• we are all@crazypeople.online
    14 hours

    ok take a woman on a dinner and movie date with your bike. can you get to her place if someone is messing with her and she needs help?

    i like "bikes’ too but different modes of transportation have their merits gooners.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    3 years

    With trains, you don’t arrive sweaty, you can’t get run down by cars, and someone else parks it

    • adriaan@sh.itjust.works
      3 years

      I ride a bike to work every day. I’m never sweaty. The infrastructure to cycle exists so I won’t get run over by cars.

  • redhydride@lemmy.ml
    3 years

    Screw that. I love paying for car insurance, gas, oil change, tires, and random bolts maintenance. There is also the thrill of driving in traffic, and dealing with road rage. There is plenty that makes the car the ideal transportation mode loved by the masses.

  • Facebones@reddthat.com
    3 years

    "Cars are freedom! *

    Except for the monthly finance payment, the legal obligation to insurance companies, the dependance on oil companies, etc"

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    3 years

    Distance. An hour commute or a 20 minute trip to the grocery store. We killed walkable neighborhoods so now here we are. Trapped.

    • uis@lemmy.world
      3 years

      Open your own grocery store. Or allow others to do so.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        3 years

        I would if I could. But I can’t beat Walmart prices an hour away on Transit.

        • Grabthar@lemmy.world
          3 years

          That’s why you don’t see 15 minute cities anymore. Capitalism already figured out that a few large stores allow you to hire more efficient numbers of employees, buy more for less, stock better variety, pass along some of the savings to customers and still make more profit than building lots and lots of repeated commercial infrastructure throughout residential areas. A return to that model would require more employees in low paying service jobs, and would sacrifice lower prices and better variety. Ironically, it would be far faster to use a car to skip from store to store to look for the best deals and the specific brands you want. I suppose we could also get rid of capitalism at the same time, but I’m not holding my breath. As much as I like the idea of walkable infrastructure, it comes at a cost that I am not sure many would be willing to pay.

  • (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻@programming.devEnglish
    3 years

    Every time I see this kind of post I just wish they would try to go to work in a +40 degree Celsius environment.

    It must be nice to work in a place that won’t mind if you arrive drenched in sweat.

    Edit: I love the hive mind