Sorry Ukraine but you are going to need to give up the rest of the Donbas, we all know you would lose it to the overwhelming military might of russia anyways.
Oh also, you are kicking russia’s ass too hard can you slow down? Maybe just don’t beat them as badly? It is impacting all of our economies and we are so very fragile like we have incorrectly narrativized you to be.
Sincerely,
Your “Allies”
Trump always saw the Iran War as an opportunity to fire all the Tomahawaks he was being pressured into giving Ukraine and to take pressure off of his daddy more broadly.
!fuckcars@lemmy.world would approve.
I gotta say. I’m a car enthusiast. I love cars and the combustion engine. I’m one of those people who loves Top Gear/Grand Tour. I watch rally, F1, WEC and others. Annoying, stupid little things but I love them.
However. I support any and all efforts to build public transportation, bike lanes, walkable cities. I will never complain about fuel being expensive or regulations that limit my ability to drive a ICE car. I won’t shed a tear if the ICE is banned completely. Anyone who does is a short sighted moron.
Anyway, lets bomb more of russian oil infrastructure and let the petrol heads cry.
Many people in cars dislike “other people’s cars” because they are in their way. Having fewer car traffic is good for motorists as well.
This is what I keep telling to the car brains who are against building trams, buses and whatnot. Its been quite successful. “Don’t you want all those morons who drive 3km/h under the limit and on the left lane, to use the bus?”
I think an ICE engine/ICE sports cars are genuinely fascinating in the way mechanical clocks can be fascinating. I can appreciate that for 99% of things it was good we moved to digital clocks while still appreciating mechanical clocks because digital clocks allowed us to focus on appreciating mechanical clocks in contexts that actually bring out the most human parts of them, i.e. clocks as public architecture on a tower or clocks as art or jewelry.
Same thing with “Digital” versus “Analog” systems. Analog systems are cool, they are fascinating in their mechanical aptitude, but let us appreciate them as art not as tools of daily life when we have better options.
You cannot beat the mechanical simplicity and directness of an Electric Motor. An Internal Combustion Engine is comically complex in comparison… but that also means that if we switch to mostly Electric Vehicles for all the day to day annoying stuff, then the engineering mastery and complexity of the odd ICE engine car becomes projected into the artistic light it has always been denied because of how brutally necessary ICE engine cars/trucks are to daily modern life for how destructive and unsustainable they are when used by everyone as their primary transportation.
TL;DR Boring every day EVs make ICE engine cars much cooler in a weird way, which is actually fine so long as it doesn’t “boomerang” and ICE cars become a necessary performance of wealth…
Hear hear.
Its a small miracle that we can do hundreds of thousands of kilometers with these engines without major problems. Knowing how complex they are and how small and weak some of the parts are, I’m baffled that they aren’t constantly dismantling rapidly into thousands of pieces
Absolutely. That community is more opposed to our societies being structured around cars rather than the cars themselves.
But that name has the same problem as “defund the police.” People just see the title and make their conclusions from it without looking inside and thinking about it too much. Though I gotta say, the reddit fuckcars was a bit unhinged at times, a few times I visited that place, they were nearly demanding lynching of people who happened to own a car. But thats also partly the fault of reddit being a bit mad at times.
Aanyways, the past couple years, as I’ve aged 200 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that going to extremes with anything is really unhealthy for you. Like… yes, go vegan. But don’t spit on someone if they eat a sausage. Use bicycles and public trans, but don’t throw milkshakes on a guy driving his Yaris. Make sure you don’t litter, but don’t push a guy under a bus because they accidentally dropped a candy wrapper. Don’t waste food, but also don’t force someone to eat moldy food just because they forgot grandmas gravy in the fridge for 3 months.
I try to stay away from these fuckXYZ communities. They always start as a funny pretend-extreme way, but they pretty much always end up dropping the pretense and become actually toxic. Full disclosure, I haven’t checked the lemmy fuckcars, they are probably nice and chill people.
Yeah, it’s not a good name, and I can definitely see it pulling in people with some extreme opinions.