I suspect that scooters have similar risks as bicycles, more dangerous than cars for non-lethal injuries, less dangerous for lethal injury. And nearly all lethal injury, like 99%, directly related to cars and trucks. Cars are more lethal to drive on a highway than bikes are to ride on city streets. I bet scooter are basically the same, the biggest risk is automobiles.
It’s worse than that, there are Republicans that know he’s morally reprehensible, might destroy the country, know he is incompetent, and still worship him.
Do you think motorcycles are required to just sit at a light all day long? Some lights these days are only triggered by large metal objects, motorcycles are often not detected. The light will never change if a car or truck doesn’t come.
https://legalclarity.org/when-can-motorcycles-legally-run-red-lights/
This article only lists some states, but I know it’s legal in Minnesota since 2002, so it’s definitely not an exhaustive list.
At stop signs, or right turns at lights, most vehicles roll through slowly instead of coming to a complete stop, basically the exact same action a bike takes. At least where I live it’s perfectly legal for bikes to run stop signs, so long as it wouldn’t be anyone else’s right of way. But it’s not legal for cars to do it, yet they mostly do.
Edit: passing through a red on a bicycle or motorcycle is also legal in most places with proximity sensors so long as no one else has the right of way. Many lights have proximity sensors that fail to detect bikes, so they have to let it happen or you could be stuck at a light until a car comes.
Sure, but most car drivers also fail to come to a complete stop as well.
Corporations might be largely at fault but regular people can keep voting with their dollars. Corporations have to adjust to demand.
Most of the top polluters in the world are fossil fuel producers. Want to slow them down? Stop driving ice vehicles, take public transit, bike, walk, move closer to work, or unionize and put work from home in your contract. Reduce in home energy waste, if you own a home: improve insulation, check heat loss around the edge of windows, look into solar panels. Most of these things improve you life anyway, lowering your monthly costs makes your life better.
Lobby, get involved in your community, organize.
While it’s true that large corporations are major polluters, our continued actions (and inaction) give them the money and power to keep polluting.
I’m not big into ideological labels, but calling me a liberal without evidence is silly. My beliefs most closely align with socialism and progressivism, but I don’t believe in blind ideological thinking.
There is peer reviewed research on this topic all over the web. But even in this wikipedia article, for those that are able to use basic reasoning skills, it repeatedly referenced peer reviewed studies for it’s numbers. People use wikipedia because it’s easy, not because it’s some arbiter of truth.
No one wants to provide a bibliography for some random on the Internet who wouldn’t accept new information even if I gave you a time machine that placed you at an execution of an academic or business owner during that time. Waste of everyone’s time.
So if both first hand accounts and peer reviewed research mean nothing to you what barrier needs to be crossed to provide proof? Or is anything you haven’t already predetermined to be true automatically “western propaganda”. Also, what motivation would fleeing refugees have to lie about what made them flee Russia? Why would that supposed lie persist long after a perceived benefit through to their descendents?
My ancestors were Jewish you psycho
My ancestors were Jewish, they were chased out under threat of death. Absolutely repugnant to claim I’m mad about dead Nazis in that context.
My Jewish grandparents on multiple sides were told to flee or die by Stalin’s drooling simps. My primary source is many of my great grandparents and the thousands of others that fled Russia at the barrel of a gun. Talk to any reputable Russian historian in the last 50 years and some figure in the many millions is going to come up. We have endless first hand accounts and mountains of historical evidence. To deny this history is like being a Holocaust denier. What exactly is your goal here?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin
Stalin’s actions killed 7-20 million people, intellectuals, minorities, and poor people. At least a million of which were deliberate deaths. People who defend that for political expedience are unquestionably misinformed or evil, take your pick. My family was fleeing for their lives.
I am all for some form of socialism, defending evil people is not how you get it.
So when Stalin collaborated with Nazis to kill and chase away my relatives from what is now Ukraine that was imperialist propaganda? Why did so many of my ancestors flee Russia at that time?
When kia redesigned the logo I thought it was a new car brand with a K and backwards N. When I realized it was kia I can only think about how bad that logo is, not that the old one was any better.
Disappointed that I have not seen every song Dave Matthews has ever sung listed in here.
Ha, I was just being snarky. I’ve never liked the few parts of Ohio I’ve been at, but I’m guessing there are some good places there.
Not living in Ohio is worth at least $1k a month, so that tracks.
I’m a millennial, I had a gun in my car during hunting season, a few years later that would have landed me in jail. The cultural shift actually moved very fast. Same with drinking in bars underaged. Within a few years it went from doing it everywhere to doing it almost nowhere. I could drink in bars underaged at 15 but not at 19, because the policy enforcement shifted that fast.
I don’t think you understood the meme. They were not implying the protesting was the direct action.
I just assisted organizing a union at my workplace, at some point we protested unfair labor practices at our workplace, that was not the direct action. Meeting twice a week, talking with co-workers face to face, building a coalition, creating Q and A’s to combat disinformation, communicating with news media, filing with the NLRB, voting, and now negotiating is all the direct action. Over the next 10 years our lowest paid employees are likely to see a 15-30% increase in total compensation beyond what they would have.
We also now have a solidified network of people ready to react instantly. If ICE shows up 100 other people may materialize in minutes. If someone in the community experiences an emergency or trauma, there is a whole built community ready to assist. Direct action always helps improve society, it doesn’t have to be a magic wand that fixes everything for it to make things a little better.
You want to lean into despair because being physically and mentally lazy is easier. Your life won’t be easier if fascism keeps getting worse and worse, always take action.