Sure, but "effectiveness" is usually not a binary and is often difficult to measure. Small, but persistent changes should still add up. Eventually.
So long as people recognize that these things are in fact quite toothless, I'm not sure they are entirely detrimental. There's no reason this couldn't be used as a starting point for more effective action, now that signatories are in greater contact with the campaign.
I don't know.
I still think there's at least some value, even if the only thing it accomplishes is getting people to talk about it. Many people have never even heard of The Internet Archive.
Either way, there isn't really a reason not to.
Sure, but it is still better than doing nothing.
the California government didn’t give him money for that
Right, but Las Vegas did and still is. It's more about how so many people in power were duped into believing it was ever a reasonable method of transportation. It would be dishonest to call it anything other than a publicity stunt / tourist attraction for SV tech bros.
I mean it’s the first system of its kind in the country and it’s being built in a state full of NIMBYs
Acquisitions through eminent domain have been used for far more nefarious purposes in the past.
the ticket cost will be 100 dollars from San Francisco to LA
I would be pleasantly surprised if that comes to be reality, though the cost of the project keeps rising and business school drop outs are going to demand costs be recouped through higher ticket prices.
What?
I am criticizing that the project is 10 years behind schedule and that there are very few comparable initiatives to expand passenger rail.
Instead of prioritizing work on proven solutions, funding is going to fringe science fair projects. Elon Musk literally got government permission and funds to dig a subway tunnel for electric cars.
Even if the CAHSR project is completed, it will likely be expected to run as a for-profit enterprise like Amtrak, making ticket prices unaffordable for many commuters.
Pedantism does not change the fact that the passenger rail system in US is severely underdeveloped when compared to other nations.
So, they're throwing money at Silicon Valley tech companies that want to sell speculative and unproven tech because they can't figure out how to build even a single train?
Yeah. Currently, there's also no consensus that carbon capture or geo-engineering are even reasonably feasible solutions. They are still very much in the experimental stage.
Assuming we will invent a technological solution sometime in the future, instead of reducing emissions now is irresponsible and an excuse for inaction.
I expected a bit more competency from pew research, but it seems that this quiz misses the mark quite badly.
the Russian people still widely support the violent invasion and illegal war on Ukraine
How about the person in the video? Did you ask her? She makes no comment on her perspective of the war in the video.
So instead, without any knowledge of her personal views, bigoted people say she deserves to be hated simply because she is Russian, and everyone knows that all Russians love the war and want to eat children.
So, foreign judges who are meddling in HK affairs are upset that China (the inheritor of HK) is meddling in HK affairs?
If the West actually cared about HK independence, why do they wish to maintain colonial judges in HK courts? If they cared, shouldn't HK judges be in HK courts?
While China has been heavy handed in its effort to speed up the timeline of the power transfer, in the end, the West has concluded that HK is to be Chinese territory. By the West's own policy, these are foreign judges getting kicked out by the "rightful" new rulers, just a bit early.