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Re: For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

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Post by codedokode » Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 4:58 AM UTC

I am surprised that people here are saying good words about food delivery workers. They are at least annoying when they break all the traffic rules, crossing roads in every direction on every traffic light color, and often dangerous when they ride on the sidewalk with a high speed. I wish they were at least banned from the sidewalks.

Also recent police raid (they should make them every day) showed that some of the delivery workers were illegal migrants, which shows that companies do little effort to check their documents when hiring.

Re: For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

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Post by DANmode » Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 6:14 AM UTC

1-more wrote: post #89

avgDev wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, stories like this occur in countries with socialized healthcare. People often do come to the US for niche specialized healthcare that is cutting edge. US healthcare is great for the wealthy and those who can afford it. It isn't great for everyone and in general ranks average or poor in some cases.

When someone criticizes US healthcare, they are almost always using "healthcare" to mean "the care that everyone receives on average" and not "the healthcare received by those with good insurance." Private jets fly from around the world to The Cleveland Clinic and The Mayo Clinic every day, but that's not what's at issue for most people.

This assuming you already have some idea what's going on.

I was turned away from any attempt at diagnosis, because neither facility seemed to know (or care) which department to send me to...

I was ready to sign a blank check - but they seemingly refuse to hurt their stats with potentially unsolvable cases...

Form a reply if you disagree...downvoting doesn't change the fact that even these top facilities end up embarrassing us as a nation...

Re: For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

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Post by brokenmachine » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 3:49 AM UTC

marcosdumay wrote: post #85

brokenmachine wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Australia too. They don't follow any road rules and ride on the footpaths at insane speeds. They're not actually legal - I believe the law is that if they can go over 17kph without pedalling then they must be registered, have indicators, etc. But nobody seems to do anything about it. I guess some elderly pedestrians must die before something is done.

> if they can go over 17kph without pedalling And there's the excessive reactionary regulation that makes people not comply with the rules. If you put some reasonable speed limit and look at the other important factors like weight, you won't need to register anything that runs as fast as a child on skates, and can focus on what is really the problem.

I just looked it up, it's actually 25kph, which is faster than the average speed of a pedal bike rider.

So assuming that the safe amount of momentum we're happy with (without registration, etc) is that of a pedal bike rider, if we take into account the extra weight of an e-bike, that seems like a pretty lenient cutoff. Overly lenient in my opinion.