@vividspecter@lemm.ee to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoWhy is Riding a Bicycle in the City Turning Into a Culture Warmomentummag.comexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1304arrow-down114
arrow-up1290arrow-down1external-linkWhy is Riding a Bicycle in the City Turning Into a Culture Warmomentummag.com@vividspecter@lemm.ee to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square126fedilink
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglish9•11 months agoConsider this dichotomy: https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103 https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
minus-square@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agoi have never been called a cockroach. i have been called gay a lot though by truck drivers.
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish-3•11 months agoAh yes, the “science” of determining which population is composed of better people.
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agoRead the fucking article. It defines specifically what it means (civic engagement/interest in the common good, basically), and it is measurable.
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish-3•11 months agoIt’s not that there are measurable things about people that I doubt. What I doubt is that you can scientifically demonstrate that someone is better than someone else. Humanities students don’t read any more and it shows
Consider this dichotomy:
https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
i have never been called a cockroach. i have been called gay a lot though by truck drivers.
Ah yes, the “science” of determining which population is composed of better people.
Read the fucking article. It defines specifically what it means (civic engagement/interest in the common good, basically), and it is measurable.
It’s not that there are measurable things about people that I doubt. What I doubt is that you can scientifically demonstrate that someone is better than someone else.
Humanities students don’t read any more and it shows