Tracking smartphone users is a billion dollar industry, and it’s not that hard to figure out where a user is working if you have their location data and a million other data points from their phone usage. That doesn’t necessarily mean that this data is easily accessible to every employer, but it’s absolutely possible to know someone’s work history with reasonable certainty without government databases.
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The irony.
I’m not ready to accept that as-is. Sure, you’re less likely to fall down in a four-wheeled vehicle, but I’m not convinced that a closed vehicle without a crumple zone is actually safer than an open two-wheeled vehicle in a collision. My guess is that you’re more likely to injure yourself on a regular moped, but you’re more likely to outright die in a mobility scooter.
Driving a vehicle that can do 45 km/h without a license and no crumple zone sounds suicidal …
That’s why I think alternative infrastructure should be made for these electric vehicles, which aren’t cars but also not ebikes.
I really don’t think that’s feasible, though. Most cities genuinely struggle with trying to make space just for bicycle lanes, there’s no way most of them can fit another lane for yet another class of vehicles. Taking away all regular car lanes might do it, but I don’t think that’s remotely realistic :D
30km/h isn’t bad, if you’re using this on low speed roads (for example, 40 km/h roads).
That was my assumption from the start (30 km/h roads are fairly common here), but it’s still pretty bad IMO. These scooters being fully enclosed pretty much means that the driver will take the full force of an accident very often, compared to bicycle accidents where they often spend some of the accident force by flying around (which is still survivable at 30 km/h), and usually won’t go nearly as fast. Nevermind cars, the driver could easily die by driving into a pole, wall or parking car at full speed. Though I suppose most of the issue is that I assume that the driver is elderly and thus slow to react and with bad traffic awareness, these people shouldn’t be going 25 km/h on an e-bike, either.
top speed of 20-30 km/hr
Yeah, that’s definitely not something that should be sharing space with pedestrians. Where I live, the maximum speed that’s allowed without a driver’s licence is 15 km/h, and it’s legal to drive the classic mobility scooters anywhere - sidewalk, road, bicycle lane are all fine. Most of them seem to have a maximum speed of 6 km/h (you don’t even need insurance for them at that speed).
Trouble with these enclosed models is that it doesn’t seem like it’s actually safe for them to drive on a road (or at 30 km/h, imagine colliding with a lantern pole at that speed …), so the only place that might be alright for them is the bicycle lane. But even on a bicycle lane, I question the ability and willingness of their drivers to drive safely enough at 30 km/h to not endanger the people they’re sharing the lane with. E-bikes are already an issue at a maximum of 25 km/h (especially when their drivers are elderly), this adds potentially another 5 km/h and a mostly false sense of security on top.
Cannabis use prevalence is actually kind of low in the Netherlands, many european countries where it’s illegal have higher prevalences. Turns out, legalizing cannabis doesn’t turn everyone into a stoner.
You’d think Netherlands of all places would have data. Did the authorities just give up or what?
The article says right there that only 1 in 3 people are doing that (in europe).
What strawman? I’m talking about my old phones in my drawer, and I’m certainly not the only one who does that.
The thing with that is that nobody can get (much) use out of my old phones, because I already use them until they’re broken or unreasonably old - when even aftermarket ROMs like LineageOS don’t get security updates anymore, it’s time to retire that phone, and I regularly use my phones beyond that point.
My last phone broke after about 1.5 years of me using it (and it was already a refurbished device), and my current relatively new-to-me phone only has 2 years of security updates left (also refurbished). I’m probably going to use it for longer than that if it doesn’t break, but that would definitely be a good time to get a new phone if money was no object and I didn’t give a shit about the environment.
The thing is, recycling is clearly better for the environment than having 3 unused old phones in your drawer.
Who isn’t? If the phone doesn’t break, it becomes unusably slow with any operating system that still receives security updates (if there are any, which is not a given). Also, I have my doubts on whether it’s actually possible to reliably delete all data from your old phone as a consumer.
That does sound less suspicious, thanks for the explanation.
Pretty wild stuff.
The fast-track trial, known as “rito abbreviato”, is a legal procedure in Italian law in which defendants are judged on the basis of evidence brought by prosecutors, with no debate of that evidence by legal teams.
That sounds rather questionable, especially for such long sentences?
How much time did you spend sharpening it? I’ve been considering buying a sharpening stone, but I’m not sure about the manual labor involved.
Dog owners: My dog isn’t unclean!
dog shits right on the sidewalk
owner doesn’t clean it up
That said, fuck theocracies.
Straight to racism, huh?
The thing is, they don’t need irrefutable evidence to toss out your resume, or at least be suspicious enough about it to ask you what you did in a given period; and if they already paid for this data, they might as well verify your answer as well.