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by favsq 1176 days ago
oh we are in a covid lockdown. you can't get on this bus!

oh it says here you have emitted a lot of co2 this year. you can't rent this car until next year!

oh you were in an anti-goverment demonstration a few months ago so we know that you are headed to another one. you can't move from your 15-minute city!

you really think these are hypotheticals?

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> oh we are in a covid lockdown. you can't get on this bus!

Around here that seemed to be by virtue of the bus drivers not showing up because they didn't want to get ill. Nowt to do with whatever conspiracy theory you've been mainlining.

Also no causal connection to electric vehicles etc.

> oh it says here you have emitted a lot of co2 this year. you can't rent this car until next year!

Definitely hypothetical.

Also electric vehicles can be rented. Quite a few go past my flat each day.

So again, no causal connection to electric vehicles etc.

> oh you were in an anti-goverment demonstration a few months ago so we know that you are headed to another one. you can't move from your 15-minute city!

The first part of that is being done (or at least proposed) without any connection at all to electric cars or public transit.

The second part — the idea that 15 minute cities are about control — is a propaganda piece designed to rile up people like you. The reality is they're merely a fairly mild proposed planning policy to put stuff people want near those people who want that stuff, they have nothing in them about preventing people from leaving when they want to go further.