A lot of people I've seen in Lamborghini cars aren't serious about their lives. They're spoiled idiots who lucked out and got a ton of money handed to them and are driving it around to show off how much money they have as if they deserved it.
I have a buddy who wanted a Ferrari and a Lambo since they were a kid. They finally got to the point where they bought the Ferrari only to realize he has a wife and kid. The kid can’t safely ride in the Ferrari for 12+ years and he can’t fit 3 people in the car so he sold it. These aren’t cars for people with normal lives.
I'm an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I've driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I'm not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn't buy either one over my Miata.
Supercars are vastly overrated.
Notice the implied and unquestioned assumption that “life goals” means accumulating resources and not building relationships or contributing to society. In fact, it’s expected that personal relationships and societal responsibilities shall be neglected in the quest for resources.
And if you do have friends, they can laugh at you when you struggle to get out of the car
man, those guilt coping posts. maybe just do the right thing, so you don't need to make up bullshit to feel good
You mean just take the bus?
Yeah just take the bus
Nooooo, I wanted to ride the bus but someone took it!
It's OK my friend, just catch the next one. You can probably make it to the next bus stop even, that's what I like to do.
I wonder which one is more expensive, a new Lamborghini or a new bus.
Depends on the size of the bus - anywhere from high 90s to half a million for a school bus.
The bus
I fucking hate people that act like they escaped the matrix because they drive a personally owned vehicle.
Like wow you're really showing us public transit welfare queens what true independence looks like, gripping a steering wheel in a vehicle they can only legally operate with a government-issued license, on a road built and maintained by the government, cleared of snow by government workers driving government-owned trucks, fueled by government-subsidized oil, and parked in government-funded lots. Let’s not forget they had to go to a government building, talk to a government employee, and pay a government fee just for the privilege of registering their car — which they’re also legally required by the government to insure. And after all that bureaucratic red tape and recurring fees, they have the audacity to act like they're the icons of self-sufficiency. The cherry on top? If their precious symbol of ‘independence’ breaks down, the government isn’t going to help — they get to shoulder the repair costs entirely on their own.
Meanwhile, I swipe a card once a month and get access to a system that moves people efficiently, doesn’t ask for my blood type, and doesn’t require me to pour thousands into maintenance and paperwork — and I’m the one supposedly suckling at the teat of Big Government?
Ok.
As someone who owns a vehicle, I feel more like I've escaped the matrix when on public transportation than when I'm driving. I still have to have a car to get places public transit won't go, but I always look forward to the completion of each new station, one more area I don't have to drive to.
I rarely go farther from my home than I can go in a few minutes in my bycicle, so I never felt the need for a car. But once every few months I would need to go somewhere that is two hours away by bus, often with inconvenient bus timings (like either 6am or noon) - so I sometimes take an Uber instead.
When people her about me taking an Uber for such a "long" trip they call me insane, say that I'm wasting money and I should just get a car and those trips would be much cheaper. They never consider all the other costs involved in owning a car.
But then after a while people in my town started giving up on Uber and it became hard to find a driver whenever I might need one, so I finally got a driving license and bought myself a bike. People now were like "you'll see how it changes you, you'll use it for everything, you'll go out a lot more often and to everywhere with it". By the time I had a trip to make it was no longer turning on due to being stuck in a garage for so long. The counter showed less than 20 kilometers when I sold it.
You are definitely singing the song of my people. I bought my car when I was working 2 jobs with heavy overtime, and it mattered a lot that I could drive 20 minutes instead of the 1hr bus ride. I put about 20k kilometers on the odometer. Things changed recently, and I've found myself doing maintenance on it based on a time schedule rather than distance. I could buy 200 round-trip Uber rides per year for what I'm paying.
I tried getting into cycling, but there's a lack of cycle paths and protected bike lanes here. It's one of those areas that has "sharrows." Pro tip: drivers do not share the road even with the sharrows.
People who are serious about life value long term benefit over short term material goods. Public transportation is a public good for all and in the long term will save you a ton of money.
But how else can you show off how much money you have and how insecure you are?
Buy a massive long gun to compensate
If you need a meme to feel good about your decisions, then maybe make better decisions.
I'm pretty sure nobody driving that midlife crisis on wheels has ever gotten "serious" about their lifes
TIL: The people on the bus are my friends! Yay!
The bus on the bus go bus bus bus!
Commute friends are great. You've got a pleasant conversation for the ride, and another source of information when your ride is canceled.
Depending on the route, I'd argue that you should be careful what you wish for. Having said that, I found your response extremely wholesome to a Kenneth Parcell level.
"Oh, hi, new friend! Is that a test tube in your mouth? You must be a scientist!"
"Golly, that sure is a big knife! Thanks for defending all of us bus friends!"
Engineering decisions: how can make something that pollutes to the legal max both in particles, noise, and, come to think of it, any aspect possible? Oh, I know, a car!
If you're choosing life-goals that shut out your friends, those are the wrong life-goals.
It's a great meme, but I do cringe a little bit at the idea of engineers designing the car while already having built most of it.
Those engineers just got serious about their lifes. You can crank out way more products if you skip designing them, it is the engineer hustle 🔧😎
And if they didn't decide yet, they could always just bolt more seats to the roof.
The car they're working on only has one(functional) seat.....
Commas, man. They're important to not abuse. You made my brain hiccup
My life goal is to not work...which is why I'm not spending my money on a status symbol.
But the car on the second panel is a Ginetta G58 (with a Chevy engine) for LMP3, not road legal ... witch ... ok, it does have two seats, so it checks out, carry on.
The seats:
Replace second speech box with “two, because people who buy our cars are losers”
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