ramble81@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat is your biggest "first world" disappointment?message-squaremessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1123arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your biggest "first world" disappointment?ramble81@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square40linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefrostedtrailblazer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up85arrow-down1·1 day agoThat we can have bullet trains, but not here apparently for no reason other than greed.
minus-squarejubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up48arrow-down1·1 day ago“Can we have comfortable flights on airplanes?” “No.” “Can they at least be affordable then?” “Yeeaaahhhh… No.” “OK. How about the existing passenger trains? Can they be…” “Nope!”
minus-squareZugyuk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·23 hours agoDo ya feel like doing pull ups before ya fly? The big guy sitting next to ya does.
That we can have bullet trains, but not here apparently for no reason other than greed.
“Can we have comfortable flights on airplanes?”
“No.”
“Can they at least be affordable then?”
“Yeeaaahhhh… No.”
“OK. How about the existing passenger trains? Can they be…”
“Nope!”
Do ya feel like doing pull ups before ya fly? The big guy sitting next to ya does.