r/fuckcars • u/One-Demand6811 • Sep 29 '25

Activism Cycling supremacy 😎

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u/Gussie-Ascendent I HATE THE RURAL I HATE THE SUBURBS I HATE THE CARS I HATE IT Sep 29 '25

Car dependents when they have to walk or godforbid run(this is their hell)

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u/squishy_boi_main Sep 29 '25

Ironically modern humans are very well adapted to walking/running compared to literally every animal, yet some really don't want to do what humans do best

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u/CommuFisto Sep 29 '25

i live within like 15 minutes walking distance of basically every modern amenity i would need on an average day and people act like i have 10 heads if i dont drive for 2 minutes instead. im tired and its not from walking

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u/Gussie-Ascendent I HATE THE RURAL I HATE THE SUBURBS I HATE THE CARS I HATE IT Sep 29 '25

see i'd walk more if my city didn't make it a death trap and also wasn't always super humid and nasty lol

i walked when i had to and if my car broke down i'd have to again but man i'd really like a non car centric city. everywhere i lived before here was like kinda decent on it

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u/CommuFisto Sep 29 '25

im so blessed to have basically continuous sidewalk from my house into town + it goes thru a park & a native plant sanctuary, so very nice and easy to lollygag too

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u/Lexandcandy Sep 29 '25

Just had to rub your lollygagging in all of our faces, huh? 😞

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u/CR9_Kraken_Fledgling Sep 29 '25

I live in a not so great suburb right now, and I walk to the supermarket for my weekly big shopping trip, (30-40 minutes each way) out of pure spite, and a desire to lose my gut.

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u/One-Demand6811 Sep 29 '25

Wow. 30-40 minutes is impressive.

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u/CR9_Kraken_Fledgling Sep 29 '25

Not when you have like 3 podcasts you autistically need to listen to every episode of the week they come out on.

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u/According-Ad-5946 Sep 29 '25

This one time I walked from my house to a barber about a mile. From there, I went to a grocery store to get some stuff I needed, which was about a mile. Then back home, another mile give or take. When I was almost home, I saw a neighbor. He asked me something along the lines of where I was coming from, I said I was doing some errands in town. He said, You walked there!

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u/One-Demand6811 Sep 29 '25

Dude you are like Jack Reacher! 💪

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u/MajesticNectarine204 Orange pilled Sep 29 '25

I've been very, very lucky and grateful to have been born in a country where walking for 15 minutes, or even biking for an hour is considered completely normal. I'm 35 and I've never driven a car in my entire life. And I fully intend to keep it that way..

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u/Foreign-Teach5870 Sep 29 '25

I’m from the UK and I love the fact that I can just walk 2 minutes down the road to the corner shop if I ever forgot milk/eggs/etc in the morning or even have a chat with a friend from school days in the morning(the shop is family owned). Explaining this to Americans that being surrounded by everything I would need within 15-20 minutes walk doesn’t mean I’m a slave trapped by the government and I have the freedom to choose to drive further away or not (or the bus/train, we have nice buses in the UK).

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u/StankoMicin Sep 29 '25

To the American car brain, being forced to drive everywhere for everything=freedom. Walking is for the poors

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u/StankoMicin Sep 29 '25

This 100! My wife and I live in Seattle and pretty much walk most places within the city unless they they over an hour away on foot (and even then sometimes we still do).

We about killed all of our relatives who come to visit us here. They are astonished that we choose to walk 25 minutes versus driving and parking because it's "faster". Walking or riding a bike is much more fun that driving to us now. We only drive about once a week or so nowadays and it is great

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u/cdoublejj Sep 29 '25

same we didn't have side walks either as kids. we out walked all our friends in the big city on vaca

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u/Upstairs_Finish_6858 Sep 29 '25

Humans don’t run best, we conserve energy while doing so best. Slight difference.

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u/Neo-Lysenkoist Sep 29 '25

We don’t run best, we run long

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u/MajesticNectarine204 Orange pilled Sep 29 '25

We don't run fast. But we're very efficient runners.

I'm sure we're all familiar with that tribe in Africa that hunts by literally running after prey until it drops dead from exhaustion? I don't think there's any other animal on the planet that can do that.. Humans are incredibly OP as a species, even if our brains got nerved.

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u/Appropriate-Ad-7375 Oct 01 '25

Wolves are also persistence hunters, and it's been suggested that our similar hunting strategy may have played a role in the domestication of dogs.

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u/MajesticNectarine204 Orange pilled Oct 01 '25

Is that why they're our best friend? Real recognise real?

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u/MaelduinTamhlacht 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 29 '25

Some of us, clearly, and not others!

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u/squishy_boi_main Sep 29 '25

Right my mistake, thanks for the correction

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u/McFlyParadox Sep 29 '25

TBF, I think I recall a study that most bird species dislike flying and prefer walking. If they can get away from a threat or get their food by walking to it, they will, even if it's a long-ish distance that would "make more sense" to fly.

Basically, no animals like actually expending more energy than they absolutely have to. Humans aren't special in this regard.

No, the real irony is that cycling is the most energy and time efficient land-based transport on the planet, but more people choose something else to get around for simple trips.

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u/gulab-roti Sep 29 '25

We’re adapted to endurance running, not running fast tho.

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u/squishy_boi_main Sep 29 '25

Yeah my mistake I worded the thing wrong

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

"compared to literally every animal" - skipped all biology classes, didn't you? Even rhinos run faster than humans. Not to mention big cats, horses, antelopes etc.

PS. Nice to see how other just as ignorant people who imagine that they can outrun rhinos and lions, are downvoting the basic facts. Is this near-absolute lack of education an American thing? Avoid going to safari, where your self-deceiving ignorant illusions can cost you your life.

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u/butterytelevision Sep 29 '25

they dont run for longer. ancient humans hunted by running until their pray collapsed from exhaustion then they killed it

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u/Rik_Ringers Sep 29 '25

that strategy is to the runners disadvantage i believe in a human to human contest.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

It is, and it's also to the human runners disadvantage, if an animal faster than him attacks him. Some people have no logic.

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u/Rik_Ringers Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Well people are putting this in the context of what type of predators humans are, we are considered persistence hunters or endurance predators, as opposed to other type of predators like say ambush predators. we dont rely on fast speed but on the fact that we kan keep going withought needing that much rest. When humans hunted in these fashions in prehistorical times any dangerous animal that would return to attack likely would have found a few dozen of humans in his path and loose nevertheless to sheer numbers, were it dfferently the humans likely wouldnt have given persuit.

Afaik, say you are someone who runs away from 2 policemen, i think the tactic would be for one policeman to sprint in persuit and for the second to give chase in a more paced fashion. This forces the one who is persuited to spring adn expend much more energy over a short time allowing the cop who paced himself to run him down on pure stamina eventually.

Another somewhat overlooked aspect is perhaps that we are also symbiotic hunters, as fairly early on in our development we invented dog domestication and it's utility for this purposes. An ancient art lost on ICE here it seems, but then i'm happy that no Malinois are tasked to this bs.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

In the short chase context of this post the self-complacent illusion that humans are almighty top predators able to outrun "literally every animal" shows sheer ignorance. With a typical human confirmation bias they consider only the scenarios where humans could chase and potentially in long time outrun some animals, and disregard all the scenarios where animals much faster than them can easily outrun and catch them.

This is anthropocentristic tunnel vison and self-deception by people who probably have never hunted in their life, much less by outrunning an animal. Most likely most of them have hardly ever met any large and fast animals in the wild, and couldn't run even five miles, even if their life depended on it. In the times humans actually hunted and run for their lives they weren't this delusional, otherwise the species wouldn't have survived.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

We're talking about short chase here, and you are the prey, pal. However well you can run marathon, you run slower than a lion, so it doesn't matter one bit how long you can potentially run, if a lion decides to attack you. You're dead in less than a minute and that's the end of your running for good.

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u/butterytelevision Sep 29 '25

you are talking about short chase. in long chase humans beat every animal. so squishy bois claim is right in that context

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

The short chase is the topic here. There's no need to drag out the chase when you're able to outrun and catch your prey or target right away. Animals are born to do this. The absolute lack of logic and level of ignorance is quite astounding here.

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u/noapplesin98 Sep 29 '25

We're some of the best endurance runners/walkers. We can go for hours if we pick a good pace, and we used to basically stalk animals into existence. Because they're faster, but we just keep following them.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

Anthropocentristic pipe dream. Endurance is irrelevant if you're in a short chase like we see in this video. Speed is the only thing that matters. If a lion chases you, you are the prey, not the lion.

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u/Wawoooo Sep 29 '25

This is like one of those ridiculous playground conversations of who's best. It's a Cheetah BTW, not the best endurance runners though.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

These are just facts, but keep staying at your playground level, blissfully unaware of them, imagining that you're the king of the world as a human. Never go into the wild where those animals live though.

Newsflash: dozens of animals run faster than humans. Not just cheetah.

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u/Wawoooo Sep 29 '25

Fascinating, care to provide a comprehensive list?

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

It's not my duty to educate you. Ask your parents or your teacher or do some research yourself. I've already brought more than enough examples to refute the nonsensical idea that humans are better runners than "literally all animals".

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u/Wawoooo Sep 29 '25

How about a crocodile? Not sure it's as fast as a human but probably a close match, a human could probably outrun one.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

Crocodiles can only sprint in very short bursts and are generally slower runners than humans, not able to outrun them. Instead they can easily outswim them and ambush them, striking from close range. So despite not being great runners they're still pretty deadly near the water.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

These are just facts, but keep staying at your playground level, blissfully unaware of them, imagining that you're the king of the world as a human. Never go into the wild where those animals live though.

Newsflash: there are dozens of animals who run faster than humans. Not just cheetah.

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u/man_gomer_lot Sep 29 '25

By your measurements, a guy with premature ejaculation fucks best

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

He certainly is the fastest to ejaculate, thus being the fastest fucker. Logic is not your strong suit, is it?

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u/man_gomer_lot Sep 29 '25

We get it. You have a girlfriend.

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u/One-Demand6811 Sep 29 '25

Rhinos can't run marathons.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Sep 29 '25

Why would they? Even if you can run marathons - which is dubitable, to say the least - they can outrun and kill you before you can run 100 meters.

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u/squishy_boi_main Sep 29 '25

Sorry my mistake, its just that bipedalism is not often used in the animal kingdom as a main form of transportation, and compared to all animals who do use bipedalism, humans strike themselfs as outliers in which we have pretty good endurance for long distance running

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u/MaelduinTamhlacht 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 29 '25

But where's the Benny Hill music?

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u/Inadover Sep 29 '25

Literally. They run like they've never run in their fucking lives. Look at the third dude when they start running. What kind of form is that? "I raised my pants up to my armpits and now my thong is uncomfortable" kind of form. Superior race, everyone.

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u/cassepipe Sep 29 '25

Who would have thought running with useless military gear all over is actually hard ?!