Horses are also privacy friendly, unlike your smart car
That’s what the horses want you to think… Who knows who they’re selling your secrets to…
Damn horses…
I don’t know, have you seen their creepy eyes? Who knows what they’re up to when you’re not riding them somewhere.
Have you ever seen a horse in real life?
I’ve seen broccoli with more brain activity than your average horse.
Even dumb cars have number plates, and most developed countries have ANPR.
Horse beats all cars from a privacy perspective IMO
However, pony express is somewhat less secure than email
But does your car suffer from ulcers? And you can mend a flat tire - can you fix Dobbin’s broken leg? And when your car back fires, it makes a loud noise … when Dobbin backfires, he kicks you in the head.
Dobbin is capable of making new Dobbin’s.
Dobbin is also capable of miscarrying a new Dobbin … when a car dies, it’s less emotionally draining, unless it’s a classic car that’s over 50 years old.
Yes, but say Dobbin breaks down and leaves you stranded. You can eat Dobbin. Or even do the Luke Skywalker and climb in.
Who says you can’t eat the car? Definitely not this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
He fucking ate his own Guinness world record award.
That’s metal
You got me there … a Model T Ford is a bit hard to swallow … but you can keep warm inside your car, or set fire to it. Also Dobbin doesn’t produce a big black tire fire that can used to signal for help from far away.
Spoken like a man who’s never set a horse on fire
Does “mane charring” via “excessive friction” on Fluttershy count? Asking for a friend.
Car breaks down.
“I am sorry, old pal.”, I whisper as I load the gun.
When people tell me electric cars will never see mass adoption, I’ll remember this.
3D TVs will totally be a thing too! You just wait!
Just wait until VR goes mainstream
I’ve been waiting since the '80s.
I’ll wait until there a cheap surgery to fix motion sickness.
Can’t play any VR game for more than an hour or 2 before I feel like I’m gonna fall over or hurl.
Yeah but nobody actually believed that, even 3D movies weren’t good
Horse good, car bad. We must return
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
You don’t need a licence to ride a horse
I would 100% prefer to have a horse name dobbin. He could take me to tbe marker and also be my support animal! I would love dobbing for the rest of my life
I came here to say this too, but I did that thing where you look to see if someone else has said it. Hi, my people! I would sell my soul for this to become a thing.
So, in the modern world, in some places where people still use horses for normal life (certain remote places) people are actually replacing horses with cars/motorbikes because motorbikes are cheaper to own. The horse you have to feed all year round.
Also of course bikes are also a lot faster, you can park them somewhere and not think about sending them off to graze, and they’re (for the places I know) a status symbol too. That’s not to say they don’t have their downsides, including broken bike frames now rusting across the landscape.
Feels sad to me, but I understand it from the people’s point of view: getting whatever’s best in the now to help their day to day life and economic situation.
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Horse vs. Automobile
BEFORE you discard your horse and buy an auto it is well to think of the cost.
Figure how much you spend for harness and then think of what new tires amount to.
Figure up what it takes to feed Dobbin in a year and then think of gasoline, repairs and storage charges.
Dobbin is worth what you paid for him two years ago, where’s the man with an auto that can say the same?
Come in and get a new harness instead of a new car and remember that Dobbin will take you through snow and mud as well as on good roads and that his carburetor is never out of order.
Ed. Klein
732 Massachusetts Street
TFW you live in Amish territory and Dobbins are a common sighting on streets. Maybe once all the oil and natural gas have been pumped out, and if electric vehicles never take off, and if we dont converted back to wood gas/ ethenol based cars, Dobbins will become mainstream
This is usually the cycle if there is something new… many people in the past thought that computers or the internet would go away again … same with AI models at the moment
To be fair there are countless fads that went away again. Spicy autocomplete might very well be one of them. Not every invention has had the success of the automobile or the computers.
But spicy autocorrect is going to steal my job next month! Benzinga told me and my boss so; when he does fire me it totally won’t be a self fulfilling prophecy!
(Don’t worry, if this ages poorly I WILL delete this comment.)
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Looking at all the cars in the socialist countries… Huh.
This is Lemmy. Corporations bad, capitalism bad. Very simple.
So many random posts claiming something is bad because of capitalism and getting upvoted…
Can’t imagine people in subdivisions all owning horses, especially townhomes. They’re also very slow. Horses are good for the soul though. They’re like pools, the best horse is your friend’s/neighbors.
If I had enough property and could afford a great life for a few horse’s I would absolutely use them as my daily transportation/friend. Love to have a donkey and a couple of pack goats too.
I always have to watch a ton of goat videos to remember that they are jerks and that I don’t need one.
Yes they are. They are also great pack animals that are sure footed on steep rocky terrain. They can be cute and fun to be around too. Kind of a mischievous nature to them. The ones I’ve been around settled down after they age a bit.
Horses, donkeys can also be jerks. A horse I rode growing up Beggar, he loved all the attention, oats and brushing he could get. Saddled and bridled though he couldn’t wait to get me off him. Used to bite my shin when he had enough. I’d almost always acquiesced. I think he knew that I would walk him back by the creek so he could get some fresh water or greens before walking him back to be unsaddled and brushed. He was a good old boy. To old to want some punk kid telling him where to go and how fast.
He makes some good points.
We believe in Dobbin.
