jtrek

I'm tired of all these profiles of trump voters. Profile sane people.

I'm not here to watch a movie. I'm here to take this axe and hit monsters with it.

I'm sure bloodborne has a very deep story. I had a great time just hitting stuff with that axe and occasionally shooting things. That's the bulk of the content.

• They still put crap in the environment from the tires
• much of the energy powering them isn't green
• car culture still creates horrible spaces to live in
• crashes are still a common, ruinous, event
• doesn't solve DUI
• still is expensive to own, maintain, insure
• car culture promotes isolated, sedentary life, which is bad for physical and mental health

Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.

I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.

Personally I'd rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.

EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.

Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”

This is basically it.

I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you're going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.

Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it's like mixing your food up on the plate and that's just wrong!

They really are like children

We are the weird ones. But the only thing that changes people mind is in-group pressure. If people trust you, they'll at least humor you. Plant those seeds.

People may have heard of these things, but I don't think most people could give an accurate description of what they are.

why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?

I'm pissed they're repaving the streets near me but they're not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.

Most people don't know, aren't paying attention, and don't understand. It's our thankless task to try to educate and convince our less savvy friends.

I'm optimistic that they're more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.

I think a lot about the time a junior developer on the team was like "I'll use chat GPT to reverse this list" and I was just like my guy we're working in Python that's a one line expression.