“How do you find around the subway?”
Uyghur: “I can either follow the grooves in the floor for blind people or I watch out for the signs that are in Mandarin, English, and my native script!”
American: “I cast daylight and roll 1d20 for perception”
But you see that’s bad because it robs the Chinese people of the adventure of exploring their own cities by getting lost in labyrinthian Kafkaesque transit systems thus proving the see see per is ebil! - some paid shill probably
but at what cost
Several billion yuan to the government to build it
Yea, ok, but can you murder mentally ill minorities on Chinas subways and be treated like a hero?
Shhhhhhh stop giving the ASPI ideas.
BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE LED CAR TUNNEL IN VEGAS? CHECKMATE
Probably about as wide as that tube boyyo comin out of
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That’s right, improving the subway system would amount to gentrification and an assault on the American way of life!
You can’t just say gentrification as if the NYC subway were a part of town where poor people live! Oh wait
As well as the Asian-American who was pushed in front of an oncoming train.
A few years ago a Chinese diplomat was tweeting about how there was a terror attack by Uighur extremists at a metro station in a large Chinese city. He explained it like “imagine if someone went to a busy Dallas subway station and started stabbing people.”
A bunch of Yankoids responded like: "Hah! Ignorant Chinese just assuming we have a subway in Dallas
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taps head can’t have subway stabbings when there are no subways
American ingenuity
That’s what elementary schools are for
Colllddd 😂😂 and fucking true 🙁
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when life imitates art
US infrastructure is, like 50 years, behind.
US infrastructure is like 50 years behind where it was in US 50 years ago.
For most cities true. For NYC, I think present infrastructure is better than the 70s.
For the most part it is the same infrastructure. The signal system in the subway is still analog.
NYC public transit in the 70’s was like a Mad Max war zone.
Warriors, come and playyyyyyayyyyy
might be, hard to say to be honest, which says a lot of itself
And 50 years unmaintained
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I have seen train stations built 200 years ago that look significantly better than that
That right one looks like something out of a nuclear apocalypse.
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I figured that the richest city on earth would have good public transport. When I visited for the first time I was shocked to find that there was no aircon, no cell reception, and rats fucking on the platform.
This is effective infrastructure use. Instead of having to run cell service or wifi in the tunnels just so people can browse porn on their phones, they bring the smut directly to you.
Yeah, when I visited NYC I was in awe just how dilapidated that subway was
The state of the subway system is a really good proxy for how civilized a place is.
Ok nobody panic but the Iroquoian and Algonquian script has been removed from the signage in the New York photo. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions or anything but maybe we should keep an eye on that area just to be sure there’s no cultural erasure happening. I don’t want to be dropping the big G word or anything rash like that but I haven’t seen any evidence of the indigenous population practicing their local customs and culture in the area, except in obviously-staged displays.
To be fair, the xinjiang subway is 4 years old. The NY subway is 99 years old.
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To be fair, this is the US you’re talking about. It’s a difficult sell to get it to work on infrastructure at all.
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It’s just going to to be this meme reposted.
It’ll be this meme but the photo of the ny subway will just be desert dunes
We can always hope for communist revolution in the USA one day
I, too, wish I’d still be around to visit the Urumqi Orbital Elevator Station
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one day China will be as run down as the US. Checkmate tankies
Nah, the U.S. is definitely in the negatives — being taken over by nature would be an infrastructure upgrade
comrade
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Buh b but that’s a whattaboutism.
If you’re not familiar with Hexbear, sarcastic takes like this are common.
You know it’s a Hexbear user when there’s all these emoji like that.
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“Honey, it’s time for your daily low speed train derailment.”
“Yes dear.”
This is one of my favorite genres of lib cope. Somehow they have convinced themselves that repairing existing infrastructure is harder than building it new.
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Okay, then explain the profit centers in this so-called “maintenance”
It’s 124 years old, and has more stations than any other metro/subway in the world.
Yes, it should be better, but this is not exactly a fair comparison.
Trilingual metro signage? Why don’t they just learn English
