This is real. I've had folks in my cab that clearly were trying to probe my boundaries to see if I'm an easy target who immediately switched gears the moment I showed my personality. Just because someone is desperate doesn't mean they want to fuck over someone who's cool with them and is real. The way you carry yourself makes a difference.

It's pretty obvious if you meet me in person that I'm a broke artist who cares about real people and detests fake corporate bullshit. That's not really an appealing target and I have fuck all to give them anyway.

But if some fuck shoots me for being on their street while being trans, or literally just someone they don't recognize, I don't get the chance to show how I carry myself.

How are your tube grubs?

Does this still happen? The last time this happened to me I think I was about 9 and they couldn't have been much older. I think I was wearing a 311 shirt. And that was in like 1993 when 'poser' was just about the meanest thing you could call someone.

A fifteen year old version of myself somewhere inside just screamed in iptscrae induced frustration.

Have you ever experienced actual snow? Like, four feet deep with a frozen crust on top? You're not plowing that with your feet.

They won't if you get rid of cars. Good luck plowing with a bike.

Skis would probably be more reasonable at certain times of year, but the terrain between cities isn't exactly designed for skiing.

I know you want American infrastructure to not necessitate some sort of vehicle bigger than a bike, but it literally just does. Wanting it won't make the change, and making unrealistic suggestions will remain just as ineffective as making no suggestions at all.

Accessibility is also more or less non-existent with these proposed solutions.

If you tried to bike in heavy snow here your entire tire would literally be buried. Especially if there were no plows.

There are, in fact, places that get real snow.

In some places. But if you're in a non-metropolitan area somewhere that it gets cold and snowy, you're going to need a vehicle to bring you directly to your house unless maybe you're downtown, and it's going to need to have four wheel drive or at least enough weight to grip the snow.

Have you not seen like, housing projects? High rises? Run down old apartments? Everybody who doesn't have the kind of money you do doesn't live like they do anyway. Like, in terms of transportation, I spend my whole work day driving people around who don't really have the money to spend on a cab but have the money to spend on a car even less.

That doesn't mean they manage to pretend they're rich anyway, it means they make sacrifices you've probably never once in your life had to think about.

When they do splurge to make themselves briefly comfortable, it's at the cost of more sacrifices that you don't have to deal with anymore if you ever did. And then they get to deal with people rolling their eyes about how financially irresponsible they are.

Meanwhile the same people who make six figures are literally relying on people who make minimum wage in order to make their own lives convenient. And yet somehow that's supposed to end up with everyone magically living like you?

You live in a fantasy world. Not everybody has the time or the money to prioritize spending several hours cooking. Not everybody is left with enough energy by the end of their minimum wage no benefit grind of a day that you expect them to tolerate in order to sustain your hunger for little conveniences like places to go buy fresh food to cook for your family.

Pretty sure this is super common on some equipment. The ellipticals at the gym I used (before it moved) had them , but I never bothered.

I mean, isn't the point of this article that they won't stay that way?

Humans alter the landscape, but when nature takes it back why take away what it's making use of?

Why does everything have to be for us?