And quite different than the US: "Mainline railroad electrification in the United States is quite rare in comparison to most European or East Asian rail networks, with less than 1% of mainline trackage in the country being electrified"

(wikipedia)

You're making a huge mistake by substituting your list of complaints for the actual question at hand - 'will I more likely be better off if I do or don't go to college.'

The answer is still quite clear. Look at this, the part about changing attitudes is interesting in some way, but the facts pertinent to somebody making this decision is the graph of median annual earnings for those with vs. without a college degree. People obsess over small relative shifts in this size of the gap, but it's nowhere near disappearing - it's huge. https://www.pewresearch.org/so...

Also near-perfect drafting to reduce air resistance.

80% less than cars is a lot less, but I'm kind of surprised it's that much. It actually makes me wonder how a Prius would fare compared to a klunky old half-full (per load factor statistics) Amtrak train.

All my African friends still buy cases of Bud Light for their parties, because it's cheap, they are used to buying it, and they really don't care if their marketing department made a shout out to a trans influencer. That being said, Bud Light did drop to second most popular beer, Modelo is now the most popular. So... not really a company ending mistake.

That's why I now drive everywhere, even when going coast-to-coast (Usually takes 3 days, but I've done it in 56 hours. I don't recommend driving 24 hours, sleeping 8 hours, and driving 24 hours, but I've done it. Once.)

I bought Oculus VR goggles while I was working for Meta, and... quite frankly, I haven't found any good use for them.

Trump doesn't pay women for sex. He pays women to not tell anybody he had sex with them!

Apparently reporting every 3 months makes it harder to fake the financials?

Microsoft AI is actually doing a fairly decent job of analyzing code and suggesting improvements. Meaning it's right more often than wrong. Of course, it did just recommend I make a change that would have made my code not work, so... still no substitute for peer review.

AI is just the latest buzzword. Remember when the metaverse was such a hot buzzword that Facebook renamed themselves Meta, just before Zuck decided they weren't a metaverse company, they were really an AI company?

I hear the electricity suppliers are making tons of money!

I'm thinking a lot of it is pension fraud.

Turns out people lying about relatives not dying to continue collecting their old age benefits is actually pretty common.

Have you considered lighter cables? We used to have a Schlumberger Ethernet Adapter box connected to our mainframe, which was basically a tiny card in a big iron box... that unfortunately still weighed less than the cable that connected it to the mainframe, so the cable was constantly pulling the box off the shelf (don't know why it wasn't rackmount). I currently have a different problem: The power cable keep falling out of my Windows laptops, 'cause I'm too cheap to pay twice as much for a laptop with a Magsafe connector.