So…? 🤷♀️
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Hopefully, this kind of shenanigan should sound dangerously familiar.
Ah, no worries, Europe is right behind you! The UK has completely fallen off the cliff and is a full blown kleptocracy, Hungary already has an openly fascist Government, and in Germany the Nazi party is currently clocking in at 20%+ in opinion polls, which would make them the 2nd strongest party in the next election. Yay! 🥳
in Marseille, trams have to frequently compete with pedestrians and bicycles that keep walking/riding on the tram line
Ugh, that is definitely annoying and dangerous. I used to live in Erfurt, Germany for a while. Quaint medieval old-town, huge cathedral, very popular with tourists, some major attraction happening roughly every weekend.
So they have that really narrow alley running from the cathedral to the central square where all the tourists and citizens are squeezing through, and yeah, lo and behold, they run a tram through it as well… 🤪
I gotta assume the majority of Germany’s ~30 tram deaths per year are drunken tourists in Erfurt.
Yeah, this is really no joke.
Cube is a German company, and one of the largest bike manufacturers. Their bikes are ubiquitous here.
And German vehicle regulations are extremely strict. It‘s only an e-bike if it’s limited to 25 km/h, anything above is a „light motor bike“, which indeed needs a registration and a license.
Driving a vehicle without those is a misdemeanour* in Germany.
And I assume Cube did everything to reach out to all owners directly, so Police will assume you know those bikes are illegal.
Edit: * Technically. I mean, most likely they’ll just find you and impound the bike. But if they want to fuck you up about this, they totally can.
The results seem to show that despite Paris banning shared electric scooters, Parisians still seek out and use shared mobility devices. Now, they appear to have merely shifted to shared bikes instead of shared scooters.
Friendly reminder that correlation is not causation.
From what I remember from reading studies about usage patterns of shared scooter they seemed to be replacing mostly short walks and public transport trips, and rarely car usage (only short taxi trips IIRC). Also usage patterns are mostly for leisure and fun, and rarely commuting.
And I don’t see why someone who’s too lazy to walk or sit on a tram would use a bike now. I mean, sure, some people, but definitely not all of them.
Also, there were 15k scooters, and the number of bike rides per month exploded by at least 1 million, which would mean that every single scooter was used at least two times every day. That doesn’t feel plausible.
On the other hand, Paris is investing heavily in bike infra, so my guess would be some major player/s just dropped massive amounts of shared bikes and people who did not use them before are now using them. Could be anyone, though. Maybe 15 k people stopped using a car and are now commuting by bike twice a day… 🤷♀️
Also, that's funny that USAA won't cover bikes that assist above 15mph, since literally every class of eBike goes faster than that
That is, however, the legal limit for e-bikes in the EU (25 km/h), everything else you need license and registration for.
There's a world of difference between a legit branded eBike
Seriously, what is going on with the US (from another article that’s linked in this one):
“I had my e bike (although it’s one of those that look like scooters with the big batteries) in the elevator and the super just happened to come in. He stared at it and said you can’t charge these in the building. You’ll be getting a letter soon. I got it and it said e-bikes were not allowed in the building anymore because of all the fires that have come up because of them. It’s really sad too because I just ordered myself an e-bike from alibaba that I’d been waiting weeks for.“
Who the fuck buys an e-bike on ali-fucking-baba?
„I’m not a Nazi, but…“
Do you understand what it was like being a Jew during the holocaust? […] My 15 year old daughter has told me multiple times in the past that in school now - if you don't claim you're LGBT in some orientation, you get bullied for not being that. […] But that sounds like it's okay with you, because straight people are "the wrong people".
Really meaningful attempt at starting a conversation like so, troll? https://lemmy.world/comment/5742227
Is it also out of context when you compare your straight daughter’s experiences to, and I quote, „Jews during the holocaust“?
Maybe nobody wants to have a meaningful discussion with you because you’re an outrageously obtuse asshole.
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Yes. Yes I did. I took both pills, ground them up to very manageable pieces, took a straw and just very disciplined snorted everything up.
And then I asked for more pills.