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willemlaurentz ◴[] No.41859182[source]
Agree with author that the plane seems to be the only place where it is socially acceptable to wear the skimask.

My wife still makes fun of me when I'm working at home with Vision Pro - I wouldn't wear it out in public. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836437

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ljf ◴[] No.41859432[source]
It is also one of the few public places to 'safely' do it.

Would you feel comfortable wearing one and limiting your awareness of your surroundings on a public bus? In a coffee shop? Sitting outside a coffee shop? In a park? In a pub?

And also your answers may be yes if you are male, but I can imagine in the current world we live in a lot of women would feel potentially at risk if they were wearing these in public.

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tesch1 ◴[] No.41859647[source]
Train travel is great with one too.
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prmoustache ◴[] No.41860026{3}[source]
You have a whole screen (large windows) at the side of your seat with landscape and stuff to actually enjoy on a train.
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1. jedberg ◴[] No.41861862{4}[source]
When I take trains in Europe, I tend to look out the window, and they often have nice views.

When I take trains in the USA, I usually look out for a few seconds every couple of minutes, because it's mostly the same -- lower-middle class housing or warehouses if we're in a city, or ugly terrain outside of a city.

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2. erickhill ◴[] No.41862869[source]
You’d enjoy the Amtrak from Seattle to Vancouver along the water at sunset. You can buy a glass of wine and enjoy the majestic views.
3. samatman ◴[] No.41863037[source]
Having ridden both routes, the Amtrak from Denver to Reno has a spectacularly better view than the Eurostar from London to Brussels. The food is also better.

These kinds of broad comparisons are utterly useless. Continents are much too large for that kind of thing to be anything resembling accurate.

4. Arrath ◴[] No.41864039[source]
I have to say, taking the night train from Moscow to St Petersburg was eye opening.

I went from modern metropolis of skyscrapers and tower cranes to run down rusty industrial facilities that wouldn't look out of place in a STALKER game to sod roofed villages that look as they might have when Napoleon was making an ill fated expedition. Then of course a vast expanse of nothing at all.