• suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      This is the whole fucking point. Cars being more convenient than rail is a choice. We have and can make a different choice.

      • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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        17 days ago

        No we cannot. There is no way trains would be more convenient than cars. Have u tried going to the store and bringing a cart of groceries home? I have.

        • Guy Named ZERO@sh.itjust.works
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          17 days ago

          Then make stores we can just walk to in like 10 minutes. Then you don’t need to take a whole cart of groceries home and you can just go shopping every day for whatever you need

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                14 days ago

                i like to say that the grocery store is my pantry, what i keep at home is basically just pasta, spices, stuff like vinegar, and the fresh things i’ve bought from the store that day.

            • bent@feddit.dk
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              17 days ago

              I go to one of the 5 stores close to my home several times a week, sometimes multiple times the same day. We have gone insanely overboard with store density, but it’s completely feasible to have small stores everywhere if the incentive are there.

      • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club
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        17 days ago

        No u see railroads were before cars. We humans made a choice to use cars. That’s because they were drastically more convenient.

        I don’t want to use the railroad I’m sorry. I would rather have a car. I mean yes I want a flying car, I want an electric car - but its still need to be an individual means of transportation I don’t need to share with anyone and with a cargo compartment.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I’d take trains for long trips, but no way could I get by without a car. How would I carry our family’s crap to the beach, camp, lake? How would I get 15 sacks of groceries home? Forget hitting the hardware story for much of anything.

      OTOH, I’d love to hop a train and roll to New Orleans or Mobile for a day trip.