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trial3 | 3 months ago

this… can’t be a serious suggestion, can it? have you ever had to rely on public transit in a major city?

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fragmede|3 months ago

Oh which continent? Is it possible that what you assume it's normal and default is colored by your personal experience and not representative of the world at large?

trial3|3 months ago

> Oh which continent?

what answer could i possibly give to you that would change your response? antarctica?

> Is it possible that what you assume it's normal and default is colored by your personal experience and not representative of the world at large?

of course this is true. what are you going for here. my objection is to standing up a Train Security Panopticon with "modern AI" and locking commuters (in north america) on a train (in north america) who might depend on a schedule (using a north american time zone) stuck at a station until the (north american) cops can come and pull someone (who statistically, but not for sure, would be north american) off of the car for being drunk (off of beer i've had in my personal experience, coloring this example, which may not be the beer that is representative of the world at large) and napping on the seats