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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27638728
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This is nice to hear after finding out what an absolute boomer Jeremy is.
He is learning a lot of hard lessons by attempting to run his farm, tho
inheritance tax avoidance scheme*
While this is most certainly true. I think the show has really help showing the struggles farmers are going through on a daily basis, it’s very easy to forget all the work that they put into growing our food etc… Really opened my eyes at least.
Captain Slow was always my favorite Top Gear presenter.
Same. If you haven’t already, be sure to watch both his travel and cooking shows. Both great.
Also his show Toy stories was really cool.
He would pick a classic toy and take it to an extreme. Like building a people-sized house out of Lego, entering modeling clay flowers into a gardening contest or making a motorcycle out of Meccano.
He would bring a bunch of people together to make it happen, it was wholesome in a not-lame way. Plus the usual James May antics.
His YouTube is a bit mid, I find. Him shilling his gin, lurpak and even doting on the cybertruck.
I mean all power to him, but I find the content very lackluster compared to the tv he made.
Loved them. Only thing he did that I did not like that much was his cyberpunk review.
All the proof you need that you can be a car guy and still accept that car dependancy is awful.
I’ve always felt he’s one of us deep inside.
As usual, he’s rigbt. Cars hate being in cities. City driving is the worst for them. They’re too big and they’re barely faster than walking.
Cars don’t belong in cities just like I don’t belong in cities.
Cities can be wonderful. And the fewer cars there, the better.
Cities are not really designed for people more than two standard deviations from the mean in height
Nothing in the built environment is, city or country… That’s the nature is being an outlier
Yeah but in the countryside there’s far fewer things that are designed for humans at all, which makes me fit better there.
And scale is just one reason I’m not a city guy.
Ok, then you’re not a city guy. I don’t get why self-proclaimed non-city people come on topics that mostly matter for people in cities.
Because if we make cities better less countryside will be plowed under for something we both hate: Suburbs.
Just like how despite liking cars I want more mass transit because that means fewer people on the roads, making driving better for me.
Ah, sorry, I think I clocked you as one of those anti-urbanism shitheads that comes in here sometimes and says stupid shit. Never mind, we’re in agreement here, carry on.👍
I wish more rural people could see this. Better transit in cities makes life better for you too! If you have to drive, having fewer cars on the road makes your drive better!
I’ve had my disagreements with this community*, but I absolutely agree that cars do not scale in urban areas. We need good enough public transit to make cars unnecessary, and then replace the previous car infrastructure with something better like cycling or housing or parks or small business.
Ideally, I think we should have
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interstates that go through or around cities
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Extensive parking garages on the outskirts of cities
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Fast, reliable, safe public transit within cities
There will always be a need for vehicles in rural areas, and those vehicles will need to come to the city sometimes, and we need ways to get those people to where they need to go. But people should not need to drive in the city itself.
*Most of my disagreements are with the focus on cycling. Cycling should be a secondary, maybe tertiary goal. Public transit is orders of magnitude more important.
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