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C.M. Kruger posted:recounting a story where he'd seen a guy try to stack milk crates on one as a seat and then speed off and crash into the side of a parked car. I saw some old dude on an e-scooter the other week and I guess he got tired of standing on it and converted it into a 'moped' style scooter by adding a three legged wooden stool he could sit on. I couldn't tell if the stool was attached to the scooter at all or whether he was just carefully balancing on it
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like renting scooters because it's a cheap and fast way of getting from A to B. To be fair, I feel like this is a reason the hirable bike system failed: it wasn't from A to B, it was from bike station to bike station. You couldn't just leave them at your destination unless that happened to be a bike station. I never used them because I couldn't be sure there was a bike point nearby.
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My father was a biker and would like four times a year join other bikers to rally around to abolish helmet laws. He himself would always wear a helmet because "I'm not a loving idiot." He just hated being told to do so.
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credburn posted:"I'm not a loving idiot." quote:four times a year join other bikers to rally around to abolish helmet laws.
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Not a creationist, but thinks that they should teach the controversy.
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Im not an idiot, im just a loving spoiled child
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a helmet makes me too hot. ill just simply not fall
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Individualism rots your brain. If the government ordered the people to wipe their asses there'd be some dipshits burning tp in the streets
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Like I said, over here pretty much the only bicyclists who don't wear helmets are the withered old white blokes who almost always break whatever other traffic laws they can, as if to show how defiant they are of The Man keeping them down.
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derp posted:Individualism rots your brain. If the government ordered the people to wipe their asses there'd be some dipshits burning tp in the streets Give me a lovely rear end in a top hat or give me death!
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Literally A Person posted:Give me a lovely rear end in a top hat or give me death! My parents also vote Republican
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KoRMaK posted:a helmet makes me too hot.   Would have put money on the stage being overloaded and collapsing, nice swerve!
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like renting scooters because it's a cheap and fast way of getting from A to B. Yea, I mostly just use them when i'm doing a Day Downtown or something. And around here you have to use the sidewalk or you risk a biker kicking you over or something for daring to use the bike lane.
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KoRMaK posted:a helmet makes me too hot. ill just simply not fall I can confidently say that it does not make you too hot.
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Hyperlynx posted:Like I said, over here pretty much the only bicyclists who don't wear helmets are the withered old white blokes who almost always break whatever other traffic laws they can, as if to show how defiant they are of The Man keeping them down. I think the previous poster meant motorcyclists, but in the case of bicycles, helmet laws are bad. You should absolutely always wear a helmet, but helmet laws are almost always only enforced as another way for cops to gently caress with young black men/teenagers and also decrease the amount of bicyclists in general, which decreases the safety of other cyclists. And in the case of motorcyclists, hey, they'll probably have at least one viable organ someone else could use. Even if they're an alcoholic smoker with heart disease, corneas are always in demand.
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Inceltown posted:I can confidently say that it does not make you too hot.
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Fruits of the sea posted:What really blows my mind is that those laws demonstrate a thorough understanding of exactly how those games work. That’s not a thing elsewhere, it’s taken like a decade for politicians to figure out what lootboxes are. Actually, yeah good point. Whoever wrote that law understands exactly how lootboxes, battlepasses, the whole thing works. And cut the whole thing off at the knees clean with no wiggle room.
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Scooters are the best because they're a lightning rod for that variety of Internet tough guy "oh yeah I chuck every one I see in a river!" Or In this threads case "I cut the lines on all the scooters!" Bullshit you do, they get thrown in rivers by the same people who use them, drunk people. It's like some sort of stolen valour for vandalising scooters. You get a similar thing around cycling here, there's a guy on a local group who swears he clotheslines cyclists off their bikes all the time of they stray outside the cycle lanes at all.
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We have a user on SA that spent several nights in jail for throwing one through a closed predatory payday loans shop front window.
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Goons hate cars but they hate people who use alternative transportation methods even more
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spookykid posted:We have a user on SA that spent several nights in jail for throwing one through a closed predatory payday loans shop front window. If you want to judge the general user of SA over what some of them are in jail for.... Hoo boy.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Goons hate cars but they hate people who use alternative transportation methods even more They're also fun to ride but we don't need people pretending they're helping the world or something
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I also think they kinda dumb, but the amount of hate it gets here is a bit weird. And not only that, theres a lot of hate for cyclists itt too, for example
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Personal scooter schad. I was in Atlanta for work so had a spare bit of time so I scooted down to a bouldering gym downtown. It felt fairly dangerous but then so did walking. After that I decided to go to the trap music museum so scooted my way over there and it's actually quite far away and in a residential area. Dropped off my scooter and almost immediately someone else picked it up and scooted off. I had wildly underestimated the popularity of the museum, it was absolutely crammed with a huge queue. So I chatted to someone in the queue and between his heavy atlantian accent and my Scottish it took me a bit to understand the queue was going to be hours to get in, hours I didn't have. But my scooter was gone so I had to walk all the way back into downtown Atlanta. Did see some cool beehives and milkweed though so not a total loss.
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Aramoro posted:Personal schad. I was in Atlanta
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Elias_Maluco posted:I also think they kinda dumb, but the amount of hate it gets here is a bit weird. And not only that, theres a lot of hate for cyclists itt too, for example They can really be a problem for disabled people, blocking pavements/sidewalks etc. They can really be a problem in some places - so i can completely understand why some people hate them. Again, its not so much the tech, its the people using them. People are assholes. But yes, we do need to transtition away from all cars all the time, and they are part of that. I fully imagine that cities/governments have gone about it in completely the wrong way in some places.
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"We need to transition away from cars!" "Agreed, here is a start in that direction." "gently caress you and gently caress this, I'm throwing this into the goddamn river." "Welp, not trying that again." "Man, why won't my city try more alternatives?  "You either want to have more options or you don't, dickweeds.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:"We need to transition away from cars!" Oh I'm all in favour of that, and I'd be in support of them banning cars from the centre of Melbourne altogether. But their 'experiment' of just leaving a whole lot of e-scooters lying around on footpaths and just letting people figure it out for themselves was always going to have a ton of teething problems
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A for-profit company ignoring all regulations dumping thousands of scooters on a city overnight without any prior approval is also a little different than a properly planned city infrastructure project
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Atticus_1354 posted:So they're fine as long as you don't witness the wrecks? Do you have actual statistics or do you just not care about other people? No, that isn’t what I mean or intended. Clearly I don’t want people to get hurt—whether you are walking or driving a vehicle. What I AM saying is, I am curious as to the animosity towards scooters and because I have not personally experienced any significant issue with regards to parking/throwing them in a body of water/whatever, so I find it hard to relate to. I don’t know anyone that feels any strong negative feelings, basically. I believe these problems exist, but I also wonder how severe it really is.
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i'm selling my car and getting an e-bike wtf are you all gonna do about it snipe tax https://i.imgur.com/8YnxYPI.mp4
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Roblo posted:They can really be a problem for disabled people, blocking pavements/sidewalks etc. They can really be a problem in some places - so i can completely understand why some people hate them. Before: Again, its not so much the tech, its the people using them. People are assholes. Fixed: (…) the tech (…) People are assholes (…) fake edit: don’t know how to do the line-selectively-striking-text thing on mobile Personally, my anger/ frustration with the scooter scourge is with the way that these things are deployed without requiring an acceptable last-mile for the use/recovery/re-use cycle and that it deliberately lets the disrupter-bros off the hook by rewarding a, “oh, at that point its someone else’s problem despite being our property/business,” mentality/model. A lot of older folks with mobility issues are in my neighborhood, so the piles of scooters completely blocking the sidewalks near the adjacent trailhead (like some kind of low-rent battlement) is a lovely problem. Whatever the product/service being purveyed, it tends (overwhelmingly so) to include some kind of responsibility on the part of the business when it comes to how that thing is used (unless it’s a gun, in which case, umm, never mind, not happening.)
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love having to stop and clear out a scooter parked directly in the middle of the bike lane, presumably by someone who just finished using the bike lane with that scooter and thought parking it in the middle of the bike lane was an acceptable place to leave it I don't think the tires even have air so you can't just go around slashing them
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caspergers posted:i'm selling my car and getting an e-bike wtf are you all gonna do about it Oh you're back
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Scooters won't replace cars until we start throwing cars in the river.
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caspergers posted:i'm selling my car and getting an e-bike wtf are you all gonna do about it Get a golf cart instead. all the cool kids are doing it. https://electrek.co/2023/05/26/golf-carts-are-becoming-car-replacements/
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:Scooters won't replace cars until we start throwing cars in the river. I'll start with the batteries
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I once believed people threw scooters into rivers to be jerks then I saw a woman in an electric wheelchair unable to use a crosswalk because a scooter was in the way. Since then I've thrown a total of 3 scooters in rivers.
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