The amount of dogs that can ride the train on their own is awesome
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Everyone is just cheering on this dog who is on its own and taking the train like everyone else. It got off one train, went up the stairs, and got on another. It knows what its doing. You could not interfere with this process, it would be villainous
and here in the US they tell us we can't even bring our dogs onto the train.
(much less having dogs travel unaccompanied through the BART...)
@DeliaChristina
I don't know the rules, but if it was against the rules I don't think you could enforce them against this dog. A person with a dog you can talk to and have human consequences, but a dog on its own is beyond the reach of the law
A dog on its own is a law unto itself.
The thing about having trains in a city is that I can go places without hating every second of it. Instead I just sorta become one with the city and get pushed around in its veins and stuff. The other thing about having trains in a city is that whatever animals like going into subterranean puzzles gets to go around too. I think from an evolutionary perspective we should reward subway niche creatures.
@jonny my favorite thing about this feeling is when you're using a system with no gates, like honor system style here in germany. you literally just walk down some stairs into a subway platform, walk onto the train, then walk off it again and you're THERE! it's literally "my" subway, even if i choose to pay to use it it's still mine because no one had to check me if i'm allowed before i walk on. I'm just like those dogs ...
It makes so much sense for the way to go around is for everyone to go and stand in the same place, and then for that place to go extremely fast to another place on a dedicated tube, and then afterwards we take a smaller much slower thing to the last place. The other way where we spend all the money that could be spent on a fast travel system on the ground and then have to do everything and fail at climate change and get in crashes all the time does not make any sense.
@jonny
agreed, and also slow tube options for long distances as part of a future where we usually don't really need to get there that fast
(watching a blimp float past my window as i type this)
The new train stations are new and they are still figuring out how to not have water keep happening down there. That is fine, that is a price I am willing to pay
The dogs who can ride the train must have all also figured out that you can't do dog politics while you are riding the train or else you attract too much attention and get sent to jail. Only the dogs who are cool about it can keep riding the train
If you are a dog riding the train and there is another dog riding the train and he is barking, you probably have to go over there and say hey relax you can't bark on here because he would ruin it for both of you
I don't know why people are always so quick to dismiss animal intelligence as "they're just doing it for food." Like so WHAT so are YOU if you want to be that reductive about it. Why is it hard to acknowledge that an animal that we know can learn to associate speech sounds with meaning and can smell orders of magnitude better than we can would be able to tell different train lines apart and recognize stations from their smell? Plenty of people just get on the train without a destination because there are other people on there who might give them things. Who cares why they go around on the train, its enough that they do.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social one of my most hated "true-isms" about animals is how they don't "love" you, they just do it for food, etc, animals don't "feel emotions"
like they imagine all animals are just sociopathic and faking it?
but the idea that humans independently evolved emotions, after breaking off from other apes, is ... I'm not an evolutionary psychologist buuuut that feels very strongly like a claim that would require evidence, and most people pushing this kind of stuff aren't scientists...
@jonny best thing to do is treat them like any other sentient being.
@attentionspantherapy
I'm not gonna stop them. I'm not even gonna try and pet them. They're doing their thing and I'm doing mine. But I do think their thing is awesome and will cheer them on
