[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 39 points 11 months ago

Totally. If we’re going make real change with this we need hard enforcement that says “you must provide a default setting that can be set per browser” or something that avoids the entire need for sifting through their cookie menu to find out I left one turned on. But this is peak example of ineffective laws to govern the internet made by people who don’t have any experience in computer science. I’m sure we will continue to see “do not track is just a suggestion” messages continuously. Or the requirement for each individual website to specify what type of tracking in absurd detail.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

The province whose entire economy depends upon the continued growth of the consumption of fossil fuels has issues with regulations that reduce the impact of fossil fuels on the planet?! Shocking I say! Flabbergasted even!

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago

Chemists would know there is no J on the periodic table :-(

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

So to phrase this appropriately: you could say the apartheid blood emerald trust fund baby is experimenting with dangerous technology on disabled people because he views them as less than human. I don’t think it can be viewed any other way than sleazy. Besides it’s not like people with disabilities are so desperate they don’t care about their quality of life.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago

True. The headline is sensationalist. It’s not unusual to have these types of effects from medical device testing, animals scratching at scars etc. but that doesn’t excuse the outright lying from Musk. These people signing up for the trial are insane.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Okay but am I the only one disturbed that somehow tomatoes are too expensive but pizza…which is made with tomato sauce…is getting cheaper? Unless…what is dominos making their sauce out of?

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if calling them “corporations” is even accurate. That’s being too kind. Anonymizing the villains of this story.

It’s not the random Amazon delivery driver. It’s Jeff Bezos. He’s the baron here. Name and shame.

It’s not the random engineer cleaning up Elon’s latest temper tantrum at Twitter, it’s Elon musk.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I wonder what they thought that Prius’s battery was made out of. Must have been gas cells or something. Couldn’t be one of those pesky rare earth batteries.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

And I mean; can we just not ignore hydro at all and point out that if you own an EV in most of Canada you have broken even after your first year of driving then? Because we don’t get a choice to use “clean beautiful coal” like the trump folks want! We only get that dirty hydro!

So. Yeah. I’m happy with my EV. I bought it because gas prices are completely outrageous in British Columbia (2 a litre or 8 a gallon for the U.S. folks) I honestly didn’t think I was helping the environment so much as helping my wallet. Turns out it does both. Cool with me.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah! Thank goodness for that magical gas appearance! And there’s never any rare earth metals used in those pesky computers on cars these days! Nobody has touch screens or anything! It’s all switches and dials like we used to have in the 70s!

Right? ….right?

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m going to guess “all the precious metals in manufacturing of the EV are so much worse than my gas cars!” Nonsense that the oil industry has been shilling online with bots for years to slow adoption of EVs among specific demographics.

Even though this myth has been debunked a hundred times, by folks like MIT, and in Reuters they showed if you live in an area that’s exclusively renewable power like I do, then I actually broke even 4ish years ago; within 3 months of owning my EV. Source: Reuters article, norway vs us ev break even point

But hey, I’m sure that propaganda of “just buy a gas car! It’s better for the environment” will make sense eventually once they figure out how to ignore more science.

[-] Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Just a small database patch, don’t mind spez doing some deleteItem calls.

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