• huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    It’s homeless shelters. It’s insane asylums.

    i wonder why the mentally ill people become homeless and then are forced to live on public transportations. ah well, must be part of the nature of public transportation.

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      “public transportation is garbage because [thing specific to the US and other less-developed countries with bad infrastructure]” is one of my favorite US brainworms.

      “i don’t understand why anyone would want to play sports, my shoelaces are tied together so i trip and fall every time i try to run, checkmate commies smuglord

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      12 days ago

      In winter the only spaces that are warm and publically accessable are the transit stops and bus shelters, so of course people with no where else to go would use them to stay warm and not freeze to death.

      Can you guess what the city did to “fix” this?

      They renovated the train stations to remove the warm sheltered waiting areas in favour of semi-enclosed glass waiting areas that technically have heaters but they’re open to the elements so they don’t do shit. They’ve also removed bus shelters and even benches at bus stops, and they make sure to have the pigs do sweeps of the transit system to remove “undesirables”. I haven’t paid for the subway since my university pass expired but since I look like a cracker they just glance at my (empty) card and move on

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          11 days ago

          It can get down to -40 here so they have to pretend to care about the cold, but I can tell you from personal experience the heaters they do have don’t do jack even when it’s warmer