Yup. In basically all terms, rail is more efficient than airplanes.

The only thing that makes Amtrak less efficient in the US is the fact that it’s unused. And the reason it’s unused is because it’s an afterthought in government spending.

1. Amtrak isn’t funded by the US government. They have to extract all their funding from operations.

2. Amtrak’s service is bad mainly because the line operators have found ways to make it impossible to effectively operate. That means late and long delayed trains with unpredictable arrival/departure times.

3. Amtrak is slow, mainly because it has almost no dedicated lines. It has to share them with line operators.

4. Very few people use amtrak.

The end result is a high price. Few people using amtrak means it has to hike ticket prices up.

The only way for Amtrak to get better is extensive investment by the feds and regulation of rail lines in general. Without that, as you’ve correctly observed it will always be disadvantaged compared to other modes of transport.

But hey, the war in Iran might make it cheaper than driving so that’s something.

I looked at the lawsuit details. Steam basically did what everyone else does. Apple, google, EA, everyone.

They charge 30% of the sale. They require that the steam price be the same as an external price.

It’s the most nothing of nothings.

To compare, what MS did when they got smacked with their monopoly lawsuit is bundle IE with the OS and they both made it hard to switch the default and they’d constantly try to switch you back to IE.

Red green color blindness is the most common form of color blindness.

To someone with that form of color blindness these shirts would be different shades of the same color (think, dark red vs light red).

I have one coworker with red green color blindness that said that peanut butter and zucchinis were roughly the same color to him (Oh, it’s also more common in men than women).