Reminds me of that TNG episode where one planet has gotten the other planet addicted to a drug only they have, so they can have the addict planet make everything for them while they sit on their asses and do nothing except sell them that drug.

Just replace the drug in that episode with oil and honestly it's pretty accurate for our world now.

*so long as communities are built for it.

They made everything so far away!

I'd argue that for most of the US it is necessary to have a car. We just have adequate public transport. I'd much prefer that we did, but currently we do not. I suspect one could take an aerial photo of many arenas/stadiums located in densely populated cities in the US and they do not have much parking either.

I just bought an e-trike. ^_^

I mean just look at all that disgusting green around it 🤢

Melbourne public transportation is great.

They do a huge amount of free trams to the F1 as well when that's on.

Transport here does have it's... Interesting moments too. I used to ride a line often frequented by an older Indian woman... Who would get on the team and start screaming at anyone on their cellphone because it was rude. Fun times.

Acknowledgements of Country are pretty standard these days. Even quite conservative institutions do them regularly.

I want to get delivered to the stadium via drone

Government has started subsidising our Rooways ever since the alert on Dropbears was reduced (their population has been decimated by bushfires and land clearing).

I'm shocked other countries don't do it, it's a cheap and effective method of transport, and the fuckers are everywhere!

The US absolutely can afford it, reduce military spending by 10% That is about 80 billion usd, with 80 billion usd they sure as hell can afford to build some public transport

For the longest time I thought it was a fictional sport like quidditch but then read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I'm genuinely not sure if this is a serious question or if it's a much-improved version of the really lame jokes that I saw from Americans all over Facebook pretending to have no idea what cricket is.

Well, what happens in Parliament is definitely not cricket.

Yeah where's Taylor supposed to park?

They say that a developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.

And in Australia, when it comes to sporting events at least, that's the case. Not the uber wealthy perhaps. I'm guessing @[email protected] is correct on that front. But those making 6 or low 7 figures are very likely to take public transport to the sporting ground. It's kind of just the done thing.

The irony being—and maybe Melbourne doesn't do this, but my city of Brisbane does—public transport to these events is free. Just wave your ticket and get on any bus or train for a few hours before or after the event.

Rich enough people don’t need to worry because they get dropped off and picked up by their driver.

Swiss person here. Our country isn't known for its poverty, and our head of state takes the train, just like everyone else.

They have their driver drop them off?

Our trains are (relatively) nice places. And they're full of normal, nice people.

Yarra Park, Harry

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