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FightOnForUsc t1_ja0jqf6 wrote

Reply to comment by SilverNicktail in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

Well there’s already a train from Merced to Bakersfield (I’ve ridden it). There’s no train from Bakersfield to LA and none from Merced to SF or SJ. Either of those parts would be vastly more useful for people. Imagine being able to live in a cheap area and commuting to an area with some of the highest salaries in the country. Also LA and the Bay Area have some public transportation, Merced and Bakersfield have almost none. It will have lower ridership than either other route might have. I don’t see who is going to use going from Merced to Bakersfield on the regular

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FightOnForUsc t1_j9yohj0 wrote

Reply to comment by littleferrhis in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

And then when you get to those cities there isn’t good public transportation so you need a car. So if you’re only going a couple hundred miles it starts feeling like it makes more sense to drive. Especially if you have lots of luggage or multiple people as the costs don’t scale with the number of people in a car

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Reply to comment by QuirkyCleverUserName in How do people across the world spend their time and what does this tell us about living conditions? by kraken_enrager

Well cooking all day long will certainly make a lot of mess, which then means a lot to clean up, which means doubly less time for the rest of the house. It’s also possible to have different ideas of cleaning. Like things can be clean and messy, or they might be in their “proper place” but that looks messy because it’s not out of sight. Lots of possible explanations

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Reply to comment by 2001zhaozhao in Study: The iPhone 14 Pro has faster 5G speeds than any Android phone by chrisdh79

I feel like there’s a lot of possible reasons for that, but regardless the a series chips are VERY good at JavaScript. I think apple may almost put too much effort into that with the silicon design but it makes the computers feel snappy to users doing basic tasks and that’s what sells a lot of their devices

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Reply to comment by repeat4EMPHASIS in [OC] US counties required to provide non-English ballots under the Voting Rights Act, by number of languages by USAFacts_Official

Well Puerto Rico isn’t on this map, but you make a point. I’m curious, do you know how many Native American languages do have ballots in their languages? I used my example because I think it’s easier to see someone not having great English in 7 years after a whole life somewhere else, whereas I think most all native Americans still speak English. I don’t know enough about the school system in Puerto Rico to know how widespread English is there or how big of a focus it is in school, but I imagine almost everyone there knows English as well, but of course they also know Spanish.

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