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    Fun fact, the NYC metro moves more people daily than ALL flights in the entire continental US by a wide margin, I think it is close to twice the amount of people.

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              I recently got banned from a solar punk community for saying ‘I used to date hippies, but vegan farts are terrible.’

              I’d make an exception to that rule for you ;-)

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                Yeah, vegans aren’t known for their sense of humor and that goes double for the ones here on Lemmy lol.

                I’ll have you know, though, that while I’m a hippie in the “far left anti-authoritarian pacifist” way, I am not nor would I ever abstain from meat and cheese, so my farts remain glorious! 😁

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      3.5M vs 7.54M in my shithole. My shithole is Moscow btw.

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        wow, didn’t know that, I had no idea Moscow has such a big metro system that is a lotttt of people

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      Does that include the people who don’t pay? Because that number might still be way bigger than it already is. A not insignificant amount of people jump the turnstile. Almost no one pays for the busses. The “emergency door” opens when someone walks out with shit in their hand? Probably ten people slip in lol

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        Gotta love that one of the most powerful cities on earth with empty luxury apartments rising into a speculative sky above homeless and the precariously homed (one rent raise away from eviction) is so full of rich miserly conservatives that the everybody has to pay to use one of the most efficient collective forms of transport on the planet. It is like charging people to use an escalator, but even dumber because making mass transit free supercharges commerce by putting a couple extra bucks in the pocket of everyone who uses it (to inevitably spend at the coffee shop, or grocery store, or restaurant… economy go brrrr).

        Jump those turnstiles fam, the rich are stealing so much from you that you could jump turnstiles all day like an Olympic hurtle jumper and it wouldn’t even begin to settle the score, at this point no amount of money can.

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            $2.9/trip? What are you spending it on? Luxury golden cars with solid gold toilet that arrive every 30 seconds? It’s less than 0.5$/trip here.

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              $2.9/trip? What are you spending it on? Luxury golden cars with solid gold toilet that arrive every 30 seconds?

              Not solid gold no, just crummy normal urinals dressed up in blue and full of prejudice, looking to do violence preferably with their gun, and coasting on that sweeeet overtime.

              NYC is so fucked with conservative money and austerity politics, it makes me sad given how many progressive people live there.

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              Nope. Dirty outdated train cars that show up every 7-15 min. If you’re lucky. This is New York. It wouldn’t be NYC without rampant corruption in local politics. So every update to the MTA comes with an absurd price tag so some front of the mayor gets filthy rich.