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NeatHeteroDude posted:the safety of subways etc. vary widely but in my/my wife's experience like 7/10 rides are fine and the remaining ones are either a little stressful or unsafe. the big thing is that you don't know when the ride will be safe or stressful, it feels like you have to be alert all the time. for us all it really took was one bad trip to make every subsequent trip very stressful, and i was pretty happy when we could finally afford cars to drive Two years ago I was stopped at a light and a 3 ton truck ran straight into me going 60 mph and totalled my car. Can't say that's ever happened to me on public transit.
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Elmnt80 posted:Let your song finish playing, take a sip from your morning beverage and let the suffocating wave of the bullshit you're about to endure wash over you. hey buddy. cars are crap!!
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Weka posted:What's this? Presuming you don't mean the Pakistani spooks. Import Substitution Industrialization
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I read some cute dog history about the Hoover Dam. They had a dog that followed the workers and brightened everyone's day. Nig: The Hoover Dam Mascot quote:One day Nig wanted to return to the city earlier than usual and ended up getting a ride back with Frank Crowe, the chief engineer of the Hoover Dam. Even the big boss must have loved the dam's mascot a lot because the dog was seen sitting in the front passenger seat of the fancy car while the man's wife rode in the back. quote:After the dam was complete, Nig continued to make his rounds there. On February 21, 1941, an unseasonably hot day, Nig decided to take a nap in a spot of shade under a truck. When the driver of the truck returned, he failed to notice the sleeping dog. Nig died instantly when the truck ran over him. Grassy Knowles posted:thank god you can drive a car now so you dont need to be alert all the time A big part of feeling safe while driving is being completely oblivious of all your near death misses. Greatbacon posted:Two years ago I was stopped at a light and a 3 ton truck ran straight into me going 60 mph and totalled my car. Can't say that's ever happened to me on public transit. I feel far safer on public transit because I'm in a 30 ton bus instead of a 3 ton car. It will suck when people start ramming 10 ton electric Hummers into buses.
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Greatbacon posted:Two years ago I was stopped at a light and a 3 ton truck ran straight into me going 60 mph and totalled my car. Can't say that's ever happened to me on public transit. my wife's first car was totalled at a red light too. stopped, reached down to change the radio to a station not on ad-break (yeah, that dates me, they're all synchronized now) and *wham*. guy who hit her said he thought she was going to run the red i get that it's an explanation, but i don't get how he thought it was a good one.
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gradenko_2000 posted:It was gonna be my first long ride on the new bike, and I was very stupidly pushing as fast as I could, now that I could actually go fast. A motorcycle cut in front of me and I swerved to avoid and I hit a pothole, lost control, and flew off the bike. drat dude I hope you are not damaged too badly 
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:A big part of feeling safe while driving is being completely oblivious of all your near death misses. And, if you don't feel like you have to be alert while driving, all of the near death misses you're inflicting on others
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I've been lurking in this thread for like four days and I think I'm ready to get rid of my car. I realized I barely use it, I don't enjoy using it, but it costs me thousands of dollars a year just to have it. Maybe I will get a bike but I've been doing most everything I need to on foot or with light rail.
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Greatbacon posted:Two years ago I was stopped at a light and a 3 ton truck ran straight into me going 60 mph and totalled my car. Can't say that's ever happened to me on public transit. Yeah that's scary too, both can be scary. Grassy Knowles posted:thank god you can drive a car now so you dont need to be alert all the time There seems to be a pretty big difference for me personally and maybe others between the experience of worrying about someone running up to you and hurting you vs. having to drive defensively. It's not like one is dangerous and the other isn't, just a different experience for people involved. I super didn't like coming home to my wife crying because some guy followed her up from the subway until right outside our apartment complex at night. She experienced dramatically worse times than I did on the subway and that's why when we got our first car she was 100% the one who got to use it for work and school. We've also had bad experiences driving and have been in accidents, but it just feels different to have a car to go to and from places if you have a reason to worry about stuff like that. It's not an objective risk calculus lol Of course cars hurt and kill more people than subway shitheads. Saying one was bad for us for this reason as part of a discussion about why subways as they are feel dangerous isn't also saying cars ftw.
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speng31b posted:lmao Cuttlefush posted:oh my god lol lobster shirt posted:hahaha drat Zodium posted:lmfao Wholesome end lol she told me later that night was the first time she KNEW she was falling in love because despite me gassing her bedroom and forcing her to put on full ppe so she could clean for an hour while I drunkenly splashed my hand and face with milk, she wasn't mad at all!!
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:And, if you don't feel like you have to be alert while driving, all of the near death misses you're inflicting on others "well poo poo there's a big chunk of metal in the road, wasn't visible until the car in front swerved but their sudden maneuver hosed up the left lane so i can't go left, there's people on the sidewalk to the right and i can't stop in time. gently caress this is going to hurt." really enjoyed changing a tire in the rain, love the car. then there was the time i ran myself over but i never hated my car, i said "thank you for your service"
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You guys know why the old-timey dog was named "nig" right?
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withak posted:You guys know why the old-timey dog was named "nig" right? Because it was a valued member of the workforce that the oppressors (trucks) clearly didn't appreciate?
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withak posted:You guys know why the old-timey dog was named "nig" right? Named after Niger, so a Berber root.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PVxA_UfK5M An interesting video about Culver City possibly removing a bus/bike line in one of the few recent success stories as far as mixed-use planning around LA Country (probably SoCal at this point). The chief reason seems to be that drivers are simply jealous of watching buses/bikes pass them, and there isn't a good other reason besides simply resentment. They are simply being 'driven' insane.
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NeatHeteroDude posted:while you are trolling i'd like to point out that mace is insanely disabling. on my third date with the now wife, i thought she had a cool toy pistol (bright pink, clear) in her nightstand and started james bond aiming it around the room. as it turns out, it was a Remington mace gel/oil shooter and while waving it around i somehow disabled the safety and fired a big shot that grazed off the top of my hand and splattered on the wall. I rode a train once with a few random kids. No idea where they were going, but one borrowed a body spray from the other. He, and the rest of the compartment, learned something about reading labels that day.
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genericnick posted:I rode a train once with a few random kids. No idea where they were going, but one borrowed a body spray from the other. He, and the rest of the compartment, learned something about reading labels that day.
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NeatHeteroDude posted:the safety of subways etc. vary widely but in my/my wife's experience like 7/10 rides are fine and the remaining ones are either a little stressful or unsafe. the big thing is that you don't know when the ride will be safe or stressful, it feels like you have to be alert all the time. for us all it really took was one bad trip to make every subsequent trip very stressful, and i was pretty happy when we could finally afford cars to drive gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/danielgodfrey/status/1641485100671021057?t=GUpS0BFLg4bPNY81TM2qAQ&s=19
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i sit on the train and anyone jerks off on me or stabs me i say thank you for your service
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Ardennes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PVxA_UfK5M One more lane, bro. Just one more lane and all our problems are solved.
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https://twitter.com/tonyocruz/status/1642407014822445056?t=gQXojfVOJKMUqgx7hKjDnQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/tonyocruz/status/1642411617790091264?t=EMH4mwhcZOW54Pz7DxNIqA&s=19
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McCracAttack posted:One more lane, bro. Just one more lane and all our problems are solved. In this case, it is also replacing a transit lane, so it may actually make things directly worse beyond even induced demand. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 15:19 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/tonyocruz/status/1642407014822445056?t=gQXojfVOJKMUqgx7hKjDnQ&s=19 they oppose jeeps?
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genericnick posted:they oppose jeeps? Take a ww2 US jeep, stretch out the back, add bench seating to it, and you get:  A public transportation mode that's essentially small buses
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gradenko_2000 posted:Take a ww2 US jeep, stretch out the back, add bench seating to it, and you get: That's kind of cool. The doors look a bit inconvenient though.
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NeatHeteroDude posted:while you are trolling i'd like to point out that mace is insanely disabling. on my third date with the now wife, i thought she had a cool toy pistol (bright pink, clear) in her nightstand and started james bond aiming it around the room. as it turns out, it was a Remington mace gel/oil shooter and while waving it around i somehow disabled the safety and fired a big shot that grazed off the top of my hand and splattered on the wall. A shockingly upbeat story for what starts off as "yeah so I once got maced". I would have played with the gun too op
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i married a wife thats 6 feet tall so she can defend herself from awnry manlets without chemical irritants
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“i somehow disabled the safety and fired” this person may be driving around your city…watch ur back, everyone
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gun thread poster gonna kramer in like  the only safety you need is 6 pounds of trigger squeeze resistance
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NeatHeteroDude posted:while you are trolling i'd like to point out that mace is insanely disabling. on my third date with the now wife, i thought she had a cool toy pistol (bright pink, clear) in her nightstand and started james bond aiming it around the room. as it turns out, it was a Remington mace gel/oil shooter and while waving it around i somehow disabled the safety and fired a big shot that grazed off the top of my hand and splattered on the wall. please put a trigger warning on your story next time thank you
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Hubbert posted:please put a trigger warning on your story next time thank you o_O
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Ardennes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PVxA_UfK5M People around here are losing their minds about cyclists filtering to a light to avoid dying in squeeze crashes and it comes down to this exact thing, they’re just pissy someone is moving faster than they are or passing them because in their heart of hearts driving is a competition.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:People around here are losing their minds about cyclists filtering to a light to avoid dying in squeeze crashes and it comes down to this exact thing, they’re just pissy someone is moving faster than they are or passing them because in their heart of hearts driving is a competition. It is arguably how car culture reinforces itself and the tendency not to spent enough on transit to make it too viable versus cars, even if it would probably make their commuter easier even with road diets.
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Ardennes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PVxA_UfK5M lol carbrains can't even give up a mile of road because oh my god there's traffic! at rush hour of all times!
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Elmnt80 posted:Let your song finish playing, take a sip from your morning beverage and let the suffocating wave of the bullshit you're about to endure wash over you. you guys should make this into your traveling ai thread
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alpha bro who refuses to eat anything that isn't raw meat because that's how our caveman ancestors did it but can't walk a mile to a grocery store so he drives his F250
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