@valizadehir@MarioNawfal A country sitting on some of the largest gas reserves on earth is rationing water and short on winter heat, its most visible 'advanced tech' is missiles and drones, and most of its best engineers are hopping ship for a pay raise. That's not innovation flourishing under pressure.
@valizadehir@MarioNawfal Where did i say Iran has no capability? That was never argued. Your post claimed sanctions *created* it but they survived in spite of them at ENOURMOUS opportunity cost, not just economical but human life as well.
@valizadehir@MarioNawfal Oh no sir, you misread. None of the first sentence was sarcasm at all. They're ACTUALLY very smart, very talented engineers, which is what's sad about it. You cut them off from the global internet and make their day to day lives insanely hard, THEN you vastly underpay them.
@valizadehir@MarioNawfal Lmao it's a shame these highly talented and incredibly smart engineers are earning an average of $600/month. Not to mention the water supply in your capital being catastrophically low so they definitely do have redbull access. I can only imagine the developer workflow state π
@Pontifex Leo you have to provide sources and experiments/data to backup your claim and then publish your thesis to arXiv for peer review. There's a process here sir.
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@KelseaBondATL No one is arguing against public transportation here. What we're doing is discussing the options and the cost. If you want Marta expansion then you'll first have to fight for Marta reform in order to gain public trust in Marta. Until then you're just throwing away tax dollars
@KelseaBondATL Well if you support the workers there then you should understand why marta (at least in it's current form) can't come to the beltline. You need to find a solution that maintains and enables foot traffic, not one that will kill it. And marta on the beltline will kill it.
@FBATANK@KelseaBondATL It doesn't have to be that way. The electric trams in New Orleans are nice and all people really want is something they can hop on and off of to het up and down the beltline faster. We have to start offloading the foot traffic along the routes because its starting to overcrowd.
@KelseaBondATL Feel however you want about the business owners, even pursue increasing taxes on said business owners if you can get your constituents to vote for it. But the people who WORK in that market day to day need that foot traffic. Those are hard working people in that market.
@KelseaBondATL That "big market" where you're "supposed to buy stuff" provides jobs for a ton of Atlantians. However, you would probably garner more support by advocating for more park benches, without attacking the main revenue drivers for the beltlines existence.
@KelseaBondATL What?? Ponce is FULL of public benches, picnic tables, and public restrooms. Hell, everytime I scoot past that Kroger I hear the same 2 guys out blasting Young Dolph music. He's right that marta isnt the answer. He's wrong about the self driving vehicles. We need an electric tram