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indigi posted:just for fun let’s say the emissions from all transportation (14%), half of electricity and heat generation (12.5%), half of buildings (3%), and half of industry (10.5%) are only in service to cars and car infrastructure. 40% is less than "half," which means that's it's not worth doing. me brain big doctor: would you like me to snap away 40% of your health problems? me: that's not "most"... no.
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Losing my mind here. Every time a popular business opens near our busy downtown, people complain because "it's going to generate traffic." OK, to repeat that: People don't want convenient grocery stores and good restaurants because they imagine they will slow down their driving. They don't see this as a car problem. They see having too many good things in an area as a bad thing. They want amenities spread out across town to "keep traffic down." Sprawl, the very thing that drives traffic. This is why people are upset that there's going to be a grocery store within walking distance of thousands of people who would otherwise have to drive across town. gently caress
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suburban brain poisoning
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gently caress all this rain. maybe I should check out a podbike.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrnwTvNJSQ welcome to lead town
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God Hole posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrnwTvNJSQ Air travel by the ultra wealthy is pretty gross, especially the tower hopping that goes on in cities by helicopter. Put helipads on enough skyscrapers and they'll never have to witness the problems on the ground. That's basically how Kobe died.
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helicopters are the best. I love helicopters. spinny death machines for the ultra wealthy.
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As the dome says, helicopters are the most effective green technology to date
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how does he think people drove to a cabin before these monstrosities existed 20+ years ago
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big trucks are just minivans for guys with male fragility
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as we all know nobody had ever driven to lake tahoe before 2007
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I goad my coworkers about this all the time, they just shrug and tell me these trucks have sensors everywhere that beep at you if you're about to annihilate an entire family
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seems like a simple solution to make everyone happy would be to mandate you can only drive trucks like that where they're "necessary" (ie Tahoe) and as soon as you try to enter city limits it gets impounded
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Oct 26, 2021 18:26
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or crushed by a loving building being dropped on it
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Oct 26, 2021 18:29
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Dolphin posted:or crushed by a loving building being dropped on it if you try driving into an urban or suburban area, your doors lock and seal and then everything inside the truck is incinerated
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:if you try driving into an urban or suburban area, your doors lock and seal and then everything inside the truck is incinerated this but the truck is also incinerated
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cities should start making streets and parking spaces too small for those things. it's already a pain in the rear end to drive one around town. make it worse.
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lobster shirt posted:this but the truck is also incinerated the truck will be ceremonially crushed into a tiny metal cube in front of cheering crowds
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:the truck will be ceremonially crushed into a tiny metal cube in front of cheering crowds
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should require a CDL at the minimum to drive one of those trucks, we'll see how many people really need them for "work" i see scrappers make it by perfectly fine in the oldest piece of poo poo pickup they can keep running and they actually provide a useful service unlike tahoe cabin owners
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scrappers are beasts. one time a friend of mine was renovating his bathroom and removed the old 400 pound cast iron bathtub and left it on the street for scrappers. took 3 guys to move it. then this guy drove up, got out of his van with a wheelchair, put himself on the ground next to the thing and single handedly wrenched it into the back of his van, then got back in the wheelchair and drove off
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Fitzy Fitz posted:cities should start making streets and parking spaces too small for those things. it's already a pain in the rear end to drive one around town. make it worse. i used to work in a building that had a parking garage from, like, the 60s or 70s probably, none of the parking spots could fit all the big giant trucks of texas, i would see guys trying to back out and having to do 30 point turns to make it work, you could see paint scraped on all the corners of turns in that garage because the big trucks were too big to handle it. truly incredible.
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the only part you need to go on rough terrain is an elevated suspension, a higher body and consequently higher center of mass just makes it easier to roll over and no front visibility helps you get stuck on ditches/debris but we can't let that stand in the way of car fast big go
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zegermans posted:I goad my coworkers about this all the time, they just shrug and tell me these trucks have sensors everywhere that beep at you if you're about to annihilate an entire family yeah and they're going off all the loving time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
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Fitzy Fitz posted:cities should start making streets and parking spaces too small for those things. it's already a pain in the rear end to drive one around town. make it worse. I think we should take a page from the Taliban's book and also have an RPG guy around at all time.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:cities should start making streets and parking spaces too small for those things. it's already a pain in the rear end to drive one around town. make it worse.  The most pleasant residential areas here are older parts of town with single track roads that discourage through traffic and make speeding suicidal, while retaining a connected grid so you can still get to your friend's place on foot or a bike without having to detour.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Losing my mind here. Every time a popular business opens near our busy downtown, people complain because "it's going to generate traffic." Small business owners in my city fight against reclaiming any street space from cars or parking because they believe the bulk of their business is from the 3 suburbanites parking directly in front of their shop rather than the 5,000 people walking over from their apartments in the same neighborhood, who would definitely spend more time there if it weren't loud as gently caress and dangerous. The American mindset is not salvageable
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sat on my keys! posted:seems like a simple solution to make everyone happy would be to mandate you can only drive trucks like that where they're "necessary" (ie Tahoe) and as soon as you try to enter city limits it gets impounded I drove a rented Kia Soul all around Tahoe anybody who says they need a big truck because nature is too scary is a liar and also a coward
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Nitevision posted:Small business owners in my city fight against reclaiming any street space from cars or parking because they believe the bulk of their business is from the 3 suburbanites parking directly in front of their shop rather than the 5,000 people walking over from their apartments in the same neighborhood, who would definitely spend more time there if it weren't loud as gently caress and dangerous. The American mindset is not salvageable NYC DOT is trying to make two streets in Brooklyn (7th & 8th Avenues, which together see more than 500 injuries per year) safer by making them one way, adding PBLs, and removing parking. However, local small business owners and the incoming DSA-endorsed city councilperson are not having it: https://twitter.com/alexaforcouncil/status/1450824668999557121
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Nitevision posted:Small business owners in my city fight against reclaiming any street space from cars or parking because they believe the bulk of their business is from the 3 suburbanites parking directly in front of their shop rather than the 5,000 people walking over from their apartments in the same neighborhood, who would definitely spend more time there if it weren't loud as gently caress and dangerous. The American mindset is not salvageable they narrowed the street in front of my job because people kept almost pasting small children making unchecked turns but the apartment complex across from us refused to sign off on the plan because it would reduce parking by one (1) space so now the kids have to deal with both unchecked turns from the other direction AND people trying to pass the school busses in the unnarrowed oncoming lane lmao
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'overlanders' and people with lifted trucks explaining why their oversized vehicles are absolutely necessary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6RLOF3FrE
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zegermans posted:I goad my coworkers about this all the time, they just shrug and tell me these trucks have sensors everywhere that beep at you if you're about to annihilate an entire family yes, need the important vehicular manslaughter sensors to prevent that at all angles to know the car 100% non lethal and put your guilty piece of poo poo conscience at rest heavy rear end large trucks tearing up the asphalt into the remote mountain road making it inaccessible
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genericnick posted:I think we should take a page from the Taliban's book and also have an RPG guy around at all time. I thought dice weren't allowed in islam
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A sparkling new resort-style apartment complex here, built outside of town on old farmland, is in the news because residents claim they don't have enough parking. The city granted them more spots than there are rooms in the complex. It's never enough.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I thought dice weren't allowed in islam Islam? more like is-lame.
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Even bougie mountain people know that a pickup truck is a poo poo vehicle for poor road conditions. A Subaru has a much better chance of getting you to your destination. Subarus are also poo poo, and like all cars, I hate them.
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Subarus are very ftw Cross trek, impreza, all excellent
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