They need to put it explicitily into the terms and conditions :-D He should always have to enter with his own card but that’s somewhat on those that swiped for him, they shouldn’t have. Yes he’s taking the piss but if they don’t specify time limits or “fair use” in the terms and condidtions that’s on them.

Yes, I am pretty sure this is the case. It’s not hard to think that people that walk / cycle past a business will notice more things. They’ll be lured in by those elaborate window displays you spent all morning setting up. They will smell the baked goods wafting by. They’ve probably worked up an appetite from all the walking/biking as well. They’ve maybe even had time to be influenced by your signage promising bargains, discounts etc etc. Cars are just zooming by, no attention whatsoever paid to your business unless they’re A) already intending to go there or B) you have something outside so offensively eye catching and distracting that it probably should be outlawed?!

Headline is prob not fair but the article is full of the same old tired arguments.

Cycle lanes cause congestion. Cool, lets get some cars off the road, that’ll help.

Cyclists get injured too. Yes, by cars. See previous point.

It’s gonna impact ambulances. OK, but apart from less cars = less “accidents” and therefore less callouts, that road has enough space down the middle for an ambulance to drive sideways?! Do they think planners don’t take emergency routes/access into account in their plans? I assure you they do.

I have to turn at a right angle to get into the driveway. Yes, you have to slow down, which improves the chances you’ll spot and therefore not hit somone. You can’t careen wildly into a driveway at speed anymore. Sorry, not sorry.

My low car might get an owie. Yes, you chose a low car. There are a million things that might impact it i.e basically every single driveway, speed hump, gutter or object on the road.

My big car doesn’t even get impacted by your speed bumps. Wow, so what is it? We have to build higher speed bumps. Okay, but mr sports car is going to be getting even more owies. I don’t know what we’re supposed to do with that information/brag?

My business will die if you remove the one park outside my door. Wow, your business is on its death bed already then?! I’m very sorry. I don’t think that one car park is doing all you think it is? Personally I only go to a business that is near a bus stop or good cycling infrastructure but I know I’m weird because I don’t own a car but really, I see this argument all the time and it makes no sense. Can’t people park around the corner and walk a few minutes?! If someone parks in a parking building you often have to walk/take a lift/take multiple stairs and STILL end up walking to the shop. Maybe slap up a bike stand and work on your marketing, product, quality, service or whatever else will make an actual difference to your businesses survival? /rant

Yikes, after reading that thread in its entirety I unsubbed from their channel. They will have to do a LOT to get me to ever come back. I’m not sure if that’s even possible?

I think that’s one of two separate ways to solve some of the problems. Yes, there’s long lasting, industrial style, built like a tank and made to last that costs a lot as one solution. But there could also be cheaper products that wouldn’t last as long except that when something does go wrong you could buy a fairly cheap replacement part and swap it out using readily available tools. Both solutions can and should exist and would serve different markets.

You don’t have to actually be able to do it yourself for it to be beneficial. If I am, lets just say for the sake of argument, completely hopeless and don’t know my quick web search pentalobes from my tri-points I should still be able to take a thing to a repair shop and they should be able to use standard tools to open it and use standard or at least affordable parts to repair it. We’re not talking about “changing oil is hard” because you can take your car to a workshop and they’ll do it for you. We’re talking about you can’t change the oil, you have to throw the car away and buy a new one.

I see now that France have something like this already. It’s fairly new and it’s up to the manufacturers to say how well they score on each criteria but it’s a start! French repair index

Yes, I love what they do but I think it’d have to be independant / not tied to commercial interests to be adopted widely.

Could there be a star rating on products like with the energy star rating? Start with 5 stars and for every egregious anti user repair sin take a star off? Would probably go into negative stars? Not user openable with standard tools, dock a star. Glued not screwed together, dock a star. Uses proprietory parts when standard alternatives are readily available, another star gone. Non user replacable battery, you’re now knocking on the door of a big fat ZERO stars!

This is terrible! I went to /r/steam to learn about steamed hams but they were clearly grilled! I’m not even sure they were hams?!? 1 star, would not visit again!!