And I thought Americans were carbrained, holy shit.
(To be fair, he’s not wrong in that this is intended to keep the auto companies and the government nice and fat – but the obvious response to this is to agitate for better public transit, not railing against an environmentally sound policy.)
It may not be carbrain so much as shitty car-centric infrastructure.
Certainly seems so. From the picture the OOP posted, it doesn’t look like there’s paved walkways
This dude is the one living in a fool’s paradise with infrastructure like that, and I say that as someone living in a fool’s paradise with infrastructure only a little better than that.
Honestly if he’s done 65000 km in 15 years it may well be that he only uses it to drive routes where you literally can’t walk, like this one.
A 5-8kg school bag is insane. What the hell is going on there? Where I live, it’s only 2kg.
Lucky you. I think school bags in many countries, even developed ones are at an abuse level. When I was 12 my bag often weighed 10kg+, no lockers. I had hoped the situation had improved until I spoke to my 20 years younger cousin, it’s still the same shit. I believe it is probably a major contributing factor to scoliosis and kyphosis for children and teenagers, but still it persists
No lockers? So you had to drag your books to school every day? That is child abuse. I didn’t have lockers and neither do my kids but we have cubbies to dump everything in. Only things that went in our bags was lunch, water and homework.