We’re all in on the culture war now
The most oppressed people on Earth: motorists 😂
I read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice lol
It's like they just let Jeremy Clarkson write this pamphlet.
finding this clip of frankie boyle shitting on clarkson made my life qualitatively better
My friend, that's positively milquetoast in comparison to Stewart Lee.
That was brilliant. And I loved it.
clarkson is just a shithead kid who's somehow an adult. He has the views and humour of a particularly obnoxious teenager
growing up and getting older are two entirely separate processes tbh
Shout out to Frankie Boyle who decided that the important thing to pursue literally in the middle of Israel gunning down protesters with machine guns and the labour right openly sabotaging their own platform was Corbyn's antisemitism. Frankie Boyle is a fucking coward, and I would say that to his face.
Even clarkson is smart enough to realize trains and planes make more sense for mass travel, he just likes cool and high end cars because they’re cool. He’s not out here advocating for everyone to sit in traffic in festivas all day
Carbrains certainly feel that way when they are menaced by the sight of someone on a bicycle. 
Truly more oppressed than g*mers 😔
Same goes for carnists lol
What’s a carnist?
A person who is on an omnivore diet.
Thanks, I hadn’t seen that word before and had assumed it had something to do with cars (car-nist).
New national parking platform
…if that means what I think it means, it's probably the worst of the lot.
Take it from an American: mandatory minimum parking will absolutely ruin your towns and cities.
More and more American cities are removing them too!
And thank goodness for that! I hope the trend continues until we have actual, livable places.
Sorry for downvote, it's not that at all.
At the moment each carpark on the UK can use any app it likes on mobile to pay, so you end up with every place having its own. Dozens of apps on phones to pay for parking, having to remember which one is right for the one you're in today.
The proposal is to have a single app and have different car parks sign up to it so it's easier for people to pay.
I say proposal. It's not a plan is it. Idea? Dream? Fantasy? I dunno how much they can do before they are forced to call an election and get kicked out.
Just put one big parking lot for every car at the center of the country and then everyone can walk to their destinations! parking solved!
Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.
“We are a civilization of fossil fuel users, billions of us use electricity generated from fossil energy sources daily. We are…”
Unfortunately, this isn't far from the actual rhetoric they use.
I'm just taking a moment to remember the massive smear campaign against Corbyn, including the centrists in Labour working to undermine him during their election, and how ultimately it led to this dumbass taking the reins instead.
well this guy is the tory leader
but it's mad that corbyn was ousted for antisemitism he didn't do and now the SS are fine again
Now I'm just waiting 'til starmer does some blairite lowest common denominator research, by reading some red-tops and decides to support this.
It'll be like Tony Blair's housing policies.
Letting people travel "how they want" he says while cancelling new train lines for those who wants to use that. The blokes a disengenuious wanker who we can't be rid of quick enough.
It's straight out of the American conservative talking points book. Somehow, driving has been equated with freedom and not fully embracing driving over all other firms of transportation taking away individual freedom.
How is it freedom to be forced to own a car, pay for gas and maintenance, and waste your life in car traffic every single day?
It's the dumbest talking point.
Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters
Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn't really drive, and once had to borrow someone else's car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn't even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn't drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport
That is wishful thinking in the extreme
Have you seen the polls in the last two years? Or the that a majority of prominent Conservative MPs for the last ten years have already announced they won't run next year to avoid their own little portillo moments?
They know they're done and are holding on for either a miracle or something like this policy change to stick. Which isn't impossible, but that there's a good chance of him winning an election is what is wishful thinking. They're done.
God I hope so. I really can't imagine having to put up with another 5 years of this Tory clusterfuck. I genuinely think I would rather move abroad
VOTE EARLY VOTE OFTEN. And make sure your friends vote. Make sure you've all got voter ID - don't get caught out by the Tories' voter suppression tricks. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.
So victimised right now.
Let's take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.
@mondoman712
Best driving experience in the world? The Netherlands, because when you shift a significant number of people off the roads into alternative transport the remaining drivers have less traffic and higher average speeds than an over-reliance on cars.Risak is just committing the same mistake Robert Moses made 80 - 50 years ago, building more roads to "solve" traffic but it just induced more car traffic - - and then repeat again and again.
Just one more lane
Do you have a good source? Not denying, just on the lockout for stuff to shove in diehard motorists' faces that they will struggle to deny with anything coming anywhere close to resembling facts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
Adding extra capacity to a network when the moving entities selfishly choose their route can in some cases reduce overall performance. That is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal. The network change induces a new game structure which leads to a (multiplayer) prisoner's dilemma. In a Nash equilibrium, drivers have no incentive to change their routes. While the system is not in a Nash equilibrium, individual drivers are able to improve their respective travel times by changing the routes they take. In the case of Braess's paradox, drivers will continue to switch until they reach Nash equilibrium despite the reduction in overall performance.
Thanks this is more or less what I hoped for :D
I think Not Just Bikes made a video on this
also CityNerd on youtube
TIL where the name of the Unsleeping City character came from…
"I love cars. Therefore we should mandate that EVERYONE drives!"
As someone who is forced to drive because I was unlucky enough to be born in bumfuck nowhere: fuck you. I hate always-busy traffic. If waiting in line is your idea of fun, go watch paint dry or something. I'm too busy to lengthen my commute.
Have you seen the latest from Macron ? he said exactly that a few days ago. You can make out the car & oil lobby through his words https://youtu.be/Tpbci1kOMEM
Rough transcript :
"We (the french) care about our cars. Me ? I dig/love it."
More freedom for people that can afford to buy a car and live in an area with ample parking. But no freedom for everyone else amirite
You're free to travel how you like as long as you keep the fuck out of my way and breathe in my car farts
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I can afford a car. There's plenty of parking where I live. But I'd much rather use my transport as an opportunity to use my bike, raise my fitness, and reduce my contribution to climate change, thanks. All of Sunak's ideas here are bad news.
Freedom to travel except if you're taking the train, then you can get fucked with delays, overcrowded trains and expensive fairs. Glad to be living on this hell rock
Forcing everyone to own a car due to lack of public transport/safe cycling infrastructure fucks over motorists as well. Imagine the traffic in London if suddenly everyone that commutes by train was forced to drive in.
people wouldn't even be able to leave their driveways
My god what a trainwreck. I'm so sorry folks
Car wreck, trains already got too much bad pr
Right !
What a fucking idiot. Has he been living under a rock? He's going out of his way to remake all of America's mistakes. Absolute buffoon.
What mistakes? The ultra rich have a great life in the US. He's just serving his own interests. But remember you're poor because of immigrants! /s
That's what brexit means - fuck 99% of the population so the 1% gets to enjoy the same inequality as in 'murica.
That's been Britain since the 2010s, they all caught Ameriboo fever and want to be a carbon copy of burgerland.
It's alway funny when a Brit gets really mad at any non-Brit discussing politics and says, "it's not like the US!" Idk their politicians seem to be trying pretty damn hard to ape whatever the Dems and Republicans are doing.
The Tories here in the UK are trying to emulate the GOP, of that there is no doubt. They'd also force us poors back into victorian era workhouses given the chance.
As someone who drives a car in the UK, I'd like to point out that this is a load of old bollocks designed to drum up votes from Boomers ahead of what's looking to be an absolute embarrassment of an election for the Tories in the next year or so.
Almost none of these promises have any actual substance to them, and are largely just meaningless slogans designed to rile up the Boomers* who have spent their lives being taught that public transport and bikes are what poor lefties do.
If Labour have been quiet on these issues, it's because they know that their best election strategy at this point is to just let the Tories flap on, doling out enough rope with which to hang themselves.
*not all Boomers, obviously, but they really are the majority of Tory voters
Well I'm not a UK driver but all of those ideas sound good to me, because cars give people freedom to go wherever they want and help the economy keep going. Tons of people don't have access to public transit and they do have cars, and they need them to get to work and the rest of the places they go to live their lives.
Sure, build more public transit to help out too, and create incentives for pollution reduction and all that. But if you want the regular people on your side you will have to stop trying to take their freedom to drive away.
Just move to America if you want unsafe roads for bikers and parking lot after parking lot.
I'm already here and it is wonderful
Brother our infrastructure is why our kids are all weak and obese and all of ours cities are unlivable.
Well I don't have any of those problems, I live in a small town and life is great here. Cost of living is low, crime is low, and the air is fresh.
Nothing much I can do about the rest of the country's problems. I vote against the Trumptards each November.
So, to paraphrase, “I got mine, so fuck you”?
"It doesn't affect me therefore it's not a problem and nothing should be done. Doing things might inconvenience me in some way."
What a shitty attitude, but you vote so good for you have a sticker. (/s in case you're as dumb as I assume)
Americans like you are why things are so shitty in the first place and why we're an international embarrassment.
Do better.
Let me tell you how "dumb" I am so you can gloat over it some more, you bright shining ray of sunshine. I'm so dumb that I have 2 college degrees, a great career doing high-tech stuff for lots of money, and I own my own house and land where I have an offgrid solar panel system and a sweet garden.
I'm so dumb that my life is great and you made me so sad about it.
Boy oh boy are you in the wrong community…
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I don't care, I'm just scrolling the Lemmy World feed for entertainment and this one came up. Now you get to hear my "boomer" thoughts on the matter haha.
I mean, all power to you for having your opinions, and what you say about public transport is absolutely correct.
But here's the thing; no one is taking people's "freedom to drive" anywhere. At the very, very worst, some councils are making it more expensive to drive within their jurisdiction, because they want to insert a moment of friction to make people wonder whether the car journey they "have" to take could be taken with public transport instead. I drive places (much less than I used to), and I see that as a Good Thing. We had the same grumbles back when Ken Livingston's council introduced the original scheme 20 years ago, but people very quickly adapted and got over it.
As for the 20mph zones; they just make sense in built up areas. As I said elsewhere in this thread, I live in an area that has 30mph limits in residential areas, but I've taken to traveling at 20mph anyway, because there are kids who live near me who have a tendency to run around without paying enough attention. Sure, I'd be legally in the clear if I hit one at 30 and seriously injured them, but that wouldn't help my conscience one bit.
Same here
You're a very typical US citizen that has bought into the "mah free dumbs" lie. There are 8 billion people on the planet and regulations are about those people (or some subset thereof) having a way to get along without buggering up someone else's freedom. It's all very well driving a car, but the asthma you cause in someone else necessitate regulation for many other people's freedom. USA is one of the very few places on the planet that has Jay walking laws, because most countries recognise people's freedom to walk in the street, ffs, it's not rocket science, it's a very basic freedom.
Nope, I'm far from typical. I'm a well educated successful American with a Zen-like level of contentment. I have the true freedom to do whatever I want in the USA, whether you believe it or not.
Oh dear god, that's sad. You are the definition of typical. I've spent years working and travelling in the US, and you speak exactly like virtually everyone else over there. My dear friend, you don't have control over anything. You don't even have control over your own bowels, they will drive you to obey them. Everyone thinks they are free and in control, and you, like everyone else, control virtual nothing in your life. This is not some great conspiracy, its just the law of nature. So enjoy your free dumb, you poor fool, but try very hard not to fuck up someone else's freedom in the process 😉 or accept that there is no such thing and go with the flow instead. You are soo American, it would be funny it it wasn't so sad. Sorry.
Well everything you just wrote is absolutely wrong. Why don't you go ahead and list anything that you think I don't have the freedom to do? Put some substance into your hyperbole for a change.
I see, taking notes from their overweight neighbors across the pond, they've chosen the way of teh hambruger
They're called hamberders now, in line with the infoulable orange Jesus
