• Erismi14@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    Wear a raincoat or winter jacket, much cheaper than a car.

    I have a trailer that can hold 40 kilos. That’s enough for anything I need regularly. I rent a moving van for the once in a couple year big item hauls.

    Cars spread things apart making places take long to get to not using a car.

    When you say takes long to get anywhere by bike, it is a self report you don’t live anywhere meaningful with anything fun around you

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      10 months ago

      Wear a winter jacket

      This reads like someone who doesn’t live somewhere that it gets cold

      it is a self report you don’t live anywhere meaningful with anything fun around you

      What a weird thing to criticize someone for

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        10 months ago

        Living on the border with Canada, I tell you now that I bike during the winter. It is in fact as simple as wearing the right layers. Even some of the coldest regions in the world have bike commuting.

        I don’t think the second part is a criticism. It’s pointing out that you live in a place who’s infrastructure has been completely fucked by car-centrism. Were it designed with walking, biking, or even just public transit of any kind as a priority, the distance between points would actually be short (public transit benefits from shorter distance between stops by having shorter routes Which cuts fuel and maintenance costs).

        In order for cities to have changes in their structure, mixed-use zoning needs to be allowed, along with various other reforms to current infrastructure law - laws which disinsentivise driving (car-centric people label it as ‘punishment’ when it’s more just revokal of massive amounts of privilege. It takes several decades, but overtime city footprints would shrink and become much more walkable - and safer - and more quiet.

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          10 months ago

          Except that youre blaming the victims of car-centric city designs. Good one.

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            10 months ago

            Not sure what you’re meaning by “… blaming the victims of car-centric city designs.” Is this going back to the comment before saying it’s a “weird thing to criticise someone for.”

            Since you didn’t quote a portion of my comment, I have no idea which portion you are saying is blaming people for car-centric city design.

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              10 months ago

              “You should ride bikes, bro”

              “It sucks”

              “Well yeah, your infrastructure is designed for cars!”

              That about sum it up?

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      10 months ago

      This person is seriously shitting on me for living 20 minutes from my job. What an moronic ciriticism.