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  • A pair of cops in Assam, India, overturned a fruit seller's cart just because.

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  • When the police is involved there's always at least one set of thugs

  • I wish more cities were built around the Dutch "autoluw" concept. There are zero downsides, except for auto manufacturers I guess.

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  • A class 1 ebike should help you cover that nicely I think. Your commute might be a little longer, maybe about 40ish minutes if you're going at 32kmph top speed that most of them are limited to, but still!

    a 14 mile drive should not take 2.5 hours by bus.

    That really does sound like something to be raised with the city government. That's terrible, I can cover that in under an hour on my bike at normal commuting speed

  • "Why are young people not having children?!"

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  • You know there's an entire country outside of Arizona, right?

  • "Why are young people not having children?!"

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  • Wait why in the fuck would antinatalists bomb an abortion clinic???? That doesn't make an ounce of sense?

  • "Why are young people not having children?!"

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  • rage against babies

    That's what you got out of this? That she's raging against babies and not against a system that forces women to give birth but does nothing to support mothers or their children afterwards?

    ETA: oh wait you're that same fucking pronatalist cockthistle that's been crawling all over this post. Hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon.

  • Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run.

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  • The government's purported logic is that emissions standards from 15 years ago were lax and are much tighter now and therefore vehicles of that age are contributing to pollution. On the face of it that makes sense; Delhi's AQI is one of the worst in the world, and emissions standards here were pretty meh until the 2010s.

    In reality it's because the auto industry wants you to buy new cars. That's it. If the government was actually focused on limiting pollution they'd be investing heavily in efficient public transit and walking/biking infrastructure and enforcing things like a congestion tax to push people towards said options, but they're just offloading it on to regular people so they can make a fuckton of money without having to spend any.

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • This is the most American response ever.

  • A pair of cops in Assam, India, overturned a fruit seller's cart just because.

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  • It could be, but from available context it doesn't seem that way -- it looks like they just got mad that he was in their way and knocked the cart over

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • I wasn't engaging in Euro vs US anything, actually. It's a foregone conclusion that most of the US is a blighted, car-infested wasteland that was designed by governments and industry as such -- and a lot of people seem to have happily accepted that instead of raising hell to make it so they can go home in a span of 10-20 minutes walk.

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • "why do influencers always film in public"

    Those are the obnoxious ones who go out of their way to make their content everyone else's problem. You know the ones -- and yeah, they exist everywhere, and no one likes them.

    But this filming in a car thing is very uniquely American -- you rarely, if ever, see people from other parts of the world doing this, even if they're making the exact same kind of content. The majority of content filmed inside a vehicle by someone not from North America is when being in or around the vehicle is integral to the content being made (like a car review.)

    To stick with this example, food reviewers can and do make their reviews right there in the restaurant -- like I said, it's not exactly difficult to set up your phone or compact camera and talk at a reasonable tone and volume so none of the other people around you are disturbed, aside from the occasional sourpuss who might give you the stinkeye regardless, and still get excellent content. My partner often does this kind of thing and not once have we ever felt the need to sit in her car to do it.

    I don't have the slightest problem with people eating and filming in their cars -- the reason this post is here is because of the way Americans, and uniquely Americans (and Canadians, I guess) have been systemically primed into viewing their massive, cavernous cars as a viable third space to do this sort of thing when the rest of the world doesn't, because there's plenty of space outside to do it -- and even when there is space to do it, they gravitate back to their cars because carbrain.

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • And that's why this post is on here.

  • 3 people in Madhya Pradesh, India, died while stuck in a THIRTY TWO hour traffic jam along an intercity highway.

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  • Given the size, wealth, and density of India

    The latter two are heavily tilted in favor of the ultra-rich elite (who prefer to fly or drive) and major cities (packed to bursting with people, overloading existing transit systems), and then there's rampant greed and corruption to contend with.

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • It is actually possible to talk at a normal volume and film discreetly in the restaurant without bothering anyone, Americans are just loud as hell

  • Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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  • Even that is built on Americans' love for cars though

  • 3 people in Madhya Pradesh, India, died while stuck in a THIRTY TWO hour traffic jam along an intercity highway.

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  • That's mostly my doing. I live here, and I have to bear witness to my people becoming more and more carbrained by the day as the government bends over backwards to cater to corporations and rich people with fancy cars at the expense of the gigantic majority who rely on public transit, bicycles, or just walking to get to where they need to go. I hate it.

  • Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest.

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  • I wasn't concentrating specifically on Aus either, just pointing out that a prominent member of "the west" is brutally attempting to silence dissent, which they are. Yes, I am trying to say that criticism of Israel isn't looked upon kindly in Australia -- or in France, or in Germany, or in Italy, or in the Netherlands -- and there's no dearth of police brutality to be had in the US and Canada either.

    As for arresting Netanyahu, Belgium and Hungary have straight up said they'll be doing no such thing, and Greece was more than happy to welcome him despite there being an ICC arrest warrant out for him. Germany's obviously not going to arrest him, France has done everything possible to be as lily-livered and non-committal about it as possible while backtracking on Palestinian recognition.

    So no, it hasn't "been permitted" indefinitely. The tide is turning amongst the people, but governments are still being as heavy-handed and militaristic as possible to shield their genocidaire buddies and the military contracts they bring.

  • Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest.

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  • the point is about whether criticism of Israel is allowed. It is, both by people and politicians.

    May I remind you that we're discussing this on a post about how an Australian woman in Australia was viciously beaten by state actors (cops) for engaging in criticism of Israel.

    There are also instances of EU(Irish) citizens being deported due to Palestine support.

    Again, if someone's being deported for criticizing Israel, I don't think that really qualifies as "criticism is allowed". In theory, I'm sure it is. In practice is a very different beast.

  • Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run.

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  • I am indeed expecting them to walk. People (me included) walk longer distances in Indian traffic in far worse conditions, a kilometer is quite literally child's play

  • Man complains about the government forcing him to buy a new car so he and his wife can continue to do their 1km school run.

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  • That's a fair point actually. I'll change it