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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by ehnto on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:15PM (#46596271)
I am a car enthusiast so don't think I'm off the deep end here, but I would definitely argue that people love their cars as a tool to work in the society we built with cars in mind. Most people aren't car enthusiasts, they're just driving to get to work, and if they could get to work for a $1 fare in 20 minutes on a clean, safe train they would probably do that instead.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by jakeydus on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:15PM (#46596967)
I am this person. I love the convenience of a car. I hate car ownership.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:11AM (#46599516)
Right and I assume we will have BO police at the gates to these trains?

People love their cars not because they’re enthusiasts

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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by Drakim on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:32AM (#46601423)
That seems like a somewhat ridiculous objection. Should everybody start owning their own private planes to avoid people with BO at airplanes?
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:37PM (#46606607)
No, but if they could, they would. That’s what’s being debated here. Whether people would, not should.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by Drakim on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:58PM (#46606952)
Should we restructure society so that having a private airplane is easier and cheaper, but if you don't have one you'll have serious trouble in daily life?
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by lijok on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:06PM (#46608001)
No
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by djhn on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:41PM (#46608580)
Is this some culture or region or climate related thing? I’ve never heard of BO brought up as a reason to avoid public transport or flying commercial in northern parts of Europe. Nor have I experienced any olfactory disturbance, apart from the occasional young man or woman going a tad overboard with perfume on the weekends.
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by ehnto on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:40PM (#46611609)
Of course they wouldn't, owning and operating a plane is -incredibly- inconvenient. That's what we are discussing, tradeoffs of convenience and discomfort, you can't just completely ignore one reality to criticise the other (admiting some hypocrisy here since that ideal train system mentioned earlier only exists in a few cities).
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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by ehnto on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @09:38PM (#46611598)
I guess that's one reason to not use public transport, but it seems many cities overcome that pretty readily.

Perhaps it depends on how smelly your society is.

Anyway I think we are in agreement, given a good system and a good society trains become quite attractive, otherwise cars are more preferred.

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