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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oooooh, rates for rail shippers. In general are these over or under regulated? What's the best way to fix this?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

By rates do you mean tax depreciation rates?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Considering that some high fertility countries have not performed a census in decades, we could very well have overestimated their population growth. Hell, Nigeria has the whole "ghost citizen" phenomenon, which overinflates its current population

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Slotkin already proposed a ban on Chinese car parts

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The reason the median voter is so goldfish brained is cuz stuff like the filibuster have pretty much decoupled cause from effect in the minds of voters

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mfw US Class 1 railroads are allergic to electrification

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyday I learn new horrors on Al Gore's internet

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What can Baltimore do to turn around its situation?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do think some republicanism (tho certainly not the rabid kind that disparages constitutional monarchy) is needed in the USA. Many of the architects of the American far right, such as Thiel or Yarvin or the Claremont Institute, want the US ruled by an absolute ceo monarch or a "Caesar"

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

there's also the role of SCOTUS in Trump v United States as well as SCOTUS removing the legislative veto decades earlier

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

yeah, Trump v United States is why I'm pro court packing, more than any other reason. it's an assault on the very rule of law, and any plan to reconstruct democracy in America that doesn't account for SCOTUS is DoA

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What's the best way for the federal government to encourage municipal annexations?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What are the requirements/prerequisites for a country to join this program?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What did Normal Krumholtz do? What was the regional subway plan?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wait, I've been out of the loop on this, what kind of advances wrt AI stuff are we looking at here?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Where would you bucket in San Diego?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In terms of cost, how does the slim/idealized version of cavern + transept compare with a bare bones cut and cover station (tunneling still is TBM)?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How would this work with like a stadtbahn? Would you run along the trams when they street run and then transfer at the first station that's grade separated?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yeah, the period when different Dem senators just randomly floated "no taxes on x" was really black pilling. Like, who gave them the idea?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So basically Philly has to lower the taxes itself? Why are Philly's taxes so high in the first place?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Is there anything the federal government can or should do to encourage PA to fix this situation?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

What kind of margins in the PA House and Senate do Dems need to turn around the tax situation?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So basically the smoke will float up to the ceiling and you'd rather have like that (since people can duck and breath in less fumes) rather than have the fans potentially blow it throughout the tunnel?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There's a clause in Article III that states that judges "hold their Offices during good Behavior". That has often been interpreted as lifetime appointments more or less. Congress can do stuff like court packing or jurisdiction stripping with mere legislation. This requires an amendment

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What are some other approaches to smoke extraction besides push-pull smoke?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I see. Since you're putting money in something higher yield than USTs you can more or less ship of Theseus social security, reducing the overall tax burden?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What's the main difference between this forced01k and a sovereign wealth fund? How does a country like the UK or the USA go about slowly transitioning to the Canada model?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Speaking of redesigns, @nilo.bsky.social has a really good thread on converting highway trenches for rail service bsky.app/profile/nilo...

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Are all powered axles on the Shinkansen the reason the Shinkansen has the wombo combo of high acceleration and active suspension?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My impression was that the old Mt Royal would get used for the light rail, which would be routed through the Howard Street Tunnel. Admittedly that Twitter thread is gone so I'm just guessing stuff

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Idk but I think Penn does get mothballed. Wdym by Mt Royal? The current light rail station or the former rail station that's part of the Howard Street Tunnel?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Basically it's this bsky.app/profile/bens... passengers would transfer from Penn Line MARC trains to the metro at Lexington Market, which would also become the intercity station. Freight gets routed through the B&P tunnel, opening up the Howard Street Tunnel for passenger rail

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@floppaphoto.com has an NS ALM crayon that tore down I83 from Penn Station south and the Eastern route 40 viaduct and used that to route said ALM from Penn Station to Light Street felt.com/map/Baltimor...

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Baltimore North-South Subway – Felt

The only cloud-native GIS platform.

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Are there any census applications that let you layer population and job density together?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

oooooh, this is actually a really good way to analyze stuff like transit corridors in various cities. thanks!

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think the GOP response to mask mandates is quite illuminating. At the start of covid 19 you had people across the political spectrum get scared. Genuine solidarity and willful quarantine. And then Trump shat on masks (cuz they messed up his bronzer) and a light switch flipped

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's that, affluenza, and the fact that US policy making is really jank. You have shit like the Byrd bath, the filibuster, SCOTUS, and a bunch of other veto points and shit that obscure the chain of cause and effect in the minds of voters. Which rewards the bat shit insane party (GOP)

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

America >Votes out Trump in 2020 >Votes Trump back in for 2024 >Votes for Trump (Mr Tariffs) because uuuuuuhhhh, he'd lower inflation......

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Proportional voting is good for the house of representatives but fucking transformational when it comes state legislatures. You're going from one party states to multiparty states in most cases

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Do Europeans use this type of roundabout on their truck routes? If so, how do they make that work, just by having shorter semi trucks?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Is nationalization of CN and/or CPKC something that's feasible for Canada?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Has Atlanta added infill TOD near MARTA stops?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

when it comes to process heat, what kind of temperatures can you expect to get from these deep geothermal wells?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

How expensive is deep geothermal these days per kWh? What kind of capacity factor are we talking about for these plants?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I wonder if there's enough space to fit a regional rail line along with the trail

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I was mostly motivated by the idea of getting MARC to finally connect with the Baltimore metro at Upton. Basically refurbish and use the B&P Tunnel after the Frederick Douglass Tunnel gets built to further separate intercity and regional rail (tho this might require a flyover)

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Are the hippies the ones responsible for over population fear mongering?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Can the difference between Canadian and American cities be explained by how much more American cities built urban freeways?

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chinsum.bsky.social @chinsum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Does the opposite for MARC (assuming modern single level EMUs) ie infill stations at Upton, Broadway (if the NW to NE metro ever gets extended), and Bayview (if the red line ever gets built) make sense?

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