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Bitches don’t even KNOW about my carfree firetrucks.

Also fire departments love new equipment so if you want gay ass stairs or some shit why they’ll get something if you give them cash.

iirc the jews had a firetruck designed to drive up stairs but fuck finding it now my god
 
Lemon-Lime Turpentine said:
Carbon Tax Dividend Link / Archive - Tax the gas-guzzling carbrains and give the money to cyclists and electric vehicle drivers
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Holy shit. Holy shit. I didn't get it before, but I fucking hate these communist nigger freaks so fucking much.

I wouldn't just want thus policy invalidated. I want whoever fucking suggested this drawn and quartered. You take money, my fucking money that I pay for gas so I can go to work, amd you give it to some fucking joyrider homosexual spandex warrior taking joyrides through the neighborhood, using our fucking tax money on fuckoff bike lanes that no one uses or wants to use.

I'm abnormally mad because I just helped my mother get a sofa on nextdoor, since I have an SUV. You know, getting a couch that already exists, and not buying a new one like some wasteful ass suburbanite cockdrinker off amazon, but I am the one who needs to be taxed here.

I want these people out of my fucking country. Just leave. Just fucking leave.

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High Speed Rail Link / Archive
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Also, sorry for the double post, but this really proves this was made by fucking leeches. They just assume, you are working some fucking playground job typing bullshit for bullshit, instead of fucking building literally anything.

Who the fuck are you? We don't need you. The people who lay the fucking bricks, who cut the weeds, who build this fucking country, we don't need you. In fact, your kind is a fucking waste upon this world.

If you are wondering where this MATI is coming from, my first job during/after covid was Conservation Corps. It was refilling the bins, trimming vines and bushes on public roads, clearing out dead leaves to make sure the area didn't have a forest fire.

And I heard about more shit they had to do during this job. Some contractors literally trying to get us to pick up shit and heroin needles, and my boss having to tell them to eat shit or give us hazard equipment and pay. Or accidentally being tricked into delivering meals to people that tested positive for covid, and not telling us until we discovered it.

The upper management of the place acted like a higher caste here. The "regular" workers had to use a different bathroom. They barely interacted with the peons, trying to huddle away in the main office as much as possible. They got paid 4x/10x more than us, for what? Sitting there, in an air controlled room, sipping a latte as they send a business email.

And I know everybody has the hating migrant kick, but most of the people working there were actively raising children and trying to take night classes to get a GED while working there. Most of them being like, women in their 20's to 30's, that came on a convoy from Guatemala.

Point is, I know these people are the same middle management caste. No respect for any of the people that cause this country to actually keep running. Or the manual labor that goes into it. It's "icky" to them, and they prefer not to think about it outside of scorning the people that have to live by doing it.

Transportation speed and cost is just this little luxury they can volunteer people to give up, instead of something that their lives, money, and life depends on.
 
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An Sionnach Seang said:
at major junctions, you can a break out a Britbong speciality: signalised roundabouts that regulate the flow of traffic round them
this one near Bradford is one of the largest-scale examples in the country, and at first glance it looks mental (one roundabout with 7 exits, 3 of them onto motorways, and 4 running lanes all the way round, plus a free-flowing motorway-to-motorway interchange through the middle), but in practise it works well due to very clear overhead signage: you pick your lane, stick to it, and the way the lanes are marked out means you get to the exit you want without having to change lanes
the major complicating factor on junctions like is the drivers who blindly follow their satnavs and don't actually look where they're going
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I don't know, when you add stoplights to the mix it just becomes an overly-complicated intersection with no clear direction of flow (usually one reason why stoplights are preferred in many case is to give priority to the larger road). Every case is different though so I can't make a judgement on this particular case.

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The average bugman viewer of Jason is a NYC asshole or desires to be NYC assholes, and NYC never progressed past the "pile garbage in the streets and watch the rats eat it" method, so anything is new and a marvel to them.
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It was likely somewhere in this thread but I mentioned that partly due to different construction, partly due to corruption/apathy, New York's garbage collection is completely antiquated by modern trash collection standards. Most suburbs and American cities do it like how the Netherlands does it.

I wonder if Jason actually knows this and is just another lie.
 
We got partially that system Jason shows for garbage here as well. We got curbside bins for organic, paper, and mixed, but unlike most cities we have to bring plastics to centralised "recycling islands", big public bins that are on every few streets. It's a bit annoying because these bins are like bottle containers with pretty small holes in them, so the usual plastic sack doesn't fit. It's also a bit annoying to have to walk a hundred meters or more to bring away plastic trash, but you can just time it with going to the store or whatever. Still getting used to it.
 
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Holy shit. Holy shit. I didn't get it before, but I fucking hate these communist nigger freaks so fucking much.

I wouldn't just want thus policy invalidated. I want whoever fucking suggested this drawn and quartered. You take money, my fucking money that I pay for gas so I can go to work, amd you give it to some fucking joyrider homosexual spandex warrior taking joyrides through the neighborhood, using our fucking tax money on fuckoff bike lanes that no one uses or wants to use.

I'm abnormally mad because I just helped my mother get a sofa on nextdoor, since I have an SUV. You know, getting a couch that already exists, and not buying a new one like some wasteful ass suburbanite cockdrinker off amazon, but I am the one who needs to be taxed here.

I want these people out of my fucking country. Just leave. Just fucking leave.
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Yup, I think you hit the nail on the head right there. I try to explain this to people around me that people paying the carbon tax aren't spending money on some sort of leisure activity, but instead it's people who are working to make ends meet. In a just world we would tax people for being useless but unfortunately this is not a just world and instead a giant money laundering scheme.
 
quaawaa said:
Or that it's almost identical to how apartment buildings handle trash in the US; the only difference is that in the US the dumpster is stored in a garage or alley instead of underground. There's no need to spend the extra money to bury it if you have enough space for a vehicle-accessible dumpster.

How is this any different than the Dutch truck?
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Larger complexes will often have the garbage truck take away the entire dumpster rather than emptying it into the truck:
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Also, a lot of American buildings have garbage chutes so people don't have to carry their trash down the block.

Additionally, lower density areas of the Netherlands also handle trash with curbside bins, just like the US:
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So Jason is completely wrong about the Netherlands not having trash days.

The only reason why anyone thinks Jason's video shows anything special is because nobody else bothered to make a political video about garbage collection.
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I will have to note that Jason walked right into his own analogy of the Soviets using pencils vs NASA using pens.

What's cheaper? A community dumpster for the apartments or condos vs an underground wifi connected sensor laden garbage bin with compactor.

I would even venture that if Jason had shown the full video of the garbage men at work it would have taken longer than a traditional dumpster.

Full Amsterdam garbage collection process:
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Expanding upon what I wrote in this thread and my previous post here is an important lesson that applies to urbanists—tourist areas of a city and local areas of a city are not compatible with each other.

I realize that New Yorkers and Parisians don't hate tourists not because they're stuck-up assholes (well, not just the reason) but because they're forced to inhabit the same place. For an example, Manhattanites only have one real park to enjoy green space in (Central Park) and that's also a major tourist attraction, and similar issues exist in Paris. It's essentially "diversity + proximity = conflict" except the "diversity" comes in the form of people who aren't there to squat in your city and suck up benefits, they want to spend money there and be gone within weeks.

The very nature of tourism and locals means that you can't eat in the same restaurants, shop in the same grocery stores, and go to the same parks. What Orlando, Las Vegas, and other cities figured out some time ago is to create new areas for tourists, both initially building apart from the "old" city and letting time and economic reasons build them together. In Orlando, this comes in the form of International Drive and the surrounding areas, with Universal Studios and a corridor full of hotels, theme restaurants, outlet malls, the tourist grocery stores, the golf course neighborhoods where at least half of them are AirBnbs or Vrbo spots, and winding down toward the Disney theme parks.

The rest of the city is...a normal large city with suburbs, office parks, supermarkets with normal prices and merchandise selections, churches, industrial plants and warehouses, schools, and so forth. The same with Las Vegas. While the usual suckiness of cities apply--crime, Democrat power structures, taxes...it's a workable scenario. There's different levels of how big the tourist district is or what it has. Some cities just have the "college student area" or have a museum district to cluster tourist attractions together. In the end it works.

Even Amsterdam has Amsterdam-Centrum (with the red light district but also museums and other stuff too) which Jason tries to gush over the city is like but it isn't actually the place where most people live or work (Jason does not live in Amsterdam-Centrum). Where the problems in Paris and New York coming into play is the heart of the city where people live and work is also the tourists' playground, and contrary to what urbanists think, that's where the conflict starts.
 
LaxerBRO said:
What's cheaper? A community dumpster for the apartments or condos vs an underground wifi connected sensor laden garbage bin with compactor.
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Yeah that's what I was sort of thinking in the back of my mind too. To maintain the compactor mechanism underground it either needs to be very reliable which costs $$$ or have to dig it up to replace the motorized components if it goes bad.

Edit: scratch that I'm a retard I was just looking at Jason's thumbnail of the storage compartment before seeing the video and imagined the compartment being much larger than it actually was making it difficult to just lift out. Some part of me wonders if Jason specifically picked this thumbnail to give the impression that the container is larger than it actually is.
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Him bringing up a smug overengineered response that american apartment complexes solve with simply bringing fuckhuge bins in that residents are free to use is golden
Are there even places that arent NYC tier that need that kind of shit in comparison to what already exists? I know his ideological end goal is turning america into a hive city but still
 
Don't know if this was posted ITT before but all this talk about how primitive trash collection is in NYC made me think of this thread.


NYC is finally rejoining the 20th century. I have to assume that New York required the use of trash cans at some time in the past. Sesame Street is supposed to be based on NYC and Oscar the Grouch lived in a galvanized steel can that was indistinguishable from the ones that we used to have at my grandparent's house in western Connecticut.
 
/r/fuckcars took WhistlinDiesel's "review" of the Cybertruck seriously:
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Elon hate:
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In the full video, Cody drives the truck off a ledge and it lands on the part of the frame that later broke while towing:
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There is no way this user's kids slammed a door harder than Cody did:
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Literally the next scene in the full video is the F-150's door trim falling off after being slammed extremely hard:
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For those who don't know, WhistlinDiesel makes comedy videos where he destroys cars by doing various stunts. The video is a joke and he's deliberately trying to destroy the truck.

Full Video:
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quaawaa said:
/r/fuckcars took WhistlinDiesel's "review" of the Cybertruck seriously:
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It's kind of funny how anti truck fuckcars is until it comes to the Cybertruck then they argue about how "my truck is better".

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Supporting vandalism:
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I'm sure they would be livid however if the lock on their e-bike was cut while chained against someone else's fence or other personal property and thrown in to the river.
 
I originally hated the cybertruck but i've come to like how angry it makes people and how unique it looks. I'd still never buy one unless I became a billionaire or something.
 
Maurice Maine said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5UiY20ris0gRelevant video on how pickups have degraded over time.
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Not the best video, especially at the end when he goes right into a bunch of bullshit about MUH VISIBILITy and MUH PEDESTRIANS that's already been covered in this thread.

I don't get why all these guys pick and choose so blatantly when it comes to the point of 'truggs usta be for MAN WORK now they're for GIRLY FUN TIMES' They complain about automatic transmissions, 4WD and six-foot beds because those aren't for WORK, but never complain about power steering or IFS (on all modern pickups including 3/4 tons) despite IFS being solely for ride comfort and safety. I guess they're not MANLY enough to muscle through the death wobble of a solid front axle at 60mph, faggots. If you are actually driving your truck for work, and not like a sports car then autos and 4WD are great. Unless your business is solely hauling sheets of plywood, a 6ft box is fine. Daily driving a 1990's pickup with the single cab and big empty box is every bit as wasteful as daily driving a modern one with the little dumb box and crew cab and only slightly more wasteful than daily driving any five-passenger sedan.

Now the stuff about trucks getting bloatmaxxed and overcomplicated is great and I agree with him entirely on that, but he admits flat out it's not just a truck problem. Every single vehicle is like that nowadays, every single one. That is entirely to do with government intrusion, but I do wonder if people would be willing to drop these bullshit 10spd trannies if they knew what the mileage on the old 4 and 5spds was like...
 
gagabobo1997 said:
I originally hated the cybertruck but i've come to like how angry it makes people and how unique it looks. I'd still never buy one unless I became a billionaire or something.
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The hate for this one truck has become unreal to the point that it's not even about the truck itself anymore, but rather it's become trendy to hate it because it's the popular opinion at the moment to think it's ugly and also because Elon. People didn't even complain about the Honda Ridgeline this much when it first came out. There are legitimate criticisms that could be made about the Cybertruck, but they get mixed in with people who already hate it nitpicking things that could be said of any truck in general.

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I don't get why all these guys pick and choose so blatantly when it comes to the point of 'truggs usta be for MAN WORK now they're for GIRLY FUN TIMES'
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Agree, I've pointed out before there seems to be this general mentality around "dey don't make 'em like they used to" to the point even fuckcars does it sometimes. But when you ask them to point to what they specifically have a problem with, you just get pretty nebulous answers when you ask them to clarify what they mean.

The point the guy makes in the video about trucks becoming sedans instead of dedicated work vehicles is a bit of an iffy argument to me. You could make the argument about trucks being more expensive, but to purposely take out features that come pretty standard on ANY vehicle in 2024 just to make them feel more manly seems silly to me. There's a reason trucks are starting to take on this role, because people can't afford two vehicles to drive around their family and haul stuff, so having one quad cab truck instead of a single cab and a family sedan makes sense for this demographic.
 
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Just get a fifth gen Toyota Hilux.
There is a company here that converts ICE to electric cars with a standardised motor mount and a CAN bus module. Pretty clever, and I had been thinking about the feasibility of such a conversion myself. Big issue for DIY conversions is placing the batteries and, if the car is new enough that it has electronics already, what to do with the CAN and shit. So people often just swap in a scrapped Tesla drive train or whatever. Which sucks. If one had a standardised system that could utilise as much of an older system as possible, you could continue using a lot of older cars, which is nice because they're less computerised.
The company does claim full upgrade digitalisation, but I wonder what the market prospects would be if one specialised in making conversions for like 90s cars that only add the absolute minimum of electronics required for battery control.
Like, CAN emulation, and the only added electronics are in a small smartphone sized device added to the center console.
I'd buy that.
 
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