• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      No less safe than wheeling a kid around in a little red wagon or letting them ride their own bicycle.

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        Little Red wagons generally don’t travel at 20mph in the street with cars going even faster. That kid in the photo can barely hold herself upright. One little wiggle or unexpected turn and she’ll slip right through those bars and under an SUV.

        Seriously, you might as well just put your kid in to one of these.

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      it’s only unsafe because of all the cars. aside from that, whats’ the danger, they might fall out?

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        it’s only unsafe because of all the cars. aside from that, whats’ the danger…

        Swimming in a pool of razor blades is only unsafe because of all the razor blades. Aside from that, what’s the danger?

        …they might fall out?

        Yes

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          car dominance is literally a conspiracy by big oil to make us dependent, it is in no way natural.

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            1 year ago

            Cars exist, you can’t just ignore them. They’ll run you over whether you believe in them or not

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                    1 year ago

                    No, I say that like you want to commit criminal acts against innocent people and you somehow think will solve the problem. I say that like I think you need mental help if you are serious. I say that like I no longer feel like wasting my time talking to someone who isn’t interested in having a coherent conversation.

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      Nah this is completely right though. Soon as she stops those two kids are gonna bonk heads together, the smaller one needs a bike seat at the very least, and the toddler probably needs one as well. You could still do that with a bike like this, so it doesn’t discount the point entirely, but the image itself is a pretty stupidly conceived piece of work.

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      1 year ago

      It will never not be funny to me how scared some people are of any transportation that’s not a car.

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        there are so many people who have both no cognitive ability to imagine something they haven’t personally experienced or is the norm and have never gotten anywhere any other way but a car.

        it’s funny to because compared to literally anything but a motorcycle cars are hella dangerous, and the deaths from all the other modes except airplanes are from getting hit by a car