I would have agreed with you before I'm not sure about that any more. Musk and his oligarch buddies are in open war against the working class at this point and social media is their primary weapon.
If not outright ban, at the very least insist on heavy regulations. Allowing them to shape the discourse is a sure fire way to lose this battle.
Okay let's game this out then. If you had a president who is stomping on your civil rights, tearing down the safety net, and crashing your economy - what is it that 'anyone would do'?
I mean, Italian food really is brilliant, they really just over time took all the best things they found and just made great food with it and left out everything else.
It's sort of crazy to think about how delicious a recipe with four ingredients can be until you realize they're four of the most delicious things on the planet.
Yep - the GOP over the last few decades tossed away any morality and took the easiest path they could for coalition building, assembling the stupid, bigoted, gullible, and most importantly - least empathetic bunch of people. Literally tossing away conservative ideology and specifically preying on these people's weaknesses.
This really fucking pisses me off because there are a ton of marginalized people who take shit online all the time and these social media services all act like their hands are tied and there's nothing they can do. But this makes it blatantly obvious that they can take action when they want to.
2 - absolutely but with the time we have we have to pressure them to change and build a groundswell in the faint hope that there's enough of us and enough of a vote left in 2026 to make some changes at the primary level
Look I've recently gotten a lot of great info about EVs and the last thing the US needs is a disruption on the supply chain if they want to keep up with China
Yeah that makes sense, I bet you're right or at least that's a large part of it.
Reminds me of this video I saw about economies of scale specifically regarding a special part that went into a guitar. The maker could get the material and produce that part pretty cheaply until the automotive industry stopped using that same material. Suddenly they could barely source the material anymore and just had to cancel the part.
Me too! What is the cost/benefit FOR ME? I understand what it is for the manufacturers but it's a UX nightmare, especially when you're trying to drive too.
No kidding, I didn't know that. I did some checking and it says replacement batteries are $5-15k! Well silver lining is the price is dropping precipitously:
Jan 26, 2024 - According to the DOE, the cost of a lithium-ion EV battery was 89 percent lower in 2022 than it was in 2008
I really think congress is mostly a bunch of people who got into it on this power fantasy but mostly they all feel like they 'made it' and will only do enough to preserve what they have because they're used to the cushy schedule and the VIP treatment and really don't want to go back to the shithole they represent.
Which in normal times, they'd probably get away with that, even the GOPers. But I can't help but think that if they let Trump get too far some of them are going to have their backs against the wall too. It's pretty easy to cross him and he gets crazier and has less impulse control with every passing moment.
I would have agreed with you before I'm not sure about that any more. Musk and his oligarch buddies are in open war against the working class at this point and social media is their primary weapon.
If not outright ban, at the very least insist on heavy regulations. Allowing them to shape the discourse is a sure fire way to lose this battle.