• Xanis@lemmy.world
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    Be American

    Living paycheck to paycheck

    Need job

    Good worker

    Work overtime when needed

    Trying to pay off car

    Smug biker does a driveby near open car window

    Rethink my life

    Realize U.S. infrastructure often requires vehicles

    In middle of daily 40min commute, one way

    Realize the same distance on bike would be two hours

    Depresso

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      This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let’s you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.

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            Chill bud. It’s possible to compliment an aspect of a society without going balls deep on the rest of it.

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                Yea I get that, plenty of weebs out there that don’t want to acknowledge/don’t care to learn the downsides of Japanese society.

                Just working 12 hour days is enough for me to be glad I wasn’t born over there. Great place to vacation though, especially since the yen is dropping so much.

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                  It used to be just weebs, but in the last few years I’ve seen plenty of “normies” (for the lack of a better term) getting into weeb culture, I.e. travelling to Japan for a week, encountering a vending machine that has hot drinks, and from then on basically becoming Japanese ultranationalists in the way they think Japanese culture should be opposed on all others. While knowing basically nothing about it. It’s strange. Especially for an European person.

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                    That’s sorta hilarious lul. Reminds me of the ones who go visit India and are all namaste when they return.

                    Incidentally, I found a panty gacha machine when I went, not used panties thankfully. My girlfriend rolled and got the legendary blue stripped pantu ones.

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      Get a closer job or move closer to your job if it’s a good reliable job. I did and it’s fucking wonderful! Riding gets easier and easier as you get stronger and better cardio too.

      Took me a long time, a lot of work, and some luck but I can’t recommend it enough. Most days I ride my bike or skateboard, but even walking doesn’t take long. I only resort to a car if I’m too injured to ride/skate/walk far or the weather makes it too dangerous (which is rare, I’ve ridden through more storms than I can count lol, icy conditions suck though).

      Damnit, now I want to go for a ride.

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        >just get a job closer to your home
        >just move

        Idk man, not sure either of those are the easy solutions you’re implying them to be.

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        Some lucky few still get to build up an emergency fund, possibly retire, or even become independently wealthy, but yeah, most of us are working class stiffs.