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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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.
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.
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.
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.
California is kinda big. We have fucking rain forests here.
Every now and then I measure distance in the time public transport needs to get me there.
When another city is more near than the surroundings of a city...
Also sometimes in how long it takes to walk...
I mean it makes a lot of sense. The distance on the map has a lot less relevance to my day to day life than how long it takes to travel it. That is true for any kind of transportation, so I don't know what op means with that.
Eye contact is also common sense.That's one good way of being sure the other person is aware of you and your vehicle.
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)
Honestly with public transit counting distance in km makes even less sense. Commute times to subway-connected places vs bus-connected places differ wildly. It's easier to just use the time directly instead of the distance.
Yeah. Makes any planning way easier.
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
2.5 out of 6. I don't own a car.
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.
zero disregard for cyclists
Many car brained people actually have a lot of disregard for cyclists! ;)
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.
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 😅
Wow, talk about reaching.
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.
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.
.... 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.)
one second delays make me angry, though not necessarily because of anything to do with cars