Anomnomnomaly

G.O.P. Gross Old Pedophiles

Make public transport, cheap and frequent through the country, along with a cheap reliable car share/hire scheme... and you'd see the need for cars dwindle.

It's easy for certain types of people to claim the high ground, when they have no idea what it's like for everyone else... they live in gilded cages in cities with cheap and easy to access public transport... so they have no need for a car... and thus no one has a need for car either... they're so blinkered, they might as well be blind... and the ignorance that goes with the preachy mentality is even worse.

So when I can walk to the end of my road and catch a bus to the next town over... without it taking over 2hrs to travel 6 miles... via a 16 mile trip in the opposite direction and changing buses that means sitting around in the freezing cold for 40 mins... I'll consider giving up the car... But the chances of that happening are ZERO because 'capitalism' dictates we must CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME... there is no will with govts or the rich to do a damn thing... and the rich account for around 49% of ALL individuals emissions.

So take the preachy bullshit and shove it somewhere dark and stinky.

I grew up in a city that has hundreds of miles of cycle paths, you could ride anywhere without ever having to ride on a main road, only the occasional first/last section to get to a house/shop. The nearest path to my old house was 150 yards down the road and when I was growing up before I started driving at 17 (mid 90's), we used to ride everywhere. It was about 8 miles from corner of the city to the other.

As I got older and relied on a car... I found myself missing cycling. So in 2017, I got a 21spd hybrid city bike... Alas, I discovered that injuries and post op limitations restricted me to at best... 5-6 miles and I was exhausted.

So in 2022, I got myself an e-bike. A Haibike Trekking with the bosch mid drive system. I can now ride with ease once more.

Alas... I also moved from that city with hundreds of miles of cycle paths a few months after getting it... Now I live near to the sea and mountains... and there are 2 cycle routes near me. One I can do a 9m round trip, it would be longer but for some daft reason they never finished the path around the reservoir and it's boggy and muddy for 5 months of the year or any time it rains in the other 7 months. The other route means riding about 1/2 mile through town to pick up the nearest path and then you've got about 7 more miles of pretty flat, open countryside next to a river... but also next to flood planes. So at this time of year, it can flood a section about 1/2 a mile long at the 2.5m mark (from my house). Oh and that first route, also floods long before you ever get to the reservoir restricting your ride to at best 4 miles in total there and back... it's only 9 miles without the flooding.

I can do an 8 mile trip to an estuary and add another 1 mile I'm on the edge of a huge forest... 2 further miles through the forest and I'm at the beach... making it a 22 mile round trip... But the stony, gravel roads aren't exceptionally suited to my city bike. I've bought reinforced tyres and puncture proof tubes... so maybe I'll give it a shot next year.

For now, it's unlikely I'll be getting much riding done until March.

That's the option I take... deleted FB in 2012, Twitter in 2018 (not that I actually used it, posted maybe 20 things in 7yrs) and have never used any of the others. I'm on mastodon and lemmy, I use signal & telegram and have to suffer whatsapp for immediate family.

I told everyone else that I was only going to make an effort with people who made an effort with me... and that solved the fake friends side of the problem... Because all I got for years was 'but you're not a facebook' as a reason for their laziness and entitlement that I must bow to their convenience as it's far more important that protecting my mental health.

When I have to describe social media... I do as follows.

There are 3 types of social media users.

1: Those with wealth who have no worries and can portray the image of living the simple life full of hobbies and joy... which is easy to do when you don't have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to pay the bills. they hoard wealth instead of giving. 2: Those that have no wealth and are desperately trying to convince others that they do, and that their life is so much better than yours. 3: The sheep that believe both of the above and would like to fit into one of those groups.

Meanwhile... the ones actually living the simple life, their best life, the relaxing life... aren't on corporate owner social media willing giving up their privacy and freedoms so a billionaire can get richer.

Better way to look at it, he did a speed run through the game and completed it with 30% of the whole game done... The other one is doing all of the side quests and extras so he can get 100%

I pay £10 a month in the UK for 25GB data and unlimited texts and calls within the UK (not including premium rate numbers). I rarely ever use more than 1-2GB of data because I'm always on wifi at home, and never use public wifi when out and about... and because I work from home. When I got out, it's often for exercise, a meal or to visit friends/family (using their wifi)...

I haven't paid more than £10 a month for about 15yrs now... used to be a meagre 500MB data to begin with... it just kept increasing.

The games are listed on GOG, basically as games that have existed but they are not available to purchase.

Far to many people don't understand the difference between theory and scientific theory... One is a postulation on how people thing something works not based on provable and repeatable facts.. whilst the latter is (based on current understand of those provable/repeatable facts).

But idiots and those trying to distort and undermine to support their own bias and agenda, will never call it a scientific theory or attempt to explain the difference... and claim any change in the 'facts' is proof that it's fake... their inability to understand something further drives their ignorance.

It's Darwinism in motion for the world to see... and it's both saddening to see and hilarious to watch as people posted... 'Not wearing masks, covid is a hoax it's no worse than the flu'... and then over the coming weeks... see them posting... got covid, it's hell, please pray for me... can't breathe, in hospital, they refuse to give me invermectin (or whatever that drug was), doctors are trying to kill me... and then they die as a result of their own ignorance and hubris.

I'm more partial to inventing new forms of English insults... sadly, I cannot claim credit for 'flag shagging'

I do try to take credit for Trumplethinskin or Trumplthinskin as I've been using that one for about a decade now... can't say if I was the first or not.

It gets even better when you tell them that the tories, removed every single legal way to apply for asylum, leaving the only possible way for them to apply is to get here illegally and make their claim then. It's literally an artificial and deliberately engineered problem to stoke division and rile up the bigots to vote for those promising to fix the problem... and all of those making those promises are grifters only looking to gain power and wealth for themselves.

I think you're describing 'politicians' more than people in general... diplomacy is when both sides are disappointed in the result. :)