I drive 25 miles to work because I cant afford to move closer. Closer would mean property values skyrocketing and quadrupled rent. I have a very specialized skill set and these jobs do not exist everywhere, but unfortunately I’m also not making six figures. There is also basically no public transit in my state, city or not. Hard to believe if all you’ve known is big city privilege, but there’s a whole world of people like me and your utopian fantasy cant work for us unless someone foots the bill.

Maybe instead of attacking people who drive cars, you could focus that energy on the giant corporate polluters who are the ACTUAL cause of our climate crisis and show absolutely no signs of letting up. I think youd be surprised to learn that you and I probably agree on what needs to be done, and yet here you are angry at me for some bullshit that makes no difference in the bigger picture.

Honestly, this is such a fucking privileged take that it hurts. How do you expect people to get to work? I cannot bike 25 miles to work in 107F heat. I will literally die. I fully support making cities completely walkable, and making public transportation make more sense. I also can see that tons of GOOD people only own cars because they have to. Cyclists, however, always seem to have a stick up their ass while also unapologetically breaking every road rule as they cry about car people. I think at least half of the times I’ve collided with something while skateboarding, its been a bicycle. I dont automatically assume that every cyclist is a bad person, even though my anecdotal evidence seems to support it.

Yeah, that would be great. Unfortunately I havent found one yet, and I’m no writer.

I completely agree. I have no artistic skill whatsoever, but I restore vintage cars. Sometimes I need to visualize for the customer how a car is going to look in a certain color, or with different wheels, etc. AI has been SUPER useful for that, because it takes a few minutes to generate an approximation that gets the point across. I cant have an artist on call to just do these things on the fly, nor can I wait for them when the customer is visiting for a half hour or so. Sure its a niche thing, but has been incredibly useful to me the last few years.

I learned Photoshop in high school, then tried to use Gimp in college. What a fucking disaster of a program.