• 33550336@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I used to cycle 7 km to work, but now, after moving to suburban village, there is no way to go other way than car. Especially with small kid. Unless you are fit enough to do 25 km every day by bike and risk your life (and potentially kid’s) on the street between cars. So no, there is not realistic to “fuck cars”. I am speaking from European perspective, probably US has the car things much more fucked up.

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      5 days ago

      risk your life (and potentially kid’s) on the street between cars

      I dunno, boss, seems like a plenty good reason to say “fuck cars” to me.

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        2 days ago

        Yes, I can be pissed by cars for that reason, but will this make them disappear or make less needed? Sure, many people could go by bike not the car and they are just lazy bastards, but some just need a car

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      4 days ago

      Did the 2x12km for theee years, only got ran down once.

      I did have beast legs though :-)

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        2 days ago

        I had to fix the tyre tube every week (cost similar to LPG fuel) until I started to pump for almost maximal pressure. It was fucking frustrating, also without proper infrastructure, riding a bike is not fun at all

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          8 hours ago

          Did you have those slim “racing” wheels? Up the tire size just one size and you’ll be way better off.

          I got myself an old mountain bike, works wonders in the city with all the potholes and crap.

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            7 hours ago

            Not racing, but trekking tyres. I suppose the mountain bike tires are far better (the city crap bike roads can be worse than mountains I think).

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think you realise how much you’ve been fucked by car. I presume you move out to the suburb not because the city council decided to exile you and never let you stay in the city, you move out because you have a car and can drive 20+km toward your destination, which then mean everything is so out of your way you have to use car to do everything. So no, you’re the one that got fucked by motonormativity and yell “cum inside”, you don’t get to then deny everyone a better solution.

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        2 days ago

        I moved out by rent prices and because no one wanted to rent a flat for family with two small kids, not because of car 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻this is one of dumbest hypotheses I’ve ever heard

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          1 day ago

          dumbest hypotheses

          most people that prefer suburb did just that.

          Your argument basically just boiled down to “it doesn’t happened to me so it shouldn’t be the case for everyone”, what kind of self absorbed argument is that even?