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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•never forget
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    2 days ago

    No, it’s not true. You wouldn’t ever use magnesium for that anyways, you’d use an actual demolition charge if you were dumb enough to rig every tall building with explosives. But no, nobody is that dumb - the kernel of truth at the heart of that one is that some large buildings have demolition plans drawn up when they’re constructed (important note: the WTC didn’t have that, it’s both very rare to do and a much more modern practice than the WTC buildings), which are just a reference for if/when the building is demo’d in the future. They’re not rigged to blow, though. Hell, aside from all the obvious reasons you wouldn’t do that, chemically most explosives would become uselessly unpredictable after being strapped onto a building for that long. Just an absurd idea.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldtoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•There’s a common perception in the U.S. that taking public transit is dangerous. It's actually safer than driving.
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    16 days ago

    Yeah, exactly, that’s exactly the classist propaganda I was talking about.

    “You’re going to be late.” well maybe? My local transit is good to ±5min on all but the most notorious routes, and in the city proper the light rail is pretty much always bang on time. I’ll grant you it exposes you to more people and thus you have a higher chance of getting sick, but especially post-covid cabin air is filtered and you just need to like, bring hand sanitizer? The fearmongering about 1:10,000 people doing something “truly awful” thing is just straight BS - I’ve taken transit my entire life and the worst I’ve seen is someone getting thrown off the bus for yelling too loud out the window.

    Every single point stands perfectly well on its own for anyone who’s relied on public transportation in the US for an exptended period of time.

    You’re taking your own experience and assuming it’s representative of everyone’s experience - and it’s not. You’re also repeating the same BS that gets brought out any time public transit is portrayed in media, or when the topic of budgets are brought up. It’s largely fearmongering. Obviously it changes drastically by region - the transit systems in rural alabama are likely not as nice as on the coasts, but the part that’s propaganda is how impressions are taken from the most tragically underfunded systems and used to paint all transit systems like that, and that you’re asserting them as definitely and always going to be true, which is just horseshit. You’re repeating are the same tired lines that get rolled out during budget season, and it’s just… exhausting to see it repeated even within extremely liberal spaces like lemmy.

    I know we all like to think we’re an exception, but the cat really is never wrong.

    Side note:

    Personally, I find calling that out as propaganda kinda weird.

    A depressing commentary on the state of the country. But it got you to address the criticism, so I’m not sure it’s a great thing to try and turn around “no u” style.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldtoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•There’s a common perception in the U.S. that taking public transit is dangerous. It's actually safer than driving.
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    16 days ago

    Yeah, in my experience regardless of country the people who want to travel are not the same ones that want a regression to isolationist BS. Especially with the US, where going to another country on holiday is not a casual thing (like with the massive influx of tourists into the spanish coast in summer, for example), the people who are there are generally are the ones that want to be there and are curious about other cultures. I don’t know if that 1:1 correlates with being “nice” or “sane”, but it certainly sets people up for not being intolerant and that’s a big part of not being a jerk.

    Also I was curious and looked up the figures on travel rates. According to these rigorously validated sources (i.e. “they looked pretty good to me”) it looks like:

    11% of US citizens have never traveled outside of the state where they were born. [1]
    27% of US citizens have never been outside the country[2]
    29% of US citizens currently live in their home town[3]
    (source 1) (source 2) (source 3)

    This is in a surprising contrast to the EU demographics, where:

    37% of European citizens have never been outside their home country[1]
    (source 1)

    (I could find no sources for the other statistics for Europe, I’m sorry!)

    Important Note:

    There are other commonly cited surveys (from far less reputable research groups than Pew, it really should be noted. One of them is literally just an ad for an AI language-learning app) which put the amount of americans that have never left the country closer to 40% (forbes) or 42% (preply) so ymmv with these numbers. Personally, I trust pew over Forbes or some slop factory, but for transparency’s sake I felt I should include them!