Comment on School pickup lines are wild

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Obviously walking, biking, or taking the bus is better. Let’s assume that covers 95% of children 95% of the time.

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  • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah.... Because I was steel Manning this argument lol, not strawmanning it.

    I was saying EVEN IF it were the case that we lived in an enlightened near carless society, there's going to be some people who arrive via car, and apparently having an organized and safe way to accomodate that is sacreliege here.

    Ask yourself if you seriously think I was making the argument that, in America specifically, 95% of the time 95% of people are not using cars to arrive at school.

    Then ask yourself, if you thought that was the argument I was making, are you mentally equipped to carry on this conversation.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not a single person here is claiming you can live in a completely car free society. If you had the capacity to read what I wrote in my initial comment you wouldn’t be responding right now. Let me quote it for you:

      The conversation isn’t about needing cars, it’s about having car lines due to so many cars. If it were actually as small a number as that then no, we wouldn’t have lines like this, because that’s about the rate that developed european countries have for pickup/dropoff car rates. And those people are the ones telling you it’s not a problem in their country.

      So yeah, you are making a strawman. You put up an argument stating that people don’t think we need cars (never once mentioned in this thread) and then you attacked that.

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      • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No matter how few cars there are, a pickup system for people in cars is still going to exist in any responsible society. Almost every one of the schools in central London have school pickup lines, despite very few pupils, staff or anyone else arriving that way, because driving in central London is a nightmare and heavily discouraged

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