Gravity supplies more than enough power to reach dangerous speeds even on unpowered devices. If all the governor did was remove applied power once walking speed was reached, that would be enough to get kids to the top of a hill without effort, and then they’d go rocketing down to their doom.
The danger of these scooters is that they’re scooters: they’re unstable and unsafe at speed. Bicycles are much more stable and thus safer at those same speeds.
To max out their speed you’d need a governor that applies the brakes automatically. This in itself can be very dangerous in many situations, such as when you’re going down a steep hill. I would imagine that’s also the situation children are most likely to get hurt.
You ought to educate yourself on the difference between the general and the universal. A society can have serious ideological, legal, and social problems without those issues reflecting on the people or their culture.
I think this is too sophisticated an argument for someone like you, though, so I won’t waste any further time on you. You think everything in black and white terms, ready to pounce on anyone you think is the other team. Good day!
Nope. I’m not racist, and fuck you for even suggesting it!
You’re doing the same shit people do to defend the government of Israel! Accusing anyone who criticizes the country of being an anti-Semite.
It’s nothing to do with race and everything to do with ideology. I have close friends whose parents survived the cultural revolution. They would tell you the same thing.
China is the place where, if someone hits you with their car by accident, they’ll stop and run you over to finish you off, in order to avoid paying your family for caring for you and your injuries.
Oh yes, I’m a firm believer that democracy is bad, and people know this intuitively but they forget because they’re taught to reflexively support democracy and criticize everything else.
People love to trash capitalism on Lemmy but praise socialism and democracy. When it comes to which t shirt style I get to wear, I vastly prefer capitalism. If that were a democratic choice we’d all be wearing the same t shirt!
Call it whatever you want, empathy is part of the process. When people fear terrorist attacks, they’re empathizing with the victims. They’re literally imagining themselves in that situation and that is what produces their fear response. Exploitation of fear is exploitation of empathy, by definition.
For whatever reason, people can’t seem to muster up the same empathy for victims of a car crash.
Because empathy doesn’t scale.
Empathy works great when you live in a small village and everyone knows each other. It breaks down completely when you get to a city where almost everyone you see is always a stranger.
You can take the most caring person you know who is always happy to help out or offer a shoulder to cry on. Put them onto a crowded subway with the unkempt, the unruly, people with untreated mental illnesses talking out loud or yelling, and they’ll feel threatened and keep their head down.
Generally it doesn’t even have to be anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t want random people talking to them, even without any aggression involved. Now there are some rare people who feel comfortable engaging those situations but most people absolutely do not. The other side of the coin is that (when watching disasters on the news or whatever) people don’t feel empathy for statistics at all, they need to see a face to empathize with.
Lastly, I will say that empathy does guide public decision making more than it should in a lot of cases. People will engage in stranger danger moral panics or support the “war on terrorism” much more readily than they’ll support attempts to curtail car accident deaths, despite the latter killing far more than the former two combined.
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There are plenty of low income Asian students who do not do so well in school. They just don’t live in Canada. Asian students who live in Canada are from a highly selected group of migrant families.
Income level is highly correlated with high school grades. Students from poor households are far more likely to fall below standards on reading, writing, mathematics, and science.
That’s the thing though. Beyond a certain point, people don’t care that much about being “better off.” If they have it all, they have it all, and they’re content. I don’t think they’re afraid either. Fear is mostly the burden of the working class.
I live in Canada. That’s not true. Higher education is heavily subsidized here, yet many of the paths (STEM majors at the top schools) are essentially closed for all but the most gifted of working class students.
Once you realize how skewed education is based on socioeconomic status, you see how little the working class benefit from having their tax dollars go to pay for higher education.
The outcomes are what favour them though.
People who have a good job, plenty of vacation days, 2 cars, own their own home, couple of kids, money saved for school and retirement… these folks are not all that upset about billionaires.
The middle class already decides most elections because politicians target the middle class as a voting bloc.
This is why housing prices always seem to trend up: middle class wealth is concentrated in their family home.
This is also why there’s so much government funding for universities (public universities). The middle class disproportionately benefit from it. Taxes on working class people to pay for higher education that their own children don’t benefit from are regressive taxes. Basically a wealth transfer from the working class to the middle class.
I wouldn’t say vibes, I’d say identity based. Many people vote the same way their whole life. All bad vibes can do is get them to sit one out, not vote for the other party.
Loads of left leaning folks on Lemmy (maybe a majority) think Republican voters are just plain evil. What I don’t think they seem to grasp is that the feeling is mutual! Republicans think Democrats are evil!
This has always been the style of the Liberal party. Justin Trudeau was an outlier.
This is why they’re called “the Natural Governing Party of Canada.” They benefit from tremendous amounts of vote splitting!
The line is drawn by the community themselves. They decide what the rules for the category are.
This is how all speedrunning communities work. They make rules for each category. Mods aren’t the only thing that can skip large chunks of a game. Major glitches are as well. Many, many speedrun categories prohibit major glitches that skip large sections of the game.
I appreciate the sentiment and I’ve felt similarly of late, but we don’t want to “empty the chamber” all at once.
One of the risks of escalation is that the other side may stop fearing what you’re going to do next. This is what happened with Iran: they no longer have any fear of the US whatsoever.
I know Trump is never going to fear anything Canada can do, but ordinary Americans may still worry. We should be trying to turn up the pressure slowly, and make sure that Americans keep turning against Trump rather than starting to see Canadians as the enemy, which is what he wants.