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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by virmundi on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:34PM (#18388405)
That’s fair. I do wonder if just smiling and making eye contact would be a better time. The ability to provide a modicum of human kindness might be refreshing; just a small token of humanity without the selfishness of personal media.
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by twtw on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:56PM (#18388488)
> I do wonder if just smiling and making eye contact would be a better time

No, it would not. This is a good way to look extremely creepy and make everyone around you uncomfortable.

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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by virmundi on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:58PM (#18388495)
Just looking out the window with the occasional head nod is creepy?
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by twtw on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:01AM (#18388516)
Trying to make eye contact with and smile at strangers on BART definitely is.
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by virmundi on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:13AM (#18388567)
Thanks for the info. Yet another reason to not go back to California.
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by twtw on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:15AM (#18388575)
I haven't been on any public transit where this would be seen as normal. I'm very curious in what region smiling at randos during a commute is typical.
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by ArrayList on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:31AM (#18398952)
Yes. One should never smile - very much not a human thing to do. Thanks, twtw.
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Re:Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain by nsomaru on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:24AM (#18388610)
And yet this happens all the time on Indian trains!

Smile replaced with head bobble :)

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