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    10 hours ago

    This doesn’t work if you have any distance to go. I spent 8 years without a car, and I’ll never do that again. I love my bike, but no.

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      9 hours ago

      Because you lived in a car centric shit hole with no backbone rail.

      Fucking car brain infrastructure blindness is so reliable. Like you can’t see the massive constant costs of car infra, you think the roads never need repair and fuel just fucking appears, engine repairs aren’t orders of magnitude more expensive than anything else, and there’s no opportunity cost to other modes of transit, but laying an inch of track or cutting bike trails is just so fucking expensive. You are the problem with the world. You are why we have climate change. You are why everything is so fucking shit and everything everyone owns spies on all of us.

      Please stop. Please just fucking stop. You can’t see shit, your experiences are not valid, your instincts are the products of ad campaigns, and you are reliably aggressively spectacularly incorrect in harmful ways. Please stop having opinions, stop voting, stop speaking on any topic you are hostile to the concept of understanding.

      If you’re determined to never think or observe, please defer in matters of reality to those who at least try.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s… What you have trains for. If you have proper public transit, that need is covered. Oh, and you can get shit done while you’re on the train. Or sleep. Or relax.

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      9 hours ago

      That’s what made me an ebike evangelist. Someone on hexbear once described cars as using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. Most of my car trips were a walnut. >50km, but Colorado’s topography and weather made biking so miserable that I’d drive 2km to a grocery instead of biking. Adding a motor changed everything for distances like that. No matter how windy is I have a tailwind, no matter how steep it is the landscape is flattened. I ride home after a 10 hour shift in 35C heat doing hundreds of squats and it’s refreshing. For longer distances I still need my car but trips like that are so infrequent that I could rent a better car as-needed and still save money.

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        I mean on average I drive anywhere from 100 to 400 mi a day for what I do for work. And then my trips that I take can average 8 to 10 hours or more. And those are done several times a month as well. I went from going absolutely nowhere because I didn’t own a car and I only relied on bus train and bike to doing about 60 to 70,000 mi a year.

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          That’s a really extreme outlier case similar to why I still own my car, living in the American West and wanting a road trip vehicle. Hopefully you can find a job that doesn’t keep you sedentary for that long. A 400mi drive hurts like hell.

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            No I could easily have a job like that, I run my own company and I have freedom to do whatever I want to now and it is so much better than when I was sitting in an office staring out a window all day long. That was a slow death. 400 mi for me is nothing it’s literally a day’s work. Hell even within the city that I live in there’s days like last Friday where I drove almost 400 miles in a single day.

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      This doesn’t work if you have any distance to go.

      Many parts of the world don’t require people to go more than at most 10km for almost any reason, ever. I assume you’re American, in which case you’re totally right. Broken country designed only for cars.

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        I mean it’s not really that it’s a shit country designed only for cars. It’s also a rather huge country that you can travel quite a ways to get to whatever you’re needing to do.

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            I mean we have trains also but just like those countries also have cars and infrastructure we also have cars and infrastructure. The amount of time it takes for a train to go from point a to point b is quite often much longer than what it takes for a car to get to point a to point b. They’re oftentimes where I work 3 to 400 mi away in a single day I can literally get up in the morning drive out there do a job complete it and drive back and be back at my house by that evening. There is no way on a train I could get up make it out there with all of my tools completed job and make it back to my house at any time in a single day.

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              I mean we have trains also

              No, we really don’t. We used to, and then automotive companies bought our country, killed all the passenger trains, and redesigned every city to require cars.

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                Yes, the idea that America has trains I think really betrays that this user doesn’t really know any other type of infrastructure than broken car-centric bullshit. Not blaming them, that’s just what you get in America.

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              I mean we have trains also but just like those countries also have cars and infrastructure we also have cars and infrastructure. The amount of time it takes for a train to go from point a to point b is quite often much longer than what it takes for a car to get to point a to point b.

              Not actually correct with high speed rail. Also, you’re talking about a work vehicle which is obviously a different category from a commuter vehicle and not at all the subject of this post.