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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:bike commuting gave me a form of PTSD lmao Jesus Christ Karach posted:it's the internet. what do you think? you're right I'm sorry Mayor Dave posted:i don't know about you but driving is a continuous task for most people you're allowed to stop whenever you want
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Jan 27, 2022 06:20
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indigi posted:you're allowed to stop whenever you want for a quick little nap?
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Jan 27, 2022 06:27
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Cugel the Clever posted:That Twin Cities light rail sure is sneaky: i straight up love seeing big cars getting hosed up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LubYbIJcu9o&t=12s
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Jan 27, 2022 06:52
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Sphyre posted:for a quick little nap? if you’re a bitch sure
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Jan 27, 2022 06:59
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love to post in a thread I hate to just be a useless dickwad.
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Jan 27, 2022 07:10
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In my country truck drivers have to take 45 minutes break after driving 4.5h and can generally only drive for 9h per day but for a car brained tough guy that is a sure sign for a mental disorder lmao
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Jan 27, 2022 07:21
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bi crimes posted:Driving through west Texas for ten hours would break my brain. Driving from Austin, to Lubbock and then up to Denver almost killed me with how boring it was. Driving to El Paso also bad and awful. Cars bad I drove through West Texas and could smell the byproducts of petroleum mining the entire way until I hit Dallas I never want to smell that smell again
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Jan 27, 2022 07:36
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yeah problem is that y’all are engaging with indigi, don’t do that and the thread will be much better
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Jan 27, 2022 08:07
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Polo-Rican posted:i don't know wtf you're on about, driving for 10 hours is tiring even in a car you're familiar with, let alone when you're driving an unfamiliar car and towing stuff yeah driving in an unfamiliar vehicle plus having to tow poo poo completely changes everything you're used to about your regular drive and suddenly when all your viewing angles, acceleration, stopping distance etc is changed plus the actual physics of towing poo poo around on top of it yeah i can see why it becomes doubly stressful I've had to do an 8 hour drive last summer and if I didn't have basically like a series' worth of history podcasts to burn through I don't know how I'd have managed. Had to take a couple of breaks along the way to stretch out my limbs, once for refueling, and all that time I was thinking that I could be facing like 1/4 of the annoyance on a train and next time I'll just fuckin do that
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Jan 27, 2022 11:42
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I worked in Milwaukee for a couple years so I did the drive from there to Minneapolis several times. The eastern part of Wisconsin is pretty boring, but the western half is actually quite pretty, it's very hilly just because that's where a lot of huge glaciers formed during the ice age, and outside of winter the trees are pretty fantastic. The fall was definitely the best once you got west of Tomah. Not coincidentally, this is also where people start saying pop instead of soda
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I used to drive across western Canada for work. had to visit a lot of farms in the middle of nowhere. it sort of owns driving a company truck in the summer down endless empty gravel roads. it's so beautifully serene. it's just you and the cloud of gravel dust behind you, and nothing but the fields, rivers, and trees for company. which is a way of saying that driving a truck was a way to escape the misery of car-filled cities. I think this is the private, paradoxical romance some people have with their vehicle. it represents an escape from the problems that cars cause.
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Jan 27, 2022 16:23
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Karach posted:I think this is the private, paradoxical romance some people have with their vehicle. it represents an escape from the problems that cars cause. car companies know it which is why the world of the car commercial is deserted downtown streets, deserted suburban tracts (unless you need to show off a safety feature!), and deserted country roads
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Jan 27, 2022 20:20
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Mr. Sharps posted:car companies know it which is why the world of the car commercial is deserted downtown streets, deserted suburban tracts (unless you need to show off a safety feature!), and deserted country roads absolutely. the same goes for tractor ads and whatnot. you're being sold on this emotional relationship with a tool. "look how loving powerful this thing is. it's so turgid with hydraulic fluid and diesel. smell that poo poo. so powerful and veiny. go on, tip over that shipping container full of lead ingots. you know you want to. did you cum yet?" the reality is that operating these machines is only occasionally amusing. 99% of it is boring and repetitive. but our lives are apparently so dreary that those brief bursts are intoxicating.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:37
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indigi posted:Jesus have yall been diagnosed with anxiety disorders indigi posted:yeah if you need a nap in the middle of a seated noncontinuous ten hour task maybe you have a sleep disorder i was just tired and it was the middle of the night dude. lol. what's your problem? indigi posted:if you’re a bitch sure clearly I should have continued driving while exhausted in order to not be a little bitch pussy in spite of the well-documented and studied fact that driving tired is similar to driving under the influence. this makes sense to post in the "i hate cars" thread Cup Runneth Over has issued a correction as of 21:07 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 21:04
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indigi posted:if you’re a bitch sure Car culture and misogyny, hand in hand.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:02
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Karach posted:absolutely. the same goes for tractor ads and whatnot. you're being sold on this emotional relationship with a tool. "look how loving powerful this thing is. it's so turgid with hydraulic fluid and diesel. smell that poo poo. so powerful and veiny. go on, tip over that shipping container full of lead ingots. you know you want to. did you cum yet?" If you can't appreciate the complexity and power of a machine, I suspect you are pretty small minded and consider it more of a magic box then an example of human ingenuity.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:04
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I can appreciate the engineering that goes into an internal combustion engine, but I can’t appreciate the engineering that goes into stuffing one into a mustang, for example.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:13
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:If you can't appreciate the complexity and power of a machine, I suspect you are pretty small minded and consider it more of a magic box then an example of human ingenuity. all complex things are good. I get it now.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:14
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Truly hate cars and have gone most of my adult life without owning or needing one. Currently planning a move from an awesome downtown apartment out to some blighted car dependent suburb, with the mandatory hateful car purchase, because US society decided to let a dangerous airborne virus spread out of control. Good news though, there's nowhere to go anymore so won't need to drive much. Anyway have been looking at Zillow for a few days and car dependent development is just so irredeemably ugly. Even worse when you can infer from the surroundings all the perfectly good nature that was replaced with asphalt and squat houses. edit: the point of this post is that I hate cars and society making me get a car Nocturtle has issued a correction as of 22:23 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 22:17
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to whoever originally linked this channel, thank you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPSiUx851Qo
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an actual frog posted:to whoever originally linked this channel, thank you Edit: Also why do they even keep it open when it's deep enough that there are tons of people literally standing around waiting to see cars fail to make it through for entertainment?! I like this video because you can see all the people standing around and there are kids cheering, lmao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFRVVAYDB2Q&t=132s mystes has issued a correction as of 22:46 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Nocturtle posted:Truly hate cars and have gone most of my adult life without owning or needing one. Currently planning a move from an awesome downtown apartment out to some blighted car dependent suburb, with the mandatory hateful car purchase, because US society decided to let a dangerous airborne virus spread out of control. Good news though, there's nowhere to go anymore so won't need to drive much. I want to try to talk you out of this, but I'm sure you're put enough thought into it that it doesn't matter what I say. Everyone's still crammed into buildings in the suburbs. There's just lots of wasted space in between the buildings.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:52
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Nocturtle posted:Truly hate cars and have gone most of my adult life without owning or needing one. Currently planning a move from an awesome downtown apartment out to some blighted car dependent suburb, with the mandatory hateful car purchase, because US society decided to let a dangerous airborne virus spread out of control. Good news though, there's nowhere to go anymore so won't need to drive much. I assume you are moving from downtown to the suburbs for some economic reasons, i.e. you can no longer afford to be downtown because of loss of job or whatever and not some kind of misguided self-preservation fantasy.
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Jan 27, 2022 23:54
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an actual frog posted:to whoever originally linked this channel, thank you lmao this is absolutely precious all these rich pricks totaling their bmws/land rovers hahaha
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Jan 28, 2022 01:16
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:lmao this is absolutely precious I don't use much Twitter anymore but I do make sure to check in on World Bollard Association from time to time
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Jan 28, 2022 01:19
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:I assume you are moving from downtown to the suburbs for some economic reasons, i.e. you can no longer afford to be downtown because of loss of job or whatever and not some kind of misguided self-preservation fantasy. not sure you heard but there’s been a study showing that, like SARS OG, the virus is capable of spreading through ventilation and plumbing in shared housing. i live in shared housing in a city and always will but right now there isn’t much appealing about city life, which is greatly diminished.
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I've been in a large apartment building since the pandemic broke out and I haven't caught Covid once  Unless you or your loved ones are in a high risk group where any infection vector is too high, the likelihood of catching just from living in multifamily housing seems super low. Don't have data to back that up, though! I still find it well worth it to live in the city because everything I need is still only at most a 15-minute walk away.
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Jan 28, 2022 02:44
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mawarannahr posted:not sure you heard but there’s been a study showing that, like SARS OG, the virus is capable of spreading through ventilation and plumbing in shared housing. I had not heard that, do you have a link?
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Jan 28, 2022 02:46
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Ham Equity posted:I had not heard that, do you have a link? it’s pretty recent and not really conclusive but it tracks with early reports on omicron spreading in an institutional quarantine setting as well as studies on the first sars. https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiab598/6505230?login=false I’m not even going to paste the abstract because you get the idea. this might be more interesting: quote:Our study has some limitations. First, we could not detect viable viruses from environmental samples. Second, data regarding contact and exposure history to COVID-19 may be inaccurate because of recall bias. Third, although the investigation into the effects of corridors and stairs in transmission has not been conducted, the possibility is low. my apartment and unit are so tiny that my main concern for spread is poor masking in the narrow and unventilated hallway, which blasts a waft of air into the unit whenever I open the door.
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Good news, buying a car got a lot more expensive recently! Bad news it's due to the supply chain issues making everything more expensive recently.quote:Average New-Car Price Tops $47,000, an All-Time High Fitzy Fitz posted:I want to try to talk you out of this, but I'm sure you're put enough thought into it that it doesn't matter what I say. ate poo poo on live tv posted:I assume you are moving from downtown to the suburbs for some economic reasons, i.e. you can no longer afford to be downtown because of loss of job or whatever and not some kind of misguided self-preservation fantasy.
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Nocturtle posted:Nope definitely misguided self preservation fantasy. American society will drag everyone down with it no question, but at the very least can stop living in ground zero for every new variant that rolls over this stupid country. You will regret this!
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Jan 28, 2022 08:21
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Oofa, I spent 9k AUD on a second hand yaris a year ago Can't imagine spending 50k on a car
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Jestery posted:Oofa, I spent 9k AUD on a second hand yaris a year ago look at this freeloader
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Jan 28, 2022 13:18
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/28/man-driving-for-more-than-70-years-tells-notts-police-ive-never-had-a-licencequote:A man stopped by police in Nottingham told officers he had been driving without a licence or insurance for more than 70 years. The only appropriate response is to imprison him for the remainder of his life. Tough but fair
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Jan 28, 2022 14:14
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Jestery posted:Oofa, I spent 9k AUD on a second hand yaris a year ago 9k AUD? how much is that in real money?
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Jestery posted:Oofa, I spent 9k AUD on a second hand yaris a year ago It's even worse:  Here's a bunch of boring information about cars. The point is for the average new car price to come out as ~$50k USD a lot of people must be buying the even more expensive options. Those bloated SUVs that are everywhere apparently cost >$70k on average, had no idea. Surprised there's so much money available to waste on individual vehicles. If it's mainly only rich people that can afford to buy a new car right now it could make sense.
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Nocturtle posted:It's even worse: I got a new 2020 honda Insight for $22k during the pandemic-related gas price drop because Americans have the memory of goldfish and they had a really hard time selling a 50mpg car. It's really nice and I like it. Wished I could commute by train though.
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