• cattywampas@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t think these people necessarily think it’s cool either. They want attention and to annoy people, which is what they get.

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      17 hours ago

      I’m a semi car guy and I made my car “louder” on purpose. It wasn’t for attention or to make girls wet. It was literally because I liked the sound, and it’s less restrictive, which means more horsepower.

      I get that some are obnoxious, and I’m not saying they’re not doing it for attention. But, some of us just want to enjoy our car.

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        7 hours ago

        I get that some are obnoxious

        Not some. It is obnoxious. The reason why doesn’t matter.

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        17 hours ago

        some?

        lol you probably think your shitwagon spewing hydrocarbon exhaust doesn’t count, get fucked. made car louder on purpose is a cute way of saying “I intentionally circumvented the engine’s efficiency in order to VROOM VROOM LOUDER” because that’s what your doing.

        Enjoy tinnitus, shame you couldn’t keep it and your exhaust bullshit to yourself.

        Future generations are going to despise this one - we had all the knowledge needed, just couldn’t motivate fuckwits to give up their vroom vroom for the sake of the ONE LIVABLE BIOSPHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WE HAVE ACCESS TO.

        Selfish doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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        17 hours ago

        There are ways to enjoy cars off public roads and away from private residences.

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              17 hours ago

              good for you. the one you’re replying to doesn’t.

              also I’d wager there’s some non-renewable energy being used when you charge either at home or away, and even then, motoring for fun is releasing tons of other shit (particulates from your tires) - maybe time to find a new ‘hobby’

              transportation as entertainment… what a world

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                5 hours ago

                I don’t know what world you live in, where all your hobbies are so perfect that they don’t have any adverse effects at all to the world at large.

                But God forbid, someone enjoys something you don’t.

                You could extend that holier-than-thou attitude to your hobby of posting on the Internet from a device that releases tons of other shit from its manufacturing process and the electricity that powers it - maybe time to find a new ‘hobby’

                Transportation as entertainment? Yes. Have you ridden a rollercoaster or even a bike?

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                13 hours ago

                For sure. Given that public roads are the most horrendously undertaxed public resources out there, it’s especially irritating when folks go out of their way to use them in the most self serving fashion imaginable.

                Private tracks exist. They don’t mind engine noise.

                • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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                  13 hours ago

                  I could get behind this. And let’s be honest, half of them are just living out their child choo choo fantasies, we can let them have the funny hat and be ‘conductors’. they just have to fund their own bullshit and remediation for same.

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                14 hours ago
                1. Not everyone can afford an electric car 2. Harassing individuals has been identified as counter productive over and over again. Maybe try to help the climate crisis by holding the corporations actually responsible for the issue accountable instead of alienating potential allies and giving the movement an overall insufferable vibe.
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                  14 hours ago
                  1. Not everyone can afford an electric car

                  if they can afford to modify their car for shittier performance in order to be louder, then their ability to afford an ev is moot. they’d rig it to spew some other pollutant.

                  1. strawman bullshit

                  I’m not harassing anyone. Harassing them would be throwing dogshit on their pavement princess jacked up 4x4 bullshit. harassment would be caltrops in their driveway so they can focus on revving it in their driveway for a few more weekends.

                  Get it through your skull: Calling people out on their admitted bullshit, when IT’S LITERALLY KILLING THE ONLY ATMOSPHERE WE HAVE, is not harassment

                  RE: CORPS - WHY NOT BOTH?

                  Why let individuals off for their wretched decisions when they KNEW and were repeatedly informed what they were doing was disgusting, inefficient, counterproductive, it’s shit neighbor, it scares kids and animals, fuck why can’t they ever be fucking blamed for the STUPID DECISIONS THEY MAKE?

                  Because I can juggle both those concepts in my head, it’s pretty straightforward even. Give it a go.

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        17 hours ago

        Exactly this. That’s why I installed an aftermarket exhaust when I did it on a previous car