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I imagine solving landfill problems with a plastic bacteria just compounding our problems: A 400m-wide hotpot of bacteria, some of it escaping, people being infected in their house, spreading to a few blocks, kids not playing together “because his toys have the disease”…
good opportunity for metal toys
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> they are different means of transportation, for different purposes. Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home. This is a need that could likely be fulfilled by an E-Bike just as well, unless the route is unreasonably long. so while the initial statement is true, the conclusion you drew from it is false -- at least from the perspective of society.
> Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Cars and bikes are complementary, not alternatives. Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home too, they travel 100 kms a day on an highway from one side to the other of the city. If they had to go by bike, they had to be pro bikers, which they are very far from. Even if they took the ro…
Everything you wrote was just as anecdotal, so you've just categorically dismissed all your arguments too. Well done.
Great, but doesn't using plastic for surfaces exposed to a great amount of wear and tear, add to the microplastic problem?
In fact, this should reduce the problem since in brick form, less of the plastic is exposed to the elements as opposed to the plastic waste it's made out of.
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The plastic has already been produced, so it's already an environmental problem, this repurposes it, one way or another it's going to break down and end up somewhere.
Plastic in a properly designed landfill doesn’t end up in people’s bloodstreams.
Properly designed landfills don't exist in most of the world (Africa, Asia, most of South America).
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> Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Cars and bikes are complementary, not alternatives. Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home too, they travel 100 kms a day on an highway from one side to the other of the city. If they had to go by bike, they had to be pro bikers, which they are very far from. Even if they took the ro…
> Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Everything you wrote was just as anecdotal, so you've just categorically dismissed all your arguments too. Well done.
if you look enough, there are numbers.
I know it's hard for an hardcore bike fan to act intelligently, but you can try!
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> Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Everything you wrote was just as anecdotal, so you've just categorically dismissed all your arguments too. Well done.
> Everything you wrote was just as anecdotal, so you've just categorically dismissed all your arguments too. Well done. if you look enough, there are numbers. I know it's hard for an hardcore bike fan to act intelligently, but you can try!
None of your numbers have citations, which make them hearsay and effectively anecdotal at best
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> Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Cars and bikes are complementary, not alternatives. Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home too, they travel 100 kms a day on an highway from one side to the other of the city. If they had to go by bike, they had to be pro bikers, which they are very far from. Even if they took the ro…
Cars and bikes are a bad solution to long commutes. The best solution is short commutes or WFH. In that situation bikes are fine and even cars are less bad.
WFH is nice for those who can do it, but there are a lot of jobs that cannot be done from home.
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> Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. Cars and bikes are complementary, not alternatives. Most people I know mainly use their car to get to work and back home too, they travel 100 kms a day on an highway from one side to the other of the city. If they had to go by bike, they had to be pro bikers, which they are very far from. Even if they took the ro…
Cars and bikes are a bad solution to long commutes. The best solution is short commutes or WFH. In that situation bikes are fine and even cars are less bad.
Yes, exactly.
Long commutes are the problem.
> The best solution is short commutes or WFH. In that situation bikes are fine and even cars are less bad
Except for traffic jams, I agree.
The more time people spend on the road, the more accidents are going to happen.
It's true for cars, bikes, mopeds, motorbikes, but not for walking or using the subway.
So every time a person says "we should all be cyclist" is only expressing an opinion, not a fact!
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In my country every year a report on pedestrian accidents is released.
The most recent issue is about year 2019, that says:
- 352 bikes were in accidents involving a pedestrian, they killed one and injured 366 of them.
- 325 mopeds in the same period killed no one, injured 271.
- 1,831 motorbikes killed 26 people and injured 2,131
But there are 7 million motorbikes, going around every day, while bikes are only 1.5 million and most of them aren't used daily.
E-bikes are basically mopeds, but are statistically more dangerous than mopeds for pedestrian and have a death rate that's only 20% of the deaths by motorbikes, that are much heavier (15x) and can run a lot faster (10x).
If there were as many bikes as motorbikes (4.6x) it's possible to predict at least 352 * ( 7 / 1.5) = 5 deaths and 1,685 injured people.
Add that a safe +20% If they traveled for as long as motorbikes (5 days a week instead of 1 or 2), and you get 2.022 injured and 6 deaths, worrisome numbers if you ask me.
Also, due to COVID-19 and people ordering delivery more than ever (usually delivered by bike), Milan have seen an increment on bike accidents of 30% year on year, in the face of only a 7% increase of traveled distances.
In this case it can't even be said it's because of cars, cars could hardly run during the lock downs!
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> Everything you wrote was just as anecdotal, so you've just categorically dismissed all your arguments too. Well done. if you look enough, there are numbers. I know it's hard for an hardcore bike fan to act intelligently, but you can try!
If you actually think that i'm a hardcore bike fan from these comments, than you're really mentally challenged. For the record: I think I've driven about 10km with a bike within the last 12 month. Really, if anyone is arguing under false pretenses it's you. None of your numbers have citations, which make them hearsay and effectively anecdotal at best
stay classy!
never said that you are, just that hardcore bike fans are.
apparently you just proved that sometimes even non hardcore bike fans are.
> None of your numbers have citations
most of them are in Italian, I doubt you can even pronounce bruschetta correctly.
If I'm mentally challenged for giving you numbers, what would you define yourself that can't even verify those numbers that are publicly available, using Google?
Anyway, since you asked
Always glad to help people that had it worse than me.
https://www.aci.it/archivio-notizie/notizia.html?tx_ttnews%5...
https://roma.aci.it/notizie-e-informazioni/notizie-ed-eventi...
https://www.asaps.it/70913-_3_rapporto_annuale_sull_incident...
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...