• BeamBrain [he/him]
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    6926 days ago

    terminally fucking car brained

    Remember how quickly politicians had to walk back talk of “fifteen minute cities” because America collectively shit its pants at the thought of having to walk anywhere? sadness-abysmal

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      5226 days ago

      I know that was the joke but no I literally think they were afraid of the 15-minute walk. I read that only 25% of adult Americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously in a week

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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        2726 days ago

        My ex spouse and I used to walk places together when we were young. An hour wasn’t all that uncommon. The instant they got a car “no I don’t want to walk”. Yeah we can walk 20min to our destination but why do that when they could spend 5min getting the car ready, 10min driving, 15min being pissed while trying to find parking, then 5min walking because that’s the closest parking space to the destination. Blew my mind, years of trying to talk them into walking with me again, never worked

      • KuroXppi [they/them]
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        1926 days ago

        I saw that they thought people were going to be fined/arrested for leaving their 15 minute zones. This may have been more a thing in Australia though where we had distance-based travel restrictions and curfews during COVID lockdowns

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]
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        1126 days ago

        i’d bike if we had infrastructure (and maintained it during the winter) but my legs would fall off if i walked that long.

        getting groceries is pushing it even with leaning on the cart.

    • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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      26 days ago

      MODEST EXERCISE?! IT’S A CONSPIRACY, BUT MUH RIGHTS, AAAAAAAA

      Tbh, I’m almost certain that was an astroturf by big oil, when it was noticing that people were not commuting and enjoying not commuting during the lock down.

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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        2226 days ago

        Out of all the right-wing outrage idiocy, car dependency is the least believable to be organic.

        Rent in cities, especially walkable cities is high for a reason: they’re desirable, in-demand areas. Literally too popular for their own good.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          1026 days ago

          I pay out the ass in rent but really gas and upkeep would make up for the difference and then I’d have to drive and live somewhere worse.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      2526 days ago

      car = freedom 15 minute city - > no car = no freedom

      the government is creating minute cities to take away our freedom & cars. we’ll be trapped in the cities which is what THEY want.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        325 days ago

        A box that you can’t stand up in, that you spend 4+ hours a day in? Freedom.

        Fresh air and being able to change directions in an instant and not spending a quarter of your waking hours cramped up? Basically prison.

    • TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them]
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      2126 days ago

      you left out the middleman. it wasn’t walking everywhere that did them in, the car funded media couldn’t handle it and made a bunch of shit up about eating bugs to make it as hatable as possible

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1326 days ago

      It’s still a conspiracy theory where I live. I occasionally see protestors protesting it, but like, the city they’re protesting in can be traversed by car in 15-30 mins lmao