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azimir

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  • Seven bikes take up less space than a single SUV

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  • Um... I've personally seen multiple instances of bikes carrying refrigerators around cities. I've seen couches, tables, massive shopping trips, and even piles of other bikes.

    Bikes are workhorses if you add a cargo rack or get a cargo bike style design. Here, we have plenty you can rent for big load days.

    People and schools use cargo bikes to move upwards of 6 kids each. They're workhorses if you bother to actually use one as such.

  • Seven bikes take up less space than a single SUV

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  • The price of fuel around here is about $7.25/gallon right now. It ensures driving is a luxury, and promotes other modes of transportation. It also reflects how much the taxes have to be so the government can actually properly maintain the roads.

    My old Subaru Forester would take about 13 gals at most, so that would be $94 to fill an old small SUV. If the person using the $75 number, they could easily be from Europe.

  • How car manufacturers killed small and efficient city cars in favor of high-margin SUVs in Europe

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  • The neighborhood near us in Berlin changed to angled parking, narrowed the road, replaced lots of parking with trees over bike racks between every few parking spots, and lowered the speed limits. It's making the area into a biking & walking comfort zone where it used to be a dangerous car hellscape.

    Giant SUVs, and heaven forbid US sized pickups, would stick out into the road and get hit/tickets for blocking the way. Removing cars makes a city a better place for people.

  • Lolbertarians think they know trains better than communists

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  • I'm right there with you, but we've reached a point where generations of people have never seen anything other than cars and airplanes as viable transit. They don't even know you can live without a car. In their minds it feels physically impossible to travel in any other way for daily life.

    I've spent years advocating for non-car infrastructure and I've had lots of conversations where people just couldn't believe that anyone other than a destitute person might ride a bus for work or use a bike to get groceries. They driver for everything. Their parents drove for everything and their grandpa drove for everything. Living car free is having to fight generationally ingrained perspectives of the world.

  • Lolbertarians think they know trains better than communists

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  • I definitely agree that the balance of attitudes towards more efficient transit is much stronger in countries with stronger community social structure. The US is kind of a special case because of just how individualistic the mentality is. People are incredible selfish in regards to government/centralized solutions to community needs.

    The use of bikes, smaller electric vehicles, and personal transportation smaller than cars are all great. I'm a huge (and active) proponent of bike infrastructure and updating city policies to enable personal micro mobility options.

    That said, busses can't solve transit in a major city. They have the same limitations of cars, just with more density (as do trains). Once there's enough people moving around a region they're either all walking or you need trains. There's no better way to use a road-sized piece of land to haul lots of people around. Several cities built separated bus routes for rapid transit in/out of the city core, only to find it locked up in a traffic jam made of only their own busses. They must build trains now because it's the next step up in the transit hierarchy.

    Is that forcing trains on people? I'd say it's the people forcing trains on themselves because there's just no other way to move so many people in a dense metropolitan area.

  • Guys where did I put my wallet

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  • Have you looked in Nature's Pocket?

  • Lolbertarians think they know trains better than communists

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  • "The customer is always right in matters of taste."

    That preference of an individual is personalized comfort over the common good. This is the tragedy of the commons in overdrive. Of course when given individual input, most individually will prefer an individualized option like cars over trains. This aligns with Capitalism nicely because it's is also the easier option to sell more profitable units with. Cars appeal to both consumers and Capital. What that equation does not include is the cost to the public good in the forms of water space, public health, lifelong dependency, infrastructure damage to people not using cars, and the ecological catastrophe cars create.

    Building the most inefficient transit system possible because it maximizes short term profits with no regard to the wide effects, especially when Capital then uses their wealth to remove competitive public options, is not going to make the best system for the public. We know this from 100+ years of failure generated by the car oriented systems we've built into every aspect of our lives.

  • Putin to present Trump with 'historical materials' framing Ukraine as artificial state, Kyiv claims

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  • Don't even get me started about Constantinople!

  • Canadians steer clear of US as travel from north falls for seventh month

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  • When people ask why the Canadian travel numbers aren't zero, this is a big part of why. Business systems and markets take time to shift gracefully. Over time the friction in the business operations will guide more and more other opportunities and the quantity of border crossings from Canada to the US will continue to dwindle.

    Elbows Up Canada.

  • Trump Burger owner in Texas faces deportation after Ice arrest

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  • There's no conservative comedy shows that last for a reason. They're not funny. They don't seem to be able to do or have real humor, only bullying and punching down to laugh at.

  • US Justice Department launches grand jury probe of N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James. She won a civil fraud case against the president and his companies.

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  • During the election process someone called this upcoming administration a "revenge tour". Basically, the power of the government shall and will be wielded against the people of this nation who actually enforced its laws against law breakers.

  • Kulturfreitag

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  • Diese Woche bestand nur aus Arbeit.

    Die nächste Woche steht ganz im Zeichen des Reisens und der Erholung von der Zeitzone.

    Danach werde ich in einem neuen Zuhause sein und hoffentlich mehr zu berichten haben.

  • President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign immediatly

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  • Consistency with their words nor actual morals are not features of a right wing party. Only power, money, and ownership of others are features to be expected.

  • The Cost of "Living".

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  • My last job (just left it), kept giving small raises every year. I made a chart showing my actual salary against real dollars over time and the very quickly falling downard trend over the four years of been there. The admins were just like "so?"

    It took a bit, but I'm off to a new job. Fuck that place.

  • HATE.

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  • Why is the USA converging upon a real live test of the Mad Max movies? I've seen people daily driving Ford F650s. I've seen jacked up trucks with ramming prows at chest height for maximum pedestrian harm. I've seen people armoring up Escalades that they drive to get milk from the store.

    WTF is wrong with you people?

  • Canadian judge rules law to remove bike lanes is unconstitutional, cyclists have a right to safety

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  • I'm not in Canada, but a recent quote from one of our city councilmen when asked about improving rail service between cities was:

    "You should just fly like adults"

    Walking? Using public transit? That's for poors.

  • Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks

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  • The early conservative thinkers wrote about the French Revolutions and the rise of egalitarian thinking meant that something must take the place of monarchies to decide the social order. They preferred war as the measure of who should be the leaders, but that money and wealth could be a substitute. This led to Capitalist concepts infesting the right wing since monarchies are off the table.

    Innuendo Studios has some great videos summarizing the alt right, conservatism, and Christian nationalism if you're interested:

    https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

    Regarding the mindset issue, it might be more baked into people than we'd like. Two great books on the topic are:

    The Authoritarians by Altimeter

    The Righteous Mind by Haidt

    They also have videos summarizing the works in presentations and interviews. It seems that people end up having shadings of authoritarian drives, which means they're happier living under someone's commands and will work to preserve hierarchies despite the harm it causes others. Whether it is socialization or biological I don't know.

    To sum up: some people want to be ruled and they're currently tearing the US down to let a king rule over the rubble.

  • Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks

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  • Conservatism is, at its root, monarchist. The original writers and thinkers were focused on preserving authoritarian rule, then upon how to build and maintain hierarchies of society where people rule over others.

    They've never been interested in democratic ideals unless it suits them to reinstate a dictatorship.

  • After a teenager was killed and another severely injured, the City of Chicago removed a traffic lane and converted it to a safer neighborhood greenway

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  • My city just wrings their hands, issues a "that sucks" statement, and generally builds weird bike lanes where we don't need to really go. Lots of paint, but little safety.