• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    This doesn’t make any sense. The only way to move around without depending on other companies is by walking, and there’s no way that can replace cars, trains, buses, bicycles, etc.

    Not depending on anyone else is not a sensible goal. We live in a society.

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      13 hours ago

      The only way to move around without depending on other companies is by walking, and there’s no way that can replace cars, trains, buses, bicycles, etc.

      If you have all of those options available, you can never be stranded when one of those options fails.

      But with a car-centric society, all it takes is a single point of failure, and you are no longer free to move about the society.

      They are not advocating for society to be less interdependent. They are explaining that a car-centric society has less freedom of movement, because the “independence” of a car is a lie.

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        11 hours ago

        Well that’s just nonsense. There are enough downsides to cars without having to make up fringe lunacy like this.