• IndiBrony
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    8510 months ago

    Ironically, I’m a driving instructor, and pretty much the only time I really use my car is when I’m at work.

    • Mario_Dies.wav
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      8410 months ago

      Driver in the streets, public transportation and pedestrian advocate in the sheets

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      Wait, your car? You’re instructing learners in your own car? How does this work, doesn’t your car need pedals for the passenger seat?

      • IndiBrony
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        1710 months ago

        Yep. You can get them installed on basically all cars. The next car I’m looking at is a Lexus. By the looks of it I’ll have to get my dual controls made bespoke for that which could easily cost upwards of £600.

        I honestly much prefer doing it in my own car as opposed to having to hire.

      • @Evia
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        310 months ago

        That’s pretty standard in the UK

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    Fun fact: Robert Moses, the man who almost single-handedly fucked New York City beyond repair by building bridges and parkways while actively working against public transportation options like trains, buses and subways beginning in the 1930s, never learned to drive himself.

    Robert Moses really deserves to be the patron demon of this sub.

    • @murvillian
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      510 months ago

      Most recent 99pi episode or power broker?

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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        410 months ago

        The Power Broker. I’ve never heard of 99pi - for that matter, I’d never heard of Robert Moses before stumbling on the book.

    • @Mr_Blott
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      110 months ago

      Didn’t really affect most people though. Wait until you hear about Thomas Midgely!

  • edric
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    4310 months ago

    I traded in my car a couple of weeks ago and the guy at the dealer was so shocked that I only drove 11k miles in 4 years. He was like, do you even buy groceries? Well, working from home and strategically living close to all the places I regularly need to go to makes me drive less. As for me getting a new car after just 4 years, that’s another story.

    • @perviouslyiner
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      2910 months ago

      Farmers <– (hand hold meme) --> city dwellers: “Being able to get eggs at any time of day”

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          Normal distribution with outliers meme:

          • rural: just go to the coop
          • city: just go to the CoOp
          • suburban: does the truck have gas? are you sober enough to drive? how bad is the traffic? it’s so far to drive! where is a parking space?
          • KillingTimeItself
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            310 months ago

            you forgot the dreaded “does your truck have 4 seats to bring the whole family with?”

        • @CADmonkey
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          610 months ago

          I have some chickens, I haven’t had to wait on eggs. I have had to give some to the neighbors though.

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      Wfh and strategic home location are privilege.

      Disclaimer, I do this too.

      But this is the “if your state/country is conservative/bad/repressive just move” of commuting.

      • edric
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        310 months ago

        I get what you mean, but I’m in a conservative state. But yes, just being able to work from home and afford to live close to the city is a privilege, and I’m aware of that.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      Google had sent me an update of my usage for November and was all, “You drove 35 miles this month!”

  • Lenny
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    3310 months ago

    I decided to only work at overseas startups so there’s no chance of a “oopsie we retracted WFH”. I’ll be selling my car this year, I already have the electric bike to replace it.

      • Lenny
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        410 months ago

        I found my job on Reddit somehow, but there are plenty of overseas jobs on LinkedIn and the other major job exchanges. I work in a customer facing role so I look for jobs that need someone to handle customers in X timezones. For example, my company is based in Berlin but they wanted someone to manage the US customers.

        NGL the timezone stuff is HARD at first. I am six hours behind almost all of my coworkers so I sometimes get completely excluded from discussions and meetings. I occasionally have to wake up early for things (4am product launch…) and there isn’t the technical help available after noon my time, so I have had to develop my own troubleshooting and coding skills. And of course it can get lonely when there’s no one else about.

        But they fly me out to HQ every year and also offsites in Rome, Spain, and Portugal. So it’s an alright tradeoff.

  • @suncat
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    2110 months ago

    I have now no other option but to drive because my country is phasing out one if not the most used public transportation vehicles here in the Philippines :(

  • @[email protected]
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    1510 months ago

    I was considering and was considering for another job, but in the end they went with another candidate. The major downside with it would be the 6+ months of car commuting until the trial employment ended and I was stable enough there to make a move. 6+ months of 35minutes in the car each way… Would have been an awesome job though.

    • Lenny
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      1510 months ago

      One thing I’ve learned from 25 years of work experience is to never get paid in promises. Sure, they maybe backed up the offer in writing, but six months is a long time for you to make good on a commitment for them to have a ‘restructure’ that somehow prevents them from making good on theirs.

      I hope you found something else more awesome since then!

      • RiverGhost
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        510 months ago

        Not op but at least in Sweden we often get 6 months trial employment and after that they are honestly kind of stuck with us (cannot really fire us unless very specific things happen). So you can actually get some better conditions as they do want you to do the job and can not just replace you. If all fails you can also get help from the union.

  • @postnataldrip
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    1310 months ago

    Gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised by the vibe in here, it’s a lot more true to the stated purpose than its r*ddit namesake which seems to be just an aggressive, literal take on the name.

    I enjoy driving and love tinkering with cars and bikes. I don’t enjoy effectively being forced to use them for mundane commuting.

  • credit crazy
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    1010 months ago

    As a car guy who lives in the middle of nowhere country side sometimes I bike to town just because I feel like biking 50 miles.

  • umbraroze
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    The only job I’ve commuted to by car was, um, the summer job I had when I had my learner’s permit when I was 18 or something.

    I don’t have a car, I’ve not driven a car with my full driver’s permit, I think you need to renew it nowadays and I’ve not bothered with that for a couple of decades. We have buses here, why bother.

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      I rode the bus to work for a couple summers. My city is so spread out and bus service is so limited that I had to catch the only express bus there and back. It got me to work an hour before it opened and I had to leave an hour before it closed for the day, and it took 45 minutes to an hour to by bus to do what would have been a 20 minutes commute by car.

  • NoLifeGaming
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    910 months ago

    I must say although I enjoy cars and driving I do wish public transport was better like Europe or some Asian countries.

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        I agree entirely with you here. All these nutjobs like *ndrew t*te who think we’re coming for their hobby cars are missing the point. I couldn’t care less if you like to drive cars or not. Heck, I would probably by myself lots of cool cars if I had tons of money. People don’t commute by car because they like driving, they commute by car because it’s the easiest mode of transport in their area. And a lot of cities would benefit immensely if that mode was instead changed to a combination of walking, biking, and tramming or similar.

  • KillingTimeItself
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    810 months ago

    is it weird that i like the concept of a motorcycle more than a car?

    Like even though they’re much more dangerous, i just don’t really care.

    • @[email protected]
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      1410 months ago

      You’re not alone in not caring. Consider how many people will rail against motorcycles, but ignore worse activities. Horse riding is about 25x as dangerous as riding a motorcycle. How many folks do you see who are willing to tell a random person they see on a horse how dangerous the activity is? Yet I get random dipsticks who feel they’re doing the lord’s work when they come up to me on my bike and tell me what they think of the dangers of motorcycles.

      • @ta_leadran_orm
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        510 months ago

        I’m not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I’m not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it’s usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you’re talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.

        That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.

        Though random fools telling you that what you’re doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you’re not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.

        • @Hamartia
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          410 months ago

          I think it’s fair to say that horse’s have a wider range of personalities or temperaments than motorbikes do. A bike won’t throw you off if you’re doing everything properly. A horse on the other hand can just not be arsed carrying you anymore or get spooked by something passing by.

          All that said I don’t think it would be easy to build a credible frame of comparison between the the two forms of transport. I wouldn’t be surprised if either could be ‘proven’ to be more dangerous given the amount of thin air that the frame of reference would be resting on.

          • @[email protected]
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            310 months ago

            You are not accounting for all the assholes around you in the traffic. All it takes is either some light road rage or just glancing away from the road for a few seconds, and then you go flying.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        I would never bother you about it but horses don’t wake me and my family up at 1 am, and a horse didn’t come out of nowhere yesterday (while it was dark) and cut me off almost causing an accident. So I imagine you can see why there is a bit of hostility.

        But hey they are fun to ride and fuel efficient. My inlaws run their whole farming operation with motorcycles and an overworked tractor. Maybe people would like them more if we went after modifications that make them too loud.

      • kamen
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        010 months ago

        Maybe it’s rather inconsiderate approaching people like this, but I think it’s implying danger for the others too, not just yourself. I personally don’t see a lot of people riding horses in dense traffic.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          I agree that is probably part of the perception, but I wonder what sort of rates motorcyclists are at fault in any sort of traffic injury? Motorcycles are also often too loud too, horses are quaint and cute.

          • KillingTimeItself
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            210 months ago

            i would assume motorcyles are much less prone to causing accidents. Given that the rider has to be significantly more vigilant, if they don’t want their legs amputated.

            I’m guessing the likelihood of them getting into accidents is much higher, or at the very least, the rate of injury resulting from crashes.

    • @force
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      810 months ago

      they’re much more dangerous in large part due to cars, i mean yea hitting a rock and flying off your bike at 70 mph isn’t very safe, but motorcycling would be a lot less deadly without cars

    • @Agent641
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      210 months ago

      TBH its a really good spot.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      I live on a street that’s a well-known rat-run through the neighborhood. I like to park a vehicle 24/7 on the street to narrow it, and slow drivers down.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        The street I used to live in Rio had cars parked, some of them abandoned, at both sides of the sidewalk, forcing everyone to walk on the streets. Because of that, the street was an infacto mixed use street, never reccomended by navigation maps. A quiet street thanks to the parked cars.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    610 months ago

    My car is used only when other options aren’t reasonable. I have to fill it up every two months. Hate driving, hate what it is doing to everything.

  • OADINC
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    510 months ago

    My plan is to use public transport, but man those Kei trucks/van are so cute! I’m probably gonna buy one later.

    • @FireRetardant
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      410 months ago

      You can do both using transit when you can and using the kei truck for truck things like hauling or working.

      • OADINC
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        210 months ago

        That was my plan, I should have articulated it better.

    • @doingless
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      310 months ago

      Neither of those things exist where I am.

      • OADINC
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        110 months ago

        Not really in the Netherlands too, but you can import them. And there are companies who import them for you.

    • @jennwiththesea
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      210 months ago

      That’s what I saw the other day!! I had never seen one before and thought it was freaking adorable. Thank you for solving that mini mystery for me.

    • @Katana314
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      810 months ago

      There’s so many fictional apocalypses where gas is somehow plentiful, don’t really get it. Long term, a good zombie apocalypse prepper would probably rely on solar panels and a bike.

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        710 months ago

        That was brilliant in the Expanse, when the Earth was orbital bormbarded one of the protagonists immediately goes for bikes.

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        The only vehicle we know for sure will be used commonly in the far, technologically advanced future are bicycles. Given sci-fi’s massive blind spot with acknowledging bicycles it is pretty funny that sci-fi writers fail to include the surest bet.

        Like any possible future, even one with magic hovercraft that fly around on limitless power or one with teleportation, huge amounts of people would still use a bicycle to commute to work for the pleasure and health benefits. Or… work on a massive freighter starship that is most empty? Why WOULDNT you use a bicycle to get around? On the other hand if the far future is an apocalypse… well everyone is definitely by going to be riding bicycles around.

        I mean throw a futuristic battery in a bicycle and based on the power output of other sci-fi machines I assume the electric bicycle would have a range of like 1000 miles.

        Colonizing a new planet? You could not only bring enough bicycles and associated maintenance equipment to easily provide transportation for current and future colonists, you could also easily bring the equipment to manufacture new bicycles besides maybe the tires. Almost zero infrastructure is needed to start building a bicycle based transportation system and on a volume and weight basis they would probably be one of the most valuable tools to a colony that was going to receive a shipment of supplies from a starship and then be left to fend for themselves for an extended period.