The trend is what matters. China: electrification is going so fast it’s hard to follow. Pollution is going down very fast. The USA: cancel all plan to promote EVs and weaken regulation on gas cars: pollution is to go up. And that’s not including public transportation offset on the cars density, where China is basically 40 years ahead…
The cross-point on air quality might be much closer than you think.
It doesn’t, but it has an unapologetic mass surveillance. In China, you use apps on your phone for absolutely everything and anything: all payments, use of public transport, shared bikes, ordering food, etc.
If you say something wrong, or if you’re just in a group chat where someone repeatedly say the wrong thing, your account can be suspended and suddenly you can’t do shit for several days. That keeps people in line, or they find other tricks to communicate, like swapping key words to trick the algorithms, or use VPN, though it’s also forbidden.
When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.
Worse than that: no car maker can survive on the US market alone, and every other market is transitioning towards EV, more or less aggressively. Pretty soon the only thing that will keep the ICE business alive are stupid policies to give them an artificial competitive advantage.
I really don’t get what these CEOs have in their mind. At this stage I assume they’re like big oil execs: maximize short-term revenue, and be long gone when shit hits the fan. But for cars, the end is even closer than for oil.
Most of the stuff we use is beyond our understanding. No one is supposed to be an expert on everything, so chill and just enjoy it!
Yes, but what if the next day they are 2 people “supporting ICE”, and the day after they are 4 then 6, then… then they are numemous enough they can terrorize minorities for real.
This boy stopped that right from the start, by showing them: fascists will NOT be tolerated.
Or ask firmly the wearer to take off his glasstapo or else you’ll punch them.
Be innovative and don’t be afraid to break things! Isn’t that how you become a billionaire??
If you forget only the name, that’s cool. I also forget people’s faces. Talking with kids parents: “Hi! I’m [name] -Huh! I know!” -_-’
Same here, ambidexterity power! Though I’m regularly told “You’re not so much left-handed, it’s more like you have 2 left hands…”
Ukraine has autonomous drones as autonomous as “there must be a tank around these parts, go destroy it!” and it executes.
Now they even recognize the type of tanks, their armor, so that they target its known weak point, and if it can’t, it targets the turret to make it at least unusable.
They probably have something similar as a submarine drone they used to sink the Russian submarine (it was most likely too far and underwater for remote control, and the drones had to pick the right target, or had a precise map and not lose positioning).
So they’re probably close to make these slaughterbots also autonomous to some degree.
I never imagined humanoid shapes to be the perfect Terminators except for infiltration anyway…
We’re speculating a lot here, but Ukraine already has air drones capable of flying themselves and identify targets once they’re visible, even manoeuver to hit different types of tanks at their respective weak points.
So… autonomous sub??
That’s ok. This is intended to people with clueless-decision-maker intelligence level.
They can’t take your money but they can bury you into the ground and use you as an example so that no one ever tries to do the same thing. Ever heard of Aaron Schwartz?
It’s not just taking a stand. I may not be clear enough. There are 2 benefits in my eyes in defederating:
Time has proven again and again that tolerating the intolerants turns the place into an intolerant one.
As for how they’ll take it: I don’t have the slightest beginning of hope that exchanging with them here would have any impact on their world’s vision. You don’t convince cultists with rational discussions on Internet. So let them think they “proved their point”. I don’t care.
Edit: And of course, being MAGA is not who you are, but what you decide to be through your actions, for example registering to an openly fascist instance.
Fair point, let me adjust a bit: there’s a difference between hating someone for what he says or does, and hating someone for what they are.
As for lies in the open, I disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini’s_law The amount of energy it takes to debunk a lie is an order of magnitude bigger than it takes to post it…
You know, for a lot of us, the title MAGA is just as good as Fascist.
They could have called themselves “conservatives”, “right-wingers” etc. But they chose “MAGA”, the fascist’s branch of the GOP.
I don’t need to engage with them to figure anything more than I would engage a nazi.place or fascist.place.
Except you can’t be neutral with people spreading hate. You can’t stay neutral when a side say “I just want to exist” and the other’s answer is “We should kill you all!”.
I think we all know the poem “First they came for…”.
Let me add that quote:
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein
You can’t be neutral here.
Hate is not a dissenting voice. Wishing people dead is not a dissenting voice. Spreading lies is not expressing a different point of view.
I believe there are many different opinions here already, and through the rest of Lemmy.
We don’t need to debate nazis. We had enough experience with them already.
I lived in China for 6 years. I experienced smogs dense enough you couldn’t see a building 10m away.
I’ve been travelling to Shanghai on several occasions and went there again last year.
The improvement now vs 10years ago is dramatic! I’m not saying it’s all fine, but I will say this: now I live in Canada (Québec) and forest fires make the air here worse than what it is in Shanghai on a regular basis.