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[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if you could even get tubes installed nowadays. You would probably have to spin up a bespoke company to install them, hiring a bunch of people who've never done it before and training as you go, and then everyone would lose their job at the end of the process.

Just like building railcars in the US.

[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Founding a tube-based startup with a silly name missing a letter in it like Tubr or something, and you've gotta pay a subscription to keep access to your tubes, but you can send packages through them to other Tubr subscribers

[–] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

You and a friend have to change your names so you can make the spunky new mail tube startup, 2-Bueller

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Nah. Hospitals and certain labs still build new tube systems to move samples or radioactive material around, and some stadiums actually use them to do money drops. They've just largely been replaced in most office buildings by email, since the things usually sent in office towers were usually just papers.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Fewer people would die

Probably