heres how I know; vietnam & australia didn't need the vaccine to do it, so whatever it is that caused the US to not be able to deal with the pandemic without the vaccine is also gonna make the US be unable to deal with the pandemic with the vaccine.

The lack of the vaccine isn't the problem, corruption is. It isn't a tech problem, it's a governance problem. The US is gonna have COVID for ever.

PS, the exact same thing applies for climate change. Ppl be like "oh climate change will be fixed once we invent the right tech". The thing is, we already have the tech to end climate change, we're just ruled by ppl who don't want to. We're fucked, and we're fucked forever, stop waiting for the ghost of albert einstein to solve your problems for you with a glass vial & recognize that anyone who tells you to is the enemy

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      my dream is they run rails down the middle of all U.S. interstates and slowly ban cars from them. run solar panels down the sides of the old interstate pavement and connect to the grid. use electric drives and mix cargo and passengers. use smaller connecting engines to pick up cargo and passenger modules at major track "off ramps" and transport them to distribution centers and passenger hubs. localized electric cars, delivery trucks and buses (free and communal) for local driving and local delivery. people can still have their "freedom to travel" but like ten thousand times more efficiently.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            It's a tough job, no doubt. Vienna or even London is probably not possible.

            But cities like Sydney have Atlanta levels of Urban Sprawl and "Good-enough" public transport (ie. better than any US city save maybe New York).

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        4 years ago

        My parents' mansion in Servants Entrance, CT, is 10 miles of rough terrain from any train station, how do you propose that I get there? Or to any exurb, for that matter.

        Don't say "we're in overshoot; there's no way to provide the energy to move 3 billion people and their individual vehicles along 50 mile round trips every day" because I won't accept it.

        We neeeeeeeeeeed a way to provide for our lifestyle