:train-shining: :xi-clap:
Chinese engineers are actually incredibly good at what they do, the west has some serious brain rot- and imports basically all its talent
Imagining a world of cooperation where the Cali HSR works hand in hand with China in order to bring in experience and economy of scale in order to speed up development and lower the costs
:sicko-wistful:
Half of Canada's population lives in a straight line 1000km from end to end (windsor-montreal) and we can't get a single HSR line across even a portion of this lmao
Cries in 22 separate feasibility studies done on high speed rail in Canada :agony-consuming:
The Sino craniometry is incapable of the free thought that enables innovation
And they all are FORCED to work just to be able to make enough money to barely cover food and rent!
Also, Xi PERSONALLY whips every single person who even thinks a negative thought about the CCP.
Yo. There’s this r/science thread about China overtaking the US in terms of research papers and it was steering and coping with this.
All american “engineers” know how to do is learn2code, eat soylent, and lie
The hard part for america is China is fully willing bascily fund your masters and PhD in a suprizing amount of fields. Give you multipul assistants and resources along with an insane salary for Chinas cost of living.
It's same story in a lot of places, parts of social reproduction have been pillaged to produce profits, and that fundamentally compromises the entire system.
Northern EU gets tons of educated workers from southern Europe not because they don't produce them locally but because there's been basically no capital investment happening in southern Europe.
That serves to lower the salaries in aggregate, and drains all the most productive workforce from countries, preventing them from ever really having a realistic financial independence.
anyone who's been to college and isn't a dunce knows this lol
half the profs are Indian or Chinese or Middle Eastern
And the other half are fossils clinging on to tenure :good-morning:
- at least when I was there
There are lots of especially bad schools where this isn't the case
Imagine living in a society where it's reasonable to believe the future will be better than the present
Death to America
And WHAT are we being forced to sacrifice so much for, anyways?
For billionaires to spoil themselves even more?! For white CHUDs to be babied so they can feel better about themselves?
I took an engineering class in high school where we built mock maglev hotwheels and had to race each other. I thought it was the coolest thing and couldn't wait for the future where that would be our transportation source. Turns out the future is in China
I have no idea how practical or cost efficient this is but it's cool as hell and I want to ride it. :comfy-cool:
China's STRANGLEHOLD on production
it's literally one of the most common elements like why not mine your own
Gadgetbahn: :geordi-no:
Gadgetbahn, China: :geordi-yes:
Only you can prevent gadgetbahn fixation. I would say “just build a train” but I really don’t need to because the PRC is actually pretty good at doing that.
wait what's the meta on gadgetbahns these days? I don't really see what's wrong with this because even if it's impractical or limited in other ways it's still an engineering achievement that advances China's technical capabilities in ways that might be hard to see right now.
EDIT: No creativity allowed if you're an engineer. Only do things already proven to work. No innovation, only work. Like, what? Maybe I'm being dense. Help me out here, please.
reflexive anti-techbro-ism
(it's cool shiny new tech so it must be bad)
It’s a product that looks very high tech and fancy without offering any actual benefit over proven existing technology, usually for the purpose of convincing some small branch of the government to find some silly project.
:this:
Folks, this is just a gadgetbahn until it proves itself in service.
I can cut them some slack because at least this gadgetbahn didn't block decades of high speed rail development like :melon-musk:
Yeah this gadgetbahn doesn't seem to be actively hindering construction of infrastructure at all.
This seems to be implemented positively in the one place its implemented, since it takes up so little space on the ground along with the energy efficiency thing. It seems needlessly cynical to just write it off as nothing but a novelty like one of those chairs that just hold themselves up with string.
Me before watching video: "Wait, aren't all maglevs floating in the air? Isn't that the whole point?"
Me after watching video and realizing they meant suspending it from above: :xi-pog: :cmnd-marcos-pog: :isaac-pog:
