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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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As powerful electric motorbikes such as those from brands like Sur Ron and Talaria become more popular, especially with teens,...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The MHBP also shared an image below of multiple electric motorbikes being towed away. Ironically, one of the police vehicles at the scene is a police-issue electric-assist patrol bicycle.

I really think Alanis Morrisette broke what little grip we had on the use of the word, irony.

[–] girsaysdoom 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Definitions change with time. Situational irony is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Sure, but situational irony has been around forever. If the article was about people on illegal gas motorcycles being pulled over by cops, who ironically were riding gas motorcycles themselves, the word use would be just as wrong.