{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"Dissident Sound (npub1ns…2cgnl)","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1nshq4pcyzdmnewg4h8yu6tsuh5t72whzkz5x4wj7t0c0cy7yyrfqq2cgnl","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"i remember feeling very afraid of driving for like the first month doing it when i was 16.\n\nthis is why you have to start it when you're young - it's like learning to swim.\n\nbut right now i can practically sleep in the water laying on my back 100% relaxed without using any muscles.  but that's because i had almost died from drowning several times when i was younger and have been swimming for almost 40 years. \n\nwith driving i can never fully relax like this but i can relax enough to be able to think whereas this is something i still cannot do while mowing the lawn but i have done two orders of magnitude as much driving as i have mowing.   nostr:npub14pa5q2kqs8ygfxuat02w88ezsle9wzwnu0meu7z2785t8rl0hhcspkxw3v \n\ni can see how if i was 37 with almost zero driving experience it would be a relief for me not having to drive.  just like it would be a relief to somebody who has barely ever been in the water to not have to swim.\n\nanyway it's embarrassing that i had missed such an obvious explanation for Aruvin's strange fixation on walkability.  i kept calling him a retarded Urbanist when he was just an AZN.  i am sorry i wasn't trying to hurt his feelings on purpose - i just hate Urbanists."}