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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

We're fighting the war on car dependence.

Cars are fine but car dependance isn't, our cities shouldn't be built in a way that requires a car for everyday like.

Requiring that your citizens own a $10000 - $35000+ depreciating asset just to live life is a tragedy that lessens economic mobility and punishes your most vulnerable.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 minutes ago

Cars still suck even without the dependence. I live somewhere that very much isn't car dependant but there's still too many of them and they still make places miserable.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 45 minutes ago

However, if you follow that train of thought, you'll often get to the point where you'd need to get rid of cars as we know them today.

If people weren't depending on them, fewer would have one. And if only few people have one (they are expensive, after all), why build roads just for them? Why all this costly infrastructure that would only benefit 5% of the population? Why use everyone's tax to fund them?

The fact that cars are built like today - basically comfort cages - is only because all this infrastructure exists. They're not used outside of that environment. So of people don't depend on it, they'd probably vanish in a couple of decades, at least outside of their respective niches.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

I live in Taipei. It is one of the most dense cities in the world.

We have an amazing subway system, but I still own a car. I also own a bicycle and a stand-up electric scooter.

I take whatever transportation is the most convenient. Sometimes it's the bus. Sometimes, it's the subway. Sometimes it's by car. My point is it's a city infrastructure, not the mode of transportation. If you vote for a government that cares about infrastructure, you will live in the city you want.

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago

I get brainwashed outside the pod too, so there

[–] Duranie@leminal.space 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I work in hospice, traveling to patients homes. I'd be more than happy to work from home, but the logistics of getting dying bed ridden people to travel to me has been tricky.

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine how smooth your travels would be, if the 70% that could work from home or use public transport would do so.

[–] Duranie@leminal.space 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You mean like during the COVID lockdown? It was amazing. I wish people learned more lessons from that time.

[–] EchoSnail@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You worked remotely with dying humans?

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 minutes ago

No. Theyre saying when everyone else was in lockdown, traveling was easier because no one else was on the road. Im also someone who cant work remote and i long for the days where a sprinkle of rain doesnt mean my 25 minute commute turns into an hour

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Wrong.

Edit!

Also, notice this:

And this dude (lower left, immediately 9 o'clock of the "Y"):

See ya.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

they want you to sit on a metal box

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

15mph max is a bit disappointing, I'd like to see 20-25 to at least compete with my legs, but I'm down for something like this.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Honestly, at first glance I kind of laughed at this thing but the more I think about it, the more I want it. I have an e-scooter that I don't use often(I end up using rentals more often than not) just because I have to store it in my basement but this would fit by my door no problem

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Not entirely - assuming you work in a building, aren't the "return to office" mandates the same? The cubicle is just your particular pod out of a massive collection of them inside a larger metal shell.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Can't speak for others, but I don't participate in the stereotypical mad rush from the suburbs to the city and vise-versa every day. My commute is about 7 minutes, provided I don't feel like deliberately taking a detour to meander through the countryside on my motorcycle after work.

Due to the nature of my work I do have to be in the office, though, to interact with... ugh... clients.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 19 hours ago

No cubicles, just "open concept." Ha, checkmate! /s

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like the blue ridge Mountains. Super pretty!

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

It's (near) the top of Spruce Knob in West Virginia, looking West over the Appalachians, into the Allegheny Plateau.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy but - I like cars? Cars are fun. You can learn so much working on them and restoring them. Learn to weld, learn to build engines and gearboxes, learn to paint, learn how to do wiring. And at the end of it after all that blood, sweat, and tears - you have something fun you can drive about in!

Why does everybody here hate on my hobby so much? Its like the one thing I have in this world. Let me enjoy it.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 minutes ago

Cars as a hobby are cool. A society built around cars is stupid. Billions of people using cars daily is pretty dangerous to us all.

I like shooting guns. It's loud, smells funny, and you get to train patience and self-control. It's a cool hobby. A society built around guns is... well... just look at the US.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

Your hobby is fine as long as you don't impose the externalities on other people. I don't want to hear your loud engine, I don't want to breathe your fumes, and I don't want to worry about getting hit while just walking around.

[–] Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 10 points 17 hours ago

I assumed this is where I was

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

...brainwashed by electromagnetic radiation? Do you really believe that statement?

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think you might have missed what community this is..

I almost did too, as this reads like the most sane /fuckcars post

[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah I was getting ready to post some similar comments because it's just too close to the weird shit they post

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

I think they were talking about talk radio

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's another way to say "radio waves", so when people actually listened to the radio it was a true statement.

Now it's podcasts.

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Which are still radiated at you through the ether ;)

[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Podcasts are just on demand talk radio.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

Commuting to office (by car) daily is the real problem. Road trips by car are incredibly freeing and not miserable.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 7 points 20 hours ago

Jokes on you, I love my brainwash pod. I still take the train anywhere I can though, the Seattle light rail system is dope.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

I don't have a car, I ride my non-electric dope ass bike everywhere, and I listen to old Dead and Phish shows I downloaded to my rooted Android phone.
We are not the same.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

It's this dissing the radio?

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not if you don't live in the center of a very large city 🤷‍♂️.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I work from home and haven’t driven a car in months.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Until Trump decides to enforce a universal RTO edict - including removing all financial "home office" breaks from the tax code.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Focus Mk1 radio!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Nope, that's why I work remotely.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works -2 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I drive electric and listen to podcasts. We are not the same.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

That you get your brainwashing from an alternate source doesn't change the fact, and you're still paying a fuel tax even if it's of a different variety.

EDIT fix swipe keyboard error (you're).

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

You will pay the electrons subscription
You will be brain washed by higher frequency electric radiation

[–] griff@lemmings.world 2 points 19 hours ago

still, your tyre dust is eliminating pods of orcas