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[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars is very racist:

Still better than cars:



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[Apple Porcupine]

NJB mentioned in relation to the recent Keffals going-ons in a livestream by DeadwingDork:

Fun fact, urbanist channel NotJustBikes that taught me a lot about how fucked American infrastructure is, unfortunately was actually the way I found out about this scenario. Because as much as I do generally like his channel, I do find some question in it though because he was apparently friends with Keffals and the way that I learned about this was that at the end of one of his videos, he said something about "go donate to my friend Clara who is being harassed by trolls!" or something. And it really calls into question all his videos about streets and highways and whatnot if he believes that fuckin' shit.

Couple things here:

1) Did Jason actually mention Keffals by name in a video? I can't remember that at all; I know there was a community post which is mentioned at the very start of this thread, that might be what he's thinking of but if it was in a video and then removed later that's even more hilarious, curious if someone has that somewhere.

2) This is something I learned a long time ago (and that I think most of us here have); if you have zero to limited knowledge about a subject and find someone talking about it, you can fall into the trap of taking everything they say at face value if they sound authoritative enough or just have slick enough video editing skills. The funny part comes when you get completely blindsided when they start talking about something you do know about and are obviously and completely wrong.

 

[Yamamura]

/r/fuckcars is very racist:

Don't they know it's they culture and sheeeit? Too late, the sub name is fuckcars not fuck cars and dirtbikes. Kinda funny they acknowledge something other than a car can be annoying to them. If only they would target asshole cyclists next.

redditor hasn't seen any baby strollers because of... CARS

Can't see a baby stroller if you're inside on reddit all day.

If I only read reddit I would assume that absolutely zero people attend social events or talk to each other. All because they can't look both ways before crossing the street. These people truly live in an alternate reality.

 

[Markass the Worst]

NJB mentioned in relation to the recent Keffals going-ons in a livestream by DeadwingDork:

If DeadwingDork is skeptical of Jason Slaughter from that alone, wait until he finds out Jason still has a post of him praising ContraPoints / William Parrott as his pinned toot. Or keeps liking Oliver Lennard / PhilosophyTube.

Jason shut up about Keffals really quickly after #DropKiwifarms and his $100K GoFundMe grift. One wonders why he hasn't commented on his antics ever since he got canceled for "racism", and now Mutahar's video.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The funny part comes when you get completely blindsided when they start talking about something you do know about and are obviously and completely wrong.

This was mentioned in that book about how you can read something in the paper you know about and are like “everything about this is wrong” and then turn the page and take the next article as gospel. Gell-Mann or some shit.

And that’s the thing - if you know some of the lingo you can sound like a fucking wizard to idiots; and it’s not until someone does serious research that they realize how full of shit you are (and it usually takes 10x as long to explain than it did to state).

 

[quaawaa]

This was mentioned in that book about how you can read something in the paper you know about and are like “everything about this is wrong” and then turn the page and take the next article as gospel. Gell-Mann or some shit.

And that’s the thing - if you know some of the lingo you can sound like a fucking wizard to idiots; and it’s not until someone does serious research that they realize how full of shit you are (and it usually takes 10x as long to explain than it did to state).

The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:

Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

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[quaawaa]

Jason is using the subsidized rail pass for tourists (archive):

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While this is the fiscally responsible way for him to use the train while visiting, it is not a great way to get the the actual experience that an actual Japanese person would have using their rail system.

Spoiler: More Info on the tourist rail pass

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Prices:

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¥140,000 is ~$900

Shinkansen surcharges:

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¥5000 is ~$32.

Unsubsidized prices (for economy non-reserved seating; note that the tourist pass is for any seat including Green (Business) Class):

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Eligibility (i.e. must be a foreign tourist):

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Apparently he's been stuck overnight at a train station because he forgot to check his connecting train's schedule:

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Why does he think this is impressive?
Anyone could take a similar picture on a plane, except that the phone would say 800+ km/h:

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Going for the weeb views:

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[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I can’t read the tiny spreadsheet - how subsidized is his ass?

Also fuck these tourists describing a country as if they live there. Tourism is always convenient as hell because you just don’t do inconvenient shit - you’re a tourist!

131 miles in 70 minutes - 112 miles per hour. Decent, but not much faster if at all than I’ve seen assholes driving to Vegas from LA.

 

[doodoocaca]

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I sincerely hope a pack of urban youths on clapped out supermotos pop backfires and fireballs around these faggots.

I might even join them if the opportunity arose.

 

[quaawaa]

I can’t read the tiny spreadsheet - how subsidized is his ass?

100% as the station he's at, Sakudaira, is on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line, which is included in the base unlimited-use rail pass.

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Only the Tōkaidō and San'yō lines have a surcharge, and only for the highest speed trains, and the prices look to be around a third of normal fare for economy, but the website says that one can sit in business.

Map of Shinkansen lines:

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[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Speaking back to the strollers holy fuck have you ever tried to maneuver a stroller with a baby onto a bus? Luckily even niggers will usually help you but holy shit it is not convenient at all. Again, folding strollers and minivans win here, too.

But the reason they don’t see strollers is much more likely to do with not being able to be within 500 feet of a school or daycare than with anything else.

 

[EsotericAnthropologist]

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TBH fuck people with pointlessly loud cars or motorcycles. Actual sub-humans

 

[Xarpho's Return]

comments don't reflect OPs reality of no one using strollers anymore:

As much as that one dude's brain is pickled from propaganda, he at least has enough of a grip on reality that your neighbors aren't just randomly-generated NPCs.

I assume this is the theory that LA's iconic trams were scrapped because Ford/GM had spent on a lot of money on shit tier busses no one wanted, so they bought the LA tram system, scrapped them, and replaced the fleet with the bad busses no one liked.

I had no idea it was a conspiracy theory, or that it was from Roger Rabbit of all things. Will have to keep an eye out for it when I never see that movie.

Roger Rabbit lifted it from an anti-GM attorney in the 1970s. It's such bullshit that Wikipedia even explains that it is bullshit (the conspiracy was basically "when you inevitably convert systems, buy GM buses with Firestone tires", etc.).

The bullshit is that a subsidiary of General Motors, National City Lines, bought functional streetcar lines and converted them to buses for the sole reasons of providing GM business.

The reality is that transit companies were facing stiff competition with cars (and were only profitable at peak hours), Pacific Electric Company, the particular Los Angeles transit company, had already introduced buses in 1925 and never owned by National City Lines to begin with. The closest they had was a short-lived ownership by Metropolitan Coach Lines, a company founded by a former NCL executive who owned it for only five years before it was flipped to the government-owned Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, which killed off the last of the trains in 1961, which in turn was replaced with Southern California Rapid Transit District in 1964.

 

[Chuck McGill]

I can’t read the tiny spreadsheet - how subsidized is his ass?

Also fuck these tourists describing a country as if they live there. Tourism is always convenient as hell because you just don’t do inconvenient shit - you’re a tourist!

131 miles in 70 minutes - 112 miles per hour. Decent, but not much faster if at all than I’ve seen assholes driving to Vegas from LA.

I went to this place for a week as part of my vacation. I spent the entire weekend blitzed off my ass screwing around doing what I wanted, sparing no expense for every convenience possible. Wowie zowie, this place truly is a paradise on Earth!

 

[indomitable snowman]

Also fuck these tourists describing a country as if they live there. Tourism is always convenient as hell because you just don’t do inconvenient shit - you’re a tourist!

Aye, you're not going to plan what it's like going from the dentist to soccer practice to home. All of which might be on opposite sides of the city served by inconvenient train/bus routes. You're going to go from one city center to another city center.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

Speaking back to the strollers holy fuck have you ever tried to maneuver a stroller with a baby onto a bus? Luckily even niggers will usually help you but holy shit it is not convenient at all. Again, folding strollers and minivans win here, too.

I know people who moved out of New York because they started having children and realized NYC is horrible if you have kids. One of the couples I know has an autistic son and he had one too many sensory overload moments thanks to the HUSTLE and BUSTLE of the big city so they're outta there. I've been hearing a lot of "we love New York, buuuuut..." lately.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Which is the point of the “high speed train direct into the heart of the metro” which is honestly a thing that can work if done Japan-right, but if you don’t need to go the city every day, the car quickly beats it, especially once you do door to door calculations (the eternal failing of transit, because if it is fast; it cannot stop often, so you end up backtracking or switching to slowboat from China, if it is not fast and stops everywhere it takes longer).

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I went to this place for a week as part of my vacation. I spent the entire weekend blitzed off my ass screwing around doing what I wanted, sparing no expense for every convenience possible. Wowie zowie, this place truly is a paradise on Earth!

Sorry, Jason, you still aren't Conan-tier.

 

[quaawaa]

You thought Big Oil and Big Auto were responsible for turning people into carbrains?
You thought wrong! Walmart is responsible:

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[Return of the Freaker]

You thought Big Oil and Big Auto were responsible for turning people into carbrains?
You thought wrong! Walmart is responsible:
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"If we just put more plants in city and ban people thinking about their feral nigger assault that didn't happen, carbrain move to bughive!"