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   cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:00:06 JST cjd
   Stabbings on public transport have just recently started happening around Paris.
   
   In the US, I don't think anyone cares about public transport, but in Europe I think they are still thinking "a million successful trips, one assault" but the right way to look at it is "one assault, 10 million views on social media" - which is a death spiral for cities that don't take swift and decisive action.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/20b8798d-2ae7-4a02-a354-d789ec288a12
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     Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:02:18 JST Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer

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     @cjd
     What does 10 million views on social media mean? I argue it means fuckall after about a week.

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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:27:10 JST cjd

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     You're doing exactly the same logic that I'm accusing them of.
     
     It's like being a restaurant and a customer finding a cockroach in the food. You can just hand-wave it away and say "most customers have great experiences", but the reputational damage is potentially ruinous. It's just that for a city, it takes a really long time.
     
     But I would suggest you New York as an example of what can happen. Nobody really thinks about New York as the greatest city in the world anymore. Now it brings to mind bodegas, street vendors selling rat, and Daniel Penny. Now add in uncertainty with Mamdani, and people are gonna plan their trip or new headquarters in Miami.
     
     A place like Paris is not immune to this either, it's sneaky because it's slow at first, and once it starts to accelerate, it becomes really hard to convince the voter base to accept the policies needed to reverse it.
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     Based Lunatic (dicey@clew.lol)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:27:11 JST Based Lunatic

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     @cjd it's a miniscule chance coming to harm on public transport in Europe, if you look at crime statistics, this france 2024 statistics per million.
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     Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:28:33 JST Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer

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     But these places *always* sucked. And honestly everybody already knew it. The question was always how many resources does it take to insulate one's self from the problems and how many people have that amount of resources?

     It's not so much the city getting a new reputation as people deciding that the reputation everyone discusses among friends becomes the reputation they're willing to talk about publicly.

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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:28:35 JST cjd

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     • Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer
     Look at New York, nobody really thinks it's The Place To Be anymore. Or worse, look at San Francisco.
     
     The thing is, each individual scandal does blow over, but over time they create a new reputation of the city as a dirty, dangerous, crime-ridden place that is best avoided.
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     Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:46:53 JST Another Linux Walt Alt

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     • Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer
     @cjd @r000t
     
     Maybe NYC always sucked. I think all large cities do to some extent. But it was still on everyone's "gotta visit at least once" list until their financial crisis in the 1970s.
     
     And honestly, before I spent a year working there, it wasn't even on my list. What I found was that all the downsides I'd heard were true, but that they didn't matter as much as expected.
     
     But, yeah. While I was there, my oldest son came to visit. We walked down a street near the Manhattan financial district. Two or three days later, someone killed two homeless men on the exact corner where we'd been. Yeah, that makes an impact.
     
     Also, some guy started shooting on the subway not too far from my office. That day, I walked back to the hotel.