See, now this sounds awesome. Everyone's getting offended for sport but what I'm referring to is the fact that we have a huge portion of the US who sits in a car all day and night, clogging up highways and polluting the air.

You bike to and from work? That's fantastic, if I could do that I'd be in the office a few days a week too, as I also road bike. But so many people don't do that.

What's really broken is car culture and the way that we have banned any sort of walkable/bikeable/transit lifestyle except in very tiny areas of the country. These parts that are walkable/bikeable/have good transit are massively overpriced because we have legislated away this option for far too many people.

I walk to work, and a lot of my work involves close collaboration in ways that teleconferencing makes really hard (math or other collaborative diagramming over Zoom? Hah!). And the lag makes a lot of communication extremely difficult. Perhaps we will learn to deal with our inadequate technology, or maybe the tech will get better, but my frustration level has gone through the roof with working from home.

So though I despise the hours-in-a-car-per-day requirement that our city planning has forced on people, I also had a bad reaction to your initial comment :)

Why not take the ride anyway? Just turn halfway and go back home.

Annoyingly I have to drive into work now because after the ride is the metro trip for the rest of the distance, but the metro is shut down till Labor Day so it's straight out. All that time I had blocked out in my day is spent driving instead. :(