They don’t understand probability

  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Statistics do not help, when you have a feeling. The honest solution is to make the experience feel safer. So clean open friendly light stations help a lot and the trains should also be clean and friendly.

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      5 months ago

      Exactly. Dirty noisy smelly subways are not where people want to be. I’ll take a car any day over that. Sorry.

      Tbf, ive only been on the Chicago and Boston subways. They were pretty freaky at night.

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          5 months ago

          You’re right, but in a car youre isolated from that, see the difference ?

          A car driving through a crappy neighborhood os better than getting on a subway in a carappy neighborhood. Now, this isnt even a question of are cars good or bad but more of if the streets were cleaned up decently and we had well taken care of public transit.

          Inner city I agree cars are a nightmare. Sub 100k people towns and rural areas, they are necessary.

          They’re also necessary if you haul a lot of stuff for work/hobbies, as I do.

    • Rooster326@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      The honest solution is to make the experience feel safer. So clean open friendly light stations help a lot and the trains should also be clean and friendly.


      No, no, the solution is to remove the benches, setup hostile architecture, put bars on every piece of glass, and…

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