• yads@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    The scooters are really popular in our city. Currently we have 2 companies operating: Bird and Neuron. The positives have definitely outweighed the negatives. Hope they can keep going.

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      10 months ago

      I’m of the total opposite mindset. I love having them where I travel, and I will fight to my dying breath to keep them out of my city lol.

      Before I am called a hypocrite I am totally fine with other cities keeping them out. But if they’re there, I’m using them (and putting them where they belong instead of leaving them scattered everywhere like an asshole)

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          As much as the scooters used to annoy me, the Atlanta ban demonstrated that their presence has a significant positive effect on both pollution and traffic, so now I’m fine with them.

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          10 months ago

          Hence why I clarified that I have no issue with them being removed. They’re terrible when you’re not the one using them.

          It’s my same outlook with cruises. I don’t do them, but if my family wanted to take one I would probably join. I am also super cool with them being banned from the world. Feels pretty consistent to me lol

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            10 months ago

            I agree that you’re consistent, that’s why I said the strong initial statement sounded hypocritical

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          10 months ago

          That’s not what the term means. NIMBY refers to people trying to prevent other people from using their own property in ways they don’t like, not people who don’t want shitty companies actively throwing trash in the commons.

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            10 months ago

            You’re wrong:

            a person who does not want something unpleasant to be built or done near where they live

            Another!

            a colloquialism signifying one’s opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable in one’s neighborhood.

            Maybe one more?

            opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable (such as a prison or incinerator) in one’s neighborhood

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              None of those contradict my definition.

              Not wanting a company dumping fucking trash in the streets is not and does not even vaguely resemble NIMBYism.

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                10 months ago

                You’re omitting the part where OP is fine with the “trash dumping” in the streets of other locales. That’s what makes it NIMBY (as OP admits).

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                    Yikes dude, you’re blaming me for the reddit-esque toxicity.

                    I was using the other guy’s wording (“trash dumping”) specifically in quotes because I didn’t agree with that sentiment re: scooters. I’m not making any point about you, I’m talking about the use of the term NIMBYism. Dang.

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          I’m fine with them in no backyards. They are corporate waste the way people treat them 90% of the time. If people were better about them (and wore helmets!!!) and the companies actually lifted a finger to keep them out of waterways and blocking sidewalks then I’d be down to have them here.

          I get you were trying to cleverly call me a NIMBY but please actually read what I am writing. Including the original comment. I was very clear.