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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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It’s taken a while, but most Americans have finally come to realize that the new tariffs imposed on imported goods...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think we need to be making more use of the word "ostensibly".

ostensibly intended to encourage manufacturing in the US instead of sending those manufacturing jobs overseas.

That reads much better to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember that most US citizens read at or under a sixth grade level.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair, but in journalism you can just write “Trump says the tariffs are to encourage manufacturing in the US…”

Unless the journalist is a mind-reader, they don’t know what Trump thinks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's true, I don't mean to discount that.