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[Curzon Dax-sama]

That's the biggest problem, all of them have major autism.

Nah, they just hate "poor people" and "rural rednecks", that's all. If the anti-car faggots would have any say, we'd all be shipped into "walkable 15 minute pod cities" that are infested with endless hordes of niggers. Moving to rural areas or going innawoods to be left alone will be a crime punishable by death.

 

[quaawaa]

There's a lot of funny posts on /r/fuckcars today.

The absolute irony:

20k bikes is about the same number of vehicles as one lane car road (assuming their number is both directions), but cars can carry more than one person:

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JuSt OnE mOrE lAnE:

Bikes don't need lights:



They hated them because they spoke the truth:


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Trains are good because I can play my vidya on them:


Note this is a first class seat on a long distance train, not a commuter train:

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Troons can't shut up about pronouns:

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Advocating against wearing bike helmets:


Note that they're using deaths per billions of km cycled, yet they prefer to use per-capita numbers when talking about car deaths despite the standard metric being deaths per million miles driven. They just pick and choose whatever statistic they need for their current argument with zero regard for consistency. If they used per-capita metrics for bike deaths, the Netherlands is the worst country on the list:

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The US has 2.69 deaths per million, placing it below every EU country in the original chart except for Sweden:

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They also chose a very diverse group of countries.

Some analogies about wearing a helmet:


It's safer not to wear a helmet:



Seatbelt laws good, helmet laws bad:

Mocking someone who says it's a good idea to wear a helmet by telling them to wear a helmet in the shower:

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More stupidity about the relative risks of showering and biking:

Reasonable people are downvoted:


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Triggered by low-riders:

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A r/fuckcars member takes a picture of some dirt and claims it is all tire dust from a single forklift:



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One of them feels the Call of the Car and ask the crabs to keep him in the bucket:



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More autism:





Someone defending people like Terry Barentsen from a few posts ago:




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The sub isn't radical enough:


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[teriyakiburns]

Mocking someone who says it's a good idea to wear a helmet by telling them to wear a helmet in the shower:

Ancaps and other extreme libertarian types unironically make this exact same argument.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Nah, they just hate "poor people" and "rural rednecks", that's all. If the anti-car faggots would have any say, we'd all be shipped into "walkable 15 minute pod cities" that are infested with endless hordes of niggers. Moving to rural areas or going innawoods to be left alone will be a crime punishable by death.

Some maybe. The elites definitely. Much though have never left their cities and that has only amplified their autistic tendencies. Just look at their reddit page. Grade A autism all around.

Trains are good because I can play my vidya on them:


Note this is a first class seat on a long distance train, not a commuter train:

He is not only trying to play Starfield on a laptop (lol), but he's doing it on a "first" class seat. I can do this in a car too. It's called being a passenger and swapping driving on a road trip.

Seatbelt laws good, helmet laws bad:

Considering seatbelts AND helmets have saved my life a time or two, this argument is reckless and gay. Wear your helmet damn it.

r/fuckcars member takes a picture of some dirt and claims it is all tire dust from a single forklift:

Going after forklifts now. That's a spicy fucking take considering Amazon uses the fuck out of them, they have electric variants for small enclosed spaces, and they're useful all around.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Triggered by low-riders:

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That Mercedes bounce mode is absolutely hysterical. Such a cool feature actually. These guys have no sense of humor or know how to have fun. They really are perpetually scowling at the world.

 

[quaawaa]

Jason posted a picture of a high speed (80 kph/49.7 mph) three lane wide Dutch road with a frontage road providing an extra lane.
He follows it up with a lot of cope about how it's totally not an evil "stroad":


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Proof it's 80 kph:

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Where Jason is standing with his extremely long lens: Google Maps
Why does he have a lens that long? It's useless for making his "man-on-the-street" style videos.
The Hyatt hotel in the background is over 2 km away and can barely be seen in a max zoom Street View image:



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Jason's Google Maps Link
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I bet you he would call this road a "stroad" though despite it having the exact same layout as the Dutch road, purely because it's in the US:

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It even has forced curves!

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Also, the speed limit of this road is 45 mph (72.4 kph), which is 4.7 mph (7.6 kph) slower than the Dutch road:

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[Markass the Worst]

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He's standing on a pedestrian overpass? I thought he hated pedestrian bridges.

Also, the speed limit of this road is 45 mph (72 kph) which is 4 mph (8 kph) slower than the Dutch road:

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He would probably ignore this and say something about how the "design speed" doesn't match the posted speed and that means drivers will go above the speed limit.

 

[quaawaa]

Jason's latest podcast is him interviewing his wife about how she likes the Netherlands:

5 Years Living in the Netherlands (with Mrs. NJB)​

Our family has lived in the Netherlands for 5 years now. In this episode, I have a conversation with my wife, Mrs. NJB, about our experiences and how it compares to other places we've lived before.

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[DeadwastePrime]

counter point: all the comments are off on the videos for this podcast channel

 

[quaawaa]

In response to Jason claiming that there are no "good" places to live in the United States (archive), one of his fans on Mastodon replied with this old video of CityNerd's where he recommends 10 cheap "good" American cities:

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It contains a segment with the perfect example of braindead urbanists ignoring the very real and serious problem of a lot of walkable areas. One of the cities he recommends living in is St. Louis, which is a crime ridden shithole. This is his response to people pointing that out:

I have to address this because it did come up in the comments on the video where I compared Boise to St. Louis. People pointed out that it's the homicide capital of the U.S. and that is true and bad. I do realize a lot of people look at things like crime rates and school test scores when they're trying to figure out where to live and I would just interrogate this a bit. I didn't use anything like that in my criteria. First, I just don't find that it's all that relevant to larger geographic scales and more than that this kind of stuff tends to be, I don't know, racially coded in a way that's pretty unsavory. In my life I've definitely gone to school and/or lived in neighborhoods that had lower test scores or higher crime (wink, wink) but those are some of the best neighborhoods I've lived in and their experiences I wouldn't trade for anything. Just food for thought.

The full list of cities he recommends are New York, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cleveland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Most of them have large crime problems in their cheap walkable areas.

Regarding Jason's point, there are countless safe and cheap walkable areas in the US, but for many of them, urbanists would have to live next to icky Trump supporters and be content with not having barcades and nightclubs on every corner. They would also have the horror of seeing pickup trucks and houses.

 

[Yamamura]

Trains are good because I can play my vidya on them:

If I was bragging about playing a video game it certainly wouldn't be fucking Starfield lol

Some analogies about wearing a helmet:

I support their decision to not wear a helmet. That'll show those car brains! Run red lights, wear no helmets!

That Mercedes bounce mode is absolutely hysterical. Such a cool feature actually. These guys have no sense of humor or know how to have fun. They really are perpetually scowling at the world.

It has a practical purpose too. It's designed to get your vehicle unstuck if your tires get trapped in terrain like mud or sand. But the fact that they hate it, yet worship every bit of consumerist crap that comes out is telling.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

The full list of cities he recommends are New York, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cleveland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

In what universe is New York affordable? He'll probably recommend Gary, Indiana next for job opportunities.

 

[quaawaa]

In what universe is New York affordable? He'll probably recommend Gary, Indiana next for job opportunities.

Watch the video. He says, and I’m not making this up, that the New York City metro area is affordable if you live in the suburbs. New York’s suburbs apparently aren’t evil because have commuter rail.

 

[Baraka Obama]

The full list of cities he recommends are New York, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cleveland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

I was somehow expecting to see Indianapolis or Des Moines. Genuinely cheap places to live with good job opportunities, walkable if you want to be retarded.

These picks are just "which cities have the biggest nigger problem?"

 

[DeadwastePrime]

new orleans is pricey imo, though that might depend on which part you live in, but it sure as hell is cheaper than properties in new york.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The full list of cities he recommends are New York, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cleveland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Why would you recommend the city known for having a flammable river?

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

There's a lot of funny posts on /r/fuckcars today.

It's always reassuring when you read bullshit like this and realize that half of these people are either lazy teenage stoners or have the mentality of one (dude what do you mean I have to obey traffic signals and not play starfield while driving) and thus will never accomplish anything, and if they do it will be because of dark money from klaus schwab and bill gates and not their little movement.

Thankfully it looks like fuckCars is starting to reach the end of it's sigmoid curve of growth.

"stroad"

Does the mythical "stroad" these urbanists obsess over even exist? The only time I ever encounter something like it is outside of those big strip malls where one of the corners has a hill with an olive garden or red lobster on it. But that's a strip mall, it doesn't have residential housing in it (like the s in "stroad" implies), it's outside of the city, and the same types businesses can be found inside of the city proper, so what exactly is the problem? That you can't cross the street with nothing on the other side of it?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Does the mythical "stroad" these urbanists obsess over even exist? The only time I ever encounter something like it is outside of those big strip malls where one of the corners has a hill with an olive garden or red lobster on it. But that's a strip mall, it doesn't have residential housing in it (like the s in "stroad" implies), it's outside of the city, and the same types businesses can be found inside of the city proper, so what exactly is the problem? That you can't cross the street with nothing on the other side of it?

At this point, a lot of them just use it to mean "street I don't like", but initially it came from some autistic defenition of "street/road" that may have originated from Strong Towns. I don't recall for sure. First person I heard it from was Jason.

According to them, and only them, a street is a low speed destination and a road is a high speed connection. A stroad, therefore, is a le bad carbrain road design that has multiple lanes or even dual carriageways that has homes and businesses directly on it rather than on frontage roads or further off the road.

 

[Skeletonized Cow]

it came from some autistic defenition of "street/road" that may have originated from Strong Towns.

It must be Strong Towns or another of his ilk. A road is essentially any path used for transportation, but generally for vehicles. Streets are a subset of roads that have buildings on one or both sides. Stroad by any genuine definition is literally meaningless as all streets are fucking roads.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

It must be Strong Towns or another of his ilk. A road is essentially any path used for transportation, but generally for vehicles. Streets are a subset of roads that have buildings on one or both sides. Stroad by any genuine definition is literally meaningless as all streets are fucking roads.

That and your average person uses "street" and "road" interchangeably with few exceptions i.e. nobody refers to "the street network" or tells someone that their favorite local restaurant is "a few roads over"