poe’s law is real and i can’t tell if this is sincere. It’s so cliche I think it might be a joke, but some people essentially are sad little jokes so maybe it’s real.
There should also be something like “slop’s law” for “any post on the internet might be AI slop, or might be trash hand crafted by a person”
I’d be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything. I’d love to see smaller cars on the road that were designed to only hold a single person and be as efficient at that task as possible.
Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings. And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.
I’d be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything.
Well, we agree on this at least. I live in NYC and most of these huge trucks are a unnecessary menace.
And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.
That’s kind of a fucked up sentiment, honestly. I live in an area that has a working transit system, so it’s people of all walks of life. Rich assholes ride the train to their high finance job right next to the working class folks. People commute in from NJ and CT because it’s faster, easier, and cheaper than driving.
People who drive when there’s transit available, without a good reason, are assholes. “I don’t want to see poor people” is not a good reason.
Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings.
Also, lol. I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take… ~40 minutes. I’ll take the train and read, thanks.
I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take… ~40 minutes.
That’s great if your life is so droll that anything and everything you do fits within a 20sq mi radius.
You can’t take a train to go spelunking a mountain cave. Cars win in point-to-point flexibility, and freedom of travel on your schedule, not the trains.
If I want to go somewhere at 3am, I can hop in my car and go. It’s more common for trains to run from 5am to Midnight, and I’m a night owl.
Everyone who argues against cars always forgets that not everywhere is a densely packed city. Many of us like to travel much broader ranges. Sure, some NEET doesn’t care about that freedom, but plenty of us do. Many of us live in mountain ranges and trains aren’t exactly some great solution here.
Droll? You’re saying New York City, one of the cultural capitals of the world, is droll?
Most people aren’t going spelunking every day. They go to work. They go to the grocery. They go out to eat. They go out for drinks. You shouldn’t need a car for that. You definitely shouldn’t drink and drive.
No one is seriously arguing for getting rid of all cars for all people in all case. The focus is making them no longer the default. People who do need to drive for whatever reason will have a better time because there would be less traffic.
But really this conversation goes the same way it always does. People propose mass transit to solve the day to day for most people most of the time, and some people say it won’t work because of corner cases and “I don’t want to change anything”.
Every person is their own corner case. Cars solve those corner cases. And yes, droll. If all you do is work, home, work, home, work, home…that’s droll.
And that’s not what city life is. There’s music, food, art, museums, cinema, theater, street fairs, cultural events. All of that fits in a city, in a few square miles, because cities are dense.
poe’s law is real and i can’t tell if this is sincere. It’s so cliche I think it might be a joke, but some people essentially are sad little jokes so maybe it’s real.
There should also be something like “slop’s law” for “any post on the internet might be AI slop, or might be trash hand crafted by a person”
Obviously the second half was being sarcastic.
I’d be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything. I’d love to see smaller cars on the road that were designed to only hold a single person and be as efficient at that task as possible.
Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings. And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.
Well, we agree on this at least. I live in NYC and most of these huge trucks are a unnecessary menace.
That’s kind of a fucked up sentiment, honestly. I live in an area that has a working transit system, so it’s people of all walks of life. Rich assholes ride the train to their high finance job right next to the working class folks. People commute in from NJ and CT because it’s faster, easier, and cheaper than driving.
People who drive when there’s transit available, without a good reason, are assholes. “I don’t want to see poor people” is not a good reason.
Also, lol. I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take… ~40 minutes. I’ll take the train and read, thanks.
That’s great if your life is so droll that anything and everything you do fits within a 20sq mi radius.
You can’t take a train to go spelunking a mountain cave. Cars win in point-to-point flexibility, and freedom of travel on your schedule, not the trains.
If I want to go somewhere at 3am, I can hop in my car and go. It’s more common for trains to run from 5am to Midnight, and I’m a night owl.
Everyone who argues against cars always forgets that not everywhere is a densely packed city. Many of us like to travel much broader ranges. Sure, some NEET doesn’t care about that freedom, but plenty of us do. Many of us live in mountain ranges and trains aren’t exactly some great solution here.
Droll? You’re saying New York City, one of the cultural capitals of the world, is droll?
Most people aren’t going spelunking every day. They go to work. They go to the grocery. They go out to eat. They go out for drinks. You shouldn’t need a car for that. You definitely shouldn’t drink and drive.
No one is seriously arguing for getting rid of all cars for all people in all case. The focus is making them no longer the default. People who do need to drive for whatever reason will have a better time because there would be less traffic.
But really this conversation goes the same way it always does. People propose mass transit to solve the day to day for most people most of the time, and some people say it won’t work because of corner cases and “I don’t want to change anything”.
Every person is their own corner case. Cars solve those corner cases. And yes, droll. If all you do is work, home, work, home, work, home…that’s droll.
That’s not what corner case means.
And that’s not what city life is. There’s music, food, art, museums, cinema, theater, street fairs, cultural events. All of that fits in a city, in a few square miles, because cities are dense.
Why do you think city life is just work and home?