• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    5 months ago

    I sincerely think that someone parked in the bike lane (or fire lane or other places you’re not supposed to park for safety) should forfeit the protection of law. While your car is there, anyone inconvenienced by it should be allowed to just do whatever.

    People are like “well I was just there for a minute!” and I’m like it takes less than a minute for a cyclist to swerve around the ill-placed car, get hit by some other car, and die, so that doesn’t seem convincing.

    I just don’t care that you need your car to be there for personal convenience. Deal with it instead of making it everyone else’s problem.

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        5 months ago

        I would say the very second passenger car traffic exceeds the environmental impact of the cruise industry. How much environmental damage does Carnival Cruise Lines do compared to all the highway traffic in the United States? We’re talking an entirely recreational industry here, if all cruise ships disappeared tomorrow society would keep right on rolling. Cases of norovirus would decrease.

        You want passenger rail to increase in the United States? Great. Let’s start with Amtrak’s website. I live within walking distance of an active Amtrak station. Several times in my life I’ve had a want or need to travel cross country, and it occurred to me “I wonder if I could take the train.” The answer, inevitably, is no. I go to Amtrak’s website, pick a starting station and a destination station, and usually they outright can’t plan a trip between those locations. Not even capable of saying things like “take the Silver Star to Grand Central station in New York, wait 8 hours, then take the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago.” It proved to be less work on my part to drive, fly as a passenger on an airliner, and fly as pilot of a Cessna, than take the train in this country.

        And what part of that is my personal fault?

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          5 months ago

          Oh, well, if others are worse then I guess you’re not doing anything wrong.

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            5 months ago

            If you’ve got to lose weight, you cut out the fat, not the muscle.

            If you care about the environment, target the worst, least necessary things first. You don’t genuinely care about the environment though.

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              5 months ago

              You got me, I don’t give a shit about the environment, unlike you, the biggest tree-hugger in the world.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      The same point where you are detained for kidnapping for forcing the other cars to stop in traffic.

      Next time there is a jam, just throw everyone in jail for kidnapping each other.

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          5 months ago

          If you know there’s going to be a traffic jam at 5PM on the I-Fuckit, aggravated by your presence, is that not intent or, at the very least, gross negligence?

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    5 months ago

    Name calling… Check Unsubstantiated claims… Check Fake quotes… Check Rampant escalation of violence… Check

    Yup, quality post we got here guys. I haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet.

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      5 months ago

      Look, if we in ‘fuckcars’ can’t agree on entirely reasonable things like setting fire to cars parked in bike lanes, what are we even doing? 😂

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        5 months ago

        Ha, I get it. Lots of stuff here is posted super seriously. It’s easy to incite this community where it spills over into others.

        I suppose the joke part of this didn’t sink in. I refer to my earlier comment about lack of coffee. :)

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        5 months ago

        Ever try blowing up a car and burn your mouth on the exhaust? No, be reasonable…you set it on fire!

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    5 months ago

    Most cars can’t handle going off-road so it really isn’t true freedom of movement.