I'll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube's content and don't even work.
The new features that I give a shit about have mostly plateaued now. I don't care about new releases. As long as "what I bought keeps working and some cunt next to me on a laptop can't randomly hack my phone" remains in effect I legitimately might not care.
The UK sometimes has an excess of green energy as well.
I'm on a limited trial where I sometimes get completely free electricity for a couple of hours on specific days (my provider emails the day before to let me know and opt in).
I can charge my car, my solar batteries (they can charge from the grid if instructed), run the dishwasher, washing machine. And it costs nothing.
And then during the peak usage times, I'm using less power as I've done the stuff I would have done in those peak hours.
They don't do this from the goodness of their heart: there is an excess of energy available and they want it used instead of turning off production. Hopefully this rolls out to more areas soon.
I used to be on an "agile" tariff where the price changes every 30 minutes. Sometimes the price would go negative and I'd get paid to use energy. A good opportunity to turn on some fan heaters and warm the garden. Those flowers look a little chilly.
I'm done. You're purposefully engaging in bad faith argument tactics.
I'm doing nothing of the sort.
You're the one that tried to reframe the argument around energy usage when it was originally "public transport would be universally better if we just invested more". An argument which is fundamentally flawed, which I have proved is fundamentally flawed and you have no response to.
You simply cannot acknowledge that there are tangible benefits and advantages to private transport. You have not conceded or even acknowledged a single point which I made where cars clearly have an advantage.
All of you've done is repeatedly ignore all the points I've made, shifted your argument from investment to energy use for some reason, pulled out one paragraph to which I was calling out your irrelevant argument shift, and then somehow cried about it and said you don't want to play anymore because you simply have no response to facts presented.
THAT is bad faith argument. I hope the irony of this isn't lost on you.
Again, lack of investment. If I tie your legs together and race you, it doesn't prove that I'm faster than you. Cars have had an extraordinary amount of money invested into their infrastructure. If we invested a fraction of that into trains, they'd be faster.
And yet I still wouldn't be able to get to where I need to be without numerous changes and all the other downsides you are conveniently ignoring.
My car is electric.
Where does your electricity come from?
My solar panels.
When my solar panels won't be enough, the electricity from my supplier is 100% green energy sources (mostly solar and wind is my understanding)
It doesn't matter if it comes from petroleum, natural gas, sunlight, wind, whatever
Yes it does. Of course it fucking does. If it didn't you wouldn't have asked how I charge my car and we'd all be using steam still.
You are rapidly losing credibility with this nonsense and off topic gibberish.
Air conditioned, comfortable faux leather seats that didn't have stains on them, I got sit down for the entire journey, I wasn't bothered by strangers, I went directly to my destination.
Who bothers people in public transport?
The aforementioned crackheads. I've literally seen violent crime whilst taking the train before. I've had idiots approaching me (and others on the carriageway, I wasn't singled out) begging me for money, or food or asking if I want to buy or sell drugs. I even saw one moron hit the emergency stop on a train because he wanted a cigarette and the train wasn't stopping soon enough for him.
Public transport can have all those things
Except it can't. It won't ever match the comfort of my car and the fact I can go directly from where I am to where I want to be in the vast majority of cases. Unless you are literally going to build a rail track or a bus route from my house to everywhere I want to go (which is absolutely the case for roads in the vast majority of cases) then it will not compete. It just won't.
I've taken the DC metro many times. I used to live in the area. I was never bothered and it was always relatively clean.
Lucky you. I'm very happy for you.
You're comparing your experience with an under-invested in system to an over-invested in one and saying the over-invested one is better. No shit. No one is arguing with that. We're saying it could be significantly better if the investment was put in.
And you're completely ignoring the core points I'm making and going off on irrelevant tangents. Feel free to actually start reading what I wrote at any time.
I'll make the point one last time: It's not a question of investment as investment won't fix the inherent downsides of public transport which private cars do not suffer from
My car is clean, safe, comfortable, I get to choose the company I keep, and I can get directly to where I want to be in one go. Public transport, whilst I concede it has some advantages (something which you cannot do for the car for some reason) simply cannot compete. It's not "lobbying" or "propaganda", it's the simple fact that the private car has significant advantages over the alternative, which is the real reason that people are choosing it.
If you reply with irrelevant off topic nonsense again, I shall ignore you. I don't mind debating this but when you reply with the mindless drivel that you have been and basically ignoring the points made, I won't waste my time any further.
Nope. I took a train to pick up a car and drove back two weeks ago (selling the existing car got me a better deal than trading in, so I was briefly carless). The car was faster because I didn't have to change three times and I could actually go directly to where I wanted to go. Instead of waiting and waiting and then having to walk the last part in the sun.
This was a real journey I did. This was my real experience. It sucked.
I used to use public transport daily back in the day and I fucking hated it.
they pollute more
My car is electric.
and they suck to drive and be in.
Air conditioned, comfortable faux leather seats that didn't have stains on them, I got sit down for the entire journey, I wasn't bothered by strangers, I went directly to my destination.
No crackhead came over with some bullshit sob story asking for money.
It didn't smell bad. It wasn't stupidly hot as the air conditioning was actually effective.
The driver assistance features made the journey somewhat pleasant and I was noticeably more refreshed on arrival than the leg of the journey with public transport.
If you're a passenger in public transport you be productive or enjoy it, and you can even stand up and stuff if you need to
Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed talking to that addict. I concede that was a highlight of the day /s
Trains even often will have food/drink options too
If you want to spend literally double the market rate and risk losing your seat when you get up, sure.
as well as restrooms and possibly even beds.
Service stations are a thing.
Convince me a car is better than that.
I don't have to. I stopped taking public transport when I got a licence 20 years ago and it's very rare that I use it anymore.
There's several reasons for that. It was a choice I made and I do not regret at all.
With the car I can just get to where I actually want to go in one go.
I'm not saying a car is universally better in every possible way that you can come up with (yes, maybe you can sleep on public transport if you're brave enough) and maybe investment will solve some of the issues, but the benefits of the car are far better than public transport ever will be.
Remember, I did public transport on the daily for several years. Never again.
I'll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube's content and don't even work.
See you next week!