@fluffy The only reason to dislike Elon Musk is because he is a wealthy technocrat, XIX century market liberal, and that kind of people usually think their ideas lead to prosperity regardless of the consequences.
XIX market liberal ideas kinda worked and gave more freedoms to people and economic independence from landlords... but those ideas weren't perfect, they poisoned waters, cities were polluted, converted farms into manufacturing industries and overall the "new enlightened people" brought Marxism/Fascism ideologies to society.
@latein I like the idea of EV, it's just we don't have the enough technology right now for that.
- Lithium batteries in overall go to landfill after 5-7 years. EV batteries costs almost a new car. - Lithium batteries suck with cold and hot weather. My electric longboard have reduced autonomy in winter and summer, like 1/4 less autonomy. - EV and modern cars are privacy hell, Tesla cars are no exception. - Graphene batteries and fuel cells are not ready for civilian use. Fuel cells are very promising for longevity. - EV are weak to magnetic fields, anyone can eventually disable entirely your car, but modern cars are not much different. - Lithium extraction and manufacturing makes almost same pollution of a modern oil car after 6-8 years.
@icedquinn@mk@Autumn@Nazareno USA was a total dck for playing with the SWIFT system, but still, LATAM countries are usually poor and staying neutral is usually the best for them.
I don't see any benefit for Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Jamaica, Nicaragua, etc etc, to join BRICS. At best, it serves well when you can't pay international loans, but your country will be isolated.
Just look how good been NATO for Europe, whole Europe bleeds because energy and heating costs. Specially now when "smart germans" decided to shut down Nuclear reactors because some autistic Swedish teen said so
USA will not allow that easily, but also they would get isolated from neighbor countries. Those countries are not wealthy enough to play geopolitics unless China pays for that.
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