It’ll postpone the inevitable for another few years, but there’ll be another autocrat soon enough. Have enough people with bad jobs and in debt up to their eyeballs, and some minority scapegoating wannabe dictator will appear eager for the job.
Block all major roads going out of Hungary with trucks and call it a total random strike of truck drivers until he changes his tune.
Everyone should get the same carbon budget a year. Maybe as a separate currency. It can then be saved up or traded to use as you see fit. Want to go on oversee flights? Better buy some carbon from some tree huggers with budget to spare.
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I propose “chairshooting” after the “who killed Hannibal” meme. It’s a nice double word, like gaslighting.
Tesla/Musk really went for the “I have the right to not use collective bargaining” and is really shocked to find out people went for “we have the right to strike”.
That has some real “Grand Vizier whispering in the Sultan’s ear” vibes.
Hedge funds will only own many small investment firms, and those little firms own the houses.
Meanwhile in Romania there is a measles epidemic because less people vaccinate their children.
If somebody starts with that “call me doctor” stuff, I’ll insist they’ll call me engineer. It’s also a legally protected title.
And the “Make Auschwitz Great Again” crowd loves it. It’ll let them hate everybody else even harder.
And typically the other party just says they’re the only option to maintain the status quo. Being the lesser of two evils gets some votes, but doesn’t bring an easy win. In general, saying what you’re against doesn’t get much votes compared to saying what you’re for. Although it didn’t help that the last time a guy promised change didn’t change much.
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ChatGPT hallucinates less than Trump.
Lithium poisoning? Better not make laptops and phones anymore.
Those substances are also mined for oil production and infrastructure. Molybdenum for oil pipe lines. Cobalt for refining. Luckily research replacing those materials in green tech. The same cannot be said for fossil fuel production.
Where I live, recycling of solar panels is more than 90%. I hope gasoline recycling is about the same ratio.
Yes, cars are expensive. We should ideally invest in good, cheap and clean public transportation, but yeah, fuck the poor. Of course the poor also live closer to busy roads and have more health problems because of exhaust, but again fuck the poor. When climate change hits even more and houses get flooded or baked in heatwaves it won’t be the poor neighborhoods that’ll receive help first.
Of course you are restricted with what you can buy and use on the roads. Try to go full Mad Max with a battering ram and a flame thrower. Even drunk driving isn’t allowed. Why is that not allowed? It could hurt others. And exhaust is proven to hurt others too by premature status and even contribute to causing autism. But that kind of hurt is indirect so should be allowed because the inconvenience to charging is too big.
MAGA actually means Make Aristocracy Great Again. A few wealthy that can do whatever they want lording over the peons.
GOP is filled with the rich, people that dream of being rich and those that need a rich daddy to tell them what to do.
incentive for car makers to continue making more efficient cars.
That’s never been true. Profits on big inefficient cars have always been higher than smaller efficient so that’s what’s been advertised and pushed during sales. Some brands went fully SUV and are unable to sell anything smaller when fuel prices go up and customers look for something less gas guzzling.
The tl;dr at the beginning of the post was shorter than the auto tl;dr and was enough info.
“Make aristocracy great again” seems to sum it up.