Interesting podcast on this subject: https://srslywrong.com/podcast/ep-346-does-parenting-make-you-more-conservative/

The conclusion they come to is that becoming more conservative with age generally only applies to low information apolitical people who are sort of vaguely left leaning when they’re young. As they age they become more entrenched in the system, acquire more wealth, etc, and those vaguely conservative ideas they had in the back of their minds become more pronounced. There’s also the overton window shifts that may mean someone who thought of themselves as vaguely liberal in the past may now consider themselves socially conservative in the current climate.

Victim blaming is victim blaming. Kindly fuck off with your smooth ass car brained bullshit.

The OP on Reddit literally admits they didn’t look at the crossing in their post lol and this is what we’re focusing on? In the fuck cars community? Watch the video. There’s no way that would have played out any differently even in broad daylight. And no amount of vigilance would have helped that pedestrian.

Literally “look at what she was wearing. She was asking for it!”

Obviously, it’s a good idea to look out for giant hulking death machines when your environment is crawling with them. That in no way means the blame should be focused on the victims of the death machines. Fucking car brains.

Also I just watched the video and I would be very surprised if that situation would have been any different even in broad daylight. Cars regularly make turns like that without looking for pedestrians at all. The OP even admits that they didn’t look properly at the crossing in the post.

Piracy is not stealing/theft. That is a corporate lie.

Downvoted cause I agree. Adblock is based and so is piracy.

Ads are an unwanted local infection that brings malware and brainwash people. Blocking ads is the sane behavior

? I agree but that doesn’t make it not piracy. Are you implying piracy is not sane behavior?

only drive rarely and when I essentially have to, or in the winter because my local bike infrastructure is seasonal.

You should look into studded bike tires. I was in a similar situation but figured out how to ride in the winter even in my town that completely half asses snow removal. Sold my car and started using uber/lyft and an hourly car rental service (zipcar) to fill in the gaps. I’ve saved thousands of dollars in no time and now I don’t have to maintain a car anymore.

when it actually gets some uptake for more than just Fediverse instance rooms.

Matrix has been used by FOSS projects for years

Seems like it’s being worked on. Some people in this thread have gotten it to work using workarounds as well.

https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/29891#issuecomment-3882887075

Yes I think I probably should have sold it as soon as I stopped using it to commute. I was mostly just ignorant of all the alternatives to car ownership. Car ownership is not worth it in my opinion unless you truly need to use it several days out of the week every week. And people should be doing pretty much everything they can to avoid being in that situation.

Maybe i am out of touch because we own our car outright, but its not nearly that expensive for us. Even with a parking spot rental.

Try adding in the cost of depreciation and it makes a lot more sense. I owned a used car for 10 years and didn’t commute using it for most of that time, so it didn’t even rack up that many miles. It still cost me over $500/month on average over that time period including depreciation, maintenance, gas, registration, and insurance. I’m sure it would be a lot more if I drove as much as the average american. Though I think the average is probably somewhat skewed towards the most expensive cars.

Needless to say I am now happily car free. $500/month can buy me a very nice ebike, as well as more taxis or hourly car rentals than I need.

Infrastructure is a valid point. Cold is not.

https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU

Maybe this car is from out of town

Likely. Several states that don’t require front plates border Illinois

Only 29 US states require a front plate

Chicago city policy is that 911 is the number to call if illegally parked cars are blocking traffic so they can send out a dispatch. Calling the police is literally the correct answer.

Where does it say that specifically?

See the row labeled “degoogling”

According to e/os themselves, it is degoogled…

Sorry but they are liars. The only truly degoogled android OSs are GrapheneOS and the experimental mobile linux ones.

I really wish these alternative OSs were more truthful in how they portray themselves. They might not be terrible options for certain people and they might have good intentions but the dishonesty really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. There are so many who are misled.

Yeah for some reason many people’s brains just turn off when it comes to anything related to cars. It kinda makes sense that people are irrationally attached to them given how they’ve forcibly become dependent on cars for their entire lives for the most basic shit. It has got to be one of the most successful examples of corporate propaganda out there.

Calls home to Google constantly ootb https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

By using /e/ os you are supporting google because /e/ os is not degoogled