• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉
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    6 hours ago

    Wanted to bitch about it with everyone else. but you singlehandedly changed my mind.

    Fuck Amazon, but more bike infrastructure is good.

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      4 hours ago

      They want to use the bike lane so they don’t have to follow traffic laws.

      Bike infrastructure is good, capitalism still bad.

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t disagree with you at all.

        just wondering if a big chunk of NY delivery/cargo vehicles were electric cargo bikes like that, would it be an improvement? (given that will force turning car lanes into bike lanes).

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          4 hours ago

          Theoretically it would be less asthma for children that’s really not nothing.

          But the batteries for those ebikes almost certainly come from children in mines.

          It all ends up as borrowing from tom to pay peter back when amazon is involved.

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            3 hours ago

            Ebikes take much less resources than cars. Complaining about reducing the resources and energy needed for transportation is disingenuous.

            You cannot pull a “no ethical consumption under capitalism” to protect the current status quo.

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              2 hours ago

              Not abusing a sentience in another country so you can have your funco pops at home is also not nothing.

              I’d like amazon logistics to be broken up and owned by the communities it inhabitants. But I’d also like that to happen to GM and Ford too. If you catch my drift.

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                2 hours ago

                100%

                but logistics wise, small electric vehicles, small enough to be considered ebikes is preferable to current car/van/truck fleets. as they have a greater human cost as well.