Who gives a shit about the fraud? Nobody actually enjoys listening to AI music and he defrauded Spotify. Good for him, frankly, shame he got caught. Obligatory fuck AI.

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If the person they hit was a billionaire or a cop, that would change things, right? Or no?

In fact for countries with the huge strain on its grid I.e Ukraine, electric cars are more popular as with vehicle to load functionality (V2L) it can be used to power homes and devices under blackouts.

That is cool as fuck, though, to be fair, I guess you could also use any other kind of vehicle as a generator - but it would need adaptions, so I’ll hand that to you!

You are mistaking rare earth minerals for conflict minerals such as cobalt & nickel etc. Neither are required to build an EV battery. LFP & sodium-ion batteries do not require said materials.

No matter what battery technology you use, it requires an unsustainable amount of extraction if we want to scale it up to the same scale as ICE vehicles.

Hydrogen vehicles also require a battery and electric motors.

Sure, but on a much smaller scale.

I don’t understand how much different the “strain on the energy grid” will be from an hydrogen car compared to a battery electric one. Both require electricity either to charge or generate and store hydrogen.

Because if everyone gets home from work at 5pm and sticks their car on charge suddenly the residential energy grid gets a surge demand of a quadrillion megawatts, and that load is generally going to go through a grid that is not equipped for that level of load, and additionally that means the sources might not always be as renewable/green as we’d like. By contrast, green hydrogen can be generated in the place most optimal for it, at the time most optimal for it, throughout the day, situated close to renewable energy sources, with a dedicated connection to the grid, suitable for the demand

…there are literally fuel cell electric vehicles already in production…?

to tell you the truth, I think public transport is the real long term solution, I put fuel cells in there too because some individuals will need a car, e.g. disabled people, and I think it’s a big improvement to ICE and battery-based EVs both in terms of environmental/social impact and safety

Here’s a hot take you won’t find elsewhere: battery-based EVs are not a good solution to our problems - they require extraction of rare earth minerals often in areas with slavery and conflict mining, and strain on the energy grid. A far better solution is green hydrogen fuel cell based EVs and more investment in public transport, but it’s too hard to generate profits from either of those under capitalism, because the infrastructure costs required would be too great to be privately funded and public services are basically non-existent these days.

Here’s a hot take you won’t find elsewhere: battery-based EVs are not a good solution to our problems - they require extraction of rare earth minerals often in areas with slavery and conflict mining, and strain on the energy grid. A far better solution is green hydrogen fuel cell based EVs and more investment in public transport, but it’s too hard to generate profits from either of those under capitalism, because the infrastructure costs required would be too great to be privately funded and public services are basically non-existent these days.

and green hydrogen fuel cells

I’ve swapped the order of those two things in my original comment to hopefully prevent other people’s brains from short circuiting before reading the rest of my comment. Thank you for your service!

i am confusion, pls explain?

Better Chinese than American these days. Crazy world, huh?

Here’s a hot take you won’t find elsewhere: EVs are shit anyways, and not a good solution to our problems. The real solution is green hydrogen fuel cells and more investment in public transport, but it’s too hard to generate profits from either of those under capitalism, because the infrastructure costs required would be too great to be privately funded and public services are basically non-existent these days.

For those who don’t know, this is just military dictatorship. A lie detector test can be made to say whatever the examiner wants it to say.

I love the vibes of this meme but I am not powerful enough to understand, pls someone explain for me :3

I understand what you’re saying, you keep fighting the good fight <3 dont let the haters get you down!

I am glad to say that I don’t think clothes are monitoring us… yet

I bulk-buy white T-shirts, and dye them any color I want. What I want to get into next is silkscreen printing my own designs onto them, but it’s kinda expensive-ish to start and I’m poor :p

I would absolutely say that the Russian Federation is a fascist state, yeah, wouldn’t you agree?

Okay, you know what, believe whatever you want. I can lead you to water, whether you drink or not is your prerogative.

Much love and solidarity, and I hope you have a great day.

what about the USSR

There’s no doubt that the USSR was extremely authoritarian, for sure. I’d say that was due to a variety of complex reasons, but foremost among them would be that there wasn’t a social revolution, there was a military revolution which replaced the existing ruling class with a different ruling class, rather than actually eliminating the ruling class altogether. The levers of power were maintained, and abused for personal gain, until capitalism was restored - and now we have the capitalist Russian Federation. The abolition of capitalism isn’t a magic bullet, and I’m not arguing that it is - but that does not change the fact that capitalism does inevitably lead towards fascism.

I’ve yet to find a society that is completely stable and has no driving forces pushing it towards tyranny of some form.

Well, I’d be glad to introduce you to anarchism. For what it’s worth, too, I’d say that Cuba demonstrates a pretty good model of a socialist society, despite the constant US terrorist attacks and interventions/blockades – quality of life, literacy rates, health care, etc. have all hugely improved, they have cures for lung cancer and Alzheimers in Cuba that we don’t even have in the West. Again, it’s not perfect, and there are no good states, but out of all of them, I’d say Cuba probably comes the closest.