• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    Huh. The chinese rideshare mopeds have a little speaker that begs you to stop violating traffic law and ride safely, but the literally only dock your score for trying to destroy the bike or abandoning it blocking traffic. You can steal 1 moped for every 100 rides and still maintain a perfect score.

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      20 hours ago

      Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn’t have all the spyware built into it

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        19 hours ago

        100 20 minute rides is 31USD. They also sell the mopeds, 250-500 USD. The rental ones are limited to 16 mph tho. The real convenience is that you can grab one almost anywhere and leave it nearly anywhere so it integrates really well with other modes of transit.

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        20 hours ago

        This one cool trick rideshare companies don’t want you to know.

        spoiler

        Its a joke, the penalty for destroying or stealing one is -100, but you get +1 for every ride, and your score can go over 100. In reality the company probably calls the cops if you lock it in your garage and won’t give it back or something.

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          19 hours ago

          there was a story about someone kidnapping all the scooters and piling them up in one parking lot, cops were called

          i think it was in the Seattle area. In my town, we have a river running through the central space and so many of these scooters end up in the river

          when I was a trouble making boy, we’d steal bikes and build ramps to jump into the river on the bikes, they lower the river for a few months every year and it was always a good laugh to see how many bikes were piled up in our favorite spots

          my hometown is full of deviants, so I’m never surprised about seeing that kind of behavior

          my cameras are always catching some young person looking for trouble, taking one to know one I make sure to keep everything valuable out of sight and behind locks

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            13 hours ago

            Everyone hates those fucking things. Always blocking the sidewalk and nearly getting run over every fucking block. It is everyone’s civic duty to throw them in the fucking river if presented the opportunity.

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              8 hours ago

              Part of that is anti-social behavior as a response to living in America, but also if people aren’t parking them correctly, there’s not enough parking room. If people are riding on sidewalks, there’s not enough divided bike lane.

              Here in Nanning, during rush hour, theres places where 2-lane wide bike paths are completely packed with hundreds of mopeds per minute, much more than the 5 lane car road next to it can transport.

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              I’d be against it, but our river is already a massive PCB wasteland from the papermill and other industry dumping.

              all jokes aside, don’t throw shit in the waterways