Quote: "I get $600~ a month, but usually don't see any of it"
Seriously? They take your paychecks, and make you use public internet? Forget about it! In the very, very least, you should be able to get your own net and pay for it yourself, and if they don't like it, too bad for them. Unless you're 14 years old and those are residual ice skating championship earnings, they can't touch your money by law. I always figured you were older, at least around my age actually, and if that's the case, you don't need to put up with that garbage... no way, no how
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Quote: "A lot of the people I work with live within ~5 miles of work. Plenty of them moan about car costs even though a cheaper slower method like cycling would take less time overall. Of course then you don't get the status symbol of a car or the luxury of riding in a nice warm box in the winter."
You could of course buy a nicer bike though, hehe. Though there's nothing more obnoxious than a cyclist who things they're a proper vehicle lol, dodging and weaving through traffic like Cristiano Ronaldo avoiding transfer talks, lol. But yeah, it's way better if you live close enough to do that. No gas prices, tolls/ congestion fees, any of that, plus it's better for the environment, and healthier for you
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Quote: "mmmm cant wait until we drive plastic cars with crappy electric motors running on some sort of crap going 3km/h down the highway"
Misconception. Someone made an
electric racecar that outruns Ferraris off the line. Then there's the
BMW Hydrogen 7, which runs on (you guessed it) Hydrogen fuel... it's a 260hp hydrogen/ gasoline vehicle with an electronically-limited top speed of 143 MPH (certainly faster than your average car). By no stretch of the imagination, it could be said that with proper research and funding, we could have street vehicles ready for mass production in ten years that actually outperform gas-guzzlers
