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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I sincerely think that someone parked in the bike lane (or fire lane or other places you're not supposed to park for safety) should forfeit the protection of law. While your car is there, anyone inconvenienced by it should be allowed to just do whatever.

People are like "well I was just there for a minute!" and I'm like it takes less than a minute for a cyclist to swerve around the ill-placed car, get hit by some other car, and die, so that doesn't seem convincing.

I just don't care that you need your car to be there for personal convenience. Deal with it instead of making it everyone else's problem.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I used to walk and take public transportation or bike just about everywhere. Then I became disabled and had to go back to mostly using a car. Even with my mobility disability, I would never, ever park in a bike lane, double park, park in a fire truck zone, etc. If there is no parking close enough to where I'm trying to go? I don't go there. If it's that important, I'll go back another time and try again.

It's not that hard to not be a dick inconveniencing everybody around you.

Hell, just yesterday I had to change my restaurant plans because I wouldn't have been able to walk the distance required to get to the restaurant because there wasn't any parking nearby. Not a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If you're just there a minute, there is a correspondingly small chance someone will come along and do something to the car that inconvenienced or endangered them. It all works out just fine. Roll the dice.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Someone should invent a front-side “luggage rack” (battering ram) for a bike that they can pull out to accidentally ram into vehicles left in the bike lane.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

As a car owner, this is an insane take. Burning the car would be so much worse for the environment. You should only get to burn the driver.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or maybe everybody should breathe through their pants, calm down a bit, share the road, that kinda stuff.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

breathe through their pants

...fart?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The largest single project in the world is the US National Highway System, and yet, somehow, all our public transit and trans-national train services suck.

You must love your car so much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Great info, nice to meet you too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

btw you can embed gifs

Like this

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love my car, its my home away from home, but I'm all for burning cars that park in place they're not supposed to, like bike lanes and bus stops, it's not hard to park your car in a designated area you lazy fucks.

Fuck around and find out!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Most cars can't handle going off-road so it really isn't true freedom of movement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If I never had to drive again, I'd be so happy. My job requires I drive :(

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

ALSO it should be legal for me to plow other cars out of my way because they are blocking my path.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not just allowed, but encouraged, with bounties paid out

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