Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Perfektně tržně optimalizovaná dráha provozuje neexistující vlaky po neexistujících kolejích na neexistujícím traťovém tělese.
terminally online neurodivergent transgender lesbian. engineering, train & car enthusiast. quite fond of EU & NATO. possibly got quite a few screws loose She/Her (They/Them is tolerable but not preferred)
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Perfektně tržně optimalizovaná dráha provozuje neexistující vlaky po neexistujících kolejích na neexistujícím traťovém tělese.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Brno hl.n. has S-shaped through platforms and straight end platforms because it used to be served by two separate companies with their own bay platforms. Which means the gaps between the train and the platform can be very wide.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Hodilo by se kolem Brna směrem k Drahanské vrchovině a směrem na západ kde téměř nic není
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I haven’t seen a single Chinese ev here. Though culturally there is massive aversion to buying new, because for the price of the cheapest new car you can get a 10 year old car with most of the useful modern features and an engine that doesn’t blow out after 100000km.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
EU is probably being sabotaged by Russia and the United States. They have absolutely zero ambition for improving Europe and only pass the most idiotic legislation.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Clankers seem to only ever help rich twats have more money
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
They stopped selling it In Czechoslovakia in the 80s because it got so antiquated that it didn’t even fit the near nonexistent regulations of that time
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Fiat clones are overrated, real ones have their own independent designs 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿💪💪💪💪💪💪 (not forgiving the Russian led Comecon for destroying the Škoda 720 because it would threaten their fiat clone (zhiguli)) (although a polonez caro 1.4 16v would be quite cool)
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s tbh a more sensible way to treat it, AS LONG AS THERE IS VERY HIGH STANDARD OF EDUCATION AND TESTING. Heard American driver tests are like ridiculously easy and are super cheap.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
We really should severely restrict production of these damn clankers. Especially considering the views of their designers.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
manual transmission greatly discourages this
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
deep down I know I’ll never be a real woman
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
The world is absolutely cooked rn so being sad about it isn’t a thing to apologize for
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah hopefully. Ideal case some sort of exception in the regulation would be carved out for the S-segment because electric “sports cars” just don’t hit the same. The insane power is usually just masking the rest of the car not being that much sporty (and the 2 metric ton weight).
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
That is the level of how cooked society is here
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
And it’s extremely hated in Eastern Europe too. The parties that oppose it got a majority in EU parliament elections. A potential coalition of PfE and ESN parties is projected to have a real chance at a constitutional majority in the chamber of deputies. I don’t doubt that industry hates it too tho
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
the scientists congratulating me on escaping the simulation after I violently blow my brains out with an 8 gauge shotgun
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
All cars are designed for Chinese consumers nowadays. It’s honestly annoying. There’s few cars that are unapologetically European, the German refinement, French strangeness or Eastern European affordability are all gone. At least Americans have their own thing despite the cars being mediocre
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
and that policy is extremely unpopular outside of the wealthy western cities, so they now want to reconsider it (and doesn’t apply to ultra low production iirc) And there’s still millions of old VINs available, which do not have any emissions control, which will become increasingly attractive.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
just run catless
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I bet on America getting obliterated before my area, and by the time it’ll be my problem I’ll be long dead.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
just do a cat delete and bribe the inspector
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
They should bring back the rotary with a manual transmission
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
It ain’t gonna be 100% anytime soon.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
EVs are not driver’s cars and never will be.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Clankers only make people lazy & stupid. They also stole all the entry level jobs, I hope the wireback datacenters get obliterated by natural disasters
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Miata is always the answer
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Capture it for the funny
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not an 80s-00s 4 cylinder manual shitbox (endearing) henceforth it’s an absolute shitbox (derogatory)
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I need more rail transport so I can buy a bunch of marketplace shitboxes that barely run instead of reliable modern vehicles
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
They retrofitted it to the old parts too (gas lines too)
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
that’s not a standard thing?
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
old diesel can run on (filtered) used cooking oil
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
I will never forgive the Russians
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d love the Škoda 720 fastback prototype as a production car, with a spiced up ea211 1.5tsi and a manual transmission. Cheap sporty car that they make millions of and people tune both the stock engine and install the most insane swaps they proceed to drift into a wall only to buy 5 more
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Czech Republic is 42% nuclear with further buildup (2 preparing for construction, 6 more planned). Why bother with unreliable wind and sun, especially in a hilly landlocked country when hydro and nuclear is always there, working nonstop, providing practically infinite energy?
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
evil bastards live the longest
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
It really feels like everyone has forgotten how to design nice things, though to be fair I deem the NA Miata, the Italian box style, tatra 613, Škoda 130 Rapid, tatra t3/k2/k5 and Czechoslovak class 363 as peak of design
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
the front end looks kinda goofy ngl frankly all the proportions are just slightly off…
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
being trans is a literally one way of becoming a Nietschian ubermensch, because we stop living for a concept of a model member of society and instead live for ourselves. The capitalists and politicians are terrified of the idea that more people start questioning the human condition in 2025
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m fucking done with politeness and normal beliefs. the elites push transphobia because they rely on there being “only one way of living out a life”. being trans introduces agency and contradicts the “only way”. with a moral panic there is no questioning.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Malé změny k lepšímu jsou brněnskou záležitostí
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
Fuckin hate clankers taking the entry level jobs
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Pravda, a taky na kapacitě souprav Na osmičce a jedničce by se už někdy pomalu hodily 60m soupravy
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Další den, další ukázka že pražská ODS jen krade, zatímco brněnská ODS aspoň přitom rozkrádání drží ceny jízdenek stále stejně.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Make engine swaps legal so it’s not necessary to buy whole new car
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
why is a 20 year old shitbox so bad but all the billionaires and politicians flying private jets everywhere is of no concern they’re preaching water for common people and drinking the most expensive wines with their elite pals
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Such a shame the only surviving attainable convertible is the MX-5
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
anti nuclear movement is funded by coal lobby
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Just use burnt out nuclear fuel for nuclear weapons
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t even care all that much about those super expensive garage princesses anymore, for me the dream is an AP1 S2K with ITBs, an NA with a fully built 1.8VVT and a 6 speed. Sure a 930, Stratos or EVO37 would be cool AF but I’d be then kinda scared to drive it because of the idiots in huge SUVs
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I really feel like supercars have gotten a little boring because now you take a walk in Prague and see multiple Ferraris and lambos.Seeing a nice attainable sporty car like the i30N, GR Yaris, BRZ/86 or an MX-5 is what makes my heart race nowadays. Or the 80s-00s classics (Z-cars, e30, FC, s2k etc).
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
some prefer kissing people, I’m more into kissing a pillar or tree at 200 km/h
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
technically speed has never killed anyone sudden rapid changes in it, that’s what gets you
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
It is just so strange to me that the English speaking world has zero social trust and relies on government regulating like a Christian mother during the satanic panic
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
The anglosphere has a real tendency to believe all people are fucking stupid and can’t do basic things, so they need speed governors, phone pouches at schools and all sorts of government permits
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
When I am dead the deluge may come for all I care, the world isn’t mine to fix
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah I’m probably a psychopath then. Or too naive to believe people go by the basic social contract of slowing down when there’s people around. The basic rule of road safety is that rail has absolute priority, pedestrians have priority over vehicles and road vehicles have to give them all way
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s built like that because otherwise you would be at redline on the highway. If you want to be mechanically limited to 120km/h or so, don’t shift up from third.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
People already delete emissions equipment (Adblue), and it’s just software at the end, so a trip to a guy with a laptop and an OBD2 cable can solve the nuisance, or a box that just tells the ECU it’s on the autobahn unlimited stretch
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
High speed is fun, city streets can be just narrowed (unless you’re in America where such a thing is impossible). It is also basic social contract that you drive carefully when pedestrians are around. Outside of settlements a speed limit is essentially pointless and should be merely advisory.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
Bring back defenestrations
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
The European Commission needs to become an elected body or be abolished
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Problem is they’re making everything proprietary and difficult to repair / upgrade because replacement is cheaper than repair battery vehicles can work in some use cases (short commutes) but they make them to fail to force early replacement
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
I fucking hate automatic/hybrid/electric crossovers, they’re like a plague that has infected the roads and the auto industry I WANT MY FUCKING REAR WHEEL DRIVE COUPE (or targa/convertible) WITH A MANUAL TRANSMISSION AND A TWINCAM 4 CYLINDER ENGINE
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
Not being in a relationship is weight reduction
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
society of FSO stayed in business and the polonez ended up as the competition to Octavia pushing the Central European car companies to great competition even better if Tatra, FSM and other companies were reborn too There needs to be more cheap fun chassis than miatas and old BMWs
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
What are they going to do, send a strongly worded letter of condemnation?
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Po nás potopa
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
What is the point in trying if one is doomed to forever be just a number in a database
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
We’ll see which ones will be the ones that people get actually excited about when seeing them on the street
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
they’re not better than 90s-00s European and Japanese cars that’s for sure they may have various “smart” tech gadgets but I sure as hell am not getting into something that has brakes that fade after one lap and seats that detach in the smallest crash.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Build a dam
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
we should exempt the S-segment of cars from euro 7
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Mohli by tlačit na Číňany a Američany aby taky se snažili a ne abychom to jako debilové museli táhnout za ně Všichni ostatní na to kompletně kašlou, přitom katastrofy na ně dopadnou ještě hůř.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
kinda feel like wrapping around a tree ngl
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
Toyota could make a fuckton of money by making the AE86 again
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
Vsetín neexistuje.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
The greatest invention in the history of humanity was the Mazda MX-5/Miata/Roadster Nothing will ever come close to it
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
for 3k euro per month id be very happy but America is famously very expensive in my Eastern European country I’d be satisfied with 3k€, above 5k€ it’s very comfortable, 10k€ or more and I would probably be able to afford to retire without relying on state pensions
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
light affordable sports cars
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I constantly hear about BMWs with a downpipe, tune and E85 making bizarre power and her rather envious (even rims require registration here)
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s why you build so much dense public panel housing it makes sense to start business in the panel housing estates
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
America should just go to planned economy if the market economy is so corrupt
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Flex fuel can work quite well with a turbo because ethanol has good octane numbers e85 is nowadays THE street racing fuel in America if I’m not mistaken
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
hot take but maybe we should try somewhat centralized economic planning everyone planning for the next quarter at most is just suboptimal
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
glorify the IRA
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Especially in the case of the Olympics I get very nationalistic - surely this time we can repeat the triumph from Nagano ’98
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t care much for hockey unless my city reaches the semifinals in the local championship or there’s either the world championships or the Olympics.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Should have gotten a early gen1 Škoda Octavia 1.9 TDI 66kW with a DPF delete
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
americans thinking that the entire world revolves around them is really something. Can’t wait for America to lose its hegemony so their narcissistic behavior and exceptionalism finally ends or at least significantly quiets down.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Tesly kupujou jejich nadšenci hlavně ne? Běžný Čech nové auto nekupuje a koupí feldu za flašku kořalky nebo oktávku v rotačce 66kw s vyříznutým DPF
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
cobalt-60 should rain on Moscow
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
America deserves 10000 years of the most comically rampant capitalism. OR Russian-style communism ran by absolutely incompetent idiots looking only for how they can enrich themselves.
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Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
přímovstřik je rozhodně “zajímavá” věc (drahé na opravu, složitá implementace 5-ventilových hlav, tendence k detonaci u malých turbomotorů) ale zase komprese může být značně vyšší (14:1 u Miaty ND) podle mě vrchol aut byla NA/NB Miata, Civic EK9/EP3, Silvia a samozřejmě RX-7, NSX, Supra a GT-R
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Benzín je obecně vpoho, saze jsou jen z nafty Benzín je zapalovaný externě zatímco u nafty se doufá že se sama vznítí + při zrychlení nafta má značně bohatší směs ale rotačka 66kw jede “za štyry”, a tak kvůli tomu dostala nafta v EU výhody oproti benzínu. JP nebo USA naftu moc nemají.
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t only a few huge Dutch cities have trams? Czech cities that are considerably smaller (100k inhabitants) got a couple lines but no western “expat” (immigrant) is soyfacing over them
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social)
billionaires that have huge money invested in ev startup will fly private jets everywhere but the senior with a 1.3mpi Felicia, the retiree with a 1.9tdi Octavia, the single mother with a 1.2tsi Fabia, the student with the 1.4VVT Meriva B or the youngster with the B6-ZE NB6 is the problem…
Astra 🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇨🇿 (@astralurbanist.bsky.social) reply parent
transitioning is an important part of achieving the super-person mindset because it means rejecting society’s view of oneself and embracing one’s real self