Seriously though, the amount of money I saved by not owning a car gets me a pretty nice place in a city with transit, it’s not great transit but I can’t afford a larger city like Vancouver. Unfortunately where I live is also notoriously hostile towards pedestrians and cyclists.
The person probably wouldn’t have been homeless if not for capitalism. I also make a habit of not believing third hand stories off the internet.
Maybe disenfranchised people who are forced to live in the street have something to be angry about in a system that trains the wage slaves to dehumanize the people who don’t fit in the same box so that we have something to fear if we stop contributing to the machine.
“Don’t be like him, Little Timmy. You need to go to school and be a good little cog in the machine until you get ill or make a mistake and then it will abandon you and villify you for not being a perfect cog for the billionaires to use up like an infinite resource.”
Traffic and car-centrism exist because of capitalism. Fuck the man, take the bus.
This is why people are upset no one knows how to read anymore. Did you even read the title of the post? You didn’t even have to click the link.
I think the point is that AI is wasting all those resources and can’t even work out that if one needs to wash ones car at the car wash, driving it there is required. Thousands of people are losing their jobs to AI when this is how smart it is. Fuck cars, yes - but also fuck AI.
I must be old cause for me it’s “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of Yum!” and I was already babysitting the target audience for The Rugrats by the time the movie came out.
That’s what I miss about Edmonton too. If I had to go back to Alberta for whatever reason it would definitely be to Edmonton because at least they have a decent transit system.
The ones that come attached to other cars and go to pre-planned destinations on a regular schedule are the preferred ones for me. Give us trains!
I am going to get a bike trainer so I can ride in my garage safely or take the bus to a park and ride the trails. There was a pretty big accident in my town that killed a cyclist in an RCMP charity ride near me this past summer and it really stuck with me. The drivers will bowl over anyone and you never know who’s intoxicated. I don’t want to ride in traffic anymore.
I have a really hard time with hand signals so I’m too scared to ride my bike in public because I had a driver yell at me for getting stop and right mixed up. I don’t know why the car couldn’t just stop at the stop sign and wait an extra second for me to pass regardless of the hand signal. So now even though I love taking to it to my shopping I don’t.
Better than a toilet seat.
And people say my city of 100K is too small for a train.
Well they sure as shit don’t use them when they’re supposed to, but also, technology fails. When the camera dies and the operator decides it can wait to be fixed or they don’t have the money to fix it because they already spend $1600 a month maintaining the vehicle , children will get run over and the driver will turn into that little shit from the old Chips Ahoy commercials all “heeheehee, oops!”
It’s ok, my children are inside the children killing machine. Fuck those other kids.
Don’t have to remind me, thanks. The mirror does that.
You accepting that you don’t fit into a box gives you a leg up on both the weirdos and the normal people. Everyone is a bit of both when the stop repressing themselves.
Thanks, but I smoke for pain and anxiety and have done so for over a decade, irrational thoughts have never been an issue. I only added it because OP mentioned they hadn’t done drugs in almost a week and I was feeling surly.
I think a lot of our decisions are made unconsciously because they “feel” right based on past experiences. We probably don’t notice the process that makes the decision so we try to justify it afterwards but we’re only guessing. But I’m not smart and I’ve smoked a joint in the last half hour so I could be way off base.
I find that most people assume cigarettes when they refer to smoking.
If this is happening at work then you need to bring it up to his boss or someone above him, preferably a woman who won’t make excuses for him. Outside of work there’s not a lot you can do except let him know that it’s a huge red flag when older men want women without life experience.