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[S.C.U.D.]

Not to mention the writer had no idea that all assault rifles have semi auto and 3 round burst mode. Seriously, why create new guns, with a new ammo when you have billions of rounds of intermediate and full powered rifle ammo, and millions of already working rifles that can be fired in a semi-auto way.

Not to mention the logistics of carrying out such an endeavor, in a story where the entire government has to relocate to the Rockies and most of the country is overran with zombies. It's a retarded book written by a retard.

 

[ilovejews]

Not to mention the logistics of carrying out such an endeavor, in a story where the entire government has to relocate to the Rockies and most of the country is overran with zombies. It's a retarded book written by a retard.

Kinda like urbanism. By retards for the retards.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

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High density housing is depressing:
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What the "city center" of the suburban city of Carmel, Indiana actually looks like:
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>Using gasoline is supporting Islamic Terrorism.

I'm going to exponentially increase my driving habits in order to support Hamas against Israel.

 

[Chuck McGill]

"Heh, conservatives are sooo easy to trick." Typed the bughive dweller on his way to his seventh Fauci ouchie. He then tabbed over to twitter to call everyone not supporting the Ukraine War hard enough 'Russian bots'.

Sure thing bud.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

High density housing is depressing:

Why aren't they attacking him from clearly being taken from the front seat of a car?

Anyway, I know that not everyone thinks the same and some are just retarded but most of the urbanist mindset comes from "cut off the nose to spite the face"-style thinking, like celebrating congestion pricing not realizing that it only raises cost of living in the city (especially groceries) and de-incentivizes working or living there. You're actively harming the viability of the urban area while celebrating how you achieved some ideological victory.

This meme is popular with left-wing circles but I don't think they see the irony in it.

 

[quaawaa]

Why aren't they attacking him from clearly being taken from the front seat of a car?

Most of them are hypocrites who feel guilty for driving a car because of much climate change or muh road deaths. Because they drive themselves, the dashboard in the picture doesn't jump out at them as something unusual and they don't think to comment on it.

Looks like snow and commuter rail don't get along:

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Now this is likely due to China not bothering to de-ice/plow the rails as plenty of European and American cities can handle snow without any problems, but imagine /r/fuckcars' reaction if a car pileup sent over 500 people to the hospital.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Now this is likely do to China not bothering to deice/plow the rails as plenty of European and American cities can handle snow without any problems, but imagine /r/fuckcars' reaction if a car pileup sent over 500 people to the hospital.

It would be a blatant double standard. To them, every problem with cars is the fault of cars, and every problem with transit is the fault of incompetent management (or cars). There's no way they would believe that problems with cars stem from incompetent management, even though that's patently true for any mode of transport.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Looks like snow and commuter rail don't get along:
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Now this is likely due to China not bothering to de-ice/plow the rails as plenty of European and American cities can handle snow without any problems, but imagine /r/fuckcars' reaction if a car pileup sent over 500 people to the hospital.

That high speed rail is really going well I see. Good gravy. I don't think ANY car pileup has sent 500 people to the hospital. This is what you get being stuck in a tube driven by some random dude you don't know

 

[Walrus and Carpenter 2.0]

Thought this was interesting. Lots of dishonest urbanist talking points on display.

https://slate.com/business/2023/12/cars-trucks-suv-sales-electric-safety-risk.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Among the many bogus assertions in the article, the author claims that SUVs were not marketed to the general public in the US until AMC acquired the Jeep brand in 1969, ignoring the fact that CJs were on the market since 1946, Land Rovers since 1948, and that first generation International Scouts, Ford Broncos, Toyota Land Cruisers and Chevy Blazers were all available before 1969. The GMC Suburban, the grandaddy of all SUVs, was introduced as a 1935 model.

 

[BulkForceFive]

Thought this was interesting. Lots of dishonest urbanist talking points on display.

https://slate.com/business/2023/12/cars-trucks-suv-sales-electric-safety-risk.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Among the many bogus assertions in the article, the author claims that SUVs were not marketed to the general public in the US until AMC acquired the Jeep brand in 1969, ignoring the fact that CJs were on the market since 1946, Land Rovers since 1948, and that first generation International Scouts, Ford Broncos, Toyota Land Cruisers and Chevy Blazers were all available before 1969. The GMC Suburban, the grandaddy of all SUVs, was introduced as a 1935 model.

This article is basically a gish-gallop*, a pile of arguments thrown hard and fast at someone in an attempt to overwhelm them before they can address each one. Bring up visibility, but don't mention how crash standards take away from it. Bring up modern crash standards, but don't mention those wonderful older cars didn't meet them. Write a whole article about automotive bloat but don't mention it affects every vehicle and how the Honda Civic of today is the size of a Buick from ten years ago. Bring up trucks evading CAFE fuel standards and in the next breath mention station wagons as though it wasn't CAFE that killed them off. Bring up increased road wear as though it's primarily caused by SUVs and not the fleets of delivery trucks needed to keep the Bugman Economy with it's just-in-time Amazon shipping going. Is it really worth living if you can't doordash oat milk for your vegan latte at 3am on a Sunday?

The most interesting parts are what the author avoids talking about. Demographic change - what's the road safety situation like in parts of Latin America where everyone has a car? The overall change in car buyers - just a few years ago they were trumpeting how cars weren't just for the boys anymore, women were now the primary purchasers of new vehicles. Distractions - 1991 F-150s had a radio and a cigarette lighter, now they have an infotainment system with GPS, multiple media feeds and of course, the driver's cellphone blaring away as they drive.


*I hate those gay Reddit fallacy types but you gotta call a spade a spade

 

[Ensok]

Had this pop up in my Shorts feed earlier. I know a lot of people have gone over this issue and the comparison between these types of vehicles before. The channel seems to just be a normal youtube channel about trucks but I haven't really checked out anything else.

 

[quaawaa]

Maybe cars aren't the reason why cities are polluted?:

Because all of the cars are actually unused!:

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Why do people drive to work?

I like that even in his pro-train story, the train broke down and when the train was working, it took him half-an-hour longer to get to work.



Is saving an hour a day worth $1000 to you? Not to this guy:

I'm curious what our resident Singaporeans think about this:

I like these un-upvoted answers:



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"We just want alternatives to driving":


Europe was designed by Robert Moses (he really is urbanist Satan):

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A fool actually followed other members' advice to mess with cars and did it to the wrong dude:






I'm sure this is the whole story:





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[Thiletonomics]

And it's funny to see this, considering The Sims 2 and 3 both had ownable cars, and even The Sims 1 had carpools for work too. Heck, The Sims 2's Apartment Life EP even had a buyable Helicopter that your Sims can use. Although it's more of because EA are lazy fucks that cut content to sell later, and not specifically because they're pandering to the FuckCars movement.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

That high speed rail is really going well I see. Good gravy. I don't think ANY car pileup has sent 500 people to the hospital. This is what you get being stuck in a tube driven by some random dude you don't know

The Dallas ice pile-up had six people die but 36 injuries. Some Redditor probably has "yeah but no one died" as a defense, but that's splitting hairs...the Boston Marathon bombing "only" had three people die but another 300 injured, and many of those were catastrophic injuries (getting one or both of your legs blown off).

 

[WelperHelper99]

Why do people drive to work?

I like that even in his pro-train story, the train broke down and when the train was working, it took him half-an-hour longer to get to work.

I'll give you a reason why I don't walk or take the bus to work. I have to be at work by 5 AM. That's either a 10 minute car drive or well over a hour walking in the cold dark morning carrying my shit. I don't even think the bus is running at that time

The Dallas ice pile-up had six people die but 36 injuries. Some Redditor probably has "yeah but no one died" as a defense, but that's splitting hairs...the Boston Marathon bombing "only" had three people die but another 300 injured, and many of those were catastrophic injuries (getting one or both of your legs blown off).

See, we're having to bring up BOMBINGS to get to the same casualty rate as a train crash, and even then, we're 200 short. These people are loons.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

"We just want alternatives to driving":

For all the parking minimums they cry about, I have yet to see a list of when parking minimums were enacted, and what changed.

Houston's parking minimum wasn't enacted by 1968 and by that time, downtown was already mostly parking (and was exempt from the requirement), and suburbanization was WELL underway.

 

[quaawaa]

It sounds like Jason needs to move:

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It's a 37 minute walk from Jason's Amsterdam neighborhood to the nearest taco shop:

That means that Jason does not live in a 15 minute city because he does not have a taco shop within a 15 minute walk.

Meanwhile, a random Houston suburb has countless taquerias within a 15 minute walk:

so Houston therefore is a 15 minute city.

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He also really hates this bike lane:

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He also posted it to his YouTube community page:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACaRm2KP6Q&t=640s
https://twitter.com/GOExpansion/status/1735352111561621516 (archive)

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The bike lane isn't deadly and this is a lot cheaper than paving a separate bike path. The alternative, in the real world with budgets, is no bike lane at all.

"Protected bike lanes" don't actually provide any "protection"; cars can easily mount their curbs and most accidents are at intersections which are always "unprotected" for obvious reasons. They literally just exist to make cyclists feel better and to make them more difficult to remove; most non-activist cyclists prefer fully separated trails.

 

[Markass the Worst]

The alternative, in the real world with budgets, is no bike lane at all.

But this is where they'll be screeching too about how car infrastructure is expensive and bike infrastructure isn't so it shouldn't be unreasonable to invest a little more in bike infrastructure on a budget.

"Protected bike lanes" don't actually provide any "protection"; cars can easily mount their curbs and most accidents are at intersections which are always "unprotected" for obvious reasons. They literally just exist to make cyclists feel better and to make them more difficult to remove; most non-activist cyclists prefer fully separated trails.

I thought they hated "protected bike lanes" because they were "car infrastructure"? They should definitely focus more on trails.

 

[quaawaa]

OP transports a single propane tank with a e-bike trailer:






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More video game sperging:


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[Baraka Obama]

He also really hates this bike lane

I'm not exactly sure where that is but Metrolinx means somewhere Toronto-ish.

The reality of this bike lane is that it's going to either

1. become a snow bank for half the year or
2. need to be plowed

Plowing the kind of protected infrastructure these autists seem to prefer is a serious challenge as there isn't enough equipment to do it properly, so it being flush with the pavement for winter plowing + some flex posts for summer is a really good alternative.

More likely nobody uses it in the winter anyway. So it being a snow bank would make way more sense. But this is clown world, not reality.