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  • And if we shared cars instead of owning them it would also save on gas for everyone

    And if we paid someone to drive the car around for us it would be swell

    Also if we do that we might as well make the car bigger

    You know what’s more efficient on gas than rubber on road? Metal. If we made the wheels metal we would have like zero rolling resistance

    That tears up roads though so we should probably pave the roads with metal

    That’s kind of expensive, so we should only pave metal directly underneath where our metal wheeled car will drive

    If we’re going to do all of that it should be bigger. Multiple cars connected together.

    Hey we can get rid of gas entirely? We could run this thing using catenary arms and overhead cables. GENIUS!


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    Hell isn’t really in the Bible. Iirc most interpretations of hell come from revelations where the anti-Christ and the beast (along with all the wicked and unsaved) are thrown into the Lake of fire on judgement day by Christ. That’s it. There isn’t anything about different circles of hell, or eternal damnation (there’s a lot of debate about if the Lake of fire is instant annihilation, temporary torment to cleanse the soul, or permanent eternal torment)

    Afaik it was largely created through some wild interpretations of the church in order to sell indulgences (get out of sin free cards) which funnily enough is how Gutenberg was allowed to keep printing. His new printing press was amazing at mass producing indulgences which were handwritten and quite lengthy. Now the church had a way to produce their “sin for free” tokens in bulk. If it weren’t for that Gutenberg might have been shut down for cutting in on the church’s monopoly on books.

    Dante’s inferno also had a massive influence on the Christian interpretation of hell. Afaik it was also largely made up or “artistic license” was used to make hell into what it is in the book.

    Edit: added clarity





  • When you do the math on how much it costs both a private citizen along with the public to enable cars as transportation it’s mind boggling.

    The province I live in makes around $90-100B / year in tax revenue, and spends around $4.5-5.5B / year on roads and road maintenance.

    There’s also the hidden cost of road work caused by utilities being replaced, struck, or newly installed. We pay thx bill for that through our telecom, power, sewer .etc

    Insurance, gas, car payments…

    If a road is built to last 10 years then technically on average you’re replacing ⅒ of your roads every year. Utilities are the same and trenching/patching is horrible for roads necessitating rework on them earlier than the life expectancy. A fiber line might have a 40 year life span, but installing it turned a 20 year road into a 10 year replacement.