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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Imagine if you had more time to learn a hobby woodworking, model building, learning metal work, or gardening, instead of fixing a thing you're forced to have, no ty
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I enjoy working on my bike tbf. however there's less chance of being crushed
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Blackhawk posted:The battery in my car is original from when I bought it 9 years ago? Not sure why some cars chew through batteries faster than others, but I'm sure there are no environmental regulations in place to force manufacturers to work on improving it! BMW's have battery replacement as a regular wear item like an oil change, lol. But also since you might think you can replace your gold-pressed-latinum BMW battery on your own, they use DRM to make sure that only a Genuine BMW battery (not functionally different then a normal car battery) can be used.
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actionjackson posted:Several people I know here stopped using the bus and light rail completely because it pretty much became the wild west after covid started. there have been all sorts of issues, including public urination, drug use, all the way up to sexual assaults tell your friends to stop reading conservative tabloid rags
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Yeah I've been cracking up at that. Too perfect
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:BMW's have battery replacement as a regular wear item like an oil change, lol. But also since you might think you can replace your gold-pressed-latinum BMW battery on your own, they use DRM to make sure that only a Genuine BMW battery (not functionally different then a normal car battery) can be used. remember when there was legislation to standardise headlamps so you could buy them anywhere, or that your car had to be able to survive a 5mph bump without needing sheet metal repairs? nah, me neither, before my time, lol (bumps car at 4mph, totalling it due to absurd cost of headlamp assembly)
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Polo-Rican posted:tell your friends to stop reading conservative tabloid rags no this actually happened to them but thx or are you going to argue that public transit has literally no safety issues or what i'm not sure what your angle is actionjackson has issued a correction as of 22:48 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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Literally only americans are afraid of public transit, it's very jarring reading it
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bagual posted:Literally only americans are afraid of public transit, it's very jarring reading it yeah because only ours has so many americans on it
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actionjackson take your greyhound down to hennepin ave asap and harass that bike lane opposing business owner
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i mean it's a bicycle, michael, how long could it be, 3 feet?
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bagual posted:Literally only americans are afraid of public transit, it's very jarring reading it it's a usage thing - the more people use public transit, the less common safety issues, crime, etc. are. here usage is very low so these issues are more prevalent
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actionjackson posted:it's a usage thing - the more people use public transit, the less common safety issues, crime, etc. are. here usage is very low so these issues are more prevalent
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mystes posted:Clearly the solution is for everyone to stop using public transit and start driving everyone should be using public transit, but it's kind of a catch 22, because the more people that use it the safer it is, but to get more people use it it needs to be more safe (or at least the perception has to change quite a bit) the view in america outside of a few major cities is that public transit is for people that can't afford a car and that's it
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Six spots for bikes is better than none I guess.
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i get that those racks are comically too close, but i don't really know poo poo about parking bikes so i googled what is wrong with wave racks and found a cute video talking about why they suck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYM3svpZEEA
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bagual posted:Literally only americans are afraid of public transit, it's very jarring reading it public transit in a lot of american cities has issues because it bears the brunt of taking up slack from the failing of government to actually help people. there's no mental institutes to get people better, there's no free or very cheap housing, there's very little public restrooms, etc. so it can turn into being a lovely experience. i've had three friends who had to stop taking public transit because two of them had someone start masturbating staring at them, completely seperate incidentgs, and one was straight up groped hard and the few other people just kinda stood and looked away. it's pretty lovely to be a younger moderately attractive woman on transit here at times. two of em ended up buying cars semi-recently. it's still overall far safer than driving but there is a difference in perception. america is just bad
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Norton posted:i get that those racks are comically too close, but i don't really know poo poo about parking bikes so i googled what is wrong with wave racks and found a cute video talking about why they suck. I assume that since they were arranged this way then they were intended to be used in parallel mode.
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the cool thing about driving vs. transit is that in cars you have in all likelihood the same proportion of lunatics surrounding you but you’ll never know about it until one of them tries to shoot you at a red light for cutting them off
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it is not possible for motorists to sexually assault someone in a different car but you can rest assured that ford, gm and tesla have scientists working around the clock to remedy this defficiency
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Xaris posted:material conditions are a lot better in most other countries. like europe has actual housing of homeless, actual programs to handle extremely mentally ill people without just constantly cycling through prison, public, prison. also most countries have far healthier attitude toward public services instead of treating them like trash like americans. people masturbating at you happens on the london tube too, except there you have like 200 people awkwardly looking away and pretending nothing is happening because they're english
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El Pollo Blanco posted:people masturbating at you happens on the london tube too, except there you have like 200 people awkwardly looking away and pretending nothing is happening because they're english I'd look them right in the eye as they masturbate.
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El Pollo Blanco posted:people masturbating at you happens on the london tube too, except there you have like 200 people awkwardly looking away and pretending nothing is happening because they're english wow sounds bad we should all get in personal automobiles and drive around 3-4 empty seats about it
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actionjackson posted:everyone should be using public transit, but it's kind of a catch 22, because the more people that use it the safer it is, but to get more people use it it needs to be more safe (or at least the perception has to change quite a bit) Japan, famous for having a sexpest free public transit experience because so many people are on the trains that anyone doing something would oh, oh dear. i still prefer public transit, even if the train takes to-the-minute the same amount of time as driving through traffic. the illusion of control bites both ways: all that traffic is infuriating to deal with and i'd rather it be someone else's problem.
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I never said it would literally never happen if a lot of people use it, just that it would be less frequent
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If we honed our bullet train technology we wouldn't have time to get horny
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How about active sensors in every car and a mechanical shutoff that won't let the train move if any passenger is too vasodilated
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Doc Hawkins posted:yeah because only ours has so many americans on it 
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But more seriously, classism begets classism. If you underfund and make miserable markers of being working class, then working class people are more miserable and desperate.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:not me, I'd love a lil pickup truck for work. I rent the HD trucks on occasion and they're huge and a colossal headache to drive. Test driving one of those and saying "yes I'd like this truck" means you are hosed in the head I love my 04 ranger. It gets about 25 mpg, fits 3 bicycles in the bed, and has almost no blind spot. The 2 seater cab is kind of a drawback but it's no wonder these things are going for such crazy money on the used market.
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larper posted:I love my 04 ranger. mystes has issued a correction as of 15:48 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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larper posted:I love my 04 ranger. It gets about 25 mpg, fits 3 bicycles in the bed, and has almost no blind spot. The 2 seater cab is kind of a drawback but it's no wonder these things are going for such crazy money on the used market. what do you pick up with your ranger?
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the fellars when you're carpooling to the dick sucking factory 😂😂😂😂
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I have had unpleasant experiences on public transit in the US but all of them (that I can remember offhand, anyway) can be attributed to the lack of additional services for mentally ill people rather than public transit itself being bad
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vyelkin posted:I have had unpleasant experiences on public transit in the US but all of them (that I can remember offhand, anyway) can be attributed to the lack of additional services for mentally ill people rather than public transit itself being bad yeah i mean that's the real basis of the problem, as the US doesn't give a gently caress about the poor, mentally ill, etc. so instead of housing and other support they need they end up untreated and sleeping on transit, especially here with our very cold winters I will say one of the few times I took light rail, it was to the airport, and it was winter. it was extremely cold, but I could not use the heated waiting area because all of the smokers were occupying it. they're not supposed to do that of course, but it's not like there's any enforcement mechanism.
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I mean you see the same problem with overpolicing. Basically the only public service a lot of parts of the US put any money into at all is policing, so the police are used as a hammer to beat down every social problem that looks like a nail. Firefighters have to hold community fundraisers to meet their budget while police roll around in tanks beating the poo poo out of homeless people. Similarly, public transit gets poo poo on, sometimes literally, because for a lot of desperate people it's the only place they can go to get warm and out of the elements. The root problem is underinvestment in all social services, which leads to those services that do exist being overused by people who should really be cared for by something else. It's not like Canada or Europe are socialist utopias, and they too have suffered from austerity and neoliberalism, but my anecdotal evidence is that the slightly higher basic level of service provision also leads to substantially more comfortable and widely-used public transit.
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