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I'm getting around to this finally. This thread is for discussing bughive channels and their autism. Bughive channels are channels which promote and embellish urban living over rural or suburban living. Most of these channels are some form of leftist European trash who usually share a few things like slobbering over trains, being baffled by lawns, and hating cars with a passion. All my info is from this thread I made and I am using some of the write ups people have given, I'll source them.
Every single channel has this autistic viewpoint and can' t fathom why people wouldn't love living in a closet sized apartment and take a train to anywhere they want. They don't get why services aren't all within a five mile radius of eachother. They don't get why people want to leave cities. The channels are usually polluted with garbage like this for content and generally breadtube adjacent. This thread is more for talking about these channels but you can sperg out about cars and shit if you want.




Anyways big ups to @DJ Grelle for this write up.
Every single channel has this autistic viewpoint and can' t fathom why people wouldn't love living in a closet sized apartment and take a train to anywhere they want. They don't get why services aren't all within a five mile radius of eachother. They don't get why people want to leave cities. The channels are usually polluted with garbage like this for content and generally breadtube adjacent. This thread is more for talking about these channels but you can sperg out about cars and shit if you want.




Anyways big ups to @DJ Grelle for this write up.
@NevskyProspekt and @quaawaa For the justification of adding NotJustBikes, who is slightly more moderate but equally as spergyThe protagonists in our story are the following hive-tyrants
AdamSomething
A Czech Eurocrat with disdain for capitalism and a hateboner for Elon Musk.
NotJustBikes
An american who moved to the Netherlands because he fell in love with the bike-centric and walkeable cities. (ignoring that it's that way because the Netherlands is exceptionally flat. Seriously even small hills make biking far more difficult. And the latter is because they're cities designed in the age of horse and foot traffic.)
Alan Fisher
American sub-urb hater and train autist. With the hottest of takes that the California HSR isn't a bad thing:
Eco Gecko
American communist with a hateboner for sub-urbs.
I've left some tangentially related channels out since they're not really the focus
They're either pure train autists like: RMTransit
Or infotainment channels with a broader scope than just ragging on sub-urbs and cars like: Neo, OBF
Now why are they funny?
They've got horrible takes:
From defending the california HSR moneysink while ridiculing car garages (and also depicting oneself as a soyboy unironically)
Never mind that the california HSR already is two years overdue and three times over budget and it'll take a long time and a lot more money before it is finished.
To giving mid-wit takes about geopolitical and military questions as a urban planning/ engineering channel
And poorly-thought out videos based on wikipedia articles
This last one is especially telling. It starts with a reference to the atmospheric train and claims that the electric train is it's modern descendant (which is wrong, cable cars like the ones in San Fransisco are).
It's followed up by a call for using trolley buses instead of electric buses; which would draw their power from overhead lines instead of a battery. He claims that this is because electric buses *only* drive inside of cities which is patently false. Also overhead powerlines are a massive eyesore, require constant maintenance and are a hassle for all taller vehicles trying to pass.
Then it segues into an attack on battery production; saying it is polluting and uses the occasional slave labor (something which is true of pretty much every modern industry; but somehow the electronics in trolley buses are exempt).
His following point is on the cost of electric vs diesel busses, calling them an unnecessary large investment (which it isn't. Also no city buys 500 or more buses at the same time. The largest tender I've heard about was 30-ish buses at once from Montreal and the cost was about the same for electric buses as it is for diesel buses. I know someone who works at a bus-building company.)
It's the epitome of this bugman, soyboy channels: shallow takes based on ignorance and a bad understanding of engineering, combined with a smug sense of intellectual and moral superiority and the required references for performative activism. Truly, the atheist teens of the '00s grew up and got a home, and now their biggest gripe isn't mom dragging them to church on sunday but people not wanting to be bugmen.
I've mentioned it earlier but I'm not sure if NotJustBikes belongs here. Britmonkey and Adam Something absolutely, but not NotJustBikes. He's far less of a sperg and is more reasonable in what he advocates for (note his streetcar suburbs video, you would never see something like that in an Adam Something video).
He even states here: "There is not a problem with suburbs. Suburbs have existed almost as long as cities have existed, and there is nothing inherently wrong with them. The problem is car-dependent suburbs, and that is what I mean when I talk about suburbia." The man has a concept of nuance the more autistic ones lack. I'll give him credit for that. Plus he's never advocated for stuffing as many people as possible into high-rises or banning cars altogether.
These guys will complain about having to cross a two lane road but not having to cross a rail yard in the middle of the city that is as wide as a 20 lane highway. Every road in the city center of NotJustBikes’ favorite city of Amsterdam is as wide as a six lane road if you include the canals, sidewalks, and bike lanes, yet he doesn’t complain about having to walk a half a kilometer to go 50 meters as the crow flies (like if you wanted to go from the middle of a block to the other side of the canal).
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According to urbanists, it’s good to have your downtown split apart by a nearly quarter mile wide strip of railroads (Frankfurt):
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But it’s bad to have a 425 ft wide road in the suburbs (Houston):
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