What the ruling class calls "progress" is not inevitable!
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What the ruling class calls "progress" is not inevitable! 🎉
As far as I am aware (please correct me if I'm wrong), this is the first rebuke these sidewalk vehicle companies have received from any municipal government. Hopefully the first of many.
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What the ruling class calls "progress" is not inevitable! 🎉
As far as I am aware (please correct me if I'm wrong), this is the first rebuke these sidewalk vehicle companies have received from any municipal government. Hopefully the first of many.
I get mad
whenever I see
the autonomous delivery robot -
I get mad
whenever I see
the autonomous delivery robotI went to the meeting last week that the alderman hosted which was discussed in the article. There were representatives from Coco and Serve at the meeting. They made highly the highly questionable claim that they were taking cars off the road and used this to say their sidewalk vehicles are safer than cars, so they are making the city safer. I asked why they are comparing their vehicles to cars rather than ebikes considering deliveries in dense cities are largely done via ebike...
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I went to the meeting last week that the alderman hosted which was discussed in the article. There were representatives from Coco and Serve at the meeting. They made highly the highly questionable claim that they were taking cars off the road and used this to say their sidewalk vehicles are safer than cars, so they are making the city safer. I asked why they are comparing their vehicles to cars rather than ebikes considering deliveries in dense cities are largely done via ebike...
... They couldn't provide any data to back up their assertion that deliveries are done by car in Chicago. They said Uber might have that data but that data is private. This concerned the alderman's staffer who said they needed that data to evaluate the impacts of these sidewalk vehicles and figure out what policy objectives these sidewalk vehicles might impact.
Their arguments fall apart so easily from even the slightest scrutiny.
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... They couldn't provide any data to back up their assertion that deliveries are done by car in Chicago. They said Uber might have that data but that data is private. This concerned the alderman's staffer who said they needed that data to evaluate the impacts of these sidewalk vehicles and figure out what policy objectives these sidewalk vehicles might impact.
Their arguments fall apart so easily from even the slightest scrutiny.
Here is what I put in the feedback form for comments after the meeting:
'These vehicles bring all harms and no benefits to the community. They only benefit the companies inflicting them upon us. The people of Chicago are under no obligation to accept or accommodate them in any way.
The company representatives explained how these vehicles are only used for short distance deliveries. These are the trips that are easiest to walk, thus these delivery vehicles don't have a reason to exist...
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Here is what I put in the feedback form for comments after the meeting:
'These vehicles bring all harms and no benefits to the community. They only benefit the companies inflicting them upon us. The people of Chicago are under no obligation to accept or accommodate them in any way.
The company representatives explained how these vehicles are only used for short distance deliveries. These are the trips that are easiest to walk, thus these delivery vehicles don't have a reason to exist...
... Even if local restaurants earn revenue through this, we all lose something much more important: public spaces where we interact with other people. If we normalize getting restaurant food through these delivery vehicles instead of walking a few blocks to local restaurants, eventually we won't have local restaurants; we'll just have ghost kitchens where robots go in and out and all human interaction is removed. That would be a miserable city to live in...
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... Even if local restaurants earn revenue through this, we all lose something much more important: public spaces where we interact with other people. If we normalize getting restaurant food through these delivery vehicles instead of walking a few blocks to local restaurants, eventually we won't have local restaurants; we'll just have ghost kitchens where robots go in and out and all human interaction is removed. That would be a miserable city to live in...
... I strongly disagree with the suggestions to get something out of these companies by having them pay for sidewalk maintenance. I appreciate the alderman fighting for funding safe streets. The city should be funding sidewalk maintenance. Funding sidewalks by leasing them to companies would be form of privatization that would leave us so much worse off in the long run, much like the parking meter deal...
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... I strongly disagree with the suggestions to get something out of these companies by having them pay for sidewalk maintenance. I appreciate the alderman fighting for funding safe streets. The city should be funding sidewalk maintenance. Funding sidewalks by leasing them to companies would be form of privatization that would leave us so much worse off in the long run, much like the parking meter deal...
... We must not trade short term budget relief for normalizing privatization of public space and forever cluttering sidewalks with these obnoxious vehicles.
Revoke these companies' licenses ASAP and don't let them come back.'
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... We must not trade short term budget relief for normalizing privatization of public space and forever cluttering sidewalks with these obnoxious vehicles.
Revoke these companies' licenses ASAP and don't let them come back.'
The alderman was interviewed by a local news outlet today about sidewalk vehicles:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/chicago-alder-weighs-backlash-over-151020301.html
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The alderman was interviewed by a local news outlet today about sidewalk vehicles:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/chicago-alder-weighs-backlash-over-151020301.html
I intentionally refuse the "robot" language these companies want us to use and call them "sidewalk vehicles" instead. The supposedly autonomous operation is a charade. They are driven remotely by humans.
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I intentionally refuse the "robot" language these companies want us to use and call them "sidewalk vehicles" instead. The supposedly autonomous operation is a charade. They are driven remotely by humans.
Want to get these sidewalk vehicles out of your city? Organize! All it has taken to get to this point in Chicago is some guy registering a domain name, making a Google Form, and spreading it around. https://nosidewalkbots.org/
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Want to get these sidewalk vehicles out of your city? Organize! All it has taken to get to this point in Chicago is some guy registering a domain name, making a Google Form, and spreading it around. https://nosidewalkbots.org/
You can also just... turn them off when you see them. At least for the Coco ones, you can tip them over and press the power button on bottom. There's no law against pressing the power button on trash left on the sidewalk. But it does cost the company money to deal with.
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I get mad
whenever I see
the autonomous delivery robot@be that is such a badass song.
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@be that is such a badass song.
@coreysnipes thanks to @nasser for sharing it a while ago
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You can also just... turn them off when you see them. At least for the Coco ones, you can tip them over and press the power button on bottom. There's no law against pressing the power button on trash left on the sidewalk. But it does cost the company money to deal with.
These companies want us to believe their "progress" is inevitable. But they're really weak. People overwhelmingly hate these things. Aside from a bootlicker at your local right wing newspaper (ahem Chicago Tribune), they don't have any allies who give a shit about them.
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Fan service! They can't keep getting away with it.
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@evan I'm counting a sonnet bot as a Shakespeare piece. Wait there's another more recent. Ian McKellen on Colbert.
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@PuncoX c’è @altreconomia che fa giornalismo altrettanto onesto, ma nell’era dei social e in un paese col 60% di analfabeti fa grossa fatica a stare a galla. Il problema è che non c’è più domanda di periodici e cala anche quella di quotidiani, immersi come siamo nel permanente flusso di contenuti nei nostri device.
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@evan Last weekend I saw a play about monkeys with typewriters locked in a room until they recreate Hamlet. How should I score that?
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@revengeday write in option: rawr XD
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@evan To truly experience Shakespeare, you must read him in the original Klingon.
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@rantingsteve My thoughts exactly. @evan
