yeah i’m not talking about ethanol, i’m talking about biodiesel and biogas, and you make it from scraps not from things you specifically grow for fuel.

yes that’s why i take the bus

when services around specific events are this stupid i can only conclude it’s actively malevolent, because surely any normal person would realize that services should run until demand is gone?

frequency, and actually being able to afford a fucking ticket, but mercifully the cost generally doesn’t seem to be high in the rest of the world

but holy fuck here in sweden the cheapest ticket for my province is almost 4 dollars, they excuse this by saying that “oh it’s valid for 90 minutes and on all public transport within the zone!!! you only need one ticket!!” as if that helps when people want to go to the grocery store…

i think european malls/commercial areas are way less likely to be that horseshoe shape, it’s almost always some rectangular-ish shape with shared corridors and parking around it, whereas the horseshoe kind where you have to cross the parking lot to get to the shops on the other side seems pretty normal in the US.

and biofuels can be significantly cheaper, a sane actual conservative who genuinely prefers combustion engines should be championing biodiesel cars.

riding the elon taxi straight into the gates of heaven

coward

i think the key is when the thing in question is normalized and something most people do, then saying “we should do this less” means de-normalizing it and not having most people do it, which means they’ll personally experience change in some way.

like if driving isn’t the way to get around you’d eventually get rid of the oversized everpresent highways, which makes their personal travels require more thought and attention, and that’s unacceptable and thus they just completely fucking make shit up to defend their lifestyle.

slowly driving through the countryside, or racing on a course, are fun

driving the same route day in and day out at high speeds should be left to bus and light rail drivers

all car bans should come with free bikes and public transport

for one this severely depends on when it was built, old cars basically just convert 90% of the fuel into air pollution and spew it straight out the exhaust pipe, while modern cars actually use the fuel to go forward and provided the catalytic converter is in good shape they filter out some of the nastiness.

i always like to say that america is specifically designed to be miserable for everyone, the nordics are what it looks like when you actually design for cars, and the netherlands is convenient for everyone.

iirc most people in nyc still own a car, but definitely on a national scale almost everyone who doesn’t own a car lives in new york.

bulletproof microcar

every time i see people who have bought expensive things the only thing i can think is “that could have been thousands of toys for poor children who have rarely known a moment of joy in their lives”

meanwhile rural people wondering what the fuck a “lane” is, is that the bit between meeting spaces on the road?

bapacka balunch
bapick banick…
BA’NOODLE

god these names just sound the fucking same, garudo nobara banuda ronada, talking about linux gaming distros is liable to summon a demon

the fucked up thing is that CROSSING A FUCKING ROAD is one of the most dangerous things they will do, obviously.