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teethgrinder posted:"take the metro" is a foreign language they can never comprehend. I know people who, as a point of pride, never use public transportation. Speaking of anecdotes: I've read news stories about geezers who owned inner city parking spots somehow and rented then out for what amounts to a decent wage per spot. The perfect synthesis of landlordism and car brain!
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Granted, once you live outside of North America, in a city with actual mass transit, it is very hard to go back to the lovely way it is down back in the old country.
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Mar 19, 2023 20:23
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Yeah, I lived for five years in Europe and am now back in the car dependent Midwest. 
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WaryWarren posted:Yeah, I lived for five years in Europe and am now back in the car dependent Midwest. In all honesty, I find it far more liberating to not have a car and just be able to get on a metro or tram and walk around and not have to worry about parking/the car/having to drive home. Also, in most of the world, having grocery stores in walking distance isn't a big deal, and if you really want you can just delivery it.
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Being outside mass transit feels claustrophobic to me. You miss your bus and you're stuck, or if you have a car, you absolutely need it to work or you're stuck. Just no backup at all. While in the city, I can ride my bike, take the next bus, or a train or just walk. So much more freedom.
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BonHair posted:Being outside mass transit feels claustrophobic to me. You miss your bus and you're stuck, or if you have a car, you absolutely need it to work or you're stuck. Just no backup at all. While in the city, I can ride my bike, take the next bus, or a train or just walk. So much more freedom. that’s why you need more than one car bing bong so simple
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WaryWarren posted:Yeah, I lived for five years in Europe and am now back in the car dependent Midwest. Jesus, shoulda burned your passport and just worked illegally.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Jesus, shoulda burned your passport and just worked illegally. 
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i saw a pbs segment about a catholic food bank in az that serves a thousand families a day in their massive drive through and they are filming segments with the people coming through and they're all talking about food costs being too high from the window of a massive financed truck they've just idled in for several hours to get served. like the drone footage of the lot is 100% 3 row beasts. the food bank should probably do deliveries but what do i know
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Milo and POTUS posted:Jesus, shoulda burned your passport and just worked illegally. he'd be needing to burn that passport to avoid freezing to death in icy, gas-poor Europe
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Real hurthling! posted:i saw a pbs segment about a catholic food bank in az that serves a thousand families a day in their massive drive through and they are filming segments with the people coming through and they're all talking about food costs being too high from the window of a massive financed truck they've just idled in for several hours to get served. like the drone footage of the lot is 100% 3 row beasts. Americans for Prosperity did a few stunts where they set gas prices back to what they were at the end of 2020 at some stations around here https://www.wtae.com/article/a-western-pennsylvania-gas-station-will-offer-gas-at-dollar238-a-gallon/40363649 People started lining up the night before and idled their trucks all night waiting in line to get some slightly cheaper gas. I'm sure that worked out for them financially.
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they only saved people 4000$ before resuming normal prices lol
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it was nice being in Singapore for a few days and getting to go everywhere just by walking and riding a train they even made the turnstiles into NFC card readers so you just sweep your credit card through and there's never a need to buy a ticket
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gradenko_2000 posted:it was nice being in Singapore for a few days and getting to go everywhere just by walking and riding a train ny just got that
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Real hurthling! posted:ny just got that greatust city in tha world babey
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lmao cyberpunk 2088 is so insanely carbrained that it is beyond the pale your npc: "come on, get in the car we gotta go meet the fixer" >quest doesn't proceed until you summon your car and get into it >drive 1 block, park on the sidewalk "ok we're here"
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:lmao cyberpunk 2088 is so insanely carbrained that it is beyond the pale its a viedo game op
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:lmao cyberpunk 2088 is so insanely carbrained that it is beyond the pale its a dystopia op
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Cup Runneth Over posted:its a dystopia op one of the sidequests involves chasing down and wrangling rogue cars that are trying to escape from enslavement
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rode bike to work today. pretty nice except for this intersection where you have to merge with traffic to go straight but it's slightly up hill and you're out of shape. I think there is a bike lane planned for here at some point
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutlMnahozY Could this solve the lack of car parking?
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driving in video games is fun in ways that driving in real life is not
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutlMnahozY It doesn't work in real life, bike lanes get narrower and narrower but people still manage to fit their cars in them.
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so the other day coming back home at night and before stopping at a subway a closed intersection and a blue tarp over a body. I loving hate this. loving pigs if they spent half the time they do beating up homeless as they did enforcing traffic laws it wouldn’t be literal lawless
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There was some awful crash on Brooklyn where 2 people died. The video is on Twitter, I know people don’t like that stuff, even if it’s not graphic. But apparently, a buuuunch of tickets, etc. issued for the vehicle. Like WHAT THE gently caress! People loooove saying driving is a privilege but it’s never treated like it!
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jesus died so we could drive vroom vroom *peels out of driveway, crashes into telephone pole*
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HashtagGirlboss posted:AiT driving to the store
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Boywhiz88 posted:There was some awful crash on Brooklyn where 2 people died. The video is on Twitter, I know people don’t like that stuff, even if it’s not graphic. lol like a judge would take away someone's car if they have a long history of reckless driving. I've seen NHTSA stats that show things like crashes involving alcohol, speeding, etc, but I don't think anyone records if a driver had dozens of violations before a crash.
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Boywhiz88 posted:There was some awful crash on Brooklyn where 2 people died. The video is on Twitter, I know people don’t like that stuff, even if it’s not graphic. driver who killed three people in dc a week or two back had more than $10k in speeding tickets over the last year there's just no mechanism to automatically kick in and say 'huh, looks like this car and anyone who drives it and any other cars they own need to be taken off the road right now,' no agency has that responsibility and so he just gets to keep zooming around town until he hits another car and kills everyone in it
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:driver who killed three people in dc a week or two back had more than $10k in speeding tickets over the last year Idk how it is in DC but every state I’ve ever lived in has points for moving violations and if you rack up too many in a certain period (in Oregon I think they drop off after three years) they suspend your license
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Idk how it is in DC but every state I’ve ever lived in has points for moving violations and if you rack up too many in a certain period (in Oregon I think they drop off after three years) they suspend your license But you keep your car, so you can keep driving.
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Every time someone actually runs over enough people for the cops to care but not enough to go to prison over it, their probation includes some kind of condition like "no driving between 10 pm and 6 am unless it's for work or to go to the store or an emergency or if you really want to".
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Ensign Expendable posted:Every time someone actually runs over enough people for the cops to care but not enough to go to prison over it, their probation includes some kind of condition like "no driving between 10 pm and 6 am unless it's for work or to go to the store or an emergency or if you really want to". That's a lockdown
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I'm in Kyoto, and they were doing some construction work on the sidewalk, so they closed off a plane is traffic so people could walk around:
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:But you keep your car, so you can keep driving. lol yeah
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The state can tow your car away and impound it if you park in the wrong place so clearly they have the power to take your car away. They just won't do it if you've proven yourself to be a menace to society. They'll only do it if you rack up $50 in unpaid tickets.
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