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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Overall solid meme content, but when when I lived in a rural area cars where what let us connect with the community because we were so spread out. When living in the city I was less connected to the community because I disliked my neighbors...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    @spankmonkey @Davriellelouna That is true, but how many people live in such communities? 1%?Besides, the main problem are cars in the cities, not some farm trucks that barely see any asphalt.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Between 20-30% of Americans love outside metropolitan areas. The current car centric system honestly works great in agricultural communities, just not for the rest of us.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Exactly! Different tools for different areas.

    When I go to conferences in cities I always use the public transportation when I'm not walking. Subways and light rail are the bomb. Wish more of the smaller cities had better bus and light rail as well, but when you get to the sticks it is just a different setting with different needs.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There are ways to use other less violent transportation methods. I have lived in places that barely had roads. Im jot sone life long city mouse.

    And this was in california, so it wasn't flat.

    This "rural needs cars" bullshit is delusional and disingenuous. Please stop, if you're not a paid fucking shill.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't think you're referring to the same kind of ruralness as the op.

    If you've seen the rural areas of the midwest its literally acres of fields, one farmhouse and its accompanying sheds/silos/whatever, and then more vast area of field or wilderness

    Like this. There's some decently rural parts of california, but honestly they aren't even close to the midwest levels of ruralness.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    nothing like that in california

    Maybe not south of sacramento, if desert doesn't count.

    We do in fact have woods and undeveloped areas here. Some of the woods get pretty deep.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hmm yea the forest areas are a certain kind of ruralness. Honestly I forget we have forests out in cali, socal is like all dry or beach, and norcal is either dead grass as well or coastal areas like half moon bay and sf.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I have 2 of those. But honestly I just get angry easily at pretty much anything.

    Also I feel at least saying that something is 30minutes away by car makes more sense than 50km. Mainly because it all depends on the route. 2 places could be the same distance away but take wildly different times to get to just because you can rake the motorway to place A but have to take the backroads to place B.

    It's also 45 minutes away by train but the train station is in a neighbouring town. Or 50min by bus (direct route) or 1h30min by bus (not direct route)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    I abuse the eye contact thing all the time. If I'm crossing the street and someone is coming in too fast I just stare at them deadass the whole time. Always gets them to slow down

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    2.5 out of 6. I don't own a car.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm easily angered by ten seconds delays... On the bus when someone is trying to use thier bus card with the card reader while it's still inside thier wallet and it's not working 😅

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Wow, talk about reaching.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Making eye contact is a good thing, even if you’re two pedestrians and the other donut isn’t paying attention to where they’re going.

    I super agree with the “making it your identity” thing. I drive a sportscar and do all the repairs myself but I largely take public transit because it’s just objectively better almost every time. Meanwhile there are people who can barely stay in their lane and have no idea how the basics of their vehicle work yet they act like you’re talking about cutting away a piece of their soul when you suggest the concept of a protected bike lane beside a place where they can still use their car.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Side effects include; delusion of grander, fatigue, rage within the machine, may cause “accidental deaths” of innocent individuals, getting randomly furious when non-motorists or pedestrians tap/touch your vehicle, zero disregard for cyclists, and straight up disobeying rules of the road when the motorist in front of you does break the law themselves.

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  • I dont believe in propaganda of the deed for anarchism. Well, mostly. The liberation of the world from brian thompson's presence shook me a little but im still figuring that out.

    But i think there's an old traditional irish solution to the car problem. It's mostly fallen out of favor over there,and we should not let this proud cultural tradition die out, when the world needs it more than ever.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don’t like this sanist meme format. I know it wasn’t the goal but these types of memes just end up stigmatising disease and mental health conditions.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    .... sanist meme format. what am I reading. Are you saying being sane is a bad thing now? Or that this meme is somehow joking at insane people's expense? (insane is probably not the right word, I mean mentally unwell, don't jump me.)

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