No more cars!!
Is this a trick question?
The obvious choice is the truck. Take the truck and sell it. And then buy a bike, car and down payment on a house.
This is why I drive a small pickup truck, I’m compensating for my quite large penis.
My car is closer in size to the bicycle than the truck.
Also, most of these trucks around here have an orange triangle at the back and are driven by teenagers.
Damn those triangle cars are always getting in the way. Even the little ones.
Ain’t that the truth. I’m constantly fighting this fight in my own city where we only get bike gutters, not even lanes. Complain complain complain from the people who claim they care about the neighborhood.
One gets accused of being an inbred redneck as they “roll coal” at the other one, while the other one sneers at regular people. They’re both bags of rancid dicks for very different reasons.
I don’t know about where you live. But here cyclists stick to the cycling paths almost all the time. A simple chime or ring from their bell will do just fine to let people know if they’re coming. No need for sneering buddy. Let go of your anger.
Also, fuck cars.
YTA
Right on 👍
New contender for “worst take of 2023”
Most people who ride bikes just ride bikes. And a minority are what you call “cyclists”.
You’re lumping them all together and are part of the problem. Dick.
Well I’m 30 and I have 3, I’m really happy for everyone that doesn’t need and therefore just dont own cars though, must be enormous savings per month on top of the lesser impact on the climate.
Edit: Aaaand there comes the car hate- ya’ll are talking about not imposing shit upon others, yet here you are judging me and my wife for not making it by without cars 🤷♂️ aight hypocrites.
As long as you dont drive a deathmachine through a populated city, nonconsentually transfering risk from yourself onto others, nobody ought care my friend. We all need farmers and miners and whatnot. Y’all could drive a turbo boosted afterburning steamroller with JATO assist as an emergency break for all we care, as long as its not harming others.
Most of the buddies I have who are both bike commuters and motorheads have their fun at the track or on the mountain roads. I’d take a 3000$ beat up Miata over these land yachts any day. I don’t understand the kind of people who roll coal to the whole foods parking lot in their spotless F690-compensator-edition. It seems as antisocial as it is unfun.
But thats my personal frustration you see. I can’t drive fun cars like that anymore because selfish pricks have made the roads less safe for everyone other than themselves.
Let’s see it in real life and I’ll judge ,Lol
I’ve actually never had anyone in a monster truck tell me I should buy a monster truck. So…by unfortunate definition…
I’ve had a million people in monster trucks tell me to buy one, you’re point is BS.
“you’re” is an abbreviation for “you are”
You wanted “your point…”
Great job, you fixed an autocorrect error. I hope your waste of half a minute was worth it to add nothing to anyone’s life.
I only commented as you come from a non English speaking instance. It’s a common error in English, so I figured I’d point it out. Were I making a mistake in Dutch I would like such corrections
Don’t worry, this is a Dutch instance, we mostly speak English at C1, C2 proficiency, except when autocorrect is in the game.
Didn’t you want to know that autocorrect had screwed up your good work? (I had to correct three autocorrect/swipe type failures in this comment)
I’ve never had someone on a bicycle roll coal at me.
A little fart maybe
Wind powered
Yank tanks truly are the peakest of cringe. I’d be embarrassed to show up in one of those things
“Yank Tank” 😂
Still see plenty of those out in western Canada.
Seeing more and more in Australia as well. Way too big for our roads.
We seem to have been invaded by them in the last 2 years or so. I don’t see why regular utes and 4wds have been fine until now, but suddenly every tradesman needs one of these.
I seen a comment that they were covered by the instant tax right-off and so their dealers were pushing them to business owners and tradies who were more than happy to buy
2-ton codpiecesoversized vehicles. Seems to check out from my experience with them.I’m a registered tax agent. This isn’t really true - but, it’s exactly what someone needing a 2-ton codpiece would say.
If you use a passenger vehicle exclusively for work / business, then you can claim depreciation on it’s total cost up to a maximum of ~$66k (last year… this limit is indexed each year).
Vehicles with a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne are not subject to this limit as they’re “commercial” vehicles rather than passenger vehicles.
So if you had a $100k to spend on a new car, then a landcruiser wagon / SUV will be less tax effective than a RAM ute because you can’t claim a deduction for the entire cost of the ute.
That said, no one actually chooses between those types of vehicles on the basis of the tax deduction available - you either want a ute or you don’t. The choice is always between a hilux size ute and a ram size ute. Additionally, I don’t have a list but I’ve heard tell that very few of the bigger utes actually have a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne once you subtract the potential weight of passengers.
so that’s where all jan-sixers went
I shit you not… I saw a cooker waving a Trump 2020 flag last week.
Fun Fact: it’s because of US CAFE standards imposed on auto makers. It’s not that people don’t want small and mid-sized trucks; it’s that it has been illegal to make them since 2012, the last year of the actual Ford Ranger.
Hopefully the “rolling coal” thing at least didn’t come along with them?
They are an undeniably infectious disease.
Eastern Onterrible too
But mah freedumb #rigpiglets
They’re popular in Mexico as well. Ultimately they’re a US creation though.
they were a thing when I lived in Texas in the late 70s. A guy I worked with had a big yellow Ford with 5’ high tires. Everyone had pickups. I had a Datsun pickup with DOHC sounded like it would blow up at 60 but smoothed out again at 70. commutes were wild
You are just mad u cant afford it on your measly europoor salary. Americans stay winning.
My penis is too long, so I am not allowed to own such a car.
My car is half as big and still has the same cargo space actually.
You’re going in my cringe compilation
my cringe compilation
INT. SMITH FAMILY LIVING ROOM - DAY
Morty is sitting on the couch, engrossed in his smartphone, while Rick is tinkering with one of his inventions.
Morty: (excitedly) Hey, Rick, you gotta check this out! There’s this new thing called “Cringe Compilations” on the internet. It’s like, people doing really awkward stuff and everyone makes fun of them!
Rick: (glances over) Cringe compilations, Morty? Seriously? The internet’s been around for decades, and that’s what you’re excited about?
Morty: (nervously) Well, I just thought it’s kinda funny, you know, watching people act all weird and stuff.
Rick: (rolls eyes) Morty, it’s called the internet. It’s a vast wasteland of cringe and chaos. (pauses) But you know what? Maybe it’s time I enlighten you about the wonders of the multiverse.
Rick pulls out his portal gun and creates a portal.
INT. MULTIVERSE - INTERGALACTIC INTERNET CAFE - DAY
Rick and Morty step out of the portal and find themselves in a futuristic internet cafe filled with all sorts of bizarre creatures from different dimensions.
Morty: (looking a round) Whoa, Rick, this place is insane!
Rick: (smirking) Welcome to the Intergalactic Internet Cafe, Morty. Here, you’ll find cringe beyond your wildest nightmares.
They sit down at a terminal, and Rick starts typing away.
Rick: (typing) You see, Morty, cringe is a universal constant. No matter where you go, there’s always gonna be something that makes you cringe.
On the screen, we see a bizarre video titled “Zogork’s Awkward Dance-Off.”
Morty: (watching) Uh, Rick, what’s that?
Rick: (grinning) That’s Zogork, the three-headed space alien trying to dance. Now that’s what I call cringe!
Morty: (cringing) Oh, geez, Rick. That’s… something else.
They browse through various cringe videos from different dimensions, including a segment where people are trying to speak backwards, a cat that thinks it’s a parrot, and a sentient jello mold attempting stand-up comedy.
Morty: (laughs) This is insane, Rick! I’ve never seen anything like it.
Rick: (chuckles) Morty, the multiverse is a treasure trove of cringe. But here’s the thing, it’s all relative. What’s cringe in one dimension might be considered cool in another. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Morty: (still laughing) Yeah, I guess you’re right, Rick. Cringe is in the eye of the beholder.
They both continue to watch cringe videos, sharing a laugh and learning a valuable lesson about embracing the quirks of different realities.
FADE OUT.
I really hope you used AI to generate that text, because god damn what a waste of time otherwise.
Didn’t read regardless
Ill rewrite it in your language:
Int. Smith family livin’ room - day
morty be sittin’ on tha couch, engrossed in his muthafuckin’ smartphone, while rick be tinkerin’ wit’ one o’ his muthafuckin’ inventions.
morty: (excitedly) hey, rick, yo’ gotta check dis out! there’s dis new thang called “cringe compilations” on tha internizzle. It’s like, people doin’ really awkward shit n’ y’all makes fun o’ 'em!
rick: (glances over) cringe compilations, morty? seriously? tha internet’s been ‘round fo’ decades, n’ that’s What the fuck you’re excited 'bout?
morty: (nervously) well shiiit, i just thought it’s kinda funny, yo’ know, watchin’ people act all shit n’ shit.
rick: (rolls eyes) morty, it’s called tha internizzle. It’s a vast wasteland o’ cringe n’ chaos. (pauses) N’ therez Ain’t nuthin’ but yo’ know What the fuck? maybe it’s time i enlighten yo’ ‘bout da wonders o’ da multiverse.
rick pulls out his muthafuckin’ portal glock n’ creates a portal.
int. Multiverse - intergalactic internizzle cafe - day
rick n’ morty step out o’ da portal n’ find themselves in a futuristic internizzle cafe filled wit’ all sorts o’ bizarre creatures from different dimensions.
morty: (lookin’ a round) whoa, rick, dis place be insane!
rick: (smirking) welcome ta tha intergalactic internizzle cafe, morty. Here, you’ll find cringe beyond yo’ goddamn wildest nightmares.
they sit down at a terminal, n’ rick starts typin’ away.
rick: (typing) yo’ peep, morty, cringe be a universal constant. No matta Where the fuck yo’ git, there’s always gonna be somethang dat makes yo’ cringe.
on tha screen, we peep a bizarre porno titled “zogork’s awkward dance-off.”
morty: (watching) uh, rick, what’s dat?
rick: (grinning) that’s zogork, tha three-headed space alien tryin’ ta dance. Naw that’s What the fuck i call cringe!
morty: (cringing) oh, geez, rick. That’s… somethang else.
they browse through various cringe videos from different dimensions, includin’ a segment Where the fuck people r’ tryin’ ta speak backwards, a pussaaaaaay dat thinks it’s a parrot, n’ a sentient jello mold attemptin’ stand-up comedy.
morty: (laughs) dis be insane, rick! i’ve neva peep anythin’ like dat shit.
rick: (chuckles) morty, tha multiverse be a treasure trove o’ cringe. N’ therez Ain’t nuthin’ but here’s tha thang, it’s all relative. What’s cringe in one dimension might be considered funky-ass in anotha. It’s all a matta o’ perspective.
morty: (still laughing) yeah biatch, i guess you’re right, rick. Cringe be in da eye o’ da beholda.
they both continue ta watch cringe videos, sharin’ a bust n’ learnin’ a valuable lesson ‘bout embracin’ tha quirks o’ different realities.
fade out.Q then me.
After seeing this bullshit, I have an offtopic question: can you block accounts on Lemmy? Pretty sure I never want to read any other line of this guy in my life.
Found that function in about 0.75s. Click the username. Now click “Block User” which is on the top line.
I’m 24 now and don’t own a car. :)
Same, turning 25 in a month, still no car
Primarily because I’m very fucking poor and just getting the license costs over 2000€ already
You know what’s funny, I recently read a CNBC business article that said auto-makers are saying consumers aren’t buying enough electric and hybrid vehicles. That supply has outpaced demand. You know what they’re not going to do, drop prices like basic economic theory says they should. According to auto-makers the problem wasn’t that they over estimated how popular their products are, the problem is the consumers not living up to their expectations. If we were good little consumers we’d just take on more debt but apparently we’re not cooperating.
So…? Do you NEED a car? I didnt had a car until 34 because I didnt need one. The only reason I got one was because I moved in a different city and kind of had no choice. But I had many many bikes.
25 and same, despite having a driver’s license for eight years
34 :-)
39 and I don’t even have a driver’s license…
Pfff that car ain’t even street legal in my country.
Also, it probably weighs over 3500 kg, so you’ll need a C license to drive it. Fun fact, if you have one of those, you can also drive a huge lorry. Why would you choose an eyesore like that, when you could be a badass rock hauler.
Some dude drives on of those where i live. I’ve never seen it move, it’s always parked on the same spot where it doesn’t fit. Completely with aouthern state flag and stickers that say that only gay cops pull him over and how every car that is not a v8 is for girls. I’d be so embarrassed to drive that thing.
where i live, which is in the south, every 3 cars is one of these, they lift suvs too, so that increases the odds. when cops clock out they also drive one of these, even the gay ones. driving it is no big deal, its how they drive and what they do with it, usually road raging other road users, intimidating them, and trying to run them off the road, in other words bullying and intimidation, which is likely why they own one in the first place. why do they feel a strong desire to bully or intimidate anyone? that’s a great question. why do you have to knock out the biggest guy in jail to get any respect? …
There is a dealership here called lifted trucks(I know very straight forward. straight to the main selling point) they have more lots here than other dealerships.It is very clear the amount of lifted trucks here went up significantly. The whole city screams that I’m only doing it to get women because I’m insecure about myself. Which is the reason why I wish to move to Europe’s walkable cities or just move to a place with no one around.
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I didnt say I owned a truck. I have a electric bike that I built. I said either go to a walkable city OR go to the middle of nowhere “living off the land.”
driving it is no big deal
It’s impossible to safely drive a car like this. You can’t see children standing in front of you, and no matter what you’re gonna pollute. Pollution is dangerous.
I know I’m going to catch some heat for this, but… Maybe you should be out watching and paying attention to your kids and keeping them out of the fucking street??? I mean, fuck dickheads who need to advertise their small dick by driving these abominations, but whether they’re squished by a Ford F650 duallie with a 84" lift or my little compact sedan, they’re gonna have a bad day
So what’s your solution, then? We just drive our huge trucks and run over all the kids who have bad parents? We take a life that we could have saved, in order to spite someone else? Cause that seems evil.
So parents shouldn’t be held accountable for their crotch spawn running amok in a right of way? What’s YOUR solution? Funny how (at least in the US) you need to take a test and be licensed to drive, but any two dipshits can somehow find a way to literally not take any one of several available, some even taxpayer funded, precautions, or, irresponsibly have the kid with the plethora of options available, squirt out another human being, no test or license required. If you can’t be bothered to take care of a kid, then don’t fucking have one. This includes being present when they’re outside playing when there’s the chance of them being hurt. /rant
So you want to hold parents accountable by killing children. And you don’t think that’s evil?
I hope nothing happens to his tires
So by his logic a Lamborghini Aventador is for girls.
And a dodge challenger, Chevy Camaro, all of the Nissan Z series and all of the skyline series, the delorean dmc-12, most mustangs, Acura nsx, Subaru wrx sti, the list is literally hundreds of cars long.
All of these cars are definitely too much car for that dude I can guarantee it.
Worse - Europeans
Can I just drive my Kia Forte without being an asshole?
googles kia forte
My guy that’s a car, not a land yacht.
Nobody is mad at you for having a car thats reasonably sized. You should be the most angry about these child-flattening-front-over-machines because youre the one who they’ll kill while they’re playing pokemon go on their dash television instead of looking at the road.
These assholes are destroying your roads, giving your kids asthma, and running over your friends and family. And they hate having their sociopathy pointed out.
Would it be okay if I use an electric car that does not give asthma? Serious question. Also I do not play shitty games like pokemon go.
Turns out most car pollution is actually from rubber tires flaking off and putting microplastics in your lungs.
This gets worse the heavier the car is, and because electric cars are heavier, theres a chance that EVS could actually be worse for particulate emmission than moderately efficient regular cars.
Would using good tyres, and maintaining them, not be a solution to that problem?
Wear is nonlinearly dependant on number of cycles, materials, and load. I’ve not seen anything in the litterature that indicates rubbers can maintain safety while decreasing their amount of particulate pollution. In fact, ive seen that they are a direct trade with one another.
Lighter cars being forced to drive slower, would do something about it. Also, simply restricting the number of cars in a city the same way we restricted the density of coal burning power plants in a city would also solve the problem in the exact same way.
Non-rubber materials such as steel do not have this problem, which is why trains are good.
From https://evmagazine.com/sustainability/how-much-pollution-comes-from-electric-vehicle-tyres
Emissions Analytics provides various samples from its tests to give an all-round view of tyre pollution. The team has now tested more than 300 tyres on the European market, identifying 78 organic compounds and recognising 46 hazards codes. It turns out the least toxic tyre compound is 85% less polluting than the most toxic version.
I think the answer does lie in using less toxic tyres, as a starting point, something I was suspecting.
Another source says:
The International Union for Conservation of Nature pegs tires as the second leading source of microplastic pollution in oceans, and one 2017 study found a global per capita average of .81 kilograms in tire emissions per year, ranging from .23 kg per year in India to 4.7 kg (roughly 10 pounds) in the US. That may seem minor stacked up against the nearly 300 pounds in plastic waste the average American generates each year, but microplastics are tiny by definition — and an insidious source of toxins that researchers are only beginning to understand.
There is a colossal difference between India (where I live) and US, for example.
Also another article points out only large BEVs will be heavy, as usual BEVs will become similar in weight to normal fossil fuel cars by 2025.
Motorcycles produce exponentially lower pollution than cars, and cycles more or less produce none, which should be used, but cars are a need due to shitty designing of cities, and capitalist growth chasing.
Oh that’s excellent news. I hope this won’t be used an excuse to neither lower vehicle speeds nor improve the places that we live. I also don’t know if this will offset the doubling or tripling of the average automobile in terms of weight that is happening. Also, I fear that if these tires are even slightly less profitable to create, they will not be adopted, rendering fixation on them worse than useless.
It’s also a massive issue that some tires and asphalts are far quieter than others, which makes the people forced to live near high speed car infrastructure substantially less miserable. Noise induced stress is one of those health effects that I’m personally too anxious to read in detail about, as it scares the hell out of me. It’d be wonderful if quieter asphalt and tires were also the same kind that were less polluting, but I have learned that tech brained ideas pitched by car companies claiming to solve their massive problems rarely do.
Also, perhaps “EV magazine” has a vested interest in portraying inherent problems with automobiles as non-inherent?
I don’t want less car induced lung cancer, I want no car induced lung cancer.
Halving vehicle weights or ranges or top speeds would also nonlinearly decrease tire wear while also decreasing vehicle cost and danger to others, but here in the US none of those things are happening. Instead, every possible negative attribute is worsening, along with corresponding fluff pieces and propoganda to convince truck owners that they aren’t doing the harm that they are doing. I also feel terrified that these fluff pieces are poisoning wells of activism around the world, harming the entire human species rather than just the imperial core.
It’s true that smaller, two wheeled vehicles are drastically better for the environment, and the fact that so many cities in europe and southeast asia are able to exist with so few “cars” is a disagreement I have with your last, excellent sentence. I very much wish I posessed the intelligence to separate Private automobile ownership from Commercial automobile ownership, but I forget to most of the time. I do genuinely believe that private automobile ownership should be as rare as policy can make it, just like it is (kind of) for airplanes in the US.
Thank you for the excellent link.
girls bike or small dick energy hmm
Lots of manufacturers stop calling that frame shape woman’s bikes, but rather find terms like step through or low step and so on to be better suited. This frame design is a lot more accessible for people who aren’t as mobile anymore (think old people, people with hip problems, heavy people) and are also much easier to handle with tall cargo on the back, typical example would be a child seat.
For the average person, this frame design is probably preferable as there are no benefits to the typical male frame shape.
My parents think it looks odd when a guy sits on one of these, but then my parents are in their sixties :>
Since I am a father and decided to bring my kid with me on bike rides, I needed that frame. It’s just convenient to not have to Jean Claude Van Damme before each ride.
I bought a step through because of the child seat too. Luckily before I dropped cash on a new bike I had already discovered that there is no way to swing your leg over the bike frame when a child seat is attached.
The disadvantage is higher weight for the same structural strength because the lower and upper tube are closer together (or combined into one tube) so the leverage is much less.
I dont mind the “mens” frame, but if other people want to use a low step frame I am not going to call them sissies or something stupid like that.
I don’t understand why there’s even a difference? Seems like that frame design would work great for everyone?
If you are over 200 lbs and not just street riding I would worry about the welds/supports, but for daily commuting there isn’t one.
girl bike please :3
It’s a commuter bike. Most bikes in the US are sports bikes, designed for athletes. Most bikes in the Netherlands are commuter bikes, designed for average people. It’s not “small dick energy” for a man to not be an athlete. That’s toxic masculinity that harms men. It’s misandrist and it upholds patriarchy. Part of destroying patriarchy is liberating men from judgement like this.
I am pretty sure “small dick energy” refers to the truck
Good point, but calling a commuter bike a girl’s bike because it’s not for athletes has the same problem.
I for one think men should be allowed to have a comfy and easy ride to work or the grocery store no matter what their fitness level
Absolutely, that’s why I got one of those bikes.
They’re also called “step through frame bikes” in places where people don’t associate them with cycling in a skirt
too bad the truck doesn’t have nuts
