I feel there’s probably some reasons they haven’t become popular.
Don’t turn as nimbly as a bike
Can’t put them on your shoulder and carry them indoors, onto a train, etc. like as a bike
Don’t climb hills as well as a bike (source)
20× the cost of a bike, maybe that could be brought down by economies of scale if they were more popular
I could imagine a velomobile being preferable if you’re commuting from a satellite town to the city, and the journey consists of a long straight road.
I’d definitely say they’re worse for getting around the city, and their comparative advantages are bought at the price of significant extra overhead.
Couldn’t care less.
not my circus not my monkeys
What your Trump-supporting journalist says –
Behind the scenes is China’s reluctance to forgive debt…
In the past under such circumstances, big government lenders such as the U.S., Japan and France would work out deals to forgive some debt, with each lender disclosing clearly what they were owed and on what terms so no one would feel cheated. But China didn’t play by those rules.
The actual facts –
FarraigePlaisteach
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeyx2I0UL9VNYC8X97SflUg
I’m interested in different perspectives so I’d like to avoid USA, GB etc.
Tá “comm” againn faoi sin: !noyank@lemmy.ml
go get em tiger
knock em dead champ
etc
History doesn’t provide answers to hypotheticals
the Kahlil Gibran quote smells fake
It’s Friday today
The writing system has its flaws too.
Some of these might sound like non-issues to grown-ups, but they’re hard for children.
Cló Gaelach means Gaelic print. Lámh Gaelach is the same thing but handwritten, it means Gaelic Hand. It’s not an alternative to the Latin alphabet, just a dialect of it, like how German was written in Blackletter up until quite recently. Most letters are similar to the boring mainstream print, but T (Ꞇ), G (Ᵹ) and D (Ꝺ) are quite distinctive, and the letter H is not used.
There is no aspirated h (h as a consonant) in Irish, it’s used to mark softened phonemes, so m
represents one consonant and mh
in Cló Rómánach (Roman print) represents a softer sound. Cló Gaelach favours the superdot ṁ
instead of using h.
This is the part of constitution declaring Irish the official language of the country, with English a secondary official language:
The government phased it out for official use in the 1970s because they are idiots. I still use it when I can, I never write Irish by hand without it.
Using what we’ve just seen, we can call it ‘oġam’ instead of ‘ogham’. It’s not a G-sound then a H-sound; it’s a soft G more like English ‘owam’.
Ogham is much older. It was used around the year 400. It is a tree-themed alphabet, branches coming off a central column, and the letters mostly have names like ‘birch’, ‘oak’, 'hazel. Ogham is climbed as a tree is climbed, which is to say it’s written bottom to top. It was created by the god Ogma; similar to how Thoth created writing in Egypt. An 14th-century text called In Lebor Ogaim talks about various ways of putting ciphers upon it. Posts about ogham: https://lemmy.ml/post/16545296 , https://lemmy.ml/post/18046303
ᚔᚄ ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ ᚓ ᚄᚓᚑ but that won’t display on all people’s operating systems.
Ogham tattoos are common enough nowadays.
grand, so the answer to your question “how is lemmy centralised” is “moderation and identity”, glad we had this chat
moderation aint centralised, as it is limited to an instance. Want to see what your instances Mods have removed? Open that community from its host instance. Also don’t like the work your instance Mods and Admins do? Just switch instance and you are still part of the platform.
nah I just checked if a mod removes it it’s removed from federated instances too I just checked
This comment is rational.
For those inter-city bike lanes like you see in some parts of France they would be great.