https://xkcd.com/2832/

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If they’re going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

  • adriaan@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m so happy this is becoming more mainstream. Huge props to people like NotJustBikes for such effective propagandizing.

    • huginn@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      It was something I never could put words to until NJB showed up. I had already moved to NYC to get away from the burbs and driving.

      And then I took the orange pill.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    Yep. The combination of moving to New York City and reading “death and life of great American cities” really pushed me into being anti car culture. That and looking back at growing up in the suburbs where I couldn’t do anything without a car. Age like 10-17 sucked. I was so jealous of the kids that lived in the city and could go out and do things.

  • Gorilladrums@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This anti-car shit is starting to become another brainless cult. The issue with North American urban planning was never with the cars themselves, but rather with our over reliance on them. Bike paths, public transport, better walkability, and mixed zoning are all great things but cars are still very useful tools. Banning them entirely will cause more problems then it will solve.

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      1 year ago

      Counterpoint: Read panels 6 and 10 again. (The ones beginning “We’ve ceded” and “People approach” if I’ve messed up my counting somehow).

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        1 year ago

        It really doesn’t matter to me, I hate big cities, and am currently in the process of selling my home to leave one.

        • Vittelius@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          And that’s totally fine. You do you. But

          1. Why do those who like cities have to live in a car-centric hellscape
          2. More people on bikes makes cities more bareble even for people who for some reason like driving because more bikes = less traffic jams and less noise
          3. Why does biking automatically mean big city. Small cities are in theory even better for that since they tend to be more compact. Stuff is less spread out even if the relative density is lower.
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes I feel like I’m in a cult. Other times I feel like everyone else is in a cult. Is that bad?

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    1 year ago

    I’ve never been to Amsterdam, but I am always skeptical whenever someone claims to me that any city isn’t a shithole.

    Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, New York City, New Haven, Paris, Toronto… hard pass. Being that close to that many other people is fucking gross.