[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago
  1. Elon often travels throughout the globe, as many rich people do.

  2. Interpol

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

The system gives rebates before the tax is charged. No one is waiting for the next rebate, they already have it.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

He’s not wrong, exactly. The second amendment doesn’t say “keep and bear some kinds of arms”, it just says “keep and bear arms”.

It's kind of vague though. If a kid asks, "Can I have ice cream," and their parents say, "Yes, you can have ice cream," it doesn't mean the kid can have whatever ice cream them want and in whatever quantities they want.

As a non-American, I always find it funny how some people revere the framers as having future vision and somehow infallible.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

You've gotten a lot of good advice here, however, I don't think anyone's mentioned Bike Co-ops. If you have one nearby, it sounds like that would be an ideal spot for you to work on your bike while getting advice from more experienced mechanics.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

The systemic problems are a stroad which seems designed for high speeds, yet with many dangerous points of interactions with pedestrians and other drivers. There seems to be no infrastructure to protect pedestrians and no design features to limit speeds. As you point out, this wasn't caused by a tank of a vehicle but a standard sedan.

This is in stark contrast to Vision Zero, a strategy where it's nearly impossible for vehicle collisions to cause fatalities. It doesn't matter if a driver is impaired, we have the technology to engineer away these deaths. From the images in article, the road seems to follow almost none of the tenants of Vision Zero.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Sure, hate capitalism all you want, but it’s the system we live in

As pointed out in the first paragraph of the article, "Lakota Language Consortium" is a nonprofit organization. While NPOs operate in our capitalist system, you expect them to have goals besides pure profit.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd be curious if that holds in bike friendly places, and would be curious to see statistics from somewhere like the Netherlands.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Of course there's other browsers! There's Opera...uhh that now based on Chromium. Oh, how about Edge...that's Chromium based too now. I know, there's the KHTML engine!...no, that's been officially discontinued.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

But I, like many others, CANNOT walk, cycle or use public transport, no matter how inviting the infrastructure or how much I dislike cars.

Not sure why you couldn't use multi-modal transport with a scooter and public transport? Not all public transport is accessible, but accessibility can and should be part of the focus of building/improving public transit.

Could I use a mobility scooter? Sure! But not in the cold and wet

I'm not sure why you couldn't use a mobility scooter in weather? I occasionally see some in Canada which are enclosed and temperature controlled. In the Netherlands, they have microcars which are an even better option for people with disabilities than a full-sized modified vehicle.

... and not when I can’t afford one.

Yet you can afford a car? Not only are mobility scooters usually cheaper than much bigger, more complex cars, but they are also subsidized (rightfully so) by medicare/health-plans.

Mobility scooters don’t fit in shops/cafes/restaurants unless they’re new buildings, which in the UK they’re invariably not.

Neither do full-sized vehicles/bikes/transit, so your point is moot. However, the smaller size of mobility scooters makes it easier to accommodate closer handicap parking than full-sized cars.

A small percentage of people will always need cars, just like we’ll always need ambulances.

Ironically, there's an argument that ambulances are public transit. They might be inefficient public transport, but they are an alternate to individuals driving dangerously to try and get medical help ASAP.

I think overall, your view of active transportation is really limited. Of course cars aren't going away but all your arguments seem to be limited by your experience of motonormativity.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Make it medium or high-density. We need a much lower percentage of single family homes than we currently have

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Refers to the Capital Beltway, so greater Washington, DC, including some of Virginia and Maryland.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

It's that expensive to own a car everywhere. In Canada, it's projected to be >$1K/mo (CAA has a calculator if you want to project your own costs).

The US is no better.

The craziest part, as TechAltar points out in that video, is that society as a whole subsidizes car ownership and if owners actual saw the whole cost through registration fees and gas taxes, that cost would probably be 50% higher.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

n2burns

joined 2 years ago