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They don’t understand probability

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week 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.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week 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.

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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