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Saturday 8th 41F, another mild, dark
and wet but very windy day. A short walk in strong winds and increasing rain. Heavy shopping in the car in more wind and rain. I wouldn't trust my trike to carry 10kg bags of wood briquettes. I broke my first trike hauling heavy stuff home from Bristol to Bath after work.
The Danish Cycling Federation is complaining about the planned 2019 change in the law. To allow electrically driven "sports" bicycles, scooters and skateboards to use the normal cycle paths. They foresee massive congestion, countless accidents and mayhem on a network already struggling to contain all the normal bicycles in major Danish cities. The "sports" electric bicycles can travel at several times the speed of most cyclists.
At what cost does this new freedom present to the numbers of cyclists enjoying a healthy ride to work and back each day? They are each keeping another car off the already gridlocked roads. What if the new battery driven freedom causes a massive reduction in the number of normal cyclists? The health of the nation will plummet if they stop getting any exercise at all. Obesity will soar along with all the well known, inevitable and crippling diseases.
Then there are all the mental problems to follow. The Danish psychiatric services are so underfunded that even the young can wait for years before treatment is offered. Denmark already has the lowest life expectancy of any country in Western Europe. Mostly due to smoking and alcohol.
The Danish Cycling Federation is complaining about the planned 2019 change in the law. To allow electrically driven "sports" bicycles, scooters and skateboards to use the normal cycle paths. They foresee massive congestion, countless accidents and mayhem on a network already struggling to contain all the normal bicycles in major Danish cities. The "sports" electric bicycles can travel at several times the speed of most cyclists.
At what cost does this new freedom present to the numbers of cyclists enjoying a healthy ride to work and back each day? They are each keeping another car off the already gridlocked roads. What if the new battery driven freedom causes a massive reduction in the number of normal cyclists? The health of the nation will plummet if they stop getting any exercise at all. Obesity will soar along with all the well known, inevitable and crippling diseases.
Then there are all the mental problems to follow. The Danish psychiatric services are so underfunded that even the young can wait for years before treatment is offered. Denmark already has the lowest life expectancy of any country in Western Europe. Mostly due to smoking and alcohol.
One
can well imagine electric scooters and electric skateboards being the
[economical] choice of the grossly immature. Electric "sports" bikes
presently run into the thousands of pounds/dollars so are denied to most younger people. Adrenaline seekers will lack any
road discipline and want to race on the paths, pavements, shopping pedestrian areas and public
spaces. Just to prove their innate idiocy, immaturity and extremely doubtful manhood. The courts are bound to be as busy as the hospitals.
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Saint
Margrethe Vestager has managed to persuade a German power supplier to
accept Danish wind power electricity. They had previously been blocking access to the German consumer. This should help to reduce
overcapacity but lead to even more windmills being erected in a highly negative,
national atmosphere.
Taxpayer subsidized, windmill
owners do not share their massive profits with those most affected. i.e. The
massively overburdened consumer paying multiple "green" taxes! The
farmers do well enough from renting a tiny bit of their fields. They can freely continue to
raise crops and harvest around their money printing machine. Not so with the nearest neighbours to the farmer's nice little "windfall."
I
have always liked windmills [turbines] myself. So have no real beef with them. Fortunately
there are none close enough to affect us directly. They are said to
produce highly irritating infrasonics [very low audio frequencies more felt than heard.] Not to mention long, fluttering shadows when the sun is low.
Property owners close to the coast, where new turbines are usually being erected, cannot sell their homes. Or face massive losses if they do manage to part with their former homes. Offshore wind farms are equally disliked for their "busy" moving intrusion into an otherwise tranquil and previously unspoilt scene. Planning permission for new wind farms or smaller groups of turbines is often being appealed and permission overturned or denied.
Sunday 9th 42F, mild, cloudy and windy. More rain and showers promised. A largely grey and damp day. Too busy for a ride.
Is there anywhere I can register the fact that I would rather die screaming, at gunpoint, than buy ANYTHING, EVER posted on ANY website for the rest of my life? I do not care if your business model is supported by selling transparent, advertising lies aimed specifically at vegetative, drooling retards.
If it were a newspaper I would have a simple choice not to read your pathetic sales swill. Being subjected to moving video, advertising some absolute garbage, with a blaring soundtrack, aimed solely and specifically at the educationally challenged customer base, you so richly rely on, is a grave offense against any thinking person's sensibilities.
It is a vicious assault and denies me my freedom not be subject to your barrel scraping, snake oil, sales gibberish. Freedom from advertising should be an inalienable human right. If I am interested in a commercial product or service I will seek further information and read independent reviews before making a choice between available options. If your product, or service, is so utterly indistinguishable and pointless that you have to descend to advertising, then it holds no further interest for me. Understood?
Property owners close to the coast, where new turbines are usually being erected, cannot sell their homes. Or face massive losses if they do manage to part with their former homes. Offshore wind farms are equally disliked for their "busy" moving intrusion into an otherwise tranquil and previously unspoilt scene. Planning permission for new wind farms or smaller groups of turbines is often being appealed and permission overturned or denied.
Sunday 9th 42F, mild, cloudy and windy. More rain and showers promised. A largely grey and damp day. Too busy for a ride.
Is there anywhere I can register the fact that I would rather die screaming, at gunpoint, than buy ANYTHING, EVER posted on ANY website for the rest of my life? I do not care if your business model is supported by selling transparent, advertising lies aimed specifically at vegetative, drooling retards.
If it were a newspaper I would have a simple choice not to read your pathetic sales swill. Being subjected to moving video, advertising some absolute garbage, with a blaring soundtrack, aimed solely and specifically at the educationally challenged customer base, you so richly rely on, is a grave offense against any thinking person's sensibilities.
It is a vicious assault and denies me my freedom not be subject to your barrel scraping, snake oil, sales gibberish. Freedom from advertising should be an inalienable human right. If I am interested in a commercial product or service I will seek further information and read independent reviews before making a choice between available options. If your product, or service, is so utterly indistinguishable and pointless that you have to descend to advertising, then it holds no further interest for me. Understood?
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