Nijajjuiy88

Nijajjuiy88 t1_iymm7yv wrote

Not just that, part of their country ran on different gauge, there were like 3 gauges iirc. Also the speed was limited to 10 km/h (lol a cycle is better) in order to avoid bottlenecks.

When they took their troops from Serbia and tried to move them to Galicia or something they nearly went around the country at this speed. Icing on the cake was that Austria declared to Germany that these troops were already present.

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Nijajjuiy88 t1_iylfx4d wrote

Apart from the scortched earth policy, they did however capture a lot of rolling stock early in the war.

But the soviet engines required different octane fuel (I am not recalling whether it was diesel or petrol) than German trains. Also the fact that German coal couldnt be used for soviet trains for some reason. That made it difficult to keep them running.

Railway stations were few and far, so the trains running in USSR had to carry a lot of fuel for the journey.

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Nijajjuiy88 t1_iu4xwro wrote

Yeah but they cant do what we can. They are evolved and have adapted to their niche, and if changes occur they undergo slow process of evolution. We the humans may not be as resilient. We have outpaced the need for evolution, we adapt our environment for us rather than the other way around.

That was my point, we may be weaker as individuals but as a species? we are the strongest and are only getting stronger. Although our civilization wont progress at some point in future because it came at the expense of our nature :{.

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Nijajjuiy88 t1_iu4tqfp wrote

Calm down I was just giving an analogy like you were.

I was saying if you look at the global scare, we are getting stronger, we are learning and adapting at a pace never seen before and we are passing on the genes, genes which would have died out before now can survive and contribute to humanity.

I disagree with your assertion that individuality brought technology. It was the communication and humans' way of co-ordinating together to adapt and pass on the information. We survived literally because of our community and social relationships not because of individuality.

I never denied capitalism did not do that, and I am not sure why you mentioned it since majority of comment barely mentioned capitalism.

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Nijajjuiy88 t1_iu4r9xa wrote

> We were meant to get stronger, learn, fuck and pass to those traits on so humanity can evolve.

Which we are doing if you look at it from the bigger scale. I think of different cells which were stronger individually but then evolved to form a multi cellular organism losing their individuality and each cell losing one of their strengths. Meanwhile the organism is strong, complex with a lot of specialties.

Capitalism is ripping us of our individuality because it is not efficient.

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