• Agrivar@lemmy.world
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    I don’t have a car, I ride my non-electric dope ass bike everywhere, and I listen to old Dead and Phish shows I downloaded to my rooted Android phone.
    We are not the same.

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    I work in hospice, traveling to patients homes. I’d be more than happy to work from home, but the logistics of getting dying bed ridden people to travel to me has been tricky.

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    I live in Taipei. It is one of the most dense cities in the world.

    We have an amazing subway system, but I still own a car. I also own a bicycle and a stand-up electric scooter.

    I take whatever transportation is the most convenient. Sometimes it’s the bus. Sometimes, it’s the subway. Sometimes it’s by car. My point is it’s a city infrastructure, not the mode of transportation. If you vote for a government that cares about infrastructure, you will live in the city you want.

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      You will pay the electrons subscription
      You will be brain washed by higher frequency electric radiation

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      That you get your brainwashing from an alternate source doesn’t change the fact, and you’re still paying a fuel tax even if it’s of a different variety.

      EDIT fix swipe keyboard error (you’re).

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      This. I HATE cities. Crammed up against everyone else, smells, noises 🤮. I’m over 10 miles to the nearest grocery store and all these fuckcars weirdos will do some fucking mental gymnastics to explain a RURAL life without cars. I don’t think a single one of them has been anywhere where there is actual forest between cities/towns. They live in a city with great public transit so that must be how it is everywhere, right?

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          Local coal plant? Is that all you think exists in rural areas? Maybe you fuckcars idiots need to do a bit more research before spouting your city-centric views all over the place. Some people just don’t want to be a sardine in your urine-smelling concrete noise factory.

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              I’m gonna deal with your ignorant ass in just one comment because i’m capable of coherent thought.

              First of all, you’ve never been to a Kentucky corn field so fuck right off with that. Your deafened city ears don’t know what quiet actually is. Paris is a city. Even if people are tip-toeing around and whispering, it’s going to be louder than any rural area just by pure scale of humanity moving around. But people don’t do that, do they? No, they drag their screeching offspring to the store, or drunkenly yell at each other on the street in front of a bar, or repair a sidewalk or 5 with jackhammers and cement mixers.

              Junkies? Who said anything about junkies? If you’re referring to the urine smell, look no further than the rampant liquor establishments infesting cities and fueling wall-pisses in alleys nearby.

              Humans used to exclusively exist in small rural tribes, it’s cities that are an unnatural concentration of people that only began as a central place for people to come, get rid of shit they don’t need, get some shit they need and leave as fast as possible to not be mugged, kidnapped, raped, or murdered.

              The food produced in rural areas? Again, that’s all you think is going on there? I work in tech and so do most of my neighbors. Get a better perspective. You’re the reason I hate cities.

              I’m done here, feel free to have your last, ignorant comment. I’ll never know

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    Commuting to office (by car) daily is the real problem. Road trips by car are incredibly freeing and not miserable.

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      Surely no one is choosing to go on a road trip through a busy town during rush hour.

      Don’t mind people going on a road trip. Its such a small minority of cars on the road its pretty much irrelevant.

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    Jokes on you, I love my brainwash pod. I still take the train anywhere I can though, the Seattle light rail system is dope.