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(12-18-2025, 12:34 PM)quintessentone Wrote: You give opinions that are focusing on validating your single mindedness bias but never extends beyond that. Prove where other cities with high speed rail systems don't stimulate their economies.
I give facts that are backed up by numbers and links that you ignore because you can't admit that someone other than you is correct, and you never admit you are wrong.
No other city/state in the US has built one, you know why? Because they all know it's not worth it. My state talked about a rail way that would go from one side to the other for almost a decade and guess where it ended up? In the trash because it was not going to be worth the initial building and long term maint cost. It was never going to offset itself.
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12-18-2025, 12:42 PM
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(12-18-2025, 12:39 PM)PorkChop96 Wrote: I give facts that are backed up by numbers and links that you ignore because you can't admit that someone other than you is correct, and you never admit you are wrong.
No other city/state in the US has built one, you know why? Because they all know it's not worth it. My state talked about a rail way that would go from one side to the other for almost a decade and guess where it ended up? In the trash because it was not going to be worth the initial building and long term maint cost. It was never going to offset itself.
Opinions and predictions without proper reasoning are not facts, not necessarily what the reality will be.
But if you need to hold on to the negative to think you are proving some sort of point, hey, you do you.
Did you bother to research the economic benefits to cities and spillover benefits to towns close to those cities with high speed rails but found out you were wrong, so came back with no source at all, as per usual?
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12-18-2025, 12:44 PM
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side note
Quote:U.S. Inflation Cools to 2.7% in November, Below Forecasts
The Consumer Price Index climbed 2.7% from a year earlier in November, down from 3.0% in September and under economist predictions of 3.1%. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, hit 2.6%—its lowest since March 2021—while shelter costs eased to 3.0% and food rose 2.6%. Released after an October government shutdown delayed data collection, the report cheered markets, lifted stock futures and Bitcoin above $89,000, and fueled hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026 to help borrowers.
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CNBC audibly GASPS as new inflation numbers destroy expectations. “OH, coming in a little bit better than expected. 2.7%. That is a very good number here, very low monthly rate here.” The lowest since 2021. Check on the Panicans.
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(12-18-2025, 11:39 AM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: Apart from bickering, has anyone got anything to say about his address?
I was surprised that he still claims he can bring drug costs down 400%.
I imagined going to the pharmacy to fill a prescription and getting $800 dollars along with a pill.
But the pill was fentanyl.
So a drone blew me up because I was carrying WMD.
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(12-18-2025, 12:44 PM)putnam6 Wrote: side note
Quote:U.S. Inflation Cools to 2.7% in November, Below Forecasts
The Consumer Price Index climbed 2.7% from a year earlier in November, down from 3.0% in September and under economist predictions of 3.1%. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, hit 2.6%—its lowest since March 2021—while shelter costs eased to 3.0% and food rose 2.6%. Released after an October government shutdown delayed data collection, the report cheered markets, lifted stock futures and Bitcoin above $89,000, and fueled hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026 to help borrowers.
I found this part interesting. Please explain.
Quote:So-called core inflation, or CPI data that excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose by 2.6% over the past 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Economists polled by FactSet had predicted a 3% increase for that measure.
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12-18-2025, 01:14 PM
This post was last modified: 12-18-2025, 01:30 PM by ANNEE. 
(12-18-2025, 12:08 PM)FlyersFan Wrote: Point is .... throwing 'homeschooled' at someone like it's an
insult to intelligence doesn't work. Homeschoolers, on average,
score higher on standardized tests and do better with college
than public school counterparts.
Isn't it interesting that no one ever reports on the failures of home schooling.
Instead -- "they" select a student that has done well -- and that student would probably have done just as well in public school.
Some kids are just good students.
There used to be a site called "I survived Home School". That was an eye opener.
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(12-18-2025, 12:42 PM)quintessentone Wrote: Opinions and predictions without proper reasoning are not facts, not necessarily what the reality will be.
But if you need to hold on to the negative to think you are proving some sort of point, hey, you do you.
Did you bother to research the economic benefits to cities and spillover benefits to towns close to those cities with high speed rails but found out you were wrong, so came back with no source at all, as per usual?
Hard to have a source when no city or sate in the US has a high speed rail way, I already said that but I know you ignore what you want.
Again, you ignore the links I give you so you can have plausible deniability and you remain correct in your head. You ignore the facts that a real life Us citizen gives you because you want to be right at all costs. Good luck with your delusions and bias buddy
You are nothing but a foreign troll, and that is all you will ever be. How you have not found your way onto a suspension on this site is beyond me.
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(12-18-2025, 01:23 PM)PorkChop96 Wrote:
Hard to have a source when no city or sate in the US has a high speed rail way, I already said that but I know you ignore what you want.
Again, you ignore the links I give you so you can have plausible deniability and you remain correct in your head. You ignore the facts that a real life Us citizen gives you because you want to be right at all costs. Good luck with your delusions and bias buddy
You are nothing but a foreign troll, and that is all you will ever be. How you have not found your way onto a suspension on this site is beyond me.
There are plenty of comparable cities worldwide that you can source, but you won't because this is what you do give unfounded opinions without any evidence to back it up.
Then you have to devolve into insults because it's all ya got left when reason and truth are nowhere to be found.
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(12-18-2025, 01:23 PM)PorkChop96 Wrote: You are nothing but a foreign troll, and that is all you will ever be. How you have not found your way onto a suspension on this site is beyond me.
You ever considered posting without attempts at insult?
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(12-18-2025, 01:27 PM)quintessentone Wrote: There are plenty of comparable cities worldwide that you can source, but you won't because this is what you do give unfounded opinions without any evidence to back it up.
Then you have to devolve into insults because it's all ya got left when reason and truth are nowhere to be found.
The rest of the world is not the US, we are talking about Trump and Newsome, not some other city that has no affect on the US.
Do you know why these things work in other countries, but not in the US? Europe and almost every other country population density is not that of the US. Cities are far more spread out than in places like Europe or Chine or Japan. Go on a road trip in Europe and you can go through a multitude of different countries in a 12 hour ride. Get in your car and drive 14 hours across Texas, and you are still in Texas.
You are blind to reality because you choose to be. You denounce the comparison of the US to other countries in almost all arguments, unless you are the one who brings it up. But that's no surprise. Again, without your double standards, you'd have no standards at all.
If you feel insulted by the truth, that is a you problem. Maybe you should work on that.
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