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Jordan Maris πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NAFO

@Gurre Never mistake for malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence, my friend.

20 September at 11:01 | Open on eupolicy.social
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Joakim Fors

@jmaris @Gurre Well, Elon has admitted that Hyperloop was introduced to sabotage the HSR plans in California.

20 September at 11:11 | Open on mastodon.green
Jordan Maris πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NAFO

@joakimfors @Gurre It's less of a thing in Europe because we already have working High Speed Rail

20 September at 11:12 | Open on eupolicy.social
Joakim Fors

@jmaris @Gurre Sure, but the hyperloop "meme" is out there now and used as a distraction by any and all that want to prevent more actual rail from being built.

20 September at 11:13 | Open on mastodon.green
Gurre VildskΓ€gg

@jmaris @joakimfors
And while many of the hyperloop companies might be various scams to siphon money from investors, the various government bodies investing in them are probably just really bad at seeing a hype bubble for being just hype without substance.

20 September at 11:14 | Open on mastodon.nu
Veza85UE

@Gurre @jmaris @joakimfors πŸ’― I don't know if she's hired outside of the German bubble in her cabinet (which has landed her in trouble in the past), but there's bound to be some toxic FDP bro if not in the team at least vdL-team adjacent who's not very up-to-date on the topic and thought it would sound really hip and with it in a policy document. And others who know it's bs, but eh, it's non-legislative as Jon points out, so let them have it, they'll forget all about by the holidays anyway.

20 September at 12:56 | Open on eupolicy.social
sidereal

@jmaris @joakimfors @Gurre Right, and the fact that people are still seriously talking about this stuff after Musk publicly admitted that is why this seems like malice rather than incompetence.

20 September at 11:37 | Open on kolektiva.social
robloblaw

@jmaris @joakimfors @Gurre
But its not working nearly as well as it could. The EUs plan to improve high speed rail needs investment. And that is a threat to automakers and airlines.

20 September at 12:13 | Open on mastodon.social
John Rohde Jensen

@jmaris @joakimfors @Gurre I tried TGV last week, it were slow, crowded and generally underwhelming.
Europe does a fine job sabotaging its own HSR.

20 September at 13:14 | Open on norrebro.space
Jordan Maris πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NAFO

@johnrohde @joakimfors @Gurre A french TGV ? On what line? I've never heard of a "slow" TGV.

20 September at 14:47 | Open on eupolicy.social
Joakim Fors

@jmaris @johnrohde @Gurre Perhaps it was one of these: tgvshop.org/

Bit crowded if more than one person and looks kinda slow

20 September at 15:04 | Open on mastodon.green
0xC0DEC0DE07E8

@jmaris yes, and the maintenance and improvement of that network is a much better use of funds than this pipe dream. Techbros stop trying to reinvent trains but worse challenge 2024.
@joakimfors @Gurre

20 September at 14:13 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jordan Maris πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NAFO

@c0dec0dec0de @joakimfors @Gurre You're not wrong! Calling Hyperloop a pipe dream is my new favourite idea. Nice pun!

20 September at 14:46 | Open on eupolicy.social
marcus πŸ˜·πŸ§‚
Joakim Fors
Jordan Maris πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NAFO

@joakimfors I'm aware, but I am not convinced that Musk is responsible for this in Europe. Also there are very few organisations in Europe that would profit from this

20 September at 11:15 | Open on eupolicy.social
GhostOnTheHalfShell

@jmaris @joakimfors

Billionaire malignancy is transnational. They fund neoliberalism and extremism in Europe. See UK riots etc.

20 September at 14:00 | Open on masto.ai
GhostOnTheHalfShell

@jmaris @Gurre

In this case it is both. Musk pimped hyperloop to derail (high speed rail) in the US. Here you get both in one package.

20 September at 13:57 | Open on masto.ai
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