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Text: Amazon’s electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.

Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck

Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that’s not a cargo bike man that’s a loopholemobile


Edit: I found a slightly higher-quality version of the image:

  • Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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    6 days ago

    Yep I would say you’re nailing the “criticize Amazon’s treatment of workers” part. That obviously is in severe need of fixing too.

    Would you prefer if that got addressed but they stayed purely on combustion engine vehicles? I appreciate the idealism and in a perfect world we’d have both, but actually expecting both outcomes at once is sadly a tall order…

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      6 days ago

      This isn’t a delivery bike. It’s for transferring cargo. That could have gone in a train or tram and been 100% electric while also not putting lives at risk.

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        You think the US has trains and trams that reach most neighborhoods? Not by a long shot.

        No this is definitely looks like a last mile delivery vehicle to me.