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Nosferatu needs to lay off the blood of the innocent for a bit - he’s clearly over-indulged.
Being less evil would be nice, but we can only reasonably expect so much.
JFC
This is your brain on cars.
Hey now, they specifically added a ton of people to distract from his appearance, which was a kindness
Isn’t it supposed to be “fewer” anyway?
No, less is perfectly acceptable. GoT is very annoying for turning people into grammar pedants for a 18th century style suggestion.
wtf is GoT? I don’t use linux
Wasn’t GoT that TV show with all the boobs and dragons?
Nah, I’m not really into pokemon
He likes cars, not grammar.
well, he hasn’t met mine yet. she’s in fine fettle for her age.
Cars and, based on the looks of it, insects. I didn’t realize how much like a lizard he looks.
They probably mean that those convenient areas adjacent to the lanes on a road should be seen as “less bike lanes, but more car park”.
That is exactly how they’re seen in Philadelphia.
Ahhhhh… This actually does make sense. I love you.
It is
Tsk
TSK?
I’m sorry; I don’t know what that is. I meant, like, “tsk tsk tsk. Shame.”
I don’t really expect more than like 2-3 Lemmy users to know anyway. It’s just a random joke.
Coat of arms of Slovakian Trenčín region (Trenčiansky samosprávny kraj (TSK)).
Are you from there, or is this just a random fun fact? Either one is cool, but I’m curious.
Slovakia, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Slovakia
Just 8 of them.
Les Lane sounds like Superman’s brother in law.
lmao
Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.
Car-brains don’t do standard logic, only car-logic…
Fewer*
I pledge to do absolutely nothing about parking prices, but will try to slow down the cycle lane projects
Probably owns a few parking lots.
We had some winners in my city a few years ago.
Here’s my favorite quote from that article:
“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”
Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.
Is that guy a blatantly lying piece of shit, or just a moron?
In factual reality, cyclists buy more stuff than motorists, not less!
See also:
US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don’t fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif
No you don’t.
It is exactly what some people I know do. If there’s a lot of car enthusiasts or bored teens old enough to drive in that area I can believe seeing that kind of thing. Although I do think it’s an exaggeration.
Almost every day? Bullshit. Those people are driving somewhere for some purpose, this dude is just too stupid and hateful to realize it.
You’re awfully angry over a passing internet comment and are trying to argue an absolute because of it. Perhaps you’re the stupid and hateful one here?
It’s not even limited to the US. In Finland it’s called “pilluralli”, “pussy-rally”, and the general associations are of 18-19-year-olds of lower socioeconomical class.
Although I do think its an exaggeration
“Almost every day?” Maybe, depending, but not always. Which is why I fell back on multiple times a week which is depressingly not an exaggeration.
Yeah, “serious” cycling — a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike — is so anti-consumer!
(I love cycling, and I’ll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)
They only think of cycling for sport and not cycling to a destination. That’s where the confusion lies.
Yeah because someone who never exercises, you know the type of person who only moves around the city in a car, buys sporting goods frequently. Yep.
Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)
Not “probably,” “certainly!” It’s proven by research: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
The carbrained can’t see cycling as a form of transport, only as a type of exercise. In their minds people only cycle to cycle, not to fulfil other tasks. Only cars are for going places, like shopping.
I really hate that that’s treated as a legitimate argument as opposed to a criticism of capitalism
I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car…
OTOH it’s absolutely insane what new bicycles are costing these days - bikes can be money pits too. I bought my road bike 12 years ago for about $1800 and was kicking myself for years for spending that much. A modern road bike (with disc brakes, wi-fi controlled electronic shifters etc.) would be in the neighborhood of ten grand, more than my car cost. Meanwhile my favorite bike is the 25yo hybrid that I bought on Craigslist for $100.
Why would you ever want wifi controlled shifters‽ Maybe (ok definitely) I’m pilled on the whole anarchist bicycle repair scene, but I’ve got some decent trigger shifters that were like $30 and aside from the pain of calibration they’re great.
I was talking to a guy with an $8K bike the other day and he was proud of the fact that he could calibrate his shifters with his phone.
On one hand if it’s automatic it might be nice, but on the other hand I’d rather just have a separate tool that does that so I can share it with friends and we can all have easy shifter calibration. But also I’d dread someone being able to hack my shifters or being unable to shift when I forget to plug it in. But on the other hand my bike has probably cost me like $200-250 over the three years I’ve had it so I’m definitely not the target audience
He did say the money was in the car, he just didn’t mean to imply that a car is a hole in the road that you throw money into.
Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli
Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.
He’s still a party member, it’s listed in his candidate information sheet. Badly Scanned PDF
Meanwhile, if successful, they’d probably complain about traffic and blame it on cyclists being slow in the car lanes
Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas
Is that a Tram in the background ?
What a joke, considering the message haha. May he lose!
Hahahahah ironic
God please no, Sydney actually has viable public transport compared to something like the US.
There’s so many cool JDM type stuff there probably because enthusiasts keep cars around the city.
I’d much rather be able to see all the slick WRXs and Evos while walking than having to drive a crapbox into Sydney.
I have to drive a van every day for work, but even I find this repulsive.
