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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean, I do not know if EVs are as bad to the environment as regular gasoline-powered vehicles, but I do know that they won't fix the problem of the environmental devastation caused by car culture since they still run on energy made from gas and coal plants and they are still as inefficient in transporting people as regular vehicles.

I know that it will be very difficult to substitute cars for public transit. Actually, public transit will never fully substitute cars since there will always be places that are too far away for trains, trolleys, and other forms of public transit to reach. Also, ambulances, police cars, and firefighter trucks should never be substituted by public transit, since they need speed and versatility more than anything. But for most people, public transit could be insanely attractive if enough investment was put into it. Most people go through the same few paths every day, and even then, they almost always go at the same time every day.

I suggest that cities go substituting cars for public transit in small batches by building infrastructure and changing urban development laws in key places and then expanding to the rest of the city.

edit: Oh, and by the way, here in Brazil EVs are literally just dumb. Although Brazil is mostly run by clean hydrelectric energy, which would be very nice for EV development, we also have lots of sugarcane farms producing sugar and ethanol. Ethanol is widely used here as a biofuel, and there is a dynamic between sugar prices and ethanol prices, where low sugar prices make ethanol a more lucrative business, thus making the agribusiness produce more ethanol, and vice-versa. So, if we just put lots of taxes on sugar and make it less profitable, or we subsidize ethanol, we could make people use ethanol instead of gasoline, and then we would have a near carbon neutral fleet of cars without having to transition to electric.

(public transit is still better, though)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Finland was never communist though. When the Russian Empire became the Soviet Union, the Finnish government asked to secede, and Stalin (who was minister for nationalities) convinced everyone to let them have independence. Finland then became independent without a fight.

Even after the winter war Finland never became communist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

"A planet that runs on land, you can morph it, alter it, but you won't be able to destroy it."

-you but under feudalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

when you are so anglo that you can't even read numbers with a different separator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't you just describe cops?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

7 anos de dividendos

então após 7 anos o governo tá no prejuízo? soa como furada sabendo que o governo irá continuar existindo provavelmente por mais de 7 anos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When east uses banned weapons: WARCRIME! WARCRIME! WARCRIME!

When west (or puppets) uses banned weapons: Why wouldn't they? These weapons work well!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, the 8 libs who just downvoted this are offended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why does lemmygrad love danganronpa so much?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.ifixit.com/News/74736/warranty-void-stickers-are-illegal-in-the-us-what-about-elsewhere

Here you go, fellow internet user.

edit: the problem with this is that companies won't listen to the law because they know that you probably won't sue them, and even if you do sue them they don't care because they will receive a slap in the wrist.

edit2: Also, fuck, it is only illegal in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

this fine print is illegal in lots of countries (including the USA) by the way.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell??? Wasn't doxxing something people thought was wrong?

Capitalism ruining everything, as always.

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