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Parents Are Accidentally Buying Their Kids Electric Motorcycles Instead Of E-Bikes
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
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Right? How fucking hard is it to just fucking google something like this, in this day and age? It's not like the 80s and 90s where you had to call around to find information about something your kid wants. You can just look it up online, easily. Epitome of shit parents.
Googling anything in this day and age can be pretty monotonous, with AI results and SEO garbage filling every page.
At a certain point it should be reasonable to expect things that are sold to be safe without the responsibility of investigating every purchase like an archeological dig.
I have to imagine it's easier than starting a coalition to ban things, but I've been wrong about that before
Listen, Google is new technology. It was only invented 30+ years ago...
Even a quick googling on my end got me results for what I'm hoping is a suitable kid's e-bike. Class 2 (20mph max), 500W, and cargo space for any bulky school projects.
Putting aside that the internet definitely existed in the 80s and 90s. That’s what magazines were for, that’s why there was a zine for everything.
I mean, it wasn't exactly widely available and the average household didn't have Internet until the mid to late 90s, and a lot of times it was a shared line, so if Mom was taking to Great Aunt Millie for the first time in months, you weren't getting online that night lol.