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exocrinous

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Yeah that’s the way it was before their job was automated. But now you don’t need them to work.

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A wrench, hammer, screwdriver set, and pliers.

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After 6 hours of being with other teenagers my age, the last thing I wanted was forced social interaction just as I was getting ready to unwind. For the first half of high school, I was at the train station reading a book. The second half, I had the good sense to start using a phone.

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Hey look a guide on how to look like a cishet white man

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Humanity has never built anything that has intentionally lasted 10,000 years

You don’t know what those cave people were thinking when they drew those pictures.

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Just because you don’t remember being told common sense facts, doesn’t mean you weren’t. It probably happened at some random time without you making much of it, you just incorporated it seamlessly into your worldview. Now you look down on others for needing the same support you did when you were a child.

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Sex workers are real workers, but princesses are sex bourgeoisie.

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I’m a soulist. Soulists are always saying things like that. It’s the best version of leftism.

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These pods are only used on rails with very low ridership. They would switch to a train if ridership increased.

Look at it this way: you can have a train that has a capacity of 100 people, but it only runs once a day due to the low demand, and only 2 people want to ride it at that time of day…Or you can have 10 pods, which do not require as much railway maintenance, and they can carry the 10 people who actually want to use this railway, completely on demand.

Yeah, a train is better if you want to move ten thousand people a day at peak hour. But this is a cheaper way to move ten people at different times across a day. And it’s a cheaper way of inducing the demand that would justify the more efficient kind of expansion.

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