this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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A Boring Dystopia
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People who build trains: intentional, making long term plans, interested in the impact of their actions
People who build data centers and surveillance equipment: rash, focused on this quarter's profit, insulated from the impact of their actions
Trains in the US take so long to build because of bureaucratic red tape intentionally designed to make it as slow and expensive as possible