Jun 28, 2022
emmet, at a rapidly increasing volume: maglevs are a half-century of a solution searching for a problem, compared to regular high-speed rail they are expensive and inefficient and difficult to maintain -
ingo, at a much louder, also rapidly increasing volume: maglevs have important use cases not easily served by conventional rail, the mere fact that they cannot replace standard trains entirely is no reason to dismiss the entire technology out of hand -
depot agent in the next car over: oh great, The Maglev Argument :retrieves headphones, sets timer:
#ingo#emmet#subway masters#i didn't expect to get into this but somehow i did#look 'aggressively autistic middle-aged Train Guys loudly living their best lives' was a more potent pitch than i expected#ah the freedom to do exactly what you want all day and talk entirely in special interest references#it's... aspirational#emmet hold a five-minute conversation that isn't about pokemon battles trains or pokemon battles on trains challenge#ingo doesn't get this challenge because he can mask. i love how they're both Very Autistic but also Very Differently Autistic#anyway yeah i refuse to believe they're under thirty#mitzi headcanons#mitzi posts
