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I'm assessing whether your "guess" is wild SF-inspired imagination or grounded in anything, you know, actually factual.

You've answered.

Sportsmanlike behaviour in the modern age?

That IS weird! 🤣

How adorable.

Just the high-speed trains here carry just under 3 billion passengers per year. Divide it by respective populations (land area is roughly equivalent) and you've got the equivalent of the USA carrying 735 million passengers annually.

And that's just high-speed trains.

If you factor in regular rail we can add about 730 million extra passengers (183 million extra passengers for US population adjustment).

The USA has a whole lot of work to do before it catches up even on regular rail, not to mention high-speed.

This is "Single-Bamboo Drifting" (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

Judging by later messages, this is a True Believer. Which when translated to English is "idiot".

You seem both nice and very bright.

there are a bunch of orb-like UFOs exploring our sensitive areas

I think you will find that traditionally they do anal probes for this.

Seems like military drone tests in my opinion.

Have any actual expertise to back that opinion up?

(Hint: probably not.)

Things like the "C-Trains" in Calgary, despite being intended for mass transit (and ridden mainly by the poors) are also multi-compartment.

The reasons it's so narrow is that Apartheid Manchild's "Boring Company" has drills that are too small for the projects he envisions using them for.

What was supposed to be a simple task (modifying some code from an MCU to another MCU in the same family) is turning into a nightmare as it turns out that the "same family" can be radically different with this vendor's products.

So ... "fun". In both the ironic and not-ironic sense.