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South Park just took on America’s e-bike problem – and surprisingly nailed a lot of it (electrek.co)
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[–] 23 points 1 month ago

South Park accurately satirizing modern life is not a surprise. It's the reason they've been on the air this long.

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    [–] 62 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    [Note: All images in this article are generic AI-generated to keep us from getting sued over copyright law. Apparently, if I ride my pedal bike instead of my e-bike for 5 km, I can work off the environmental impact of those four AI image generations. I’ll be back in 20 minutes.]

    the gall of putting that at the end and not the start of the article.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago*

    if I ride my pedal bike instead of my e-bike for 5 km, I can work off the environmental impact of those four AI image

    Using more energy does not offset energy use...

    And even if it did, you could just ride your bike and NOT generate the images?

    I hate Electrek

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ah yea “net neutral”. Doesn’t matter the damage caused, you just pretend to make up for it later.

    Kinda like the KKK doing whatever they want, lynching, hanging shooting etc. so long as afterwards they buy “hate-neutral credits” to offset and damage and claim a net neutral presence.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    Net neutrality and carbon offsets/credits are you wanting to reduce pollution by not going to work with a car each day, and instead of buying a bike, you pay your coworker to do so instead.
    The result as far as pollution goes is exactly the same - one less car user. The environment doesn't care one diddly squat that it's not actually you personally biking each day.

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    • [–] 16 points 1 month ago*

    Just a few days ago I saw an ebike go the same speed as me in my car at slightly over 30 km/h on the sidewalk on the other side of the street in Germany.

    For this you need to know:

    • an escooter going over 20 km/h is not street legal here
    • it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk (over 6 km/h)

    So all in all while the situation is different here we have similar issues.

    And who wouldn't love to be overrun at 30 km/h on a sidewalk for pedestrians...

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Indeed. You can see the food delivery people racing through the pedestrian zone with their unregulated e-bikes every day. As long as there are no consequences, this behavior will continue.

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    It was a funny episode, and hilariously nailed the biking community to a t. I’ve been biking for 40 years and never really enjoyed socializing with other bikers. They’re a bit much. Also I was looking into an e-bike but now I think I’ll just stick to walking the dogs.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    E-bikes can be great: I still ride my regular bicycles too, but on days where I'm in a hurry, am beat up from rides, or have to haul a lot uphill, e-bikes have been fantastic. I have a Ride1up Portola with a front rack.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Cycling changed profoundly when the US manufacturers like Cannondale entered road racing, they turned it into rampant consumerism and enshittified it before enshittification was a thing. Now it's douchebags on $20,000 bikes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Ive been falling off of bicycles and having a great time since I was six years old, and I couldn't believe how people in my local riding groups acted. If you don't have the "right" equipment then you aren't one of us.

    Thats fine, 20 years ago I got a recumbent and I've ridden the drivetrain off of it multiple times now. Im shopping for an e bike mostly because theyre different and ive never tried one.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Same. The MAMIL cult is exhausting. A lot of these types like spending money, and talking about riding more than riding.

    I do have an ebike though. It makes commuting in the heat bearable, but I go back to the acoustic when it starts to cool off.

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