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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

The discussion is an enduring internet classic of people who have seen horses in The Last of Us ascribing near magical powers to it vs. everyone who ever worked with horses saying this is the worst idea imaginable which is fun.

I'm posting this here on account of the amusing amount of comments that presuposse a horse is a car that runs on dirt and just self heals broken bones

EDIT: Bonus points for "a horse can carry so much more" which is demonstably untrue unless you want the poor thing to die real early or strap a cart to it, at which point you have both horse and bicycle problems

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[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I think both'd be pretty hard to do but for entirely different reasons. You can probably find a lot of people who could technically weld you together a bicycle frame but then how do you weld in the post apocalypse. The horseshoes is way easier to manufacture but then that has the problem of there isn't exactly a lot of guys, material or manufacturing equipment left to manufacture horseshoes because nobody needs them anymore

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

but then how do you weld in the post apocalypse.

RETVRN TO TRADITION

(okay it still conventionally relies on brazing / welding, but I don't think it is an absolute requirement of the technique. Though brazing makes for a very strong bond between the lugs and the tubes, they could conceivably fastened by bolts or rivets)

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