So close together? Probably not. Look at the comments. everyone is just talking about Stonehenge.

I feel like this is directed towards ICE vs EV cars. If that’s the case, it’s sort of frustrating.

EVs have some very real drawbacks. Even if those drawbacks are solvable problems, they are still problems right now. Pushing this narrative that EVs are universally better or that the biggest hurdle to adoption is irrational consumer sentiment will just make people feel gaslit. It’ll also make people more hesitant to adopt later on, because they’ll be skeptical of positive reviews that are honest.

I agree, but with a small caveat. I think that a lot of 2010s bloggers were wannabe authors who only got into journalism because it was a lot easier to break into blogging versus literature in that era.

I get what you’re saying but yeah it is surprising. It would be one thing if their coverage was bad as in the sense the author doesn’t do legwork or add anything of value when compared to some YouTuber. However their coverage feels like it’s written by someone who doesn’t particularly like cars and doesn’t really follow this stuff outside of when their editor assigns it to them.

You know in 2021 I thought that the MSM was deliberately ignoring the issues with EVs and promoting overly rosy timelines as part of a political agenda.

After seeing the massive amount of FUD they published about EVs over the past year, I think they are just bad at their jobs.

It feels like the media covers EVs based on vibes versus doing actual research. As a result they’ve consistently publish articles that are either borderline nonsense hopium or complete doomerism.

IMO I still think hybrids will be instrumental tech over the next decade. Those 300 mile EVs often get much worse range in weather conditions that are common in many parts of the country. It’s also simply going to take considerable time for fast charging infrastructure to become ubiquitous enough to truly address range anxiety.

I get that social media seems to be a constant stream of outrage with nobody actually caring, but I think this story might actually derail her.

There are articles in Fox News, NY Post, and other conservative media outlets about this. They are fairly critical. The fox news one includes tweets from a “country boy” who is like “there’s a difference between taking an old animal out back and a fucking puppy”.

If the turnout was 8 percent, I’m pretty sure most of the MAGA republicans stayed home too.

Please ask your therapist to go on Lemmy. My guess is that their professional opinion would be to severely limit time on this website.

Because of this or because it’s like 50% more expensive than it has any right to be?

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I guess I mean this in a relative way.

I can talk about Star Wars and basically everyone I know has a lot of context. Most people have watched a good amount of it. Even people who are explicitly not nerds know about it. Same with most comic stuff.

Meanwhile Star Trek is still a lot more niche. People know the bare basics of what it is, but that’s about it. With the exception of my SO, I’ve met a grand total of two people who watch it.

Also if someone knows a lot about Star Wars or Marvel they don’t necessarily know a lot about other nerd IPs. Meanwhile the people who knew about Star Trek also knew about shit like Farscape, Dark Matter, and other IP that just gets confused looks from most people.

The Lemmy community is disproportionately made up of either computer nerds or queer people.

Star Trek is basically the most popular nerd IP that hasn’t been successfully brought into the mainstream, and is known for being progressive.

Man you confirm a stereotype.

The post was about how the south sucks. I talked about how I currently live in the south, and how much better it is than the environment I grew up in. I specifically said NYC METRO AREA. This is because I don’t want to reveal my specific hometown.

However, I know plenty of people living in NYC. My siblings live in NYC, my uncle lives in NYC, my cousins live in NYC, and whenever I go home a good half the people I meet are living in NYC.

There’s another thing I didn’t mention about what I hated their: the pure unbridled arrogance.

There’s this belief that NYC is the center of the universe and the best place to be. They constantly talk down any place outside of NYC. They’ll say shit implying anything outside the top three metro areas in the US is some cultural backwater. They’re straight up incapable of acknowledging the inherent toxicity of their environment. If they do acknowledge it, they’ll insist that every single place is just as bad and they’re just more honest about it. They’ll also act like it’s okay to be casual assholes all the time because they’re really great deep down.

So just to go in order

• You have never lived in the south. You don’t seem to know any southerners. You certainly do not know me. I have plenty of friends here. The kind of casual cruelty that flies in the NYC metro doesn’t fly here.
• I live in a metro area of over two million people. That is not a small town. There’s more to America than NYC, LA, and Chicago.
• People from the NYC metro were not kind to me. They were judgmental assholes. Extremely so. They did so freely and without any sort of concern.
• That whole “oh they’re good people, they just are blunt and without basic human decency” schtick isn’t nearly as cute as you think it is. It’s extremely toxic.

Yes.

I grew up in the suburbs. The entire culture was extremely judgemental and harsh to people who didn’t conform to social standards. There was this mentality that if you weren’t of value in some way, you didn’t deserve decency.

This continued beyond high school. My adult siblings live in NYC. My cousins also live in NYC, as well as several family friends. They are hyper judgemental when it comes to social conformity, and don’t seem to believe that people have any intrinsic value if they aren’t up to standard.

In NC, that isn’t the case. There seems to be a lot more basic human decency. If someone doesn’t like me, they don’t treat me with utter contempt and disgust. They don’t (as far as I can tell) talk shit behind my back and try to shame people who do like me. Instead they are nice to me in person, and then just don’t hang out with me.

There is also a lot lower a standard of conformity. My siblings will talk shit about absolutely petty shit like wearing the wrong outfit or not using an iPhone. They’ll go on rants that boil down to “this person was mildly socially awkward, or behaved in a way that made it clear they didn’t understand the extreme nuances of my social circle” and act like the person in question is an absolute idiot that deserves ridicule. Family friends have done similar things. Meanwhile in NC the bar is low enough that someone who means well and has a basic understanding of social cues can live function without any issues.

I have Autism. I’ve managed to grow into a person that can function pretty well. I have friends. I have an SO. I have a good job. However, none of that would have happened if I stayed in the NYC metro. Even after all my growth, I would be torn apart in the culture there. The social expectations (and cruelty if you can’t manage it) are simply too high.

There is more to oppression than skin tone. I’m never more aware of my Autism than when I’m in that environment.

I grew up in the NYC metro area.

I now live in North Carolina.

I can tell you where I feel more welcome and accepted. You won’t like the answer.

They already allow instance admins to add to the Blocklist. They could simply remove the hard coded one.

Hasn’t it been revealed that the devs are tankies who straight up refuse to implement features that they feel would undermine the cause?

For example, they have a hard coded Blocklist. There have been tickets to change this to instance implemented. Every time this comes up, the devs claim that this has already been implemented and lock discussion. However if you actually look at the commit sha the hard coded Blocklist is still in place.

Dirt floors in more rural and remote parts of America were not uncommon through the early part of the 20th century.

I think most urban liberals would ban hunting given the opportunity, but have enough self awareness to realize that’s an untenable position.

Every single civilization with every single type of governance in human history requires most people to work. That will continue to be the case for a long time into the future.

Is the current system perfect? No. However it does allow for a greater degree of latitude than basically everything that came before it. It also has safeguards to ensure there’s some sort of safety net if you fall on hard times.

You also mentioned democracy. Assuming you live in America, you can vote in a way that introduces reform to the system.

Starting a violent revolution is a last resort sort of thing.