• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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      My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.

      A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.

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      When you can only commute with a car, yeah it’s dumb. However, I have a daily commute of 1 hour with my bicycle and it’s a great way to get some exercise. In this regard it’s forcing me to move my body, which I otherwise probably wouldn’t in my free time. Gym of life.

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    Hiking in the arctic pulling a sled with all your gubbins… or having 12-16 fluffy doggos pull you and the sled for the love of the game?

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    Around here, if someone complains about a two hour freeway commute, it’s “man up, it’s just part of life!”

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    At one point I had a 55min commute using transit but would usually get hard by weather as 2 of my stops didn’t have cover. Also the occasional meth/fent heads, missed connections, overcrowding…

    Or sit in my car on a 45min commute.

    Eventually I met it halfway by joining a vanpool but that shit still cost more than mass transit and got expensive when my employer cut transit vouchers.

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    Locking to prevent more reports about absolutely braindead takes. Some of y’all clearly aren’t adults