OnkelCannabia

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

End to end travel time is the biggest drawback of public transportation. Getting from my city to the next major city is an 8 min train ride or a 20 min drive. But getting from my home to my friends in that city is easily twice as fast by car.

It's a huge problem. If you live next to the train station and like to go to a pub right next to your destination's train station, all is well. But for those who like to visit friends instead of going to the nearest pub, public transportation just kinda falls apart.

My wife wanted to pick up our dog that was staying with me at a friend's place before coming home from work. Because the friend lives a little bit outside of the major city it would have been a 2h20m train ride for the whole trip. Or 30 min by car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (8 children)

But upvotes on discussions there are literally 100 times what they used to be just half a year ago. No way that happens naturally.

 

I used to be a lot on r/travel. Back then there were posts with pictures that had upvote ls in the triple to quadruple digit range. There were also user questions, usually in the double digits.

Now the majority is just discussions that mysteriously have thousands of upvotes. And some of them quite boring. That must be bots or fakes directly by reddit. No way this happens naturally.

Is this common practice now or is that something r/travel did specifically?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Don't spread false information. Yes orange cats are more likely to be male. No, orange cats are not less intelligent. I've just researched it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And then add a $150 cleaning fee