"remember: it is your patriotic duty to vandalize Tesla's"
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you?
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you?
The quote I showed is a quote. Someone said it today. That's why I responded to it today.
I'm willing to break bread with reasonable people and even some fairly unreasonable people. Neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on truth and multiple things can be true at once even if they're contradictory. But I see someone saying something silly, I'll probably mention it.
I'm willing to break bread with reasonable people and even some fairly unreasonable people. Neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on truth and multiple things can be true at once even if they're contradictory. But I see someone saying something silly, I'll probably mention it.
I can answer that one actually -- apparently if Donald Trump were to oppose it, then they're suddenly super nationalists.
At least, that's how they're running their campaigns in Canada.
At least, that's how they're running their campaigns in Canada.
Most of the time when you see so-called "Canadian Patrioism", it's just anti-Americanism.
I mean, consider that despite all these claims of patriotism, nobody seems to care all that much that China is basically going hard bareback on us.
I mean, consider that despite all these claims of patriotism, nobody seems to care all that much that China is basically going hard bareback on us.
ngl I can get behind that to a large extent without any politics at all. The guy's like a circus carney, and most of his fortune is from making people think he had a lot more success than he did. Has he *ever* met a deadline?
EVs as a class of vehicle are about a tenth as useful as a real car, so if teslas get down to about 1/10th of their normal price in the used market I'd probably even get one.
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Back in the 60s they tried to make a car that can use a turbine engine. Turbines have some really cool features that could make them more efficient than piston engines, and way fewer moving parts so they could last way longer, but they also don't really want to be doing what cars do, spinning up and down constantly to deal with the ups and downs of driving.
Seems like a big use case for generator electric, to be able to focus on building your turbine generator to be simple, reliable, and efficient.
Of course one problem with all this is if they build cars that last, nobody will need a new car every 5 years...
I have a set of PIAA silicone windshield wipers on my car. They've been on my car since February 2020 and they're still going strong. Anyone who has ever owned a car in a place that gets sun and snow in the same year will recognize that's an absolutely absurd amount of time to have the same set of windshield wipers. Nobody's trying to sell me a set of these, because replacing wiper blades every year is a useful business model. A turbine engine could potentially last for a million miles and only has a few parts.
Seems like a big use case for generator electric, to be able to focus on building your turbine generator to be simple, reliable, and efficient.
Of course one problem with all this is if they build cars that last, nobody will need a new car every 5 years...
I have a set of PIAA silicone windshield wipers on my car. They've been on my car since February 2020 and they're still going strong. Anyone who has ever owned a car in a place that gets sun and snow in the same year will recognize that's an absolutely absurd amount of time to have the same set of windshield wipers. Nobody's trying to sell me a set of these, because replacing wiper blades every year is a useful business model. A turbine engine could potentially last for a million miles and only has a few parts.