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1. dick flattening enthusiast (dickflatteningenthusiast@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 01:16:15 JST dick flattening enthusiast
   I've been seeing a fuckton of the usual conservatard suspects crowing over all the EVs just shitting themselves in the US cold snap, so I went to go sniff out the coping from some of my favourite shitlibs and it's just total radio silence on the matter. They're not even coping and sneeding by saying "Well they're intended for use in cities! They're not for cold weather use!", it's just complete silence lmao.
   
   Sometimes with topics like EVs, climate change, land policy, etc, I have to stop myself and think "Have I been taken in by dumb rightoid talking points on this particular matter? Are my conservative-ish priors creating a blind spot on this issue where the libtards might actually have a point?"
   
   Nope, "all electric everything right fucking now" is a fucking stupid policy position and will continue to be a stupid policy position for the foreseeable future, and then some. The mental midget pants-shitting libtards who push for this kind of galaxybrained idiocy are really just that low IQ and/or easily duped.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 01:16:14 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @dickflatteningenthusiast See that's the *logic* angle, but you have to see electric cars as a control scheme - it makes way more sense.
     
     1. Offer people self-driving cars they can rent out whenever they aren't using them (AI chauffer taking uber pax while you're working your day job)
     
     2. Watch as costs for "rideshare" drop due to the wide variety of people forgoing their own cars in favor of borrowing their neighbors
     
     3. Inundate kids with guilt media that makes them as "is this trip worth the carbon emissions?" in all things - that will further reduce demand with a social shaming component that kills consumption
     
     4. Watch as 1 car per household drops to 1 to a dozen
     
     5. Strengthen controls over "necessary" travel by offering cheaper pricing for "essential" travel
     
     6. Kick back and watch gas powered trucks get legislated out of existence, or simply wait for parts supplies to dry up
     
     7. Sleep soundly knowing that well-armed dissidents are now safely geo-confined to a small 100-mile bubble of their assigned workspaces
   • dick flattening enthusiast (dickflatteningenthusiast@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 01:16:15 JST dick flattening enthusiast

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     It is actually remarkable what a fucking bad idea universal adoption of EVs are. Even a charitable case really only provides a niche for them in dense urban commuting, maybe in a rideshare or rental scenario where they are easily serviced and can turn a profit/saving before the battery shits itself.
     
     Everything about them, based on our current technology, is a phenomenally bad idea for mass adoption. Can't work in the cold. Long charging times. Huge infrastructure investment needed for sufficient recharging capabilities. Require many components (like the batteries) from highly polluting sources which defeats the purpose of the supposed environmental benefit (which is a lie lmao). Prohibitively expensive replacement batteries. Proximity to them makes you gay.
     
     And that's not even to mention the absolute dogshit add-on garbage that techbro faggots are willing to let happen. EVs seem to be ground zero for automotive on-disc DLC, and the people who willingly pay for the use of heated seats which are ALREADY INSTALLED IN YOUR CAR should be fucking hanged for facilitating this kind of lolbertarian somaliapunk profiteering.
     
     Fuck EVs and, more importantly, fuck the intellectually disabled honking retards who keep advocating for this horseshit without even attempting to understand it.
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   • Berlusconi Anime Fever :sonnenrad: (mechasilvio@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 02:04:09 JST Berlusconi Anime Fever :sonnenrad:

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     @dickflatteningenthusiast There already existed a much better set of EVs: trains for suburban and long distance, underground and trams for urban. But the whole country has organized against this, because it doubles as an Africans delivery system.
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