lobster shirt posted:

ate cars
ate drivers
ate parking lots

love trains
love trams
love buses

simple as

Lastgirl posted:

crush car culture

i say swears online posted:

no train conductor ever called me pedestrian

quote:

The next morning, while the Red House was buzzing and teeming, like a beehive preparing for the swarm, we saw a small automobile coming along the road. Very few cars passed, so the fact roused our interest, especially since it wasn’t a military vehicle. It slowed in front of the camp, swerved, and turned in, jolting over the rough ground in front of the strange façade. Then we saw that it was a vehicle familiar to all of us, a Fiat 500A, a rusty, beat-up Topolino, with its suspension pitifully misshapen.

It stopped in front of the entrance and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of the curious. An extraordinary figure emerged from it, with great effort, as if he would never finish getting out. He was a very tall, corpulent, ruddy man, in a uniform we had never seen before: a Soviet general, a high-ranking general, a field marshal. When he was completely out of the door, the tiny auto body rose a good few inches, and the suspension seemed to breathe. The man was literally larger than the car, and it was incomprehensible how he could have got into it. His dimensions were further enlarged and accentuated; he took a black object out of the car and unfolded it. It was a cloak that hung to the ground from two long rigid epaulets, of wood; with a casual gesture, attesting to a great familiarity with that equipment, he whirled it around and unfolded it over his back, so that his outline, which had been rounded, became angular. Seen from behind, the man was a monumental black rectangle of one meter by two, who advanced toward the vault of the Red House with majestic symmetry, between two lines of puzzled people whom he towered over by an entire head. How would he get through the door, wide as he was? But he folded back the two epaulets, like wings, and entered.

That heavenly messenger, who traveled alone through the mud in an ancient, disintegrating small car, was Marshal Timoshenko in person, Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, the hero of the Bolshevik Revolution, of Karelia and Stalingrad. After his welcome by the local Russians, which for that matter was singularly sober and lasted only a few minutes, he came out of the building again and chatted informally with us Italians, like the rough Kutuzov in War and Peace, on the field, amid the pots of fish cooking and laundry hung out to dry. He spoke Romanian fluently with the Romanians (since he was, rather is, originally from Bessarabia), and even knew a little Italian. The damp wind stirred his gray locks, which contrasted with his ruddy, tanned complexion, the complexion of a soldier, and of a hearty eater and drinker. He told us that yes, it was really true: we would be leaving soon, very soon; “war over, everybody home”; the escort was ready, also the provisions for the journey, the papers were in order. In a few days the train would be waiting for us in the station in Starye Doroghi.

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

nah

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1439595189534855172

paul_soccer12 posted:

Everyone post your favorite car of all time

duomo posted:

don’t ever ask me or my large dog to walk again

actionjackson posted:

yeah NYC is dense enough where it's not a huge issue, but it's literally the only city in the US like that

anyway next time I need to run an errand that takes 10 minutes by car, or 90 minutes with three transfers by bus because I don't live in one of the uh.. 2/3 cities in the US that has that kind of infrastructure, I'll think of you guys

p.s. dog (I was fostering her before adoption so I had to take her to get spayed at the group's designated hospital - an hour away BY CAR lmao)

indigi posted:

wtf is congestion pricing

lobster shirt posted:

congestion pricing is good and they should do it

ArmZ posted:

communism!

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

require attentive focus at all times - lol

actionjackson posted:

I walked to work for years and gently caress bicyclists who ride on sidewalks

walk crew > bike crew

actionjackson posted:

that's not a greyhound

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Shut the gently caress up retard. Slurs have always been allowed in cspam though one time some mod started to concern troll about the word "bitch" being used.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

vyelkin posted:

trap sprung

vyelkin posted:

ban cars

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

i once had my alternator die on me while i was driving on the highway in my old civic. my lights shut off, my power steering cut out and all my instruments died, but it had a mechanical fuel pump, distributor and manual transmission in it so the tiny bit of juice required to fire the spark plugs drove me another 18 nervewracking kilometers to the next exit where i got off, pulled into the nearest gas station, and it promptly died lol. had my brother bring me a spare, he boosted me and i was on my way in under 3 hours

i hope to never own one of these stupid drm pieces of poo poo

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

well, in your country it's both lol (assuming you're in america)

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

yeah robust at burning hella coal and natural gas lmao

Filthy Hans posted:

good morning, car thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3JzxlatUs

docbeard posted:

There Will Come Soft Trains

Lastgirl posted:

the Midas Cuck

wilfredmerriweathr posted:

I got to the site of the 35w bridge collapse like five minutes after it happened, we were watching cartoons in my college house basement and heard that poo poo, biked over directly and were like good loving lord this is metal as gently caress

A lot of cars died in that. Not as many as you'd think though

Any of you other mpls goons see that poo poo? Fuckin nuts. Those gusset plates were turbbofucked for years. Can't even spend enough on the car infrastructure to prevent that.

i say swears online posted:

my friend was traumatized by the texas cold snap this winter so he's going to buy an electric ford lightning to sit there and power his home, he said it was cheaper than those internal tesla batteries for residences

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

jaywalking isn't real

Polo-Rican posted:

yes!! I grew up in central connecticut and dunkin is basically the only "culture." when I was younger & working part time jobs in high school, it was probably 50/50 inside customers / drive-thru customers. Now, when I go back to visit for holidays and whatnot, it's 100% drive through, not a single soul goes inside, which is especially weird because the drive through line moves at a snail's pace

I mentioned this earlier in the thread but CT specifically is one of the most car-poisoned states. quality of life completely obliterated by NY and MA through-traffic, yet too cowardly to put tolls on the highways because the word "tolls" makes drivers mad

zegermans posted:

Same size bed

Blockade posted:

Instead of self driving cars with complicated and poorly engineered vision recognition systems, why not just put a magnetic strip or something down highways for cars to follow, use lidar, and setup a traffic control agency to monitor conditions and enforce highway self driving/no self driving zones.

This doesnt seem to be as hard a problem as the tech bros make it out to be?

Sphyre posted:

actionjackson posted:

lyft and uber will just classify their vehicles as ambulances

yeah cool btw our entire infrastructure is setup to require a car atm

Fitzy Fitz posted:

https://twitter.com/JerusalemDemsas/status/1445532089617584130?s=20

Sphyre posted:

also i hate to break it to some posters itt but hating ebikes on account of them not being 'real bikes' is a sure sign you view bikes as purely leisure, not transport, which is a symptom of terminal car brain

Mr. Sharps posted:

those plowshares use materials and manufacturing that’s as detrimental as swords u know