Get in the pod, inhale the fumes.
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Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy but - I like cars? Cars are fun. You can learn so much working on them and restoring them. Learn to weld, learn to build engines and gearboxes, learn to paint, learn how to do wiring. And at the end of it after all that blood, sweat, and tears - you have something fun you can drive about in!
Why does everybody here hate on my hobby so much? Its like the one thing I have in this world. Let me enjoy it.
I feel ya. I'm currently waiting for a part for my motorcycle to come in so I can take apart the clutch again. But what makes it fun is that my entire ability to transport myself isn't dependent solely on my motorcycle. If I needed it running in order to get to work every day, I would never take the time to work on it - I would be forced to take it to a mechanic to ensure the job is done right, and fast, because I can't afford the luxury of making mistakes and learning on my own.
The pushback against cars is pushback against car dependence, and the externalities that cars create in our shared urban environments. Not against hobbyists who just think cars are neat.
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If that happens, you'll see a bunch of retalliation from WFH programmers-turned-political-hackers
Who will soon find themselves in some hostile nation courtesy of ICE.
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InCARceration.
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Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy but - I like cars? Cars are fun. You can learn so much working on them and restoring them. Learn to weld, learn to build engines and gearboxes, learn to paint, learn how to do wiring. And at the end of it after all that blood, sweat, and tears - you have something fun you can drive about in!
Why does everybody here hate on my hobby so much? Its like the one thing I have in this world. Let me enjoy it.
Same here. Especially going wild. I like windy narrow roads. When driving through the remote village in the woods I grew up in, I’m using about 37 liters / 100 km. It’s a one way road and pretty fucking fun to drive.
Outside of that I’m down to 4.2 liters / 100 km lol
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However, if you follow that train of thought, you'll often get to the point where you'd need to get rid of cars as we know them today.
If people weren't depending on them, fewer would have one. And if only few people have one (they are expensive, after all), why build roads just for them? Why all this costly infrastructure that would only benefit 5% of the population? Why use everyone's tax to fund them?
The fact that cars are built like today - basically comfort cages - is only because all this infrastructure exists. They're not used outside of that environment. So of people don't depend on it, they'd probably vanish in a couple of decades, at least outside of their respective niches.
Recently saw something posted about how kids are actually cycling to school again in some parts of London where LTNs have been implemented. Reducing the number of cars makes it better for people.
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Cars still suck even without the dependence. I live somewhere that very much isn't car dependant but there's still too many of them and they still make places miserable.
They are everywhere, and often park on the pavement which must be really difficult if you are trying to move about in a wheelchair and there are cars blocking everything. Public transport isn't much better as almost no where has level boarding here either so someone needs to come over with a fucking ramp - except they probably won't so you need to change at the next stop when someone wakes up and lets you off and then go back to the previous stop to get off where you actually wanted to.
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You mean like during the COVID lockdown? It was amazing. I wish people learned more lessons from that time.
I did, now I resent management that tries to push us backwards and actively encourage my coworkers to push back.
We were ordered to go into the office today, some of us were (myself included) actively bringing it up in conversation and encouraged others not to turn up. None of us turned up.
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...brainwashed by electromagnetic radiation? Do you really believe that statement?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Propaganda on the radio, radio uses electromagnetic radiation.
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Commuting to office (by car) daily is the real problem. Road trips by car are incredibly freeing and not miserable.
Surely no one is choosing to go on a road trip through a busy town during rush hour.
Don't mind people going on a road trip. Its such a small minority of cars on the road its pretty much irrelevant.
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Who will soon find themselves in some hostile nation courtesy of ICE.
They already are
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Wrong.
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Also, notice this:
And this dude (lower left, immediately 9 o'clock of the "Y"):
See ya.
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Yeah, and you're still paying your food subscription, electricity subscription, roof subscription, etc. And if you use public transportation you have to pay your train or bus subscription. That's not the zinger everyone thinks it is.
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Yeah, and you're still paying your food subscription, electricity subscription, roof subscription, etc. And if you use public transportation you have to pay your train or bus subscription. That's not the zinger everyone thinks it is.
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They already are
Fair enough.
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Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy but - I like cars? Cars are fun. You can learn so much working on them and restoring them. Learn to weld, learn to build engines and gearboxes, learn to paint, learn how to do wiring. And at the end of it after all that blood, sweat, and tears - you have something fun you can drive about in!
Why does everybody here hate on my hobby so much? Its like the one thing I have in this world. Let me enjoy it.
We don't hate on cars. We hate on the fact that most cities are car-centric where you can't even walk; we dislike who buys a 5000L truck and uses it only to get kids from school and so on
