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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 62 points 1 week ago (4 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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why would using screen caps from the show invite a lawsuit?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That site uses AI images for virtually all their articles, it's nasty.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

hell if I know

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Kinda discredited the whole opinion article imo