Most people are emotional and when challenged find it easier to justify their position rather than consider that they are wrong. So yeah, people will argue shit just to argue it.

Reddit had a lot of problems. Some of them were caused by having people as admins. Some were caused by having people as mods. Some were caused by having people as users.

Lemmy also has people as admins, mods, and users, so it will see many of the same problems.

Though Lemmy won't necessarily turn into Reddit because it's designed to have competition among the admins, so they are less likely to get a sense of "they don't have a choice even if they don't like what we're doing".

A circlejerk community where facts are thrown out the window. Doesnt matter where its hosted, social media just going to keep doing what its doing.

Still beats the space and maintenance needs of a horse and buggy.

Wow, what an awe-inspiring counter-example, lol

Am I not supposed to like that? Cause I really like that house design. Garage for days.

Wouldn’t it be more environmentally friendly to store your cars outside and not have a garage?

I've followed the FuckCars community for a while (started on reddit). Being one of them car fuckers myself I would disagree. There certainly are people there whose thought process doesn't go much further than car = bad, but boiling the whole community down to that does a disservice to their more important points. I think most people there aren't so much advocating for less cars as much as they are advocating for policy and societal change toward a world where we aren't so reliant on cars. Obviously for a massive chunk of the world population (especially in North America) cars are a necessity like you said, but do they need to be? Wouldn't we all be better off if the world was less car dependent? We aren't saying that there should be no more cars, just that we shouldn't continue to design our cities in such a way that you need a car to live.

If you are interested in more about where the fuckcars comunity is coming from I would recommend checking out the youtube channel Not Just Bikes. All of his videos are great but I think this one is a good intro to the channel. I also like this one because it outlines a lot of the specific "first step" type things that could be much better (most applicable to north america). Also, his Strong Towns Video Series is really good if you have the time.

(here are a couple more because I can't help myself: Why it sucks to grow up in car-centric cities, How American cities are ponzie schemes, and His video about Stroads)

Weird how it's literally impossible to ever live without something no one had 100 years ago

As a European, its funny watching these guys talk about "Europe" as this pure implementation of their motorphobic utopia.

A lot of us still drive daily yanks!

Some of them are raging right now at the idea that not everyone who hates cars wants to live in an apartment.

Its like liberals screaming when they findout you can be a liberal and a gun owner.

Or conservatives when you express socialistic rights while also limiting government.

We are in that bucket and in this stupid country there aren't many smaller cars anymore. We're looking for a decent EV that is small and would fit in our garage. I think we have like, 2 options. Everything out there is some crossover SUV bullshit. I don't want a giant car, I just want something smaller and comfortable for 2 people.

I mean, I'm not going to ask you to doxx yourself, but I'm extremely curious to know where you're seeing these homes that are, as you describe them, like 150 SqFt of livable area (10x10 studio + 5x8 bathroom) with an attached 3 car garage.

Edit: And to clarify, the 1500 was pulled out of an anecdotal average. My observations while shopping for homes here in the US have been; 2 bed / 1 bath, could be as small as 800 SqFt, but it's cramped. Whereas in middle-class suburbia, it's not uncommon to see 2500+ SqFt homes.

This has the issue of always assuming a household will always live in the most space efficient way possible (2 adults in 1 bedroom with no children or others).

Assume you need 2 bedrooms (2 adults and 1 child): A 800-1,000 sq ft home in the USA is somewhere close to the 10th percentile in terms of size, so going down to ≤750 sq ft puts you near the absolute smallest 2 bedroom houses available.

AI blackboxes designed to control your mind.

They aren't designed to control your mind but to make money. The mind thing is a side effect.

I, for one, welcome quality posts

How exactly is doing the math unhealthy? This is like 60 seconds of math and a few minutes of graphics at most.

I'd rather have someone doing the math and posting it than people becoming misinformed on an important political topic. I think that's what OP was after.