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nifty, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

, because there are people there, there are structures, there are authorities and systems that can help.

Bystander effect is real, plenty of people have been harassed without the harasser facing any consequences. I think one improvement over our current system would be to disallow harassers the use of public transport for a period of time, or provide them with mental health help? I am not sure if it’s the best solution, but it’s kind of similar to what we do with people who drive drunk, or those who have to get anger management classes after road rage. Fines would also be a good idea.

An anecdote: there was a lady once on a subway platform who was yelling about colored people. She wasn’t bothering anyone in particular, though. There was at least one incident of someone stabbing and killing someone for defending minorities. These interactions are not safe for people and defenders alike. Moreover, you cannot react fast enough in some instances if someone wants to hurt you. For example, people have been pushed off train platforms. Regarding getting police help, if someone is walking around wearing a poster of “Christ hates gays” or something, the police might not do anything because of free speech laws (or because they agree sometimes).

These things are all kinda related, better housing policies lead to less homelessness and less instability, and therefore people with less mental issues. I don’t think simply having more efficient public transportation will make using public transport safer. Perfect solutions don’t exist, so at the very least I hope there are also anti-harassment policies like fines, losing privileges for a reasonable and proportionate amount of time, or having to take mandatory classes or providing mental health help for the harasser.

I want good public transportation as well, but for me the definition of good also includes having adequate safety measures.

That said, I really appreciate the passion some community members display for their topics of interest. What gets annoying for me though is what appears to be an utter lack of empathy or consideration for an alternative view. I think I am done, honestly—some people will think I am inconsiderate regardless of what I say. Whatever.

Here’s some news from places with great public transportation which supports my point that efficient does not equal safe:

1. from Japan: tankenjapan.com/how-common-is-chikan-unwanted-tou…
2. From 6 days ago: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8829ked1x3o
3. on buses, tfl.gov.uk/corporate/…/bus-crime-statistics
4. from Germany: thelocal.de/…/which-german-train-stations-have-th…

Note that I am not using one-off incidences as examples, but what you’d expect to be routine crime on a given day.

nifty, 4 months ago

I don’t know about this product, so I just looked it up, but my understanding is any product offering safety has some regulations, like bicycle helmets. Here’s what I found about airbag vests: afmb.bike/…/motorcycle-airbag-vest-standards-and-…

nifty, 4 months ago

Wait so I am pretty sure that’s not allowed by safety regs? They could get sued pretty badly for this unless I am mistaken.

nifty, 4 months ago

I wish restaurants could allow web app based ordering if I just want to get a refill on drinks, ketchup etc. without bothering a person. If I can order things without servers that’d be great as long as a server is available to answer questions if needed.

nifty, 4 months ago

giving kids lunch for free is communism

People think absurd things like that because of racism.

nifty, 4 months ago

People who period are more likely to have less average blood volumes, but you’re right that they may not necessarily be girls.

nifty, 4 months ago

It’s low blood volume or anemia-induced in most cases I’d say.

nifty, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I haven’t been using social media for 10+ years besides some on/off shitposting on hacker news. I’d love to find something for music management that’s not sucky and uber corpo like Spotify. I use Bandcamp for buying from niche artists and sound cloud for finding new labels, but sound cloud is too Spotifyish now. Deezer used to be nice before they started region restrictions.

nifty, 4 months ago

We’re too busy licking boots and eating Micky Ds.

/s

nifty, 4 months ago

Hey, have you been reading my diary?? Tsk, tsk

nifty, 4 months ago

youtu.be/rtDNjrffsec

nifty, 4 months ago

I can’t read, but I can tap dance. Do you want me to tap dance?

nifty, 4 months ago

Assuming you succeed, will you then get your makeup, glasses, clothes, and computer? Or internet? Or electricity? Or running water?

nifty, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

In the off chance you’re semi-serious, it’s hard to have a compete systems level understanding of anything, so you can’t actually predict the unknown unknown consequences. It’s like trying to strategically projectile vomit, you’ll get most of that into the desired location but some of that acidic chum is def landing somewhere you didn’t intend lol

nifty, 4 months ago

I love you.

nifty, 4 months ago

You just add celery and cucumbers, and you almost have crudités.

nifty, 4 months ago

That looks delicious and I’d eat it so hard.

nifty, 4 months ago

What nation would speak this? NoCapistan?

nifty, 4 months ago

Easy peasy: just be sensitive and get hurt a lot, emotions turn off, and stay off, by default after a while because the Detachment module is triggered on.

nifty, 4 months ago

Did the vase survive, maybe?

nifty, 4 months ago

I guess I was peckish for both!

nifty, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I agree! I didn’t think of that saucy stuff as jizz but maybe subconsciously I was hungry and thirsty when I was looking it up last night

nifty, 4 months ago

I want that to be me!

nifty, 4 months ago

And 200 hours designing them.

But really, not my sign (though I’d love to have it!).

nifty, 4 months ago

Tag yourself.

I’m the thought bubble.