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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When I was cycling to and from work I burned about an extra 400 calories a day going to spend from work. That's a protien shake.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago

How many calories do Mountain Dew and Cheetos have

[–] Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I am Dutch, have 0 cars, 2 bicycles, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I've only recently came across the first situation in which I felt like car access would be usefull.

A couple I'm friends with were pregnant and they don't have a car either, but since they wanted to be able to go to the hospital quickly and indepently, they rented a car for a week or so. This would't work for me because I don't have a drivers license. People often ask me 'but what if you need to do this or that...' and never do I feel like they're pointing towards a problem that I have. Just some minor inconvenience, if one at all. But in this case I thought, yeah if my wife were pregnant it would be damn usefull to be able to transport her by car, by myself. If it ever happens I'm sure we'll find a solution though. But I found it interesting that it was only the first situation in which it actually seemed usefull to me to have car access.

[–] withabeard@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if in a society such as yours, where this is all more common.

Could you have taxi companies that take a small fee up front to guarantee you a rapid taxi to hospital when the time comes. I'll assume ambulances are fine for accidents and emergencies. A regular taxi (and the wait) is fine for unexpected trips where you are unable to cycle for some reason.

But a reasonable fee to say, I want a "rapid" taxi for this instance.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I think that "reasonable fee" would be a quite high one. You're basically asking someone to be available 24/7 for a specified period of time. And besides, depending on where the person is when you call them it might actually be quicker to just call a cab.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 points 5 days ago

I see someone's read Reiner Eichenberger's nonsense (and remembers about half of it).

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, their comment is a joke, but it does mention real things that are real problems with our food supply chain. Some of which could be mitigated by growing locally. Because somebody at some point made a problem with vehicles, and they "solved" it with vehicles.

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[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

we are already overproducing food and throwing it away, so even if there was logic in the idea, it would not actually require additional farming, manufacuring, transportation, etc

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Haha lol, assuming people in cars count calories and or operate on minimal / in a deficit. Regardless of the car argument, people riding bikes are more likely to be counting calories and in a calorie deficit, as they're more health conscious. People driving cars wouldn't care as much, on average, and would consume more calories than necessary, probably triple the "cycling" extra calorie needs. Omfg. I could debate either side, if I had to, that's the stupidest take I've ever heard. It holds absolutely no water. Where's the data showing people in cars consume less food / calories.

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

What you actually need are walkable cities, transit (trains/buses) friendly neighborhoods, that would make it easy for people.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure overweight tommy incel the reddit mod eats more than twice what I eat and has never touched a bike in his life

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I am guessing this person was being facetious, but you can never tell with absolute certainty nowadays.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 days ago

This actually would be an interesting study.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

Guarantee that person has a BMI over 40.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Being that stupid isn't natural. You know they do the opposite of reading a book and putsome efforts to lower their IQ that much.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

I have personally wondered about that. Not in a car vs cyclist thing, but cyclist vs public transport.

Not even sure how to do the math on it.

Still, both are surely way better than driving.

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