Its a little funny but sad that people keep wanting to commute on a bike but their government blocks them with stupid rules.

Why stand in the way of progress when you can be part of it?

  • TwentyEight@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Compare the pictures of everyone fit with clean air cycling to work in Beijing in the 70s and 80s, with piles of ebikes dumped in huge piles in a smog-laden Beijing of the 2010’s as fossil-fuel-powered capitalism has grown to the point everyone is driving cars.

    Pretty sad and stupid. Bikes are one of the greatest designs - in terms of efficiency - humankind has ever come up with.

    • NGram@piefed.caEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, it’s a Voyager (the app) thing. It’s the default now when sharing a link. I’m not sure why, it seems completely useless, more expensive for the devs, and a privacy problem for everyone else (redirect links are a form of tracking).

      Friendly reminder for everyone using Voyager to turn it off. I already did.

      • vas@lemmy.ml
        2·
        8 days ago

        You can edit your post to change the link if you wish [to remove a layer of redirection]. Or even edit to directly the final destination of straitstimes com…

        • altphoto@lemmy.todayOP
          2·
          8 days ago

          I did. Looks like vger.to is some sort of Voyager related redirecting thing. Totally unnecessary yup but its there for any Voyager link I try to copy.

          • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            8 days ago

            You shouldnt have to “copy” anything. Just use the crosspost feature which automatically creates a copy of the entire original post and posts it into the community of your choice. If your client doesnt support crossposting then its shit and you should use a different client.

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
    11·
    8 days ago

    You guys realise the article is from almost two years ago, right? And I’ve never saw young and healthy people actually commute in a wheelchair on purpose.