<story><title>Letting Bird’s scooters fly free</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0b0001</author><text>How is it cool when people steal scooters and the companies ultimately stop to offer rental scooters?&lt;p&gt;Nobody will maintain the scooters just because cool and cyberpunk and viral.&lt;p&gt;[Edit: do I misinterpret your post?]</text></item><item><author>cyberbanjo</author><text>These are the types of things that I feel like if could be made socially-viral would make some really cool real cyberpunk effects. Teach all the people with any interest how to hack the public scooters and do what they will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>braythwayt</author><text>Well, you are asking about “cool” in the sense of “socially&amp;#x2F;morally acceptable,” as opposed to “intellectually stimulating.”&lt;p&gt;That is an interesting distinction, because historically, the hacker ethos has been about the pursuit of the latter at the expense of the former.&lt;p&gt;For example, phone phreaking. Or the Morris Worm.&lt;p&gt;Stealing scooters and reselling them is just theft. Hacking a scooter for the pleasure of finding out how they tick, or for fun, is still stealing, but it’s also hacking in the original sense.&lt;p&gt;That doesn’t justify it, but given that we are arguing this point on a forum named after hackers and which celebrated the hacker ethos in its early days...&lt;p&gt;I suggest we at least understand and appreciate the second definition of “cool,” even if we aren’t going to let go of recognizing that it doesn’t meet the first definition.</text></comment>
<story><title>Letting Bird’s scooters fly free</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/53258.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0b0001</author><text>How is it cool when people steal scooters and the companies ultimately stop to offer rental scooters?&lt;p&gt;Nobody will maintain the scooters just because cool and cyberpunk and viral.&lt;p&gt;[Edit: do I misinterpret your post?]</text></item><item><author>cyberbanjo</author><text>These are the types of things that I feel like if could be made socially-viral would make some really cool real cyberpunk effects. Teach all the people with any interest how to hack the public scooters and do what they will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fiahil</author><text>We had&amp;#x2F;have about 10 active free-floating scooter companies in Paris. Names like Bird, Lime, Flash, Voi, Volt, Dott, Wind, Jump, Hive, Tier, ...&lt;p&gt;Even if you don&amp;#x27;t take into account the gigantic safety hazard that these vehicles represent, this is absolutely insane. Sidewalks are small. In this situation, each scooter that you can take off the street is a step in the right direction for the public interest.</text></comment>