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[unaboomer]

The picture literally just is small-town white america.
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But God Forbid you might have to cross a lightly used street to get to all of them, and the gayest thing in town is some rainbow flag and a biden sign.

It doesn't count unless the town is majority-minority and has le heckin ethnic food, otherwise it's a "backwards redneck shanty". Similar to how "stroad" is selectively applied mostly to US locations.

This is where the neo-urbanism movement can be seen as the trojan horse that it really is. Indeed, it's not just bikes (lol) because their Final Solution requires implementing the entire progressive stack as a prerequisite:

• Homeless drug addicts?
  • "More money for rehab and public housing"
• Property crime?
  • "More money for welfare"
• Violent crime?
  • "More money for mental health"
• High rent caused by increased density?
  • "More money for rent subsidies"
• Maybe just...want to live around people who speak your language?
  • "Get over it, bigot"

I see a similar pathology here as the previously-mentioned Motte and Bailey fallacy between "we just want alternatives" and "yes we're coming for your cars".

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars user is afraid of the sun:






A beautiful self-own:


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[IdiotPlusPlus]

It looks like the posts you guys use are a lot flimsier than ours, ours don't tend to break away like those do typically the cable snaps first. So that would explain the difference. There's also probably a difference in speed limits between us, where I live the speed limits are typically 65-70 mph (104-112kph). I don't know what yours are like.

Yeah that's fair, and they are only really installed on rural roads(default limit is 100km/h outside of towns) and rural freeway/highways(up to 110km/h if they are built to freeway standards)

A beautiful self-own:

The irony that most of the traditional older suburbs are covered in trees that reduce the heat island effect, and it's the glass and steel bugman towers and constant densification that turn cities into concrete jungles not the roads that make up fuck all of the ground in comparison and normally have fucking grass or trees around them if there is room xD

Also fun fact, I was speaking with an ex-cop recently and they said they enjoyed chasing suspects on bicycles because they could just wind down the windows on the Divy Van and shove them to knock them over to stop them, apparently it never occurs to the cyclists that the cops would do that to them and they would be stunned and easier to grab xD

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

/r/fuckcars user is afraid of the sun:
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Damn, if only there were a simple solution to this problem.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Is the guy in this video a faggot? He definitely talks like one.

Well, in other videos on that channel, there is a woman talking alongside the guy and they both talk about 'we', so I assume they are married, in a long term relationship, or part of some deranged, cursed and God-forsaken polycule (more likely than you think).

 

[Meriasek]

/r/fuckcars user is afraid of the sun:
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And in the night you got cyclists with maladjusted LED searchlights strapped to their bikes burning your retinas. Do they get mad about puddles of water blinding you in the low sun in autumn as well? I notice that more than reflections from cars to be honest.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

And in the night you got cyclists with maladjusted LED searchlights strapped to their bikes burning your retinas.

For some retarded reason cyclists in my country decided that it's a great idea to use blinking lights on their bikes. Why
Bonus points for them being positioned too high and blinding pedestrians.

 

[Midwit]

/r/fuckcars user is afraid of the sun:

Buy a hat dumbass.

 

[BulkForceFive]

Yes. It was a girl coworker who was from a wealthy family who enjoyed traveling to Europe and went to university there for a year. It didn’t last long until she got a brand new BMW SUV as a gift from her parents. She mentally reconciled this by saying how car-centric American society is so she had “no choice” but to drive this gas guzzling SUV around. I suspect the r/fuckcars audience is loaded with people like her.

I don't think so, only because WEALTHOIDS are usually too busy ripping fat rails of white lightning on a boat and having a good time to sperg out on Reddit. They do probably have warped views about urbanism because money shields you from the bad parts of city living (when you have enough money for a $2M flat in Kensington and eternal Ubers, city living is great)

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

For some retarded reason cyclists in my country decided that it's a great idea to use blinking lights on their bikes. Why
Bonus points for them being positioned too high and blinding pedestrians.

There have been studies that show that blinking lights are more noticeable than a steady burning one however now that there’s blinking lights everywhere it’s kind of become worthless again. You see blinking lights on school buses and mail vehicles and other slow vehicles. However, it becomes so common that again just your mind kind of blinds them out.

Your best defense on the road is to be standard to be expected to be where everybody expects you to be. Trying to do something strange or out of the ordinary is a recipe for disaster.

A common problem for both cars and bicycles is driving a speed that’s faster than the headlight range. You really shouldn’t drive faster than you can stop in the range of what you can see from your headlights, but of course people don’t do that on the road because the road is clear and expected to be clear. If you drove at a speed where you could stop within the range of your headlights, you would never hit a deer. The thing is that when you do hit something in a car, you usually survive and it’s usually not a major issue. But if you hit something with a bike and yes, it is very easy to go faster than on a bike in your headlight reach, you can get really fast. Again, small potholes and other other road irregularities are not an issue for the car. But for a bicycle or even a motorcycle something on the road that is minor for everyone else can be deadly to you.

The fact that these assholes don’t admit this and don’t realize this and don’t want to deal with this is freight. Any good motorcycle rider will talk about the oil slick and another dangers that they know about and they actively work to avoid. Too many cyclists ignore these things and just assume that they will live forever and nothing will be wrong on the road. When they do have a close call, they blame it on the car brains.

For some evidence that this has been an existing problem since forever go read old Calvin and Hobbs strips where the dad goes biking. And even he was just doing it recreationally and I have no problem with recreational cycling lanes. Let them do it safe effective and rarely.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

There have been studies that show that blinking lights are more noticeable than a steady burning one

That's true, but I have two "buts" regarding this claim.
1. While these lights certainly make cyclists more visible, I've only seen one or two cyclists who actually know how to position their lights correctly. Many also tend to buy bulbs that are too powerful. These factors make it easy for them to accidentally blind unsuspecting pedestrians with their super bright, almost epilepsy-inducing lights.

2. My issue arises from the fact that the vast majority of cyclists who use these lights (and I haven't seen anyone do it differently, though maybe they exist somewhere) rely on blinking lights as their only source of illumination for the road ahead. I've seen them riding on dark streets with only this blinking light. How do they even see potholes or the road ahead in general?

 

[jje100010001]

Meanwhile up here in Canada Greyhound went bankrupt and cancelled all their bus lines.

Part of this is because cars have been more convenient for rural, spread-out areas, and part of this is because most small towns are dying nowadays because outsourcing has short-circuited the heartland-hinterland system and made the third world the hinterland upon which heartland cities rely on.

Though governments would like to wash their hands of this and the small towns entirely (the same way they did with mental institutions), I personally think some level of subsidized regional bus system would still be responsible as a nation-building exercise, just to keep smaller towns not entirely isolated from large cities without car travel.

/r/fuckcars describes what their ideal street looks like:
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Make sure to look at the picture, it's absolutely insane.

In case you think it's a troll, it isn't:
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Yards should be removed and be replaced with convenience stores. Kids can play on the sidewalks in front of them:
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Cars are the reason why pedos are able to kidnap kids:
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Literally just a theme park for city-dwellers lol

 

[unaboomer]

2. My issue arises from the fact that the vast majority of cyclists who use these lights (and I haven't seen anyone do it differently, though maybe they exist somewhere) rely on blinking lights as their only source of illumination for the road ahead. I've seen them riding on dark streets with only this blinking light. How do they even see potholes or the road ahead in general?

They don't. Many of them focus entirely on "being seen" and neglect "being able to see". I know I wouldn't want to rely on one snapshot of the road for every 10ft of distance traveled. When they do inevitably hit an avoidable obstacle, I'm sure they'll blame the city for bad road design.

Building on this, another caveat I've read about blinking lights at night is it makes it difficult for drivers to track your location since you're only visible for a brief moment between flashes. It's like interacting with an object that only refreshes at 2FPS.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

They don't. Many of them focus entirely on "being seen" and neglect "being able to see".

The funny thing is motorists have the reverse problem with turning on headlights.

For some evidence that this has been an existing problem since forever go read old Calvin and Hobbs strips where the dad goes biking. And even he was just doing it recreationally and I have no problem with recreational cycling lanes. Let them do it safe effective and rarely.

There's been some discussion with C&H but you could tell that Watterson genuinely shared the dad's mindset about cycling but self-aware enough to realize he was a massive dork with an angry streak.

For extra irony is that Calvin's family appeared to live in a semi-rural/exurban area. Like other elements of the strip, these were kept fairly ambiguous; Calvin's backyard extends toward the woods and the driveway is long and set back from the road but on the other hand he walks to the bus stop with a sidewalk and Susie doesn't live that far away. Either way, it's far away from the urban areas.

 

[Lemon-Lime Turpentine]

Urbanist fears meeting acquaintances at grocery stores and laments being judged for smoking weed at a museum. Blames the suburbs.

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It's actually a good thing that everyone avoids interacting with each other in the city. The newspeak term for it is Urban Anonymity™:


Neighbors trying to talk to you about lawn maintenance is equally intrusive as people trying to break into your apartment:


If you don't want people smoking weed in a public park, but you'll have a beer with dinner, you're a hypocrite:

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

/r/fuckcars user is afraid of the sun:
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That’s almost too good to be a troll. A troll would never be able to come up with that complaint

 

[Looseleaf Paper]

Urbanist fears meeting acquaintances at grocery stores and laments being judged for smoking weed at a museum. Blames the suburbs.
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It's actually a good thing that everyone avoids interacting with each other in the city. The newspeak term for it is Urban Anonymity™:
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Neighbors trying to talk to you about lawn maintenance is equally intrusive as people trying to break into your apartment:
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If you don't want people smoking weed in a public park, but you'll have a beer with dinner, you're a hypocrite:
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BECAUSE IT SMELLS LIKE SHIT. IT SMELLS LIKE SKUNK. Mother nature literally created Skunks to smell as bad as possible, that is its job, and you walk around REEKING of it since you're such an anxiety riddled addict. I don't want to smell that when I'm looking at art. I hate weedheads so much it is unreal (if this isn't a troll).

 

[quaawaa]

Rail: all the pain of flying while taking longer than driving

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[Lemon-Lime Turpentine]

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*puts three bags in car*
heh, nothin personnel, kid.

 

[Markass the Worst]

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This faggot is so short sighted. His only takeaway is 'Canada bad' as if it couldn't happen in Europe too.