• Juice@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    People are so up in arms at the seeming contradiction of Amish using a light and a battery on their buggies.

    Guess what: most Amish businesses have cell phones. If you drive through Amish country in Ohio, you will see dozens of people in Amish garb riding e-bikes.

    I hate cars and judges, and frankly Ohio is a hellhole; but if some lights are going to make people safer it really isn’t going to be that big of a burden. If the judge says they have to do it, then their community elders will approve it, nbd.

    None of you ever had Mennonite friends and it shows.

      • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        By victims I assume you mean unsuspecting drivers coming across a dark, unlighted vehicle in the road at night who could be injured or killed by an accident or swerving to avoid one, right?

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    11 months ago

    It’s the responsibility of the driver not to hit something, not the something not to get hit.

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I am looking at all the comments and sub comments and realizing almost all the people commenting don’t realize this is posted in fuckcars.

    The entire point of this community is to point out how cars have screwed everyone else from using roads and paths that at times predated cars. Most major city’s could add good bike paths and lighten the traffic by using bikes or any other non vehicle option.