• crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    tbf the nyc subway is extremely convoluted and unintuitive to use compared to more civilized metros, lots of arcane rules like “only the first 3 cars can fit in this station so if you want to get off there you better remember where in the train you are” or “trains with prime numbers only stop at every other station during rush hour” which are never posted anywhere. It’s like the least beginner-friendly metro of any on earth, even ones where the beginner doesn’t speak the local language.

    that said it’s still not that hard, you buy a ticket, you try to get on the right train, and worst-case you end up 20 blocks away from your destination and try again

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      Don’t @ me about footprint but this is on the way to having the personal CO2-Footprint of the actual cruise ship by going so often all the breakdowns per passenger just end up at 100% again

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        There are cruise ships that people live on. Like, they don’t book them out, you buy a spot on the ship and they just go around the world and stop places. There are multiple year-long cruises, dozens of month-long ones. Most of the ships have been in service since the 70s, sold, resold, refitted. It’s truly a cursed industry.

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    The NYC subway has a bit of a learning curve, but it really isn’t that bad. People are pretty understanding about non-locals being confused and will answer questions readily, and pretty much the worst case scenario is that you accidentally catch an express train, miss the stop you were shooting for, and have to go across to the other platform to go a few stops back in the other direction. Being unwilling to even try is just baby brained, especially for a “travel journalist.”

    Oh she’s a “travel journalist” who almost exclusively does cruises and Disney resorts. That makes more sense.

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    Ilive in a part of Florida where public transit isn’t really a thing, so learning how to ride

    IN FLORIDA ONLY UNTOUCHABLES USE PUBLIC TRANSIT AND LEARNING HOW TO RIDE LIKE A POOR IS HARD

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      This honestly feels more like medieval lord brain, which I also think is a big part of car brain

      Share a space with the commoners? By god, what if I catch the poor off of them?

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          I don’t mean this as an attack but one could write books about how much cars retroactively shaped perception of transport and city planning before cars. It’s insane. The usual thing seems to be to assume that because everybody has a car now everybody just used to have an individual horse, commuting from their suburbian slash peasant dwelling living place on horse roads with horse congestion to downtown (centrally planned around 50.000 horses to the detriment of 8 cranks that walked). For 99% of history and for 99% of people your options to get anywhere were:

          a) walking b) public transport of some sort

          Then came train, bicycle, automobile at around a 50 year timeframe. First one revolutionized public transport, second one revolutionized individual transport and then for another 50 years cars were hated by everybody but the rich dipshits that could afford them endangering anybody else.

          You ever hear someone say “roads [or roadspace] was always for cars”? Yeah, it’s that. It’s assuming that because the world is the way that it is now, it used to be that way forever, except horse.

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            Just to add in that some places people traveled on water regularly. Even built canals to bring the water where it wasn’t.

            Also in the winter you can snowshoe, ski or sled. If there’s enough snow.

            Doesnt dispute any point tho.

          • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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            Oh I 100% agree with this, I’m not saying a medieval peasant would be excited to ride a metro because it would solve their like commute issues because peasants didn’t have a commute lol, they could just walk to the fields from town. I’m talking strictly because trains are cool and a medieval peasant would think it’s cool to ride a magical on-land boat.

  • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I am from a place where there’s no train/subway or anything, but I was broke growing up so I did ride the city bus which is easy to use.

    However, the first time I rode the subway in Boston was a terrifying, overwhelming and disorienting experience. Didn’t help that it was rush hour and also everyone on the east coast just automatically fucking hates strangers or something so I had some trouble getting help to work the ticketing machine, one MBTA worker literally laughed at me. Once I was on the train there was nothing to hold on to because of was packed like sardines and I thought I was gonna fly into the people next to me.

    Anyway my Midwestern ass wanted to avoid it after that. I buried that feeling and figured everything out for my next ride though (I discovered the MBTA app), but I think a lot of people take mass public transit for granted if you were blessed enough to have it all your life.

    I at least tried unlike this lady though lmao

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    It’s understandable to be confused by the strange commercialized transit scheme in New York. Probably not as understandable to be an adult and not know how to read a map but that’s the education system’s failure, not a moral failure.

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    You spend over 25% of the year traveling… And you’ve never gone somewhere with lots of public transit? Ok not NYC which is one of few transit systems in the US that’s worth anything… But what never big cities in… Europe? Asia? Atleast to pass through em for a few days if most of your travel is rural (which I doubt).

    Just going to Tokyo and only taking the taxi.

    Or what she just goes to LA like 20 times a year?

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    I remember when I first left Florida I had no idea how to use transit either. I had to look it up and spent hours trying to figure it out. after doing so however, I know for sure it’s a genuine goal of mine to see how long I can make it without owning a car even if I end up back in Florida just out of spite