I'm A Car Enthusiast That is Starting to Hate Cars. Here's Why.
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Click to Subscribe! ► https://goo.gl/x9qFdWIt’s true. I’m a lifelong car enthusiast. I’ve owned 50 cars, I’ve restored cars, I’ve ruined cars, I’ve raced car...
  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
    40·
    10 months ago

    Urbanist and car enthusiasts are not mutually exclusive: car can be a hobby, but hobbies belong on tracks or in garages.

    I have met a vintage car enthusiast living happily in Amsterdam, he restores small early japanese cars and collect them, but that doesn’t mean he need to drive them every day to work. His car is in a garage near Amsterdam, and he still bikes when he travel within the city.

    Like I enjoy starcraft, but I’m not asking my government to spend interstate money to keep starcraft alive or host tournaments; nor will I defend it if it interfere with other people’s need, right, and life.

    Starcraft also don’t kill 1.3 million people a year BTW, so if anything is getting foundings, starcraft should have more priority over cars…

    • Kaspar Houser @feddit.de
      4·
      10 months ago

      That’s the thing! There are beautiful cars out there! You love tuning? Nice! Racing is your thing? Happy for you!

      All of this has nothing to do with individual mobility.

    • aeternum@kbin.social
      4·
      10 months ago

      I don’t drive, but i have a licence. It’s nearly the only thing people accept for ID these days.

      • lemmyseizethemeans
        2·
        10 months ago

        By design. The 'landed gentry ’ has been replaced by ‘those that can prove they got enough money to have their vote count’

      • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        I have a state issued non driver Real ID. I guess if you’re outside the US there may be different ID laws, but the Real ID works for everything, including flying.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    1914·
    10 months ago

    Downvoting because I don’t want this is clearly a ad for your YouTube channel.

    Id downvote twice if I could because the obnoxious YouTube image.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      182·
      10 months ago

      I’m not the creator of the video (I used the video’s title when posting it here), I just thought it was interesting that even a dude who loves cars can’t look past the downsides of them, It’s almost, but not quite like seeing a car magazine shit on cars.

      • looz@sopuli.xyz
        10·
        10 months ago

        It was a good watch and nice to see a YouTuber speak their mind about downsides of car culture, even if there’s a huge risk of annoying their audience.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
        37·
        10 months ago

        Id recommend not giving them the clicks and just summarizing.

        Influencers make cringe bait because they know people will share it. And you played right into their hands.

    • library_napper@monyet.cc
      1·
      10 months ago

      Welcome to Lemmy.

      Lemmy doesn’t have ads like reddit, so there’s no rules against self promotion, which only existed to drive folks to pay reddit money.

      Self-promotion is welcome on Lemmy.

    • looz@sopuli.xyz
      151·
      10 months ago

      It’s his personal account on why he’s second guessing his car enthusiasm. How are journalistic standards expected there?

    • eskimofry@lemmy.one
      101·
      10 months ago

      “Actual journalism” what does that even mean? Youtube IS a medium of communication that legitimate news outlets and journalist depend on to talk about various aspects of life.

    • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      This reminds me of a teacher that tried telling me Wikipedia wasnt a source. So I just used what Wikipedia used as my sources.