Yes.

The system itself is trying to profit off of the failure of the system.

This is one reason why it is a flawed system. It can change tomorrow if we coordinate, but there will always be some dipshit that will buy anyway. Some dipshit that sees that they will be a standout if they are against the cause. The human love for things is too great.

Why are we trusting a rich guy with a brain worm

When it changes from pretty close to yes, then it won't be a false equivalency and I'd probably be in the market.

Edit: anyone disagreeing, can you explain how a technology that asks some population to change their behavior is expected to succeed? The EV asks its buyers to change their habits. It asks you to take the hit for the climate -- while simultaneously using technologies like modern batteries which are straight up bad for the climate.

Asking these things to be at parity with gas (as in, can I fill my electric car with power with the same speed as a gas car) is not a lofty goal. It is the baseline goal for any other technology. EV tech will remain outside of the norm until those issues are addressed. The intentions don't matter.

I had a giant fight with relatives about Bernie Sanders way back when. They were basically arguing that even though they did not fear "socialism" (or so they claimed), they didn't like Bernie simply because he was too old. Biden was the way forward, they said.

I think about that a lot, every time I see Bernie still keeping it real.

Can I supply the entire range of the EV in 10 minutes?

And a boon for pump and dumps. Good for big players. Imagine that.

Gotta start with some clear examples

I wholly support Texas going elsewhere and shutting the fuck up.

Easiest way to keep voters dumb. The GOP relies on people voting against their own best interests.

Musk should buy Bethesda. Gut it like he gutted Twitter. Start development on something random -- the Elder Scrolls VI: Kingdom of Doge.

When it comes out, it will be a horrible, poorly made mess. Just like a regular Bethesda game but extra enshittified. He can charge extra for it to make it seem super premium.

People will eat it up.

Worked for Tesla.

Edit: /s obvs

The time to pretend to have a brain was before the election, Trumpers.

I do not think it would have mattered. The Trump cult is a cult for a reason. He says jump, they ask how high. All while claiming to be free thinkers.

Sure, but gas station availability is still significantly different than charger availability. And I don't have to wait an hour at the gas station. False equivalency.

So much so that one could argue the GOP platform relies on ignorance. It is the only way to get people to consistently vote against their own best interests.

This is not surprising.

I'm still personally in a position where I could not own an EV. A hybrid, sure. But an EV, I cannot charge because I'm in an apartment. EV ownership is tied to home ownership in a way that I see few people discuss.

But do "illegal" things matter when there is no enforcement?

The last several years scream a resounding "no!".

Given that there is death involved, this is "sensitive"... So I will not post a gif of Michael and Dwight driving into the river because the GPS told them to.

You'd think after the last term that the idea of running the US as a business should be unpopular. It is decidedly not a business (though it can be used for profit, which is the major problem here).

It's almost like Trump voters had no clue what they were voting for. Or they did, but they had no clue what it meant.

At this point, any request for information could potentially be used as training data. That includes things like captchas.

I recommend everyone have an extremely literal interpretation of "labor". Unless you have tremendous insight into where your data is going and how it is being used (and perhaps even then), then assume any ask is ultimately an ask for unpaid labor.

Obviously you can't avoid things like captchas, but you can avoid things like this.

Edit: and it should go without saying, but anything you upload to socials is probably automatic training data at this point. The best approach is simply not to engage with corporate social networks.

Though Lemmy is not corporately controlled, the information is publically accessible, so even this post is potential training data to be scraped. That is harder to avoid, lest we stop using the internet altogether, but at least avoiding the corpo routes is a good start.

The love the fucking around, but they want to eliminate the finding out