the same distance by yourself.
Nice try, Air France, but we're not falling for it.
I speak french, so the fact that it's not in english is acceptable to me.
Unlike electric cars, Electric locomotives are a viable alternative, and that's not even bringing up the fact that diesel trains are still more energy efficient per person than cars
Real dumb twitter contrarian brain hours
But but but what if there's only one guy on the train? Oh, a single person on an electric commuter subway can still be more efficient than one person in some particularly bad cars?
