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So… https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS

Cities being dense doesn’t have to do with work. It has to do with access to food and resources. Historically cities have always been dense. They’ve only stopped being dense temporarily because cars require tons of parking which spreads everything out. Sprawl is only possible if you have cars and cars reinforce sprawl. It’s a vicious cycle.

Even without peak oil, sprawl doesn’t work. Cities like Detroit failed because density is required to make cities economically viable. You need a minimum density to support the cost of infrastructure like sewer and roads. It’s just about the cost of shared resources. If you have more people paying for a sewer line it’s cheaper. At a certain point a sewer line becomes too expensive for a small group of people to maintain. This works with roads, internet, and other utilities. Cities are already collapsing due to sprawl and infinite oil wouldn’t save them.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020

Oh yeah, when you bring the price thing in to it you could buy a really nice new ebikes every year for the average cost of keeping a car legal and on the road.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/electric-vehicles-lithium-cobalt-sustainable/

Mainly lithium and cobalt. There isn’t enough of either to replace all cars. Even if there was, there isn’t charging infrastructure. Even if there was, election cars only solve one of the many problems with cars. Car based society isn’t actually sustainable because you need high density to make cities economically viable and cars make density impossible. Cars create tremendous wear and tear on roads, which are extremely expensive to fix. Bikes and trains don’t have the same problems.

Cars have always been a bad idea. Electric cars are just a scam to keep petroleum cars on the road for a bit longer so we can avoid real solutions like good mass transit and bike infrastructure. Rich people like Musk hate the idea of being on a train with the poors so they sell fake solutions to shut down mass transit.

https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460

For the same cobalt and lithium as one car you can make dozens of bikes that don’t need any new infrastructure.

Cory Doctorow lays this all out pretty solidly in this interview:

https://thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the-end-of-uber-with-cory-doctorow/

Here’s the thing. Everyone will bike like the Dutch and the Dutch will bike even more. It’s not a question of “if.” We are already past peak oil. There will only be more wars and more climate change. Those who survive will be relying on bikes because petroleum won’t be an option anymore and electric cars are not a real solution. Cities will become more dense, suburbs will decay, in all likelihood huge parts of the US will completely collapse because life will be impossible without cars. We know petroleum is finite and there is no other technology that will replace this.

We can prepare by rolling out infrastructure now, or we can just keep going and crash as hard as possible in to a wall. No matter what we do, we’re going to stop using gas. I hope we do it on our terms rather than waiting for tons of people to die before we fix it, but I honestly don’t have a lot of hope. But hey, some people are starting to wake up so maybe we can keep that going and save millions of lives.

Don’t worry, when gas becomes $100/gal in the next decade or two the US will become really bicycle friendly.

Bicycle theft is also a problem in the Netherlands, but they still do it. There are also lots of people not in the Netherlands who bike to work and don’t have their bikes stolen.

That’s not the problem. The problem is car culture.

In the Netherlands they have functional bike parking, which makes it a lot harder to steal bikes. They also use wheel locks, which are much harder to cut without damaging the bike. There are also sites like bike index that let you track your bike serial number in case it gets stolen. If you use bike index and your bike is stolen there’s actually a pretty good chance it will be returned. Also, if you buy a bike check it on bike index first to see if it’s stolen.

There are plenty of people who bike in Seattle. Ebikes make it achievable for most people. Also, there are tons of cities that are flat. Why isn’t Austin or LA as bike friendly as Amsterdam or the Hague? Hills aren’t the problem.

It’s even cheaper than sustaining the car infrastructure that we actually can’t afford to maintain…

I have a general license. Aside from anarchistrrl, there’s the KB6NU study guides that are pretty great. That’s what I used to study.

Tech is free. I think general is as well. Extra costs a few bucks.