• Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    Driving is about butt-chuggig 50 years of american propaganda to the point you can’t even differentiate you own opinion from a Facebook minions meme.

    But yeah have fun filling yours and the rest of our bloodstreams with micro plastics cause vroom is more important

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          22 days ago

          I’m not sure how me driving to work with an automatic vs manual transmission affects that but okay buddy

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            22 days ago

            It’s about the whole driving experience stuff. Cars are utilitary and they made us believe it’s about passion.

            I wrecked my car 3 years ago and we decided to not buy a new one. We’re doing just fine without a car. We need one from time to time but car sharing has proven to ve really cheap. It seems like we have spent over 600 Euros a mont on our car before. Now we just spend a fraction of that.

            Riding for pleasure is something for the tracks, I suppose.

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              22 days ago

              You couldn’t project any harder if you were a fucking Epson.
              “They” don’t make me believe shit.

              Congrats on ditching your car. If people who didn’t give a shit about cars weren’t forced to drive we wouldn’t be in this mess.

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                21 days ago

                Took me a while to get that reference. In my mind Epsons are printers not projectors.

                I live in a country where cars are part of your salary. Especially because that part of your wage doesn’t get taxed. It is very clear that ‘they’ installed a very car centric thinking into society. Sure, some people aren’t affected or influenced but way too many people are.

                Since a few years bikes are treated in a likewise manner and now 30% of my colleages chooses a bike over a car. That has resulted in a surge of bike sales and that unfortunately. made them terribly expensive.

                I do like cars though. That’s why I hit the track a few times a year.