Just this week in Vantaa, Finland three 12-year-old girls piled onto one of those electric scooters you subscribe to with an app and proceeded to get run over by a car at a crossing, killing one of them
The app is supposed to have an age restriction but it's easy to bypass and you're not supposed to have more than one person riding on one, which people routinely ignore
I hate seeing kids and teens speeding around dangerously on those fucking things and then just leaving them laying around on high-traffic bike routes because they don't give a shit since they treat the scooters as completely disposable
Fucking awful bazinga-brained Silicon Valley-ass idea and business model. Actually, there are also bikes you can use with an app but curiously you don't see kids doing reckless shit with those, almost as if electric scooters were uniquely terrible 
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the people are probably doing it because of the other negative externalities of the scooters, not just cause its fun to throw heavy shit in the river
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Base, superstructure. The scooters are disposable techbro bullshit that clogs the few remaining public spaces. They belong to no one and no one feels any ownership or responsibility towards them. If you use them they're disposable, if you don't use them they're trash and an unwanted obstacle. They're not public transit infrastructure, they're shitty techbro "innovation" and everyone treats them as such. There are no ethical scooters under capitalism.
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