The Sahara was a lot more habitable back then.

Canada’s expensive. Maybe Russia will stop being fascist and I can head up there some day. Or maybe China will chill the fuck out and let me go to Tibet. It’d be pretty cool to do visa runs through Napal or India if they ever normalize relations with China.

I never sleep better than in a near-freezing room with warm blankets. Well maybe on trains. Cold room with warm blankets is like the definition of cozy.

A room so warm you don’t want blankets is miserable.

I am terminally online, but I spent winter in Kazakhstan, xinjiang, northern China, and Hokkaido, wearing a jacket doesn’t stop me from going outside, it just stops me from looking like someone just dumped a bucket of water on me after 5 minutes.

I mean a shirt, sweater, and insulated jacket can keep me very warm flying down a windy mountain at <-20C so do you really need that many layers?

It could be bots, theres a bunch of bot accounts that just upvote and downvote at random, some never post, some posted months ago and voted 10,000 times since.

Opening your helmet in this kind of weather feels like someone is using a hairdryer on your face.

Still more comfortable than than being stuck in traffic, but it’s not great.

Here’s a map of most of where I’ve been in asia, mostly travelling by train or ferry, except in vietnam, where I switch from train to motorbike in Hanoi. I have seen the occasional security guy in China and Korea, never in Japan.

3/4th’s of people are using cars to get around, this public transport paradise is limited to inner city and highly dense locations, and even then 50%+ of people are still using cars

They own or have access to a car, but the bulk of travel is public transit. You like not having to sit in traffic? So did the japanese, despite being a major car manufacturer. Solution is to remove as many trips as possible via alternative transit. I would not call Japan a public transit paradise, but there are things they do well we can learn from.

listening to music

Earbuds.

not having little shits on the train making a racket and running around and my car

Never seen that over here, what are yall doing differently?

my car is more comfortable

You must have excessively shitty trains if having to pay attention to traffic while sitting in 1 position can be more comfortable than sipping tea in a dining car, free to stretch your legs or just using a laptop at your seat.

if you took their desert which has fuck all trains

They run hundreds of trains a day between population centers in that desert, I took them to get to Kazakhstan and back.

skill issue

The skill issue is being able to build efficient, comfortable, cheap trains, which Japan has the first 2, but they could be cheaper.

Have you ever been on a train? It sucks, a bus 10000% more, buses fuckin suck so much

Skill issue. Japan, Korea, China all have extremely comfortable and efficient trains. Trains can be quite nice if the government is interested in having good trains instead of making infinitely dollars for the shareholders while spending nothing on maintaince and charging as much as possible.