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   scott f (scott@carfree.city)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:35:25 JST scott f

   the dirty secret of car culture is that without constant implicit threats of violence, cars would be far too inefficient to ever get anywhere in the city.

   only a real asshole will say that out loud, but it’s always been true!

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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 05:35:24 JST Peter Krefting

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     @scott I think it says a lot about a culture when the language has invented a word for "jaywalking".

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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 23:27:51 JST Peter Krefting

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     • Don Whiteside

     @donw @scott Well, yeah, that's USian culture all right…

     My friends thought I was crazy when I visited Dallas a few years back and *didn't* rent a car. I got by just fine on public transport, but it felt a bit weird to be of the very few pale-skinned people around.

     Visiting European cities I don't even *consider* renting a car anywhere. And I have never owned one, either (I *do* have access to cars through a car-cooperative, and do drive cars, approximately a dozen times a year).

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     Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 23:27:52 JST Don Whiteside

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     • Peter Krefting

     @nafmo @scott The culture didn’t. Car culture did. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history#