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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

0 emissions

FYI: Horses fart and methane is a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I'm also intrigued by the "costs $1000 and $750/year to maintain" claim, as the horse people I know spend closer to 20x that.

[–] solarbabies@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Humans also fart methane, is that a reason not to ride them?

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If your ride consents to that, just pug the hole.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

$750 a year to maintain health

Lol

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

$750/month if you have to stable it.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Yeah, this might be 750 dollars worth of bottom of the barrel, wholesale, oats needed to give the average horse enough calories to survive.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where is this guy getting a horse for $1,000 from?

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean if you want any old horse and can transport it you can often get them for free. They're like pianos

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you can often get them for free

The maintenance cost of a "free" horse is anything but

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh I'm not discounting that. Free pianos don't tend to be cheap either to get tuned, and that's if you can even tune them in the first place.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

does a horse not transport itself ?

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Not in a way amenable to seal the deal a few cities across, unless you get a one way ride up there and you’re prepared to camp/hotel a few nights on the way back

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Isn't that the point though. He's replacing his car with a horse because apparently a horse makes more sense in this guy's world.

If after buying the horse you have to use a vehicle to transport it, doesn't that invalidate the argument?

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I guess, we'd have to consult with the horse-pilled anon OP if he meant to replace absolutely all driving with horse riding, but I was assuming his take was mostly about day to day trips and not necessarily all trips.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You will get an OWI if you ride a horse drunk.

Source: I know a guy who trained his horse to ride from the bar to his house on its own. Cops still pulled him over because he was sleeping on the horse.

[–] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it depends on the state and whether or not that state considers a horse to be a vehicle/device. Alabama, for example, I believe does not consider a horse to be either, while I think California does. There's this story that sometimes gets submitted to TIL-type communities where a man from Louisiana was decided to be ineligible for a DUI charge after doing exactly that, but he was still given a court summons for "disturbing the peace by intoxication".

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In sweden there were some cases where people lost their driving license because they ... Walked home drunk so yes it do depends a lot. Guess drunk horse riding there is not legal.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 2 days ago

Dumbest shit ever. I literally have a designated driver under me!

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[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think the horse pill means what anon thinks it means…

[–] solarbabies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Joe Rogan ruined horsepill posts

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That is a shockingly cheap horse.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ignoring lack of parking, slow travel and waste disposal, it's more like 3-6k if you already live on a farm. 5-10k if you board it with someone, and you'll likely need a car to get you to the stables.

A bicycle however...

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Believe it or not, riding a horse while drunk is also an offense in many places.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Except you can't drink and ride a bike in many areas. I doubt most cops would enforce it though.

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 217 points 2 days ago (17 children)

750 a year? Wtf is this retard smoking. Cost for land, hay storage, water, vet, and farrier. Human time cost to feed them twice a day, get rid of or spread the shit. Blanket, saddle, bridle. You're looking at a few thousand a year minus the time sink.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 94 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

This article says 8 to 11k yearly. https://horserookie.com/average-horse-cost-by-state/

While cost of owning a car is between 3k and 9k yearly according to https://www.move.org/average-cost-owning-a-car/.

I would have thought that a horse would be much more expensive, like 10 times a car cost.

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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These prices are ridiculously incorrect, but we can dream and strive to build a horsepilled world.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 2 days ago (22 children)

Zero emissions? I know people find it ha ha funny, but farts legitimately contain methane and other green house gassses.

Cows for example are a large contributor of GHG

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (7 children)

plus if we had as many horses as we did cars we would be living in a horse shit apocalypse.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 36 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'd feel bad about leaving them tied to a tree while I'm at work, so I'd probably just go with a bike which is fueled by snacks and doesn't even shit!

!micromobility@lemmy.world ftw

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

False - you can get a DUI on a horse (in some states).

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What constitutes reliable is a matter of opinion I suppose, but the first concrete statement of fact:

0 emissions

Wrong, right out of the gate.

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel hay and grass may end up more expensive than anon thinks... For grass, you need a big place where your horse can graze. Anon either is such a big landowner or intends to rent such land, but it won't be cheap. Then the hay for when the horse is kept indoors... Gotta be a lot of hay. And the means of bringing and storing the hay may be of non-negligible price. Then there are vet bills, because horses can get sick or injured...

I knew someone who owned horses long ago. Well, more like someone whose parents owned horses since we were kids. They even had a coach that these horses could pull. But they didn't use it as a means of transportation unless just doing a simple roundtrip for leisure, and there's a simple reason for that: You can't leave your horse for hours on a parking spot. You can tie it up somewhere maybe, but not for a long time, there aren't many places fit for leaving horses nowadays.

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[–] Mercuri@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (8 children)

From what little I know about horses, almost all your time is spent trying to make sure they don't kill themselves. I can leave my vechile outside in the cold for weeks at a time and not have to think about it.

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[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Horses can't be beat in the post-apocalypse for speed, but for most other things you probably want a donkey or mule. Far sturdier, easier to handle, can eat anything, and has no regard for wolves.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

I'm just here to appreciate horseface gigachad, nei-ei-ei-ei-eighhhhh 😆

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)
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