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Maybe you're used to being around functioning adults who don't need other people's approval, for example because they're rich.
You don't need to be rich to have enough backbone to do your own thing, and not worry what someone else might think.
Unfortunately, backpacks are a better solution due to padding and reinforcements.
Unfortunately because they attract attention by thieves.
Moreover I don't like walking with one hand busy carrying a bag, especially when I bike or commute between public transportation means.
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> ...disdain for the ostentatious I chuckled when I read that because the post's introduction casually mentions attending Cloudflare's board meeting.
Touché
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> backpacks were marginalized as being associated with being too poor to own a car. The majority of all commuters in SF do not commute by car: https://www.sf.gov/data--vision-zero-benchmarking-commute-me... This has been true for at least a decade. The trend, even ignoring COVID, is that a decreasing proportion do so.
The majority of all commuters in SF do not commute by car A plurality do (35% in 2022 vs 17% via transit). Remote work knocked down the percentage that commute by car a bit, but took a bigger chunk out of the other modes (e.g. 34% used transit in 2018 but 17% in 2022). I've used a messenger bag for decades and never felt marginalized in the least. Plenty of other folks seem to rock employer swag backpacks. vOv
(aside: transit is up to 25% again recently, apparently; https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/remote-work-home.... And that graph has an even more interesting number which is that in 2019 transit was the plurality.)
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The majority of all commuters in SF do not commute by car A plurality do (35% in 2022 vs 17% via transit). Remote work knocked down the percentage that commute by car a bit, but took a bigger chunk out of the other modes (e.g. 34% used transit in 2018 but 17% in 2022). I've used a messenger bag for decades and never felt marginalized in the least. Plenty of other folks seem to rock employer swag backpacks. vOv
Sure, it's just ...pretty odd? for OP to say "backpacks were marginalized as being associated with being too poor to own a car" when it's 65% of people who do not use a car in this context at all. (aside: transit is up to 25% again recently, apparently; https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/remote-work-home... . And that graph has an even more interesting number which is that in 2019 transit was the plurality.)
There were a lot of people who didn't use a car in that context at all, but people who could mostly did.
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When I lived in San Francisco, backpacks were marginalized as being associated with being too poor to own a car. High-school students might carry a backpack, college students might carry a backpack, people on the bus might carry a backpack, but mostly not professionals who drove to work. Maybe that's changed, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zwWpqsI_3s purports to be from 02022, and in its first minute, I cou…
>When I lived in San Francisco, backpacks were marginalized as being associated with being too poor to own a car. High-school students might carry a backpack, college students might carry a backpack, people on the bus might carry a backpack, but mostly not professionals who drove to work. Huh? By extension you seem to be implying anyone who doesn't drive to work is not a "professional", which is bananas. Smart people…
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He wrote 02022. It's the year in a Long Now [0]context, avoiding the Y10K problem that's just around the corner. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
Cringe (him, not you)
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I really hate this! Long ago, I had a quarterlight window smashed because someone broke into my 20 year old Toyota Corolla to steal a 4L, but half empty bottle of engine oil and a street directory. Obviously the engine oil wasn't expensive, and no-one used street directories anymore, even back then. This was in nice suburb in New Zealand, so it was a bit of a surprise. The replacement window cost many times the value…
> This was in nice suburb in New Zealand, so it was a bit of a surprise. A friend had her ancient Toyota’s back window smashed in and they stole an old dirty blanket lying on the back seat that they could have gotten for free from any number of places (clean and in better condition) In a warm climate New Zealand suburb. My takeaway at the time was that a subset of thieves will steal anything, with zero rational basis…
One thing I learned living in a dangerous area was that you should keep zero visible things inside your car when it's parked, otherwise someone will smash the window. :(
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I wonder what that "big European city" would be? I don't think in Berlin anyone would grab a laptop from your hands in the U-Bahn.
Depends. Some parts of Berlin can be a bit dodgy. I take the U8 regularly Generally it's safe but stations on that line like Kottbuser Tor have a reputation for theft, pick pocketing, robbery, etc. Lots of people desperate enough in that area that you don't want to tempt them too much by being an obvious target. I use a weather proof backback (Ortlieb). I got it two years ago and it's great. I walk a lot around town…