Loose definition of a recall. Newer models are getting a software update. Older models are told to be thrown in the bin and get $100 credits to buy a new one
For early adopters, however, the CPSC and Future Motion are telling owners to stop using and discard the original Onewheel and Onewheel Plus.
For early adopters, however, owners can receive a “pro-rated credit of $100 to the purchase of a new board,” according to Mudd. The credit will only be issued after owners confirm that they have disposed of the old model.
That’s assuming cool old cheap motorcycle doesn’t have issues lol. My brother picked up a Honda CB450 years ago for about $700, and that thing had nothing but problems.
Oh absolutely agreed, if it’s bought for that purpose. My brother bought his for a primary mode of transportation to save money on gas, and yeah that didn’t exactly pan out lol
Depends, as a toy, yes, as a means of transportation, not really. I live in a dense city so it’s my main means of transport, cheaper than a car, and even bikes once you consider how often they get stolen, at least in my city. With a one wheel you can just carry it inside and not have to worry about some guy taking it.
Not worth my life though, hopefully this update fixes things.
Not worth my life though, hopefully this update fixes things.
The problem is only if you’re being reckless and pushing through pushback. Can a car manufacturer be blamed for a death is someone crashes their car after losing control while driving 120mph with no seatbelt? Seems like a user error to me.
Yeah, they are definitely safer and easier to ride. It’s just what do you do when you get to the destination? For a one wheel or skateboard you can just bring it inside the store and carry it around, or stash it under the table at a restaurant or the seat on a bus/train. Sometimes I’ll even hide it in some bushes at the park since it’s so small and unnoticeable. For a scooter they usually won’t let you bring it inside a store or onto a bus/train, and I don’t trust locking it up outside since I’m in a city with a lot of bike theft. If that’s less of a problem then a scooter might be the way to go.
Ah good point. I just got a scooter and was amazing how tiny it folds up. I didn’t think there would be an issue with taking it inside. Been a while since I held a one wheel but don’t remember them being tiny either.
I mean car recalls often don’t have the cars go fully back to the manufacturer, just to a dealer to have the part fixed or firmware updated.
For XR users they are flat out saying not to use your board until the firmware comes out, and for everyone else they’re saying not to use them until you can update the firmware.
Honestly it’s a little shady that the CPSC let them avoid issuing a recall until a firmware update was ready, but it sounds like they would have forced them to fully recall all models if they hadn’t been able to come up with haptic feedback.
$100 off of a $2000 replacement, the rest of which will have to be done out of pocket. “We’re down with offering a recall, but we had to make sure it lines our C-suite’s pockets first.”
And you wouldn’t even want wanted to replace them either because they’re completely unserviceable with digitally locked parts and a board that will brick itself if you disconnect the battery to do any sort of service.
I worked at an Abercrombie in college and it was just as exploitative as it sounds. We had to wear Abercrombie-only clothing to work and… you guessed it - they didn’t provide it. We had to buy it. As if that weren’t bad enough, it had to be “in season”, which meant they forced us to buy a new outfit every quarter for the priviledge to work minimum wage retail. They claimed we could choose instead to wear “equivalent” clothing if we didn’t want to pay. I once wore reef leather flip flops and they made me cut the 1cm rubber tags off before letting me on the floor.
They ended up getting sued for this practice and about 10 years later I got a settlement check for $7.
I have plenty of other crazy blood boiling stories from that job.
Sure - so the way they hired was completely discriminatory.
They wanted to hire people based on looks so customers would only see attractive white people working there and maybe one token of each other race. But thats completely illegal. So they got around this by recruiting people on the street.
They’d send someone onto the streets of NYC to walk up to people they wanted and offer them jobs. They’d also list the positions, but would auto-decline anyone who applied. That way they could pick the looks they wanted and show everyone who tried to apply and didn’t “fit” the door.
The managers were also insane. Most had drunk the Kool Aid and were so obsessed with Abercrombie they genuinely believed that being a retail store manager was something exclusive to be proud of. They expected the same attitude from everyone. They would invite employees to drink after work and then note who didn’t wear Abercrombie outside of work, then give them the worst shifts.
They also threatened to fire me multiple times for going off script - saying things like “hi” to customers instead of “hey how’s it going?” One time an exec came in with a suitcase. I was on greeter duty and thought they were a customer so I tried to engage and ask about their travel. They wordlessly stared daggers at me then went straight to the manager to have me fired. No idea why I wasn’t, but they acted like they had just saved my life by letting me keep my crappy retail job.
That was one of those jobs where I didn’t quit, I just stopped showing up.
To be fair on 5, of course the most money a PAC gives is to the largest race at the highest level, and Kamala was on the ticket as well, and it was for defeating the guy who single handedly overturned Roe.
The entire point of the PAC is to donate to women who will fight for women to have access to abortion…
But their biggest recipient is a man…
Although he’s better than Sinema, who got most of her money from this PAC and then continues to threaten to fillibuster any codifying of abortion access.
The takeaway here is either the people running the PAC are terrible at their job, or not trying to do what they tell everyone they’re trying to do when asking for donations. And for some reason that qualifies their president for an “interm” Senate seat.
This is nothing but political back patting and payback for giving money to the party’s preferred candidate even tho it made zero logical sense.
Oh, and before you try to say that’s not opposing it:
“We believe the decision by Sen. Sinema is not only a blow to voting rights and our electoral system but also to the work of all the partners who supported her victory and her constituents who tried to communicate the importance of this bill,” said Emily’s List president Laphonza Butler.
So I was right and she didn’t vote against abortion. She’s in favor of the filibuster.
And, wait, okay, first you blame them for donating to Sinema, and now you praise Emily’s List for withdrawing support from her? Make up your fucking mind lmfao
That was in her run before she became the DINO queen. They’ve since pulled support because she sucks. Before she was elected she appeared to be ok. Not great, but not obviously shit.
Thanks for the post. Went to Quanta Magazine, read “we do not honor ‘do not track’ requests” and decided to find somewhere better to read up. Thanks again tho
You misunderstand, the Federal government should be small so it doesn’t get in the way of the state government doing whatever the hell it wants. Individual rights are a canard to get religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts on board with dismantling federal protections so that state governments can oppress The Right People^TM^. Never mind that religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts are not oppressed and their revenge fantasies are founded on an astro-turfed victim complex.
Depending on the amount he had it could be a smart move. Even a public defender should be able to handle any possession charges that are amount based. What could be possession of a larger amount carrying a larger penalty gets downgraded to some lower possession charge and maybe a vandalism or destruction of property type charge.
paving over huge areas of the earth with concrete and forgetting how to grow your own food creates bad situations. every community/neighborhood should by law have a green/garden area of a certain size that is capable of growing most of the food required to sustain the local residents.
That’s not at all feasible for places with long, cold winters, or southwest areas without enough water, among others.
And before you say “well people shouldn’t live there then”, they live in those places because of the other resources. For example, let’s say logging in Montana, or oil fields in Texas. You’re not going to get the world to stop needing those resources any time soon.
and yet people in all of those places manage to grow their own food. humans are a resilient and adaptable species. but anyway, this is a tangent. even if the land has a playground on it, it doesn’t matter. people can decide how to use a blank space in a neighborhood. if food grows well there, then grow food. if not, make it a farmers market and people can bring the food there. the point is…we shouldn’t pave over the earth and then complain about food deserts.
if not, make it a farmers market and people can bring the food there.
The suggestion is that this is essentially what is happening. The exact real estate that these buildings will occupy are not likely to be greatly fertile lands. They might not be farmers markets, but it’s the same point you’re making here.
Dear fuck youre stupid. The problem isnt fucking growing the food not existing it aint a fucking famine or blight. Its logistics you dumb motherfucker. The Central Valley here in California could probably grow enough food for most of the US by itself, but doing so requires a large logistics network. This has always been the rule since the first cities, even if back then it was jusy getting it from the fields to inside the city walls. It is exceptionally rare for a city to grow food within itself.
Yes. Dude ive been a raging asshole since I was fucking eight or so, if anything ive mellowed out since then. Its just I fucking loathe abject stupidity, especially from those who seem to think food desert = no food grown rather than the much simplier answer that is nowhere to buy food. Ah thats no fair I loathe the seventh day adventists, mormons, nazis, and authoritarians far more than I dislike you. Its just something about your dumbshit comment struck a nerve. So in summary piss off dipshit.
fair. and i will piss off…to my garden to harvest my roma tomatoes because the ones at the local store, are shittier and super expensive! co-located food/housing is common all across the world and is super awesome. :D
because the mega-corp owned agricultural industry is so great…all city dwellers should just forget how to grow food because “someone has it covered”. i mean its working so well. people are healthier and happier than ever…certainly aren’t any “food deserts” because the corps got it covered man! just wait for the monsanto truck to show up and feed everyone. or…dare to think out side the box and see that solving “food deserts” might just include tearing up some concrete and planting a few food plants instead of bazillions of square kilometers of manicured grass and generi-bushes.
Doesnt need to be corps, its just a matter of not breathing in fertilizer and pesticides. Agriculture is dirty and will spread disease, namely through the water table. Also if you want any even vaguely efficient harvest of crops it has to be done industrially not just random shitty plots of land.
hmm. it appears your actually just don’t know. small scale agriculture is actually much more efficient. you should look this stuff up before talking about this you don’t know about!
Are we talking garden foods (Tamato, zucchini, peppers) or are we talking staple crops (Wheat, Maize, Potatoes) cause I can see why garden foods would be more efficient, but if we’re talking staple crops then absolutely fucking not. We can harvest corn by the literal tonnes using modern machinery.
good question, im not an industrial farming expert, but i definitely grow a shit ton of food on my own 1 acre property, using only hand tools. One reason small scale farming is more efficient is that the areas planted do not have to adhere to dimensions that will fit industrial farm equipment. For example, think about a grape plantation on a rough hillside. its simply not possible to use industrial harvesting equipment there, so it must be done by hand, yet still produces massive amounts of nutrition/calories off rough land. This applies to individual/family plots too–they aren’t all just flat farmland, they are on hillsides, uneven terrain, etc. An example would be in the third world like in south africa, there are vast neighborhoods of small two-room family shacks, with a bit of land to the side. Each family there produces an unexpectedly large amount of corn, sugar-cane, root veggies, etc on very tiny plots. No industrial equipment could ever fit there or farm there. They produce a large amt of food right next to their shack, and virtually everyone does it because its cheaper and more efficient than walking (yes, walking, they don’t own cars) to the store a few miles away. And another reason, kind of hard to explain, but individual people doing individual farming on their own land tend to take better care of their plants. Pests have a much more difficult time in situations like this, because where they really thrive are gigantic fields of monoculture crops. for example, corn. An industrial corn field often allows weeds and pests to take over the undergrowth around the corn, which significantly limits crop returns, but there are just so many damn corn stalks that can be harvested industrially, that it doesnt’ matter and the end result is still a huge amount. But in relative terms, growing your own corn next to your own house, and paying more individual attention to each plant, results in better actual yields.
Industrial farming relies on complex equipment, and the fact that there is just so much flat land available, that they don’t “need” to be efficient. Take a look at how much diesel is used on industrial farms, and it kind of shows the point. It’s a lot. In general, human bodies doing manual labor are extremely efficient compared to other forms of work, provided they have the knowledge and appropriate context. It takes 3-4 miles of walking to burn off the calories in two slices of bread. Humans are very efficient when working with their hands.
I mean, you’re right. We can grow a shit ton of potatoes on flat land with modern methods. And we do. But that absolutely does not mean individual/small scale urban farming couldn’t do just as well. This year I grew 8 roma tomato plants in a 4ft by 10ft garden. They provided enough tomatoes (400-500) to make over 50 jars of tomato sauce, enough to supply our household for a year. I don’t live on flat or even fertile farm land. My terrain is rocky sandstone, uneven. No mechanized farming could ever be done here. Yes I had to work and amend the soil. Yes it’s hard work for several days of the year. But I need exercise anyway. I don’t buy a gym membership because of the garden work I do. The seeds and plants were free because I save seeds. The total cost of the tomatoes was just my own labor, the water (around $10 worth), and misc costs. The sauce is far cheaper than anything I could buy at the store, since I supplied all of the raw material.
The point is, anyone with even a small plot of land is able to grow large amounts of food, probably a lot more than they think. And most of those places are places that without small-scale/individual gardening, would never see any food production. The issue is, it takes time, knowledge, and special care, and many people aren’t able to pull that off. I realize that, and it’s fine. That’s why big farms exist. But the truth is that there are a large number of people out there who have the time, and ability to do it, but they just don’t know how, or even believe it’s possible. Even just one apple tree can provide a huge amount of nutrition and calories if well cared for and placed correctly.
Wheat and rice? Yea, those don’t lend themselves well to small scale farming. For those things, you are absolutely correct. However, don’t assume those things are necessary. It’s just carbs. I have beets growing in my back yard (enough to last an entire year) that contain more carbs, and more importantly, vastly more nutrients, than a much larger field of wheat or rice. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some pizza and bread, and I buy lots of wheat flour from local farms around me. But those types of crops are NOT necessary for people to eat. They’re luxuries. The proof? Africa and other arid zones. People subsist on small scale farming (and foraging) of root vegetables (casava is the most well known), not vast plantations of rice and wheat. and they do just fine. Root vegetables are often a lot more nutritious than grass seed (which is what rice and wheat are). You just can’t make pizza out of it due to no gluten :(
I think we’re using two different ideas of agricultural efficiency, you seem to be using the idea of most amount of gain from x amount of area while im using the idea of most amount of gain from least amount of manpower.
Also I feel like comparing African subsistance farmers to say urbanized European factory workers is a bit unfair.
Also im aware of how good groves of apples, oranges, and pomegranates can be. My family grew oranges up until the early 80s, its just that historically theyve kinda been luxury foods and still are a pain in the ass to harvest. The only reason they are cheap is cause of cheap labor and subsidies. Sure on the small scale their fine but once ypu get more than three it becomes a pain in the ass and the crows get drunk.
They always had some kind of food importation. Unless you want to go all the way back to the first few people in the area who did subsistence hunting and gathering. But that’s also not feasible for more than a few people.
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