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Light Speed Rail (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/memes@midwest.social

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[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What a shit format. 🤮🤌🏼

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It genuinely looks like they went into the image cropping tool and took a screenshot of it.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

I thought they were going for a Political Compass meme look, but just did it badly.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agree, but I think this belongs in the shitpost community for its truly abhorrent execution.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

OP should feel bad enough to fix this crop 🤮

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't get it. Do folks with autism tend to be rail fans or something?

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 15 points 7 months ago

Yes

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Long running joke is that autistic people like trains (I have no idea about reality).

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

I can confirm that I liked trains long before my diagnosis 🤣

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard the notion before that autists generally like trains, but that might be a thing.

Autism tends to come with hypersensitivity and with too much stimulation, you get sensory overload.
And well, personal experience is that, yeah, trains are the best in that regard. I can just listen to music and then it's basically like being at home.
Buses are less good, because they vibrate more.

And cars are just the worst. Not only do they vibrate, they're also loud (and you can't put in ear buds) and you constantly need to be focused on the street. Assholes will also readily put you into dangerous, even more stressful, situations, if you ever dare to go less than 110% of the speed limit.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever seen the bisection/engineering diagram of a steam train? Shits INSANE. That's why I personally love trains :).

Here is a dumbed-down one :).

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Oh wow, yeah, the top part is kind of what you'd expect, but the bottom part looks like one of those mad diagrams for supposed perpetuum mobiles, with one part pushing another, which pushes something else, which leads to the first part being pushed again...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

If you like that, you might like the Blondihacks Youtube channel, which (among other machinist things) features building a live-steam model locomotive from scratch