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Beartaco posted:But instead of getting people to push their local representatives to greenify our cities, e-scooters inexplicably turn even the most avid cyclists into huge NIMBY cunts that support polluting waterways with heavy metals. Not to mention all the loving wasted resources of making the things in the first place, sure the kids who mined the lithium for the battery are happy it was destroyed E: Man I'm getting really good a lovely snipes in this thread huh... take this oldly but a goody as penance https://i.imgur.com/Ao1uvJM.mp4 Dragonstoned fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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Beartaco posted:But instead of getting people to push their local representatives to greenify our cities, e-scooters inexplicably turn even the most avid cyclists into huge NIMBY cunts that support polluting waterways with heavy metals. Probably because the startup shitheads who run the scooter rental companies decided to save some money by storing them on every footpath in the city
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:01 |
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Beartaco posted:But instead of getting people to push their local representatives to greenify our cities, e-scooters inexplicably turn even the most avid cyclists into huge NIMBY cunts that support polluting waterways with heavy metals. What, you can't drop 2 grand on the correct way to travel faster than walking but not using a car?
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:11 |
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I wouldn't expect to see "ballslap" as a cause of death, but we're getting close here. Supersonic scrote. Toro teabag.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:13 |
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I own an ebike as my only vehicle and abhor car-centric everything, but I hold nothing but contempt for the companies that literally dump their bullshit scooters on towns with no approval, planning, or proper infrastructure
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:14 |
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CainFortea posted:What, you can't drop 2 grand on the correct way to travel faster than walking but not using a car? The One True WayTM to travel in style while still being environmentally conscious is only about 1100$ new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA&t=33s
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:18 |
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Don't throw e-scoots in the river, throw them in the road. No-one is going to do poo poo about scoots in a lake or canal, because they are out of everyone's way at that point. But - Nothing prompts swift municipal action than an inconvenience to drivers. So just pile them up in the gutter.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:25 |
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I quite like using the scooters to get around cites. I don't think we'll ever get them because of our rather unforgiving geography but when I used them in Seville they were really handy. You had to take a photograph of where you parked it. It seemed like a good system. Then I went to Atlanta and used the scooters there and its a very different story. There's no real infrastructure for them, no lanes to use them in, you didn't need to take the photos etc. Which is weird because America loving loves rules. It was illegal for me to walk across the street from my hotel to the cafe opposite. That whole land of the free thing only seems to apply to corporations. The shad on me I scooted my way over to the Trap Music Museum in Atlanta but I had wildly underestimated how popular it would be so there was no way I'd get in. Had to scoot my way the way back to downtown.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 08:41 |
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ReelBigLizard posted:Don't throw e-scoots in the river, throw them in the road. No-one is going to do poo poo about scoots in a lake or canal, because they are out of everyone's way at that point. But - Nothing prompts swift municipal action than an inconvenience to drivers. So just pile them up in the gutter. Or just Take The Lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffR7qcsNTic
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 09:01 |
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Beartaco posted:But instead of getting people to push their local representatives to greenify our cities, e-scooters inexplicably turn even the most avid cyclists into huge NIMBY cunts that support polluting waterways with heavy metals. People would love a good municipal system of e-scootrs / e-bikes, but this aint it. https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s1e7sbzZiO1r0uzl6.mp4
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 09:18 |
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E-scooters don't replace car journeys, they replace bike trips, bus rides, taxi rides and walking. Their emissions are higher than all of those except taxis. And their lifespan means the carbon costs of production are astronomical. But they're totally designing new more robust models with replaceable batteries and they will definitely come out any day now! And then they'll still not replace car journeys nor be greener than any of the already existing alternatives. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/e-scooter-rentals-carbon-emissions
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 09:35 |
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Aramoro posted:Then I went to Atlanta and used the scooters there and its a very different story. There's no real infrastructure for them, no lanes to use them in, you didn't need to take the photos etc. Which is weird because America loving loves rules. It was illegal for me to walk across the street from my hotel to the cafe opposite. That whole land of the free thing only seems to apply to corporations. Jaywalking is one of the stupidest laws I've every heard of. My old house mates cousin came over (to UK) from Poland (which had jaywalking laws) and he freaked out when we just looked both ways and walked right across a road. When we explained it to him he took great excitement in crossing whenever he could. Even avoiding actual crossings just because he could.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 09:41 |
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ekuNNN posted:it's because tech startups are scumbags who ignore all regulation and externalities so they can show growth to investors, and they were only "thriving" off of venture capitalist money. https://i.imgur.com/ojVtFMg.mp4
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 09:42 |
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I hate those scooters. What bothers me most is that nobody wears a helmet on them - which is mandatory here - despite going faster than bicycles who almost universally wear helmets. That's not rational, though (ain't my problem if idiots are breaking the rules), so I tell myself I mostly hate them because they block the footpath, or ride on the footpath ringing their stupid bell trying to shoo pedestrians out the way, which I have to admit they don't do all that often. So I guess the schad is they make me irrationally stressed out and angry.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 10:54 |
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Hyperlynx posted:I hate those scooters. What bothers me most is that nobody wears a helmet on them - which is mandatory here - despite going faster than bicycles who almost universally wear helmets. Here in Melbourne Australia they have a government approved e-scooter pilot program and the city has provided a whole lot of free helmets for people to use, but they still hardly ever wear them
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 10:58 |
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Scooters are like bicycles that give up everything to be compact, which is cool if you want to take them on a train or stuff them into a cupboard, but it’s totally wasted if they’re all parked outside. https://i.imgur.com/7bKh12F.mp4 Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Sep 23, 2023 |
# ? Sep 23, 2023 11:03 |
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Maybe they should hire people with sticks to bop people on the head instead?
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 11:04 |
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https://i.imgur.com/ridflSU.mp4
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Takes No Damage posted:If they tried that poo poo in Dallas those cars would be stripped for parts on the first night. They're here, homie. I've seen two of them myself. Can't help but wonder how long it'll be until one of them is hit by a train at any number of the lovely crossings around here. I hope it's me and I hit an empty one. I'd love to be the one to explain that to the company incident investigator.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 14:28 |
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What kind of deranged orderly driving system do Texas cities have that would even allow these to function in the first place? These would be upside down lying across the street within seconds in any city like Boston and people would just drive around them.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 14:38 |
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I like the idea of the e-scooters, I hate how everyone implements them. loving slow them down for starters.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 14:55 |
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I like the idea of cars, I hate how everyone implements them. loving slow them down for starters.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 15:07 |
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we just goin' full grandpa now?
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 15:27 |
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Dont look at me, I support universal adoption of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQK9m_OBVgY
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 16:16 |
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:every once in a while I remember NFT island and lmao That is the worst YouTube video I have ever watched
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 17:00 |
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DRONE SNATCH
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 17:02 |
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Drone never saw it caiman
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 17:21 |
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Stocky Manhood posted:That is the worst YouTube video I have ever watched They're the Millennial/Zoomer version of those terrible spam calls that tell Boomers they need to contact the IRS about their Medicare, except with added tech/finance arrogance and self-selecting for creeps so desperate to gently caress children that they'll go all-in on an obvious fraud.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 17:21 |
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fuctifino posted:Kick streamer Ice Poseidon, recently known for nearly killing himself walking to Everest base camp has been assaulted by someone in Australia who fell for his crypto rug-pull scam Again? Is his plan to get arrested in every country he visits. According to this article here the reason for the arrest might've been when they planted a hidden camera to film a sex worker with a some guy, the sex worker got notified via a phone message about this and promptly left because she felt the whole situation was creepy and sus. Here's a clip of the incident: https://twitter.com/FearedBuck/status/1704865265559691432
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 17:25 |
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Kamrat posted:Again? Is his plan to get arrested in every country he visits. It might be because I'm not the target demo for this. But what were they trying to do, what was the pay off for the setup?
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 17:55 |
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Aramoro posted:It might be because I'm not the target demo for this. But what were they trying to do, what was the pay off for the setup? Remember when kids used to play the "who can yell penis the loudest without getting in trouble" game? What was the pay off there? It's the same thing here.
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Aramoro posted:It might be because I'm not the target demo for this. But what were they trying to do, what was the pay off for the setup? No idea, there's probably a longer clip out there that shows the incident in it's proper context but I'm not searching for it, I just hope he gets put behind bars, iceposeidon is a piece of poo poo that scammed his viewers for half a million dollars so he deserves what's coming to him.
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 18:20 |
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So did those viewers though
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 18:52 |
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I eat my corn dogs with a spoon e: poo poo freeedr fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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mobby_6kl posted:Ooof, it seems like most of the BBQ did land intact thankfully According to bird law that person is now divorced.
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new thread drop: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4042273
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