I’m more curious where you’re at then. Because nothing that cheap here.

I wish we had those here in the US!

very true

Yep, it sucks.

Where I live here in Idaho (US) I am surrounded by nature. But when I go on walks and stuff, I can still hear all the cars around because the sound travels so far here. So annoying.

From 2025, and a great read. Excerpt that really stands out to me:

One theory is that growing up in a world dominated by vehicles puts them in a collective blind spot. In other words, car culture changes your brain. “It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them,” said Ian Walker, an environmental psychologist at Swansea University in the United Kingdom. “And if it’s all around you, it’s shaping your perceptions.”

Walker coined the word “motonormativity” to describe this bias, which causes people to apply laxer moral standards to driving than to other activities.

Exactly this! Scoot on a nice smooth safe street or sidewalk is pretty safe if you don’t go crazy fast. But add in cars all around you, fucked up sidewalks, etc… it can be a fucking dangerzone every day

I wish we had it in my area!

When I was growing up, I was a sci-fi nerd. I loved the idea of cool little electric cars. But the ones I’m seeing around here are huge. We’re also learning that even electric cars are fucking up the environment.

What I didn’t imagine is electric bikes and scooters. So that’s been a cool thing (I have both), but it has downsides too.

I volunteer at a local hospital, and we’ve seen a huge uptick of injuries from people riding electric scooters and bikes. The reason is that more people are on them, but our infrastructure in my city doesn’t support them very well. So people are having to ride on busted sidewalks, roads with no bike lane, etc. So a lot of people crashing them (and not wearing a helmet).

So I think the only we can really reduce car usage is to make the city unfriendly to cars. But that ain’t gonna happen here anytime soon. A strip of road near me actually was finally updated with a pretty wide bike lane last month because it’s close to a school, but holy shit, people in my neighborhood are still bitching about how we didn’t need it and it was a waste of resources. smh

I got mine brand new for $750. It’s an Amazon thing, but it’s held up for a year now with no issues.

Here in the US, even used shitboxes are very expensive, and you never know if it’ll break down on you or not. When I was a teen, my first car cost $700 USD. Now for evne a used piece of shit in my area, they are around $10,000 USD

Here in the US we used to do that, in the 80’s I think. But all I ever see around here is big ass SUVs now.

Fair point, but no way could I afford payments like that.

You even upvoted your own comment with your alts! You must really like cars.

He creates alts, then makes those strange reports while downvoting every single post I make, regardless of subject.

In DMs, he says I’m here to destroy Lemmy. I guess I’m doing that by talking about how cars suck?

So fucking glad I got rid of my car and I don’t have a monthly car payment. But holy fuck, are some people really paying that much for their cars?!

At least I’m on a good instance with a sane owner,

Yep! Same.

Why would I care if trolls are following DJM around?

Lemmy is full of fixated trolls who follow people around. I know you follow me around, but you don’t scare me if that’s what you think. I find stalkers pathetic, but not scary.

None of this has anything to do with this FuckCars post, or this FuckCars community.

Please show me any news articles in my news communities that I’ve posted that are AI.

What news do you think I’m “spreading”? Left news? Because you are a conservative and hate left news, you think I have some strange plot to spread news?! lol Ok, so too bad, I’ll keep posting left-leaning news articles.

If you don’t like the news that I post in my communities, feel free to post your own. Lemmy can always use more comment, so have at it.

But none of that has anything to do with this post or this community. Please stay on-topic.

Did it turn out to be all that you had hoped it would be? Or did it seem like meaningless petty Lemmy drama that was just is a waste of everyone’s time?