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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

Dumbass YouTubers.

If you would stop thinking about #MotorVehicles as status objects which need to travel at high speeds for long distances, and start thinking of them as utilitarian #transportation devices, you will realize that everything that is wrong with the motor vehicle industry is the assumption that every vehicle needs to be able to travel 100+ mph for 300+ miles on a single tank/charge. Try to remember that the most popular motor vehicle in the world is STILL the Honda Super Cub.

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

It's *that* we *can* go so far, so fast, with so much cargo in #MotorVehicles that has allowed us, and even *caused* us, to build our built #environment, our #architecture and city #planning, the way we have, to expect and demand large swaths of private real estate and ubiquitous high speed #roadways.

#Technology cannot rescue us from the problems we created by poor decision making. Only the will to regulate can do that. We must withdraw the horizon to a shorter radius for private #transport.

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

In the US, we already have the #infrastructure to support this. Many jurisdictions already permit operation of #NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles) without licensure, and of course we already have the #streets.

It's just that we're stuck in this# highway speeds/long distances/huge capacities model of personal #transport.

It's the speed and the distance, primarily, that have made #MotorVehicles the monsters they have become.

It doesn't require a tech fix, just #regulation.

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

In America, #MotorVehicles have become markers of adulthood, maturity, freedom, wealth, power, sophistication, and social status (i.e. attractiveness/suitability for mating)—even identity—but I became disillusioned with them a long time ago.

Sure, operating a high performance machine is fun and exciting, even addictive, but at what cost? The financial, environmental, health, social, legal, and political costs of #HappyMotoring are staggering.

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

Those are some of the main reasons why I have committed to never owning a car again. I may at some point choose to get a motorcycle again.

Between the car #loan and the #insurance, the cost of wear parts (tires/brakes, etc) and #maintenance, the cost of #fuel, the cost of #parking, and the cost of staying #legal, I find it to be an #outrage and an #injustice with which #IWillNotComply.

And then there's the #environmental costs and the #social disruption caused by #MotorVehicles. #urbanism

Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social

The CA ordered the freezing of at least 10 #BankAccounts under #Quiboloy’s name, seven #RealProperties, and five #MotorVehicles. The freeze order also covers Quiboloy's Kingdom of Jesus Christ (#KOJC) and #SwaraSugMedia Corporation which owns the SMNI franchise.

#Philippines

#CourtOfAppeals freezes #ApolloQuiboloy’s bank accounts, properties
rappler.com/philippines/court-

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

@geographile #JustLikeACar was a #propaganda #marketing campaign in the 1970s and possibly longer (1960s? 1980s?), that attempted to impress upon children and their parents that #bicycles should follow all #traffic rules designed for #MotorVehicles. Like #HelmetLaws, this was ostensibly for #safety reasons, but the actual effect was to cement the position of #cars as the dominant users of public #roads and #streets, placing the impetus on cyclists to cede primacy of place to cars.

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

The idea that #bicycles should require licenses, registration, and/or insurance is a #CarCentric idea that carries over from the #propaganda of the 1970s that tried to convince people of #JustLikeACar. Do you remember those stickers they forced on kids in the 1970s?

Bicycles present a minuscule danger to #pedestrian and #disability access. #MotorVehicles, by contrast, present a grave threat to everyone else. 7,522 pedestrians and 1,105 cyclists were killed by cars in the US in 2022.

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

#TheProblemWithCars is not *that* they exist, or even what powers them.

People have been using boxes on wheels to transport themselves and things for millennia. The issue is how fast #MotorVehicles can go, which in turn determines how far it is practical to #travel in one.

There will always be a need for weather protection and cargo capacity, but #society would look very different if motor vehicles were restricted to 20 mph, like Class II #ebikes.

#Urbanism#BanCars#CongestionIsGoodPolicy
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