Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, fuckcars aren’t representative of the average liberal by any means, so I don’t think that’s entirely fair.

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• lemann@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This only really happens when fuckcars posts show up on /all IMO, where some of the more extreme opinion holders are more vocal.

  Fuck cars means fuck car dependency, i.e. places designed specifically for cars: no sidewalks, no bus, no train, no safe bicycle or light motorized assistive vehicle infrastructure available - you need a car for everything, or stay trapped at home.

  It doesn’t mean fuck cars literally.

  It’s pretty well known that rural areas, by design, require cars and motorbikes to travel out of them - a train is ideal, but good luck convincing anyone to finance that kind of project. A bicycle could work well for moving around town though depending on how safe it is, saving some wear and tear from your vehicle

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• asret@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  About 87% of the population in my country live in an urban environment, many of them will just have no idea how it is even just a few miles out of a city. There’s just no alternative to personal transportation, and bikes don’t cut it.

  I’m still pretty much on board with the fuck cars crowd though - it’s bizarre to me that despite so many people living in our cities that our transit seems even worse than what the US has. It’s just so much nicer being in places with fewer cars around.

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• anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You have no God-given obligation to live in bumfuck nowhere. Don’t be surprised if you’re inconvenienced by your choice of location.

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  • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The people that live in buttfuck Egypt are the ones who make city life possible.

    You think they make Kale within the city limits?

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