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by haecceity 1824 days ago
> They're not building fusion reactors super fast, they're not building things we don't have super fast. They're building things that we were building a hundred years ago…super fast.

It was the Chinese that built the railways here and they were building it the opposite of "super fast".

> I'm in favor of everyone having train stations and freeway systems, it's all good. But the American freeway system got built out starting in the 1930s; it's been a long time since that kind of thing has amazed us.

This is the reason we can't have nice things isn't it. What a waste of time I want 10 minutes of my life back.