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.
If the car is old and rusty enough that’s not entirely wrong. My dad has a truck right now that he’s just driving until the next major breakdown; after that it’s
going to the glue factorygetting sold off as scrap.
Horse good, car bad. We must return
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
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
You don’t need a licence to ride a horse
You do need a shovel for afterward though.
Maybe not on the street if you plan accordingly , but yeah at some point you are going to need one.
And you’ve got to empty that bag. Gross.
On local shared hiking trails they make dog owners scoop up after them with plastic bags so it can be flung into trees further down the trail, but with the horses they can just do their business where ever they want on trail. Some sections get pretty covered in it.
There’s a few reasons for that. One is obviously the having to get off the horse to deal with it but also dog poop smells way worse and doesn’t degrade the same as horses does. It really doesn’t take that long for horse poop to turn to pretty much dirt.
-someone who’s shoveled or mowed over my fair share of both
On the multi use trails we have locally there are people who ride horses, but I have never seen horse shit on the trail while biking. though I have seen the dog poop bags on the side of the trail. on the hiking trails I see dog poop bags everywhere, would be happy if they threw it into the woods (without the bags, because even if they are designed to breakdown, that only in specific industrial compost heaps)
I wish this was the case at my local park. It is surrounded by horse stables and owners. There’s a lot of horse traffic being one of the local rural areas with horses. The local roads have flashing signs to warn of horses on the road and to slow down. There’s even a pub further up with a small paddock out front for owners to tie up their horses while they go in for a pint.
I would think just flicking the dog poop off the trail would be better for the environment than plastic bags left everywhere but in the times above when car first came around, our cites were covered in horsesh!t and in some cases bloated horse carcasses waiting to be disposed of. In many respects we’ve come a long ways since.
It depends on how much poop is in a specific area. There is a gradient. Like a little bit isn’t bad, but one you start getting piles it can be pretty bad for the area if they aren’t allowed to breakdown or aren’t removed.
What’s the point of bagging to carry it and then drop it. You already did the awful part of bending down, staring at and smelling the shit, feeling its warmth and consistency with your fingers…
Then you drop it when it’s at its least annoying
I’ve had dog owners say they don’t want to carry the poop with them on the hike and they will grab it on the way out. Which at best is a 50/50 shot. I let them know of a product called a dumppouch when I see them do something like that. I carry one for garbage I find on trails as humans make a mess pretty much every where.
Dobbin is a stupid name for a horse.
You’re a stupid name for a horse.
Well yeah. Who ever heard of a horse named Flying Squid?
I mean… “Hoof Hearted” was a real horse name. (Read it out loud)
That is a great horse name though.
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
He makes some good points.
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.
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.)
To be fair we only have so many cars because corporations ruined public transportation for us
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…
We believe in Dobbin.
