Definitely a good start on dismantling the auto industry. Cancelling all those investments into new technology in favor of eking out just a few final years with the old stuff. In a mere few years, all that messy manufacturing will be gone over to China and millions more Americans can just sit and relax in front of their TV’s

As a somewhat market economy believer , I even believe collective individual actions can help trigger corporate changes. Think of the huge chunk of climate change caused by fossil fuel industry. It’s maddening, and dwarfs anything people can affect.

But you can choose battery electric or human mobility, you can chose an electrified house, you can even chose to pay for all renewable electricity generation. We’re on the cusp of shrinking that fossil fuel industry. If only enough people would chose to go in that direction, the industry would have to follow and that would make a real difference

I blame government more than corps. Corps just act according to the market they’re in, morality isn’t relevant. But government’s role should be shaping the market to serve society, and they are abject failures. Government’s role should be to serve the people, not get captured by corps and a handful of ultra-wealthy. At this point the failure is malicious

A buddy of mine has everything but his birthday is coming up …. I found the ideal indulgence: a $20 chocolate bar!

No it’s not one of those monsters, it’s normal sized. But it’s single sourced beans, gold medal award winning, local farm fresh dairy , infused with whiskey from a local distillery. That’s something he’s never had!

They are allowed now. I’m pretty sure Audi uses them in the us, and Tesla enabled theirs a year or so ago.

While I don’t entirely trust them, a lot of the time it’s pretty clear. You can watch an oncoming car with a dark spot around it, moving with the car

Personally i don’t understand how “dark sky” light fixtures are hard to find. Ideally, they all would be, as part of an efficiency rating

Same is true of us oil. If you want conspiracy theories, there’s a more straightforward one. Us oil tends to be expensive with the need for advanced drilling such as fracking and horizontal drilling. In order to make a profit, it has to sell at like $60/bbl or more. Raising the global price of oil helps enrich those oligarchs that funded drumps csmpaign

Here’s the problem with that idea…yes, global prices could go way up, BUT

• US has lots of oil, so won’t have shortages, just make a few obscene billionaire more obscenely wealthy. We’re deluded enough that renewables and EVs still won’t be an option
• Russia needs to sell oil to stay in the war, and they’ll be able to get more profit
• this mainly hurts everyone else

Or Trump declares victory (didn’t he already do that?) and goes home. In a bit of circular reasoning, maybe he starts making waves about the Epstein files to distract people from Iran

We not only don’t have time to spin up nuclear, but nuclear is not economically viable, and the hope that small modular reactors would change that doesn’t appear to have panned out.

Nuclear power generation has some nice properties but remains by far the most expensive and time consuming option

Someone needs to sell this to West Virginia. Instead of holding tight to the few remaining coal jobs, letting coal conglomerates ruin their health and their environment, losing their economy and their population, here’s something with a more believable promise for a better future

I agree here. During the Cold War, the doomsday clock was literally doomsday. It measured how close we appeared to be for society-ending, humanity destroying all out war between two nuclear powers, each with several times the nuclear weapons needed to end us all.

Now we’re in constant war, threat of constant war, endless instability, and yes, the American government is one of the biggest factors in recent reductions to global stability. We’re actively making things worst, from at least trying to do the right thing. It’s surely a catastrophe to the people affected, we’re talking hundreds of thousands to millions of unnecessary deaths, we can’t minimize that …. But it’s not an end of humanity level threat.

I don’t know what would be more effective imagery, but we’re closer while at the same time farther from catastrophe, so maybe it’s time to move on

Huh, the battery only has one radar and there are only 8 worldwide? That seems like a self-own

I’m saying the term is somewhat nebulous, with lots of gray area but also an objective definition would not answer the question.

People do disagree on what constitutes social media, and even apply it inconsistently to themselves. So let’s not pretend there is a clear definition. Language isn’t always cleanly defined so we can understand what “social media” is based on context

In this sense, yes to Reddit and YouTube. YouTube may not be very social but it clearly has an algorithm that pushes toxic content/stereotypes.

And im going to say no on Lemmy. Lemmy may be social but there’s no algorithm pushing toxic content. Maybe I’m missing it but there’s seems to be very little toxic content.

Anyone else would avoid a conflict of interest. They just looke to monetize it

That’s fine, sort of. Maybe we’re all just traumatized by violating constitution, checks and balances, the rule of law, but I’d welcome the improvement if they were evil legally

Oh we understand all too well. The damage from the current administration will take years to recover, decades, generations. Some of it never will

For me the anti-intellectual oppression is worse. That brain drain is something we’ll never recover from

Anyone try Rancher? Is that still a thing? When I looked into k8s a few years back, Ranchers was highly recommended to simplify managing k8s if you couldn’t automate. Supposedly friendly and free.

Wow, 12! You’re right

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes

And sure enough, searching for Rivian returns that they are only allowed to sell in 25 US states. It probably hasn’t mattered much with the R1 generation being relatively few sales but now that they’re coming out with R2 and R3, and expecting a lot more sales, they need a way around this

It’s ridiculous that any state would create a law for a single manufacturer: that needs to be fixed

Step 0. Make sure your networking equipment can do vlans and subnets.

Given how much I paid for a “high end” consumer router, I just assumed ……