Bird Bikes were a regular feature on Nextdoor where I live. Lots of hand wringing about them while completely ignoring the lifted pickups with hoods taller than most children.
You mean taller than many adults.
> Pour one out for the micromobility startups' dreams and may whatever comes next be as delightfully odd as those things were.
Could you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what Homebrew has to do with rental scooters...
Re:Paris Votes to Ban Rental E-Scooters
by rolenthedeep on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:18PM
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"pour one out" is a reference to pouring an alcoholic drink on the ground to respect the memory of someone who died and can't take the drink.
Poster is implying that startups like bird and lime are dead or dying.
This is basically just "Fs in chat for rental scooters"
The very first day rental escooters were legal in town the company hosted demonstration had someone fall off in the town hall parking lot and require hospitalization. It was all so silly and things only went sideways from there. I saved tens of minutes over the course of a summer taking them on one route and I got two free helmets in the mail.
Leafblowers, historic districts, rental scooters... There has to be some focal point for the nervous municipal energy whether or not there's anything to focus it on. Things got deadly serious during the school reopening discussion and they never really went back to the way they were before.
Pour one out for the micromobility startups' dreams and may whatever comes next be as delightfully odd as those things were.