The USA already moves a higher percentage of freight by rail than almost any other country. But rail could never work for time-sensitive loads or last mile delivery.
Perhaps they could make the rail lines and machinery smaller. One might even consider such rail to be "light", in comparison.
I'm sure it's pure coincidence that many cities already have rail lines going down roads in city centers. They probably just built the city around a historical freight line, and haven't bothered to remove it.
the freight has more axles, and you could set the baseline weight by vehicle class
but maybe this would just incentivise the sort of person that buys an F150 to drive to the shops to simply to upgrade to a big rig (for the tax saving?!)
Someone with 2 previous DUIs on their record hit a car while extremely drunk, fled the scene, and ended up in a fight with a police officer who tracked them down. They still have their driver's license. There's a lot of space between where we are now and the death penalty for damaging a few plants.
Rubicon III was a planet in Star Trek with draconian capitol punishment laws, what does that have to do with revoking driver licenses from DUI convicts?
Did you not watch the episode? In addition to the ethics of whether to honor what you view as an unjust law simply because it's the law it also explores a society where all crimes are unforgivable and there is no notion of "paying your debt to society." It being capital punishment is the least interesting thing about it.
Taking away someone's driver's license forever is the milder version of the situation. Does it feel just for someone in their 40s to not be allowed to drive because they got a DUI in their 20s? Can someone who has a DUI really never regain full status and privilege in society? If you knew they would never drive drunk again does society still benefit from this indefinite punishment? If they are forever corrupted by their crime would it be okay to kill them if that's what we decided the punishment was?
> Can someone who has a DUI really never regain full status and privilege in society?
So you recognize that your neighborhoods are planned so poorly that lacking a driving license relegates you to a lesser status and privilege? Why not address that car dependency, rather than letting drunks continue to drive? Because, believe it or not, there are people out there living without a driving license through no fault of their own.
Because the justice system will
be waiting until long after I'm dead for that to happen. My city is this year removing large swaths of our public transportation. If you want to work a job in the department of transportation they don't allow you to rely on public transportation to get to work. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Jesus, we're talking about taking away someone's *privilege* to drive a dangerous object around their fellow people after they've shown multiple times they aren't responsible enough.
Which can be the equivalent of preventing you from getting or maintaining a job in many places in the US. Yes, we need to fix that sad situation. No, the judges who need to decide on punishment can't change that situation.
If a sex offender gets an order to stay away from schools then that also might prevent them from getting or maintaining a job in many places in the US but that's just the result of their own actions.
The way this works in civil engineering is that the engineer refuses to sign off on an unsafe design. If costs have to increase to address the issue, then they do. If management doesn't budge, then they bleed money while twiddling their thumbs staring at an unapproved design.
Be careful what you wish for… civil engineering is a terrible awful bureaucratic profession.
The crowd here on HN intends to make fun of governments and banks and similar regulated entities… but smug startup culture will not exist if you got what you say you want.
how do you know? maybe they were spending too much on security, but it was going to useless or counterproductive measures like crowdstrike, compliance training, or virus scanners. money is no substitute for competence, as steve jobs's death shows
On hot days, I’ll drink nearly two gallons. Most days 1.5 gallons. Just water. I have a very large cup that is a pint and a cup. I’ll drink 8-10 of those a day. Though I eat a lot of salty/dry foods. America baby. If I go for a long bike ride I’ll be able to wring my shirt/sweatshirt and sweat will come pouring out.
After a long ride I’ll drink nearly half a gallon of water. Likely excessive but it tastes really good.
It’s likely there is a very large variation in the water people need to consume. During college, I knew individuals that would drink merely a glass or two all day (minus before/after going to the library). Very small water bottles. Though these individuals looked to be <100 lbs.
Seems like we should have common sense zoning so these individuals aren’t literally financially incentivized to expand sprawl and put out articles like this so they can continue to do so
Until we address the intersectionality of corporate interests with a primarily Indo-European framework I’m afraid we won’t see much progress on indigenous geographical agency.
ENETUNREACH: The Chinorussese Solar Federation is blockading platinum rich asteroids until they get back war criminal and musician Vladimir the handyman, accused of using a wrench to knock a satellite of out orbit back onto Earth
The answer to that is not banning apartments through the vast majorities of our cities, forcing everything to be spread out so that you have to drive a car to participate in society. If the elderly could just walk to where they needed to go or walk around for leisure, they would not age as fast.
I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road in Ann Arbor MI because she is afraid she will get hit again.
Human looking robots would be such a dystopian and sad solution to elderly loneliness. They need a third place and access to such in old age.
