Tesla doesn't build buses so that is not an option because this Tesla/Boring company 'transport loop' system is a giant Tesla publicity stunt funded by the tax paying citizens of Nashville so obviously there have to be Teslas in the tunnels. If, however, you decided that the tunnel should to be able to accommodate buses which would certainly be able to shift worthwhile numbers of passengers then that would quite make a bit more sense. However the tunnels would then have to be (A) quite a lot bigger than the one in Las Vegas, which (B) increases costs even if (C) you'd still probably save a whole lot of money and increase throughput quite dramatically by buying decently sized off the shelf electric buses from China instead of anything Tesla can lash together (because the world's largest electric bus manufacturers are BYD and Yutong who enjoy considerably economies of scale in that market). Sadly that's not an option because, remember, there have to be Teslas in the tunnels and because: "Orange man says Chiiiiina bad".

Sure, but the criticism isn't that this tunnel boring system is more expensive, it's the inefficiency of then putting a bunch Tesla passenger cars into the tunnel. A subway from the central station to the airport with only a few two or three minute stops can travel at least as fast and it can transport one heck of a lot more people per trip. Even making the tunnels a bit bigger and using electric buses would be more efficient than 70 Tesla model Ys. If these tunnels with Tesla passenger cars in them were so much better than subways they'd be everywhere by now and yet, at the time of writing, there is exactly one.

... and obviously nobody could have foreseen this.

Keep crowing, the Chinese will eventually solve their launcher issue, US launch companies will get some ferocious competition and no matter how much their genius CEOs claim to thrive on competition they won't like it. Soon after you'll find the lot of them lobbying the White House for sanctions on their Chines competitors.

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Well, It feels a bit like that Movie 'Groundhog Day' except each time I get back to (1) I don't revert to my former youthful self and get a do-over.

This is an old story and some of us are old enough to have seen it before:

1) Corporations scream for experienced people.
2) Corporations lament how they cannot justify the expense of providing new graduates with experience.
3) Corporations bribe politicians into allowing the import large numbers of experienced foreign labor.
4) There is a popular backlash against immigrant labor.
5) We have arrived at the exact point in time where we are now.


Lather, rinse, repeat the same stupid cycle ad nauseam except at each iteration the anti-immigrant sentiment grows, the corpocrats and the politicians get richer and everybody else gets poorer.

No, you are completely overthinking this, I was merely using sarcasm to mock you and your angry little political manifesto.

So basically your real world name is Captain Ahab McMAGA and your California is your white whale?

No, and that is just another aspect of deciding whether we want to live under the rule of law or be ridden over roughshod by the rich and/or powerful.

China also locks its citizens up in reeducation camps for disagreeing with the government. Do you want to copy that too? At some point we'll have to decide whether we want to live under the rule of law or be ridden over roughshot by the rich and/or powerful.

On the flip side, contagious disease rates are increasing sharply as Trump administration charges forward with systematically dismantling vaccination efforts under the banner of dumbfuck.

The nominal power output is 3.8 MW, the rotor diameter is 126 meters so the total height will be around 360 meters.

Stop ruining his deeply held beliefs with ... 'theoretical facts'.

Well, I know it sucks but you can't just argue that people who helped UK forces fight terrorists should be left behind to be murdered by the Taliban as a cost saving measure. The only reason this is necessary is because the Tories made these people's names public back in 2022, that and Trump/Biden comprehensively messing up the Afghanistan withdrawal but it was mostly the former. This operation would cost a fraction of what it does today if the Tories hadn't published that list of names. I don't particularly like Starmer but in this particular case he really is doing nothing other than cleaning up a classic garden variety Tory mess here and Tory/Reform-UK muppets like you taking the piss out of him for it really is the pot calling the kettle black.