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>You are forgetting that time spent driving is essentially dead time, Not to me it isn't. I listen to podcasts and/or music and/or YouTube videos I don't need

>You are forgetting that time spent driving is essentially dead time, Not to me it isn't. I listen to podcasts and/or music and/or YouTube videos I don't need to watch and have saved to my watch later list for listening to. And I'm alone in my car and will occasionally just sit in quiet enjoying alone time where I don't have multiple people blabbing in the background. Some of the best laughs I've had are from driving and reading bumper stickers and vanity plates. I don't want to be working on something 24/7/365 like people on HN seem to want to do. There's no exercise I'm going to do on a bus or a train as I don't walk around with hundreds of pounds of bumper plates, a barbell and a squat rack/rig or chalk (I'm a strength athlete so light calisthenics aren't even warming up for me). As far as biking, yeah good luck riding a bicycle in central Indiana in the summer, you will show up to your destination completely soaked. I don't remember if I said it in this comment chain or another but the temperature today will be in the mid 80F's (29-30C) with 87% humidity. Go stand still outside for 90 seconds in that and you'll be sweating, do physical exertion and you'll be soaked. Want to bike somewhere in the winter? Past few winters the actual temperature has gotten down to -17F/-27C with copious amounts of snow and ice. Compare that to Hamburg which has an average low -0.5C in January vs -7.7C and seems to see an average high of only 22.7C in July vs 29.4F in Indy.

chimprich 7y ago
> Some of the best laughs I've had are from driving and reading bumper stickers and vanity plates. That... seems very specific. > the temperature today will be in the mid 80F's (29-30C) with 87% humidity Ice and snow is one thing, but that doesn't sound too unreasonable for casual cycling. You might not want to do it for a job interview but it ought to be viable for many journeys. Dealing with personal sweating seems like it should be an easier job than dealing with global heating. > And I'm alone in my car and will occasionally just sit in quiet enjoying alone time I'm sure that's true, but moving a few tons of environmentally-controlled metal a few kms twice a day seems like a wasteful way to achieve this.

chimprich 7y ago

> Some of the best laughs I've had are from driving and reading bumper stickers and vanity plates. That... seems very specific. > the temperature today will be in the mid 80F's (29-30C) with 87% humidity Ice and snow is one thing, but that doesn't sound too unreasonable for casual cycling. You might not want to do it for a job interview but it ought to be viable for many journeys. Dealing with personal sweating seems like it should be an easier job than dealing with global heating. > And I'm alone in my car and will occasionally just sit in quiet enjoying alone time I'm sure that's true, but moving a few tons of environmentally-controlled metal a few kms twice a day seems like a wasteful way to achieve this.