“Retired” cops often get cushy gigs from the precinct doing things like private investigation, which usually amounts to stuff like job site security from the driver’s seat of an SUV, or making daily angry phone calls to local school districts about trans kids.

While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as a rare instance in which such online speech led to criminal prosecution. The 61-year-old retired police officer

Ah OK. All questions answered.

Suffered a gross injustice in the US? It’ll be fine, you will be made whole. Just make sure you were a police officer.

Took me about 8 hours, I was slow and careful. You can fuck it up, but only if you’re totally reckless and ignore the instructions.

Same, an ex and I were early Cupcake CNC adopters, but then I didn’t touch a 3D printer for a decade. When I got back into it the Prusa MK3S+ was the obvious choice for DIY/FOSS lineage, that thing is not fancy but it sure is a tank.

Yes and a driver’s test, like any other licensed vehicle. What I would oppose are speed capping the vehicles themselves or outright banning them, as I think both of those “solutions” are more in service to the automotive industry than anything else. And throws the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.

Here in the states we don’t have a “light traffic road” as you describe. That’s just not a thing in our infrastructure. This situation would be easier to resolve if we did.

I think everyone in here is whining about slightly different things because of how many aspects there are to this discourse.

Where do you live? I’m in the US where almost all vehicles, including cyclists, ride in the street and only car drivers refer to them as “car lanes”.

Why are you biking on a pedestrian walkway? That seems like it’s own seperate problem.

Places that allow any sort of bike on the sidewalk are generally places that have neglected to bother with any sort of adequate biking infrastructure.

I like FSS, in fact I attended a few rallies of the original New York chapter, but I actually think that bill is too soft. I’d rather we get serious about straight-up revoking the privledges of people who demonstrate they can’t be trusted to safely wield them. This opinion isn’t limited to vehicles.

How about we just license the ebikes according to what they’re capable of like we do with cars and motorcycles?

FYI 45 kph on a non-motorized bicycle is not really “freakishly fast”, that’s a normal downhill speed on your average middle age guy’s weekend workout. And I think this concern is already addressed by signed speed limits.

The spirit of my complaint is that we should just appropriately license them. If practically that means a new class of license then yes, that’s how you license them.

Just license them in accordance with their capabilities. All the bad press about ebikes lately is running cover for government negligence over lack of normalizing them into existing licensing frameworks, on behalf of the automotive lobby that knows if these vehicles aren’t given an appropriate legal niche they will instead end up being seen by society as dangerous scofflaws and ultimately banned or legistalted out of practicality.

Use your brains. Ask why the discussion doesn’t revolve around appropriate licensure and infrastructure, and instead revolves around how to get rid of them.

I’m a cyclist and I’m against this. If they’re effectively electric motorcycles then just license them as motorcycles, end of story. People are getting brain fog over the fact that they’re cheap and popular with kids. We don’t speed cap any other vehicles, we just license them appropriately. Let’s just continue doing that. It’s wacky to me that this isn’t obvious to most people.

Cars can go even faster and actually do kill thousands of people, but god fucking forbid we talk about slowing those down because we’re so normalized to their violence that we’re blind to it. I agree with the person you replied to, this is monumentally stupid. Give micromobility their own infrastructure, repurpose space currently given to cars. We’ve gotta stop pearl-clutching over sustainable progress.

Absolutely, but so does everything else.

Drop all support for Iran war, pivot fundraising mechanisms away from Israeli influence, use bully pulpits and media to keep Epstein in the news cycle, direct more national funds to local DSA candidates, rotate gerontocracy out of party leadership, etc…

I don’t really mind them doing stuff like this too, though.

“Wing” is not the term to use. Liberals sat on the left side of parliament, literally the left wing of a hall, so it’s accurate and quite literal to call them “left wing”. What isn’t accurate is calling them leftist, as in socialist, and I think that’s the term everyone is actually talking about? Everyone is talking past each other here cause of the wing thing.