Comment on Anon takes the horsepill

• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horses self-replicate, which bicycles can’t do. Except maybe in the Netherlands, I think they do breed over there.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not sure I want to watch that nature video…

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    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How else to explain this?

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• 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bikes are pretty simple machines. Even if it rides like shit you can keep it rolling with duct tape, a hammer, and spit. Horses are brittle. Injuries that other animals walk off are a death sentence to them, and even with lesser injuries, it takes time to heal

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• Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a lot more roads than there are cars to fill them and the good thing about bikes is that if you can get past an obstacle on foot, you can carry your bike while doing so. Even if the major highways get blocked by the occasional massive pileup that you can’t climb over while carrying your bike, you can always take the smaller road. And where would all the craters come from? How many artillery batteries and mortar companies do you expect to see in the post-apocalypse?

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How many artillery batteries and mortar companies do you expect to see in the post-apocalypse?

    Surely they would have had their fill at the start of the apocalypse, no?

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, depends on if we go out with a bang or a whimper. I’m betting it’s going to be the latter.

      If not, then it’s likely that nukes put a stop to the artilleryfest before it has a chance to really get going. And my point about there being a lot of roads in the world still stands. No military would start to target roads in any meaningful scale when they’re going to save their precious shells for the enemy.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, but where are the enemy likely to be? Along major roads and highways. Armies need to move their military equipment somehow, so that’s where you’re likely to see the bombs being used the most. That, and in cities to control the movements of your enemy.

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• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder how the two compare in terms of repair-ability.

  So long as you have at least two, horses conveniently produce additional horses which makes repair-ability less of an issue. You simply eat the broken horse, if possible.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, as long as you have enough horses, you don’t need to wait for them to break in order to eat them, use them for a few years and upgrade to a newer model.

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