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spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
cars are bad

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spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

actionjackson posted:

best part of my former one mile walk "commute" was that it was pretty quiet, except for when I walked over 94 and saw cars piling up in traffic starting at 2 pm :laffo: which owned

it's an area of Minneapolis called spaghetti junction, where 94 and 35W run parallel for a short time, and it's a total clusterfuck

hope you wore a p100 respirator over that section

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

actionjackson posted:

lol

but in all seriousness that was pre-covid

for the exhaust particles

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

it is, and i am not american

im american if anyone has any questions agbout it

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Tulip posted:

Just walked past a memorial to a 3 month old who got struck by a car

Were they wearing a reflective vest

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Hirsute posted:

It's been almost a year since I got my first car at the ripe old age of 35, and I still hate it!

maybe get a pickup truck?

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
im not sure if "not murdering people" has deep roots in japanese culture

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

cowboy beepboop posted:

it's very relaxing doing just under the speed limit, more people should try it. if you tell people this they get enraged though. i don't understand why.

my prius reliably gets over 70mpg with this technique

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
KEEP HONKING
I"M REGENERATING

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

actionjackson posted:

since all the truks are here for the roofing job (there's F350s, F450s, a Ram 3500 HD with double back tires lol), I was talking to the project manager in his truk

just standing next to this thing is terrifying



jesus thats a lot of money

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
there's something that gets passed around every now and then about how drunk walking is more lethal than drunk driving per mile lol

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Milo and POTUS posted:

They keep getting hit by drunk drivers

they also travel very few miles

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
you could've bought a nice car with cash for $30k in 2019

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
iirc a new lexus es cost about $35k pre covid

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

actionjackson posted:

many people have 30k in cash

the person with the loan made a $30k down payment in a $70k car

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
what the gently caress

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
you're all replying to a paste of a dumb tweet

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

ArmZ posted:

lol the south

temnessee lacks at atlantic coast and is therefore the midwest

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
just keep building transit until there are no neighborhoods left to gentrify ofc. it's good to make places suck less

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
enjoying this series about struggles against highways in san diego

https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/freeway-exit

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Dog Case posted:

Apparently car rules apply to boats too and you can just be like "I guess I ran into them because I couldn't see where I was going"

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2023/07/24/motorboat-runs-over-fishing-boat/

:actually: "law enforcement accuse the boat driver of several crimes"

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
the 4 lane road adjacent to my neighborhood just got changed from 2 car lanes each direction to 1 car and 1 bike lane plus a center turn lane. pretty good upgrade

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
also thr tax revenue from a parking lot is way less than filling the same space with even the shittiest of shops

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
my kid is always pumped when we can go to fun stuff within walking distance. too bad they're too scared to use a bike lane. need to htfu, almost 8 years old ffs

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Ensign Expendable posted:

I wish people would import those tiny trucks that are actually made for carrying cargo and not the huge useless Ford trucks that seem to only be used to take up space.

importing kei trucks is kind of a trend right now. not id want to go above 35mph in one, though

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

true

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
what's 5kg of dry ice look like? sounds like a lot

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
belt drive rules

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
height and mass are bad enough on their own

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Mauser posted:

old campagnolo hubs

i am the great campagnolo! mtb for my bunghole

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
the vengeance looks copied from red faction 3

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Blackhawk posted:

Found the front tyre of my road bike flat after I last rode it, I reiterate my belief that the penalty for smashing glass bottles on the road or footpath should be immediate summary execution.

but what else are motorists supposed to do with their empty liquor bottles

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

ArmZ posted:

saw a guy on a Harley trike with oxygen tubes in his nose :whitewater:

probably long covid

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

evil_bunnY posted:

I read a piece that basically laid out that everything americans do is essentially trauma-response, and honestly it tracks pretty well

please stop reading transcripts of my therapy sessions

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

apatite posted:

also you can get tiny ones that burn like a teaspoon of gas per thousand miles, and you can buy them used for a hilarious fraction of a $car

someone in a car might kill you tho :murder:

my experience with a 125cc scooter was about 70mpg, just a little better than a typical hybrid car

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Blackhawk posted:

Is it not the case that ICE scooters/mopeds/bikes although delivering good fuel economy (due to their low weight) produce significantly worse non-CO2 emissions than cars as regulations on their engines are looser and there's less mass and space available for emissions control technologies? Things like nitrous oxide emissions, hydrocarbon vapors etc. I know that's definitely the case for small boat outboard motors which are insanely bad in terms of pollution.

yeah it's about as bad as driving a pickup truck in that sense

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Ensign Expendable posted:

What gas station would even let you try and operate this shitshow?

gas station cashier aint getting paid enough to intervene

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
the dmv recommends going slower when someone tailgates u in order to reduce the likelihood of a 3 car crash

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
it's ok to make the right driving decision even if you're in a tiny minority in doing it, much like masking to prevent disease

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Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
it's baffling to think that going faster will make aggressive drivers back off. they never do, they always keep making every situation more dangerous

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