Yup. It’s something that won’t be fixed for decades. Trump has seriously damaged the ability for the US to do international trade.

A really sad fact is that rail lines used to connect even the most rural of communities. Many cities removed rail lines to put in roadways.

You can still find rails to a lot of farms in Idaho because that’s how produce used to be shipped.

The big rail companies are a major reason rail sucks in the US. They were given the land for their lines nearly for free with the promise they’d provide public transit. Well, they stopped that. So the US created Amtrak to relieve them of the obligation of public transit with the promise that Amtrak trains would get priority. Well they constantly break that law which makes Amtrak suck with constant delays.

Heck, these companies are at least supposed to be in charge of maintaining the lines, and they don’t do that either. The US has a crazy number of derailments and a big reason for some of them is that the tracks receive little maintenance.

These are still multi billion dollar companies and they do what all giant companies do and nickel/dime everything.

" public transit is communism! I love spending $100,000 on my Dodge baby crusher 5000 that charges me 7 bucks a month to roll down windows"

It’s a mess. You first run into bandwidth problems on the incoming streams. But you also run into a problem with the device support matrix.

If you say “We’ll support H.264, H.265, AV1, AV2” and “We’ll support 480p, 720p, 1080p, 4k”. Now you’d be asking the clients to do 16 different encodes to upload.

This gets more complicated if you add more streams or supported formats. You also end up needing to coordinate that with the client.

AFAIK, the way youtube currently handles this problem is they have dedicated encoders for live streams and fast encoding. For popular videos they do a second step where they do a more full matrix to optimize viewership.

IDK what youtube does for storage (if anything).

A service like youtube is simply hard to pull of with bailing twine and string (like lemmy).

A core part of the service that youtube offers is re-encoding uploads. That requires some beefy hardware to serve even a moderate number of people.

Kagi AI will answer

Some psychiatrists and psychologists have speculated that Donald Trump may be exhibiting signs of dementia. These concerns have been raised by experts who point to his public appearances and statements as evidence of cognitive decline. Factors such as his age (nearly 80) and a family history of dementia have also been mentioned as contributing to these concerns

Specifically, some have identified “four signs” of dementia that they believe Trump is showing. One of these signs mentioned is confabulation, which is described as “honest lying” or memory lapses, and is considered a potential indicator of dementia

However, it is worth noting that one report indicated Trump was assessed for cognitive function, which was found to be normal. Despite this, questions about his mental acuity persist among some observers

If you are wonder why her and not the senators, Schumer and Gillibrand aren’t up for election for several years. Hochul is up for election next year.

The people that are really dumb are the congressional representatives of NYC such as Jeffries. He should be primaried.