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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The way the french pronounce Arch is the same way Sean Connery pronounced arse

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

... and the same way the germans pronounce "Arsch", wich means arse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Contrary to arch mispronounced by French, Arsch, arse and ass are real cognates. So similiarities in certain dialects/accents are to be expected.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have nothing more to add to this meme so I will make random transit vehicle noises:

beep beep

höoooooooonk

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Bing-bong! Lllladies and gentlemen: the next A train is now arriving on the Brooklyn-bound track. Please send back from the platform edge as the train enters the station.”

[WOOOOOOSH! CLACK-CLAK! CLACK-CLAK! CLACK-CLAK! CLACK-CLAK! CLACK-CLAK!]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Impressive, you shoukd try YiffOS

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

wtf is Jay Foreman doing there 😂

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Map men, map men, map map map men men. Men.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Every video of theirs is genuinely a treat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Needed a Brit with a skeptical expression for the meme.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

BTW?

Back To Work?
Bike Train Walk?
Bisexual Trans Woman?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

(They use Arch,) by the way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Can I borrow some of your time to speak to you about our lord's OS, the universal OS, Debian?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I thought that was fucking hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm the latter 2

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Top right one confuses me. Incliment weather does significantly affect bikes but trains and buses are actually better at operating in incliment weather than cars. Here in Vancouver as soon as it snows (which it just did) everyone seem to get too scared to drive and pile onto public transit, but surprise surprise it can't cope with the sudden spike in demand because we're still a car dominated hellhole for the other 364 days of the year and our transit agency gets peanuts in funding compared to private car infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought the 'cold rainy night in Stoke' meme was fairly well-known, but it seems multiple people are not getting it. It is basically asking if a tried and tested method / person can do this one very specific (and relatively easy) thing. Here's the origin story if you are interested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Damn, I got whooooshed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

As someone who's been out on a cold rainy night in Stoke with my bike I'll have to say that it does actually work.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

hold up

where is that Socrates image from?

Can i have a full sized copy?

when did he say the body thing? and why would anyone attribute a quote to Socrates instead of Plato? Socrates never wrote anything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The quote is (abridged) from Xenophon's Memorabilia, as LordAmplifier explained above. The image was generated by StableDiffusion based on the prompt 'Socrates driving a cycle'. I can add the full image later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Never trust a quote on the internet especially when it comes with an ai generated image." - Miyamoto Musashi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"There has been a ssl error connecting to the Shakespeare quotes server"
- Shakespeare

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Can i have a full sized copy?

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

I found the same quote in an old reddit thread, where someone provides Memorabilia, a book written by a guy called Xenophon of Athens, who was a student of Socrates, as a possible sauce:

3.12.8 “Besides, it is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. But you cannot see that, if you are careless; for it will not come of its own accord."

Archive link to the relevant chapter because the original University of Chicago link is dead.

According to this Wikipedia article, the book is a collection of Socratic dialogues, so it's not a collection of quotes. Book 3, where this particular quote comes from, is about Socrates giving advice to his family and friends, so I guess Xenophon claims that it is an authentic quote, but I don't know if there's a way to verify that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow! A rare Xenophon quote?? That's awesome. Thank you. It sounds like something Socrates might have discussed but I couldn't think of which Platonic dialog it came from. I guess that explains it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh hey that's Jay Foreman on the top right! He does lots of good stuff like Map Men and Unfinished London (and definitely pro public transport)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I know, I just needed an incredulous Brit for the Stoke joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I read this as a political 4-axis chart and this fits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Would that make Arch users politically right? I don't think they would agree.

I use (an) Arch (based distro) btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That was unintentional, but yes it fits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's Arch-chan, an unofficial mascot for Arch Linux created by raviolimavioli

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder why the bus number on the Singapore bus has been replaced with some other random number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How does any group dox a bus route number? I get it if it was a single bus and hiding registration number of the bus, but it's a route with dozens of bus operating on that route. How would doxxing even working..... Eyyy you drive route XXX in Singapore... You should prolly delete existence?

Sounds far fetched.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz 1 points 2 years ago

I am three of these

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

the four types of divide & conquerors

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Where is the guy who is obviously screaming at the library computer because someone told them they have a driver's licence