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And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of "just being themselves" for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever... and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

This literally happened to my great grandfather in the late 1920s. He bought a car, got distracted by the sight of a pretty lady, and drove into a swamp. He was yelling "whoa! whoa!" and pulling back on the steering wheel while the car went off the road. That is what he had done his whole life to stop a horse drawn buggy in an emergency. He told my grandfather, who was riding with him at the time, that he could have the car if he could get it out of the swamp. He said he was going back to his horse and buggy because a horse wouldn't have run off the road into a swamp no matter what he looked at. He continued to use a horse and buggy for all of his transportation needs until he died in the mid 1960s. #FuckCars

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

When your drunk, horse drives you home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I'd rather have a ultralight carbon fiber donkey carriage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Horses are superior. When your car break down, you'll starve to death. Horses, however... 😋

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

have already starved to death because there's no food available within 5 standard miles, they tripped over a curb and broke their leg, and some shady looking feller keeps hanging around in the creek back yonder that looks at them shifty...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If cars are better than horses, why do horses still exist? Checkmate evolutionist

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Just because cars evolved from horses doesn't mean horses stop existing, only a portion of the horse population spilt off and evolved into cars

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It doesn't make sense to use automobiles. Imagine having to build out paved roads everywhere and also set up stations along these roads to refuel. Just completely impractical.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right? It would be so much cheaper if we just used to the reinforcing steel to create thin tracks which we could put much more thermally efficient and eco-friendly wheels onto. In turn, we could carry exceptionally large loads of cargo or people over vast distances for a mere fraction of the cost (monetary) and a fraction of the cost (to the world) by creating long, highly aerodynamic vehicles capable of moving at ridiculously high speeds that would be uncontrollable for the average joe on the road.

Wait, haven't I heard of something like this before?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

But people want the freedom that comes with having a horse. Maybe if we could put horses on the tracks and hook them up to each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can't negociate unprepared natural terrain at 120kph in any kind of machine or animal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about a flying machine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Then you are no longer negociating the terrain but the airspace

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

It's very difficult to maintain salt flat roads to everywhere. But yes, if we could take all of the economy, out of the environment and move it to a salt flat then we would not need asphalt paved roads. Also I suspect salt flat would deteriorate with heavy traffic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

frankly won't be surprised, if Tesla survives 30 years we're gonna see a Cyberhorse. big if. but yeah. and they'll be obnoxious too.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fun fact, there are more domesticated horses now then there were at the hight of horses being used as transportation. I found this out when a reporter asked Jay Leno, an avid classic car collector, if he was upset about the CA law that makes only EVs legal to sell as new cars in CA by a certain date. He said he totally approved of the measure, and that there was nothing to worry about for classic car collectors, and citing horse ownership rates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey I've been searching for solid stats about this. Are you sure? Because there used to be a lot of hotses!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are also a shitload more humans now. Even if number of horses per capita is lower, the fact that there are more people may compensate for that.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You sure about that? I found this graph [Source] for population of farm based horses.

They only look at US based horses, but according to World Population Review the US are the top owners of horses, having 18% of them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but there are a lot of neglected emaciated horses from people that shouldn't have horses.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

God, this image is cool. Very NaissancE, if you've ever played that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

"Hahaha" laughs in invasive species

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That's rape horse from Berserk

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I didn't clock it at first but yes exactly

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Equestrians are now free from menial labor and can focus on their Only Horse accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Horses, the original automatic braking

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Self driving, too, provided you want to go where the horse wants to go.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Mr. Hands enters the chat.....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Buy my nfts then.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hello, I am an internal combustion car. I can't go very fast unless the road is all paved, or very far unless you spend billions bringing fuel from thousand of kilometers to feed me. And if you drive me, people will think you're NOT gay!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Cars are just a scam made up by Big Horse to sell more horsepower without actually selling any horses

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (11 children)

There are articles from before the automobile discussing the pollution problems with horses. Apparently horses poop, a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck your Subaru I've a horse outside

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