At first I thought it was the Beaverton. Had to check the URL.

The President of course being a convicted felon and rapist, Donald J Trump.

Thank you for clarifying that there is only one China, to bad the side you want lost the election by bullets. Maybe they should try harder in the next election by bullets. I for one will abide by the logic of no foreign interference in elections. Either election by bullets or election by ballots.

Get over yourself. The difference between those other countries and RoC is that hose other countries were partitioned through treaties or won civil wars. The RoC lost both.

Went to the Confederate States of America many times. Can confirm it’s not the United States of America.

You forgot one thing. If the nationalists had won, you’d say there’s only one China and no “independent Taiwan”.

Study for work

or

Swim for work?

admit your dream is dead

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Where’s this from?

Would it be q a ! ?

Where is this meme format from?

I knew you could throw Windows OS onto a laptop. Didn’t know you could throw a laptop out of Windows OS.

That’s exactly the reason why companies what to use AI. They don’t want to employ.

Besides the AI, this is objectively funny.

In this market absolutely. One could easily flip it to $500k in a couple days.

Could you go to your Ministry of Labour about this?

This is great. Looks like the communist version of the “smartest picture in history”. Would like a print of this.

Outside of mines or just in mines? I know that mines are becoming more automated but what about commercial routes.

I think you’re missing the general point.

In the cases you’ve described, having automated semis would not be feasible. Automated cars already have a hard time in San Fran and AZ cities with smooth asphalt as it is.

The places where automated semis make the most sense, i.e. large, well maintained highways connecting large urban centres, can be better served with automated railways.

The engineering is much simpler, fewer degrees of freedom and a much more constrained problem space (and hence constrained solution space), for automated railways than highways. Creating a safer environment for all. Also not having to deal with semis as an individual driver.

Railways (funded through private investment): https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AAR-Rail-Network-Map-2025-1.jpg.webp

Highways (publicly owned, operated, maintained): https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/images/nhs.pdf

There is some good coverage with railroads, but as you said not nearly extensive as the public road network. But I bet you the vast majority (above 60%) are along corridors with railways. However two big hurdles need to be overcome, greater investment in throughput capacity and the fact that trucks can go from ware house to ware house.

However both issues can be solved.

Privatize gains, socialize losses. The Capitalist^TM way!