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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 32 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Many people have spent their entire lives with the idea that car = freedom, and when they see cyclists they fear that they would be forced to give up their precious vroom-vroom-box and associate it with totalitarianism, which they call it communism because of red scare propaganda from the cold war...

This is especially common the more conservative someone is, the more likely they are to be locked into that way of thinking because conservitvism rots the brain. The sheer stupidity of these conspiracy theories would make it glaringly obvious to anyone who puts even the slightest bit of thought.

They literally call the 15 minute city a "socialist conspiracy" of the world economic forum, which they conveniently forget is a capitalist organisation.

In reality both capitalists and socialists should want to have less car dependency, heck, even drivers benefit from having fewer cars on the streets and roads.

[–] NadiaNadine@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But would they react the same way if I was on a horse?

Driving a horse and buggy?

I still think it's just basic tribalism. Bicycle rider=wrong tribe.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Anything that isn't a car is a threat to them, but I'd wager they would feel significantly less threatened by it because horses aren't a viable alternative to cars, while deep down they know bicycles can replace cars.

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