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| 4 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I have blocked you now, you are simply too stupid to have a reasonable conversation. by  Buffalox@lemmy.worldreason: Ableism |
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| 5 days ago | mod | Removed Post Es ist an der Zeit, mehr EU zu wagen, Herr Merz! reason: Rule 1 |
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| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment India is the capital of rape. Importing these humans are a bad thing. Just go to Canada, New Zealand, and Australia and you will see what I mean.
If the EU Parliament ratifies this deal, then I will no longer vote for any EU friendly party, because that means dumping my own wage. No thanks. by  NewDay@feddit.orgreason: Racism, xenophobia |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment You think Merz and other officials don't work long hours? That's just deluded.
Plus, you may not trust the pensions system, but it will function well enough to give you a normal pensioner's life. Why fearmonger like this? by Pip@feddit.org reason: Trolling |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Well, many investments in general-purpose technologies were thought to create that productivity growth boom. AI (LLMs) is the most recent example. The productivity gains are not as large as for prior general-purpose technologies, like combustion engine vehicles or antibiotics. It's nice that you are so optimistic that humanity just needs to try harder to raise productivity. And you're right, past trends may not continue!
Well, if people work more hours due to public policy changes, that will lead to economic growth, given the currently high investments in assets. A key way to do this is to remove parttime entitlements and to reduce taxes on salaries. by Pip@feddit.org reason: Ragebait |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I don't know how you can so confidently make mistaken statements. Economic growth and productivity growth are not the same thing.
Productivity growth can compensate for fewer hours worked in an economy. However, productivity growth has been decreasing for decades. At this point, we have to stop hoping for a mircale productivity boom.
In many ways, our growth and future wealth will rely on hard work (similarly to previous generations). by Pip@feddit.org reason: Ragebait |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Actually, economic growth potential has four causes, and the most important one in Germany is (public+private) investment in assets. The second most important cause is the overall volume of labor. So actually yes, economic growth has a lot to do with longer working hours. More investment in assets and education would otherwise lead to inflation, rather than real growth (real = creating welfare). by Pip@feddit.org reason: Being a contrarian just to ragebait people |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment fuck off by user81720483@feddit.org reason: uncivil, don't fall for the bait |
| 9 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I'm glad that the German chancellor keeps voicing an uncomfortable truth. by Pip@feddit.org reason: Ragebait, trolling |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Clearly your dog shit view is in the minority. But you're probably right. The rest of us can't comprehend common sense, it's not your senseless opinion.
When you go out every day and you think everyone else is wrong, chances are it's not everyone else. by BassTurd@lemmy.world reason: inflammatory |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment you can read, but you cant comprehend.
wish i could win every argument by offering nothing of substance in return, like you.
oh well, back to the mines.
*smooches* by Alloi@lemmy.world reason: insulting |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment every ebike can be unlocked with relative ease. theres nothing any law can do to stop that from happening unless they ban imports of everything below 250 watts and even then people will still be able to modify the bikes. they even tried it with CANbus, but at the end of the day its a motor, a controller, a throttle or pedal assist, and a battery. you simply cannot stop anyone from modding even completely subpar or top tier bikes from going over the limit. which is limited by the batteries power, and motor/controllers ability to hold a charge. to even try doing so would require powers that reach way into other markets. caps on capacitors, batteries, PCB board controls, motors, etc.
this isnt about bikes. its about brown people and visible minorities riding them en mass and europeans wanting to bring the hammer down on them so they are forced to buy cars, use public transit,become more susceptible to random checks by police, and/or be kicked out of the country for breaking a new law. as well as finding a new way to limit or regulate other related electronics markets, and milk them for more money.
its amsterdam for pity's sake. quite literally one of the most racist/xenophobic places in europe, despite the fine architecture, rich history and culture. of course they are going to want a way to stop check people using a slower mode of transport that circumvents traditional charges for transportation. its happening all over europe as well.
its rediculous and everyone who disagrees is either chronically online, completely unaware of anything deeper than a scary headline that dictates their beliefs for them. knows nothing about electronics, bikes, ebikes, general safety, race relations, or DOES know these things, but underneath it all supports it because they are also bigoted and/or drive a car/take public transit and dont like cycling of any kind if others are doing it and it even remotely inconveniences them.
they will start with banning a visibly common iteration of cheap ebikes, but at the end of the day, unless they ban every form of it, and install checkpoints to ensure that nobody has them. theres simply no other way to get rid of them. and to do that would be fu*huck*in stupid.
we can all lie to another and say its not due to xenophobia, racism, or general support for luxuries such as cars and public transit, and the taxation and fees that come with them, and i dare say a police state. but at the end of the day this is just another way for governments and corporations to use fear to impliment more control over emerging technologies and markets. especially on human mobility.
its a damn bike, and its a shit tier one that goes slower than most entry level ebikes unless you swap the controller and battery. and you, again, can do that with literally any and every ebike. its actually a stupidly simple process in most cases.
in a world where we can drive a death wagon at 150+ kmph that virtually guarantees death or significant injury for passengers and anyone it comes into contact with. which also drastically pollutes the environement in comparison, we should limiting cars not dinky ebikes from temu that poor people and immigrants prefer to ride. if anything we should be pushing more people into riding bikes of all types.
its a dumb idea. and anyone who disagrees is at the very least grossly misinformed on the wider issues, i dont blame them, just the media thats controlled by people who like to control people.
no offense. im not writing this in anger to you, or anyone in particular, its purely based on my experience as a person who had made a point of riding bikes in spite of owning vehicles, simply because of the glaringly obvious issues that are caused by cars, and that are answered by bikes/ebikes.
downvote away y'all, i know its controvercial, but the ones who get it are the ones im talkin' to. everyone else can either take the time to understand it, or kick rocks.
fuck cars, fuck the government, fuck the system. and fuck climate change.
by Alloi@lemmy.world reason: Lots of false information and generalizations, inflammatory |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Yea because everyone speaks funny in those countries, so they need to spell words funny to convey the meaning!
Is thyt clyar enuf fer u m8? by Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca reason: Trolling |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Lmao. What the heck do you mean "everywhere else"? One specific place where they use that word? I think you guys spell it that way to make it more evident that you would say the world with a silly accent.
To prove my point. Here is Google images results for fat bikes .
Notice how they are all pedal bikes except for a few results which specifically say electric fat bike. I get that the Dutch word for "electric fat bikes" translates to just "fat bikes" in English. But it's not what we call them and it is a mis translation. by Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca reason: Trying to start fights over something clearly outlined in the post |
| 10 days ago | mod | Removed Comment I'm going to make up an example with fake words, But if the literal translation of electric fat bike in Chinese to English is "wide windmill of thunder" and you write an article in English about how the Chinese are banning wide windmills of thunder. Yes you have written something in English. No you have not correctly conveyed the meaning to your audience.
They are not banning "fat bikes" as they are known to English speakers. In the Netherlands THEY DONT SPEAK ENGLISH .They use equivalent words to describe things differently and if you translate them 1:1 and convey then to a different audience, you have lost the original meaning.
You can stop screaming now I think drool is coming out of your mouth. by Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca reason: trolling |
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| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Just answer the question. Do you have a car?
by FatBikeLover@sh.itjust.works reason: troll |
| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Blocked accidents? That's not a number by FatBikeLover@sh.itjust.works reason: troll |
| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Comment We let old people have cars. by FatBikeLover@sh.itjust.works reason: troll |
| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Comment A majority of bicycle accident fatalities could have been prevented with banning cars. by FatBikeLover@sh.itjust.works reason: troll account |
| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Comment it's a new social panick akin to what the parisians did with the apaches. by FatBikeLover@sh.itjust.works reason: troll |
| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Comment - 74% of households in the netherlands have a car. Only 6% of cars are electric
- Most road fatalities are cyclists. Most road deaths occur in crashes involving a car (https://swov.nl/en/fact-sheet/road-deaths-netherlands).
- Boomers: woW ThoSe ElecTriC BikEs ArE Very DangerOus
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| 11 days ago | mod | Removed Post Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech reason: Archive.ph is currently a malicious website used for DDoS attacks |
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| 20 days ago | mod | Removed Post These dumbass americans voted for this corrupt crook because they didn't want the prosecutor. She was black. Now their elected is releasing criminals reason: off-topic |
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