• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    Reminder that anything “local business owners” say about things affecting the amount of customers they have has had zero ethos since the 90s when smoking in restaurants was banned. The “local business owners” complained nonstop about it but traffic actually went up as non-smokers went out to eat more.

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      18 hours ago

      Yep, every time a bike lane was put in against the objections of ‘local business owners’, those same businesses end up thriving afterwards, this is a global phenomenon. Yet despite decades of precedent they need to be dragged kicking and screaming.