During this time above ground passengers get in line to present tickets.

So my first guess was correct, presenting tickets is done before even entering the platform. I can see it on regional trains with turnstyles in front of platform, but for international trains it is unusual. Usually tickets are presented on platform right in front of train.

Platform for amtrak at Penn Station/Moynihan:

Interesting… Looks smaller than I expected.

Right, those

Has “couch expert”/“couch warrior” vibe.

Instead you get this queue for 1 train boarding on track 13/14. (it is worse if there’s multiple trains boarding simultaneously):

First of, are people waiting for boarding here or what? I see all of them are in standing pose. To board a train they need to be on platform where train is, not in the middle of hall.

Edit: also I don’t think people understand the scale of NYC’s population and train rider ship. Moynihan ridership is 8 million annually.

IT IS SO TINY! Even Kursk train station had 12 million of annual “far”(national+international) ridership in 2018. You can add 59 million annual ridership of regional trains on it. Or consider Yaroslavl train station annual ridership of of 6 and 72 millions respectively.

Source

And while seating there sucks too, at least there is no requirement to have ticket.

Edit 2: In this thread people that don’t understand the difference between Amtrak, regional commuter trains, or subways

I presume Amtrak is how americans call (inter)narional trains.

Whoa! Cool. Cool as F. As Finland.

Just remembered video

Because teenagers are older than infants, and you can’t take away their candy as easily.

Photo not from Oslo:

(I think it’s somewhere in Belarus, probably Minsk)

That’s why Putin made public gatherings illegal

Well, it’s mall. Its goal is maximizing profits.

seating area where all you need to do is show your train ticket

This is still fucked

On the other side there’s a food hall with lots of public seating.

“GIVE YOUR MONEY!”

Just not where seating would obstruct movement on and off the train platforms.

All I see is huge open area. You can even put them right on platform.

This concerns me greatly. For now we have old grandmas sitting on benches(it is scary to take away benches from them), but they won’t last forever.

They will write kernel in Ada

calendar - lighter blue

It’s called goluboy. In Russian at least.

In some countries uniform look at least provided good for society. In this case it provides only profits for to 1%.

Good for society:

Matrix is general-purpose chat. Meet will be replaced with Jitsi.

Also why not nextcloud for storage on someone else’s computer.

I think it was flower at some point.

Worse, they think the problem is that everybody else does not “get” visual design.

This means they didn’t even make good design. Another example is KDE vs GNOME.

KDE: “We just did system we wanted.”

GNOME: “No, you don’t get it, this is design!”

Except this is not “browsers” group or “email clients” group, this is “vertical monopoly” group.

Don’t they inject ads in videos now?