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  • freebee@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world40s
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    2 hours ago

    I don’t know if it’s at all possible for you and depends on where you live and work, but I try to integrate “little sports” in my daily life. I try to cycle and walk to places as much as possible, instead of bus or tram. Try to use staircases instead of elevators. Etc. It can be small things, but easier to keep up than a real sporty regime.









  • As a cyclist, I’m all for e-bikes requiring a license.

    As a cyclist, I disagree. For traffic, we only need licensing on e-bikes that support people to go faster than ±20 km/h whithout pedalling to such speed by their own body strength. Basically: treat e-bike like the motorcycles they are. But ± 20km/h is a speed a normal healthy person on a normal non-electric bicycle can also easily achieve. It’s a generally safe speed in most situations. If it isn’t, it’s a mental health or sociopath behavior of the driver / very poor street infrastructure problem, but the light e-bike shouldn’t have to take the blame.

    On mountainbike trails (and on hiking trails!!!) i’m more in favor of something getting close a complete ban for anything motorised.






  • It exists. In Belgium and I think also Luxembourg inflation in prices of common consumer things automatically triggers wages, unemployment money, pensions to rise too. For most jobs it triggers when it hits 2%. Life got 2 % more expensive, wages rise 2 % a few months / a year later. Using a basket of consumer prices, excluding things like fuel, alcohol, tobacco prices










  • A roof over your head can be subjective. Many high earners are not satisfied with “a roof over their head”, they want it in the good neighborhood, with a pool, many rooms etc. High earners spend a lot more on regular things too, like food (A brands, fancier shops, more take-out), gadgets, traveling a lot and very far etc. If high earners can’t pay their bills, it’s likely partially because they are too deep into keeping up with the Jones’s, suck at handling money or both. It’s not common but is possible to go from being high earning to living under a bridge in just a few months, even if you owned your roof.