• zer0
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    11 months ago

    https://nitter.net/Thisis_Rigged/status/1688142514421661696#m

    “Rebecca, 28, “as a trans woman I’ve been told I’m not welcome on the cycling track by UCI, at the same time they allow a petrochemical company to field a team showing they have no real care for people. I take to the track to point out this hypocrisy and stand for a better future””

    • Damage@slrpnk.net
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      11 months ago

      Shell produces, among other things, resins used so much in modern bicycles’ carbon fiber

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        11 months ago

        Can’t recycle them either. You could potentially downcycle carbon fibers but I’m pretty sure in most places they’ll just end up in the incinerator, or somewhere in nature.

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          11 months ago

          How frustrating, it’s far easier to dismiss them when they’re a faceless homogeneous mass.

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        11 months ago

        I kind of agree with you. Those points are so completely unrelated, it just makes the cause look stupid. Even if you agree with both causes.