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Cake day: July 28th, 2025

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  • Also to prop up house/property prices in general and pension funds which is a bit wider of a group but generally still the people on the upper end of the wealth rank.

    Stupid thing really is when you have an asset bubble it does crowd out other investment. It needs to burst for the good of the economy. The QE and such stopped the opportunity for investors to learn that they should inves government to force investors to invest in productive capacity rather than asset bubbles.













  • Agreed, It’d be interesting to see the cost breakdowns.

    I guess you have to spend more on tracks to get higher speeds, but still to get to 600kph you must put a lot of electricity into that thing.

    If sort of feels like maglev should be able recover a decent amount of electricity during braking, but maybe there are practical constraints - or just too much loss to wind resistance.

    Maybe it comes down to just a handful of magnets round a few axles being cheaper than a long line of magnets the length of the track.




  • A poor craftsman . . . God is obviously shite at tool use. Probably needed a few more years as an apprentice before he started fucking around with firmaments and stuff. I mean hacking together a whole human out of cutoffs? Just pony up and order more stock, cheapskate.