https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807756353399.html

The video shows someone driving it without a horse at ebike speeds, but the product page doesn’t list the motor or battery specs. We could have entire cities full of these if we abolished cars. CyberMozart 1777.

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    Mao is rolling in his grave.

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      One of the big communist initiatives of his era, and one of the Four Big Things marking consumer prosperity, was kickstarting China’s bicycle industry so that everyone had personal mobility with a domestic supply chain. He also read a lot of Western Enlightenment writers’ work. I feel like I could easily convince him that this is awesome.

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        It’s socialism with Chinese Carriagistics