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I see headline and start typing before reading the article

Wait is something positive being said about China?

AGHHHH !!!

I begin smashing furniture in righteous rage

So you don’t care about DEMOCRACY do you!?!!

You think EVERYTHING is better there I know it and if I don’t point this out surely the propaganda will take hold here!

I only figured out this was vibe coded with AI after I posted this, but that may be why.

Two things here I think we should hold seperate.

1. Combustion cars are everywhere on earth, the amount of creative uses people will find to repurpose them in a more electric transporation context will be bewildering, I am sure whole cottage industries will prop up around specific models of used cars that just have decent platforms and interiors to throw an electric motor into… but yeah none of it is going to be simple which leads me to 2.
2. At the end of the day if what you want is a simple, small hatchback sized EV to do daily driving type tasks (i.e. long distance travel isn’t prioritized necessarily in the design) while the resources needed to produce such a vehicle are non-trivial… the end result isn’t something that is waste and an EV hooked up to the grid sitting in your garage is still very much doing something if we design grids intelligently. At some later point someone can use that frame to put new batteries in, replace the controls on the dashboard that broke, get a new breaking system and tires on… whatever and when you look at EVs from that perspective it just gets harder and harder to justify retrofitting combustion used cars at mass scale as a “mass transit” solution that can be applied generally.

Yes but even still that is simply and absurdly not enough, which is my point!

Same

https://insideevs.com/news/798256/mexico-olinia-uno-ev-cheap/

ughhhhhh

This must be understood as something different than Romans lining their aquaducts with lead, the science was absolutely there to suggest extreme danger from lead poisoning, and no amount of efficiency gained in gas cars was worth it if it kills the people moving or makes them more likely to be violent…

Efficiency is about conducting a task with as little resources as possible while not incurring existential costs that make the investment of resources self defeating.

We usually don’t need to say that last part out loud, but here I think we have to understand the 20th century’s obsession with cars as spiritual, and I mean that with a straight face because through this framing leaded gasoline was arguably always an insane choice, from the get-go.

Historians looking back will not be able to understand our choices unless they rationalize them as a belief system about cars that goes beyond the rational realm.

1. If your car is in good condition, you don’t drive a ton, and you can keep it fixed up and running without going crazy fine, you aren’t really part of the problem.
2. EV parts are only expensive because of artificial market conditions, EV vehicles have much simpler drivetrains than ICE cars do at a fundamental level and replacing batteries on a EV mechanically is a million times easier than pulling out an combustion engine and transmission to fix something fundamental with the drivetrain.
3. It would not take years of ownership to pay for itself, especially if the car cost somewhere between $9k and $20k, the reason is your car constantly costs money to keep working, combustion engines inherently are wondrously complex explosions, I think they are cool as hell don’t get me wrong but an EV motor is hands down a lower cost engine to run for a daily driver, especially for shorter distances.
4. If you purchased an EV there is a societal benefit to the grid potentially in that a local grid with numerous EV batteries hooked up to it can be far more resilient and cost effective for everyone, and that doesn’t even require your EV to be being actively used by you to accrue a benefit that is potentially quantifiable.

All that being said, sure keep your old combustion engine car, keep it in good condition and drive it as little as possible, you are fine this is about a broader economic misconception not about judging your particular life choices!

*child murderer

Guess who it will get taken out on!

No, don’t listen to my opinions, disagree with them vehemently that is fine.

What you need to stop doing is conflating having an inconsistent, unexamined belief system handed to you by the society around you and the cues you took from it with not having a belief system which is literally impossible as a sentient human trying to make sense of the world around them.

I was kind of switching into a classist tone in my frustration and you are right to point it out, fair enough and genuinely that is a shitty thing to lean into I am sorry, I recognize education is extremely unequal and not knowing things is not a fair basis to judge people on… however please recognize that a lack of your awareness of parts of you does not mean those parts do not exist.

i don’t have a belief system.

facepalm I really hate being reminded constantly of how important a well rounded education with arts, language and critical thinking stressed as well as STEM concepts is…

Yes, you most definitely have a belief system just as much as you most certainly have biases, it is part of being a human being.

…but how does that help me create a blog post demonstrating I can make a thing in order to get hired? If I just use mostly the thing that already exists and just intelligently hook up a smaller more minimally scoped software to it then it doesn’t really help me get a job…?

The developer for Piefed.Social’s main front end app that they develop literally has censorship baked into the code with hardcoded instance blocks that are not obvious to the user or even a new instance creator who doesn’t look to far into the details…

So what are you saying is, your bubble is nice and you aren’t willing to confront how or why the bubble looks as unchallenging to your belief systems as it does :)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

https://lemmy.pobierz.net/post/1293

I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.

Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.

Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…

Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.

Damn every time I see your name pop up I remember how low quality your input on things is.

That is a silly question if I have ever seen one.

Don’t forget Lemmy.World!

No one calls anarchists tankies

Yes they do. All the time. Ask me how I know.

You know because George Soros paid you to tell that lie probably!

My bathroom has a trap door to the main office!