I get brainwashed outside the pod too, so there
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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We're fighting the war on car dependence.
Cars are fine but car dependance isn't, our cities shouldn't be built in a way that requires a car for everyday like.
Requiring that your citizens own a $10000 - $35000+ depreciating asset just to live life is a tragedy that lessens economic mobility and punishes your most vulnerable.
However, if you follow that train of thought, you'll often get to the point where you'd need to get rid of cars as we know them today.
If people weren't depending on them, fewer would have one. And if only few people have one (they are expensive, after all), why build roads just for them? Why all this costly infrastructure that would only benefit 5% of the population? Why use everyone's tax to fund them?
The fact that cars are built like today - basically comfort cages - is only because all this infrastructure exists. They're not used outside of that environment. So of people don't depend on it, they'd probably vanish in a couple of decades, at least outside of their respective niches.
Recently saw something posted about how kids are actually cycling to school again in some parts of London where LTNs have been implemented. Reducing the number of cars makes it better for people.
We still need roads for buses and trucks. Basically nothing is produced locally any more
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Wrong.
Edit!
Also, notice this:
And this dude (lower left, immediately 9 o'clock of the "Y"):
See ya.
still paying for that fuel subscription though.
Yeah, and you're still paying your food subscription, electricity subscription, roof subscription, etc. And if you use public transportation you have to pay your train or bus subscription. That's not the zinger everyone thinks it is.
i know its not, i think the intention is to be a bit of a cheeky shitpost here
Not entirely - assuming you work in a building, aren't the "return to office" mandates the same? The cubicle is just your particular pod out of a massive collection of them inside a larger metal shell.
Can't speak for others, but I don't participate in the stereotypical mad rush from the suburbs to the city and vise-versa every day. My commute is about 7 minutes, provided I don't feel like deliberately taking a detour to meander through the countryside on my motorcycle after work.
Due to the nature of my work I do have to be in the office, though, to interact with... ugh... clients.
No cubicles, just "open concept." Ha, checkmate! /s
Looks like the blue ridge Mountains. Super pretty!
It's (near) the top of Spruce Knob in West Virginia, looking West over the Appalachians, into the Allegheny Plateau.
InCARceration.
I assumed this is where I was
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I work in hospice, traveling to patients homes. I'd be more than happy to work from home, but the logistics of getting dying bed ridden people to travel to me has been tricky.
Imagine how smooth your travels would be, if the 70% that could work from home or use public transport would do so.
You mean like during the COVID lockdown? It was amazing. I wish people learned more lessons from that time.
I did, now I resent management that tries to push us backwards and actively encourage my coworkers to push back.
We were ordered to go into the office today, some of us were (myself included) actively bringing it up in conversation and encouraged others not to turn up. None of us turned up.
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...brainwashed by electromagnetic radiation? Do you really believe that statement?
Propaganda on the radio, radio uses electromagnetic radiation.
I think you might have missed what community this is..
I almost did too, as this reads like the most sane /fuckcars post
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I think they were talking about talk radio
It's another way to say "radio waves", so when people actually listened to the radio it was a true statement.
Now it's podcasts.
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Jokes on you, I love my brainwash pod. I still take the train anywhere I can though, the Seattle light rail system is dope.
I don't have a car, I ride my non-electric dope ass bike everywhere, and I listen to old Dead and Phish shows I downloaded to my rooted Android phone.
We are not the same.
It's this dissing the radio?
Commuting to office (by car) daily is the real problem. Road trips by car are incredibly freeing and not miserable.
Surely no one is choosing to go on a road trip through a busy town during rush hour.
Don't mind people going on a road trip. Its such a small minority of cars on the road its pretty much irrelevant.
I live in Taipei. It is one of the most dense cities in the world.
We have an amazing subway system, but I still own a car. I also own a bicycle and a stand-up electric scooter.
I take whatever transportation is the most convenient. Sometimes it's the bus. Sometimes, it's the subway. Sometimes it's by car. My point is it's a city infrastructure, not the mode of transportation. If you vote for a government that cares about infrastructure, you will live in the city you want.
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