Jesus Christ…

Who’s that?

I know, this one is shorter and has mechanical brakes. Not as great but I imagine the Czech one, one of the largest in Europe, has very few English-language sources that could have pointed it out to him. I don’t know whether the Claughton one cannot be ridden or Tom is just squeamish about safety (see description) but the Černý Důl one definitely can, that’s how they do routine inspections.

That is not the problem. Politicians should often be forward-thinking. In the US, failure to plan more than 2 years ahead is a huge detriment to infrastructure funding. Of course, central long-term planning à la USSR that does not consider market developments is an example of how wrong the opposite extreme can go.

Given who Trump considers worthy of detention, the centers will have to be near major cities.

An early version of the Petřín ropeway in Prague used to contain tanks in both cars. The upper one would be filled with sewage collected rainwater from the city’s hilltop quarter and the energy of the descent was used to pull the other car up. Additionally, the way up cost twice as much so there was an incentive to ascend on foot, which was about as fast despite the incline.

He literally has

Filmed safely: https://www.tomscott.com/safe/

in the description. Meanwhile, that fat dude from Vrchlabí jumped into a moving bucket of one that is faster, 2.5x longer, at deadly height, and his only plan of getting down safely was a mattress. He acknowledged how illegal and dangerous it is and yet publishes the video with his full name.

Just accept it, Tom Scott was being way more cautious.

I hope OpenTTD devs consider adding gravity-based electric transportation of heavy loads as an option

Not very smart that they waste all that energy in mechanical brakes. See my comment (the one with the picture) for a way bigger and electricity-generating ropeway, including a video of a guy less squeamish than Tom Scott riding most of the 45-minute way up.

Amateurs.

The 1963 Černý Důl – Kunčice nad Labem aerial ropeway is over 8 km (5 mi) long, over 30 m high in places and carries 135 tons of limestone every hour from a quarry to the nearest train station. Its 120kW 3-phase synchronous motor requires power for a few minutes at the start and end of each day when most of the 800kg-capacity trolleys are empty, and spends most of the shift generating mains electricity and acting as a speed governor. Unlike the EV, it is fully autonomous most of the way, only 5 people are required to operate it. (Loading, unloading and timed dispatching is automatic, arriving/leaving carts just need to be checked; a safety latch has to be manually dis/engaged on trolleys passing the check.) The quarry will continue operation as long as it pays off, then the ropeway will be scrapped (projected 2033). A dude illegally rode the way up on it somewhat recently. He could have fallen to his death if he pulled the latch.

Both elections he’s won have been against women. I think he will not ban women from office because he sees them as statistically weaker opponents against his successors.

To get the first female president and show that a woman wouldn’t press the nuclear button within 30 seconds of taking office.

TL;DR Inflation in 2021 got incorrectly blamed on Biden. Most incumbents in democracies worldwide got a popularity hit in the past 2 years.

There are specialized machines for this that resemble industrial vacuum cleaners but even bigger. Cleaned balls are bagged and get poured back once the floor and walls are sanitized. Do the operators keep track of when this was last done? Yes, and they aren’t proud of it so you won’t see cleaning logs hanging nearby like at most mall toilets.

Dearborn, Michigan, after its population drops by 30%: “Thanks for removing the bad hombres”

Wrong sentence to put “Opinion:” in front of

Here is some Czech TV Monday reporting from there (at cca 1:30)

Not for the elections, for the presidential election please. Seeing minor Democratic victories (although they are noteworthy) make it to All/Hot makes it seem like the presidential race has been lost despite it being foo early to call.

Thank you for keeping the community booming!

It won him some Muslim voters though. Yesterday, I saw one interviewed on TV, paraphrasing: “He withdrew troops from Afghanistan, started no wars and promised to end the war in Gaza.”

Is it stupid? Yes. Is it what a potentially tipping demographics thinks? Yes.

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