It would have a massive effect. Transport (car) emissions are one of the larger - and growing - sources of emissions.
And we can’t hide behind “But the corporations…” because ultimately what they produce gets used by us.
So to answer your question: riding a bike when Global Capital wants you to keep buying cars and pumping oil into them is one of the best acts of defiance you can make
If it’s a tiny bit of comfort, you probably don’t need a new derailleur, just a new cassette with the right spacing. The mech itself will likely work with different cable-pull, as long as you’re not drastically changing the number of sprockets on the cassette
If people are driving with appropriate skill and care, the number driving into large, well-lit buildings should be approximately zero per year. It sounds like you’re willing to excuse a lot of bad driving
There’s a substantial body of research on how mythbusting lies can be counterproductive because as part of doing so, you repeat the lie and this helps people remember it.
Also, and this is more speculative, but surely there’s probably some survivor bias here? There are probably many thousands of populists neither of us has ever heard of because they haven’t had their voices amplified.
Don’t give these people publicity
Plumbers don’t carry massive heavy plant. But I know you were just picking a concrete example of a business there so let’s not dwell on that particular case. The real point is that if a business causes damage to the roads that has to be repaired, it should contribute an appropriate amount. If that makes the cost of doing business more expensive, that just has to get passed on to the customer - who, ultimately, is the one having the heavy stuff transported
Here in the UK, I’ve seen bloody sushi restaurants and hairdressers drive branded pickup trucks FFS. No tax exemptions for businesses. As another poster noted, the damage is being done and needs to be paid for - it doesn’t magically not matter because it was done in the course of somebody using the road for their business
Please, people, don’t buy cheap ebikes from Amazon’s, AliExpress, etc. Buy from a reputable brand and dealer.
Apparently the surge pricing reflected what touts would have charged. Makes you want to grab somebody and shout HOW IS THAT A JUSTIFICATION?! Yeah, and if somebody steals a car they’ll sell it to me cheaper than the dealer - so it feels like TM logic means the dealer should sell it to me cheaper too because that’s what the black market is priced at?
2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago
The thing is, they’re now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?
At this stage it’s a trope that people imitate, perhaps without really thinking about it. Originally it was almost certainly an ironic joke about the value of the medals, playing on the old-fashioned bite tests that would be used for for items of dubious worth
Points at bees “Why can’t you be more like your cousin?”
No, Northern Ireland is part of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. So it’s in the UK but not GB, which I think is what spurred OP’s question
If they’re like the originals, let’s hope nobody ever needs to control them with the slightest bit of moisture on their hands.
I know. But I was satirising GPT’s bland writing style, not providing facts
“Shits are frequently classified into three basic types…” and then gives 5 paragraphs of bland guff
Hard to get too excited when Norway funds all this by selling fossil fuels