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Anonymous 6w

Ok this was kind of funny

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Anonymous 6w

Do you want steam engines to make a comeback? Cuz it sounds like you’re asking for steam engines?

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Anonymous 6w

LMFAOOO

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Anonymous 5w

you know, i’m generally pretty sensitive towards & critical of stereotypes about autism, but i really do find the “train-obsessed” jokes uniquely innocuous 🤔 it’s kinda fun to have such a neutral & harmless cliche to play with, ykwim

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

Maglev trains forever.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

Shinkansen!!! 🚅

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

新幹線!! All the way! We need Japanese insight in best rail practices. 🙂‍↕️

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Anonymous 5w

We’ll have them work on mapping and terrain work and Japanese conductor and maintenance crew workshops. 🙂‍↕️

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Actually fascinating fact one of the best ways we’ve found to map optimal train routes is to grow slime mould and give it food sources at each station and watch the path it chooses to grow.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Wait, trubiz!? Have any good references for me to read into? 👀

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 5w

Yeah, I get it! Trains aren’t in my wheelhouse of interest very much, but I love when people have a fixation on it and study these things. Diversity of interests is just a net-gain and is how we continue to develop!

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

If you google “slime mold trains” bunch of articles come right up, on how it grows a nearly identical network to the Tokyo subway system, using oat flakes 🤣

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

Makes me wish my city actually went forward with and finished building the network they started constructing… now we just have the old tunnel downtown. 🫩

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

totally, the world needs people who can organically feel passionate enough about a subject to become super knowledgeable about it. plus even aside from any functionality to society, i think it’s an admirable trait

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

(not that positive stereotypes can’t also be burdensome ofc, but fortunately it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing where people Expect us to be like, load-bearing geniuses or something lol)

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