In the United States (which I’m mentioning because that’s the location of the survey we’re discussing), something like 85%–90% of people live in places that are car-dependent. It’s closer to 100% outside of cities. So a vehicle is an expense that can’t be avoided. We’re looking at loan payments (probably), insurance (definitely), gas, and repairs. The lower your income, the better the odds that all four of those expenses go up, as you’re less likely to have a good down payment or buy in cash, and more likely to have your options reduced to older and lower-end vehicles. That typically means lower gas mileage and guarantees more frequent repairs. You’re also likely to live in a lower income area with higher insurance premium rates.

Of course, despite the rate of car dependence, about a third of Americans do not have reliable access to a dependable vehicle. That’s some very unfortunate math.

It’s hard to be poor in the U.S.

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And the “conservatives” are liberal as hell. The only thing they “conserve” is value for the ultra rich and some cherry-picked Biblical social order. Restrictions on capitalism? Let freedom ring.

Imagine how many times you’d have to do it to elicit that much blood

Where I live, the libraries have regular sales, but then also the whole library system together will have semiannual book sales at the civic center. Everything is cheap to begin with but then on the last day, you can fill a box for $10 or $20—and the box can be as big as you like, as long as you can get it out of the building. They really need to get rid of the books. You should check with your library and see how they get rid of their culled books.

Yup but they aren’t profitable so we can’t have them

Unfortunately that’s not an option for most people living in the US

Yeah, I’ve heard people have to resort to some crazy stuff once porn stops working for them

Looks like Brer Rabbit really hates beans you guys

Right? The question mark in the post caption implies a mystery. Which is itself a mystery.

However, in reading the comments for clues to the caption, I misinterpreted your feet comment as an attempt to justify how this driver could possibly have profited from only fans. “I can’t possibly operate on this patient he’s my son” vibes. But now I don’t think that’s what you meant, you were maybe just drily reminding everyone that there are also feet.

Looks like 15 hours ago :(

That watermark needs font help…looks too much like Captain Kink

OHHH, is that why this is mysterious? Because people are assuming truck = dude? Which it certainly could be…but seems less likely

Upon closer reading, I think the key was imagining what you’d do with a future partner. No one imagines how much nothing they’re really gonna do nowhere

Looks like they’ve pulled the file. Good.

The pedestrians also walk across the actual crosswalk area, over the mechanism, showing no concern that those magic stripes could come back down and smush them at any moment. There are a handful of things that take this out of the realm of realism but for me it was mainly that—especially the lady carrying her baby under them

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With media and the public discourse in the state they’re in today, this would surely be impossible to enforce. Every viewpoint can be argued to have infinite counter viewpoints and people treat it like a sport. Maybe the people of 1949 were naive enough to reckon there were two sides to every argument, but implementing this today would be akin to outlawing any kind of controversial statement or discussion in the media. Perhaps the end of politics as we kn…

Ok I’m starting to come around

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A few small commercial gyms have implemented this, as well as the gym at Brown University. Brown estimates that the power generated by its 50 machines is about comparable to what’s generated by the solar panels on the roof of the gym. So it’s not nothing, but gyms tend to be cavernous and expensive to run, so it’s a drop in the bucket, unfortunately.

More unfortunate still is that the takeaway is almost always, “ugh don’t bother, it’s basically nothing” and not, “wait, why are we burning so much fuel to power this room?”