teuast

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[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Amen. Don't have to worry about the house, neighborhood, or city infrastructures supporting your EV if your EV is an ebike that can plug into a standard outlet in your living room, or wherever you keep it. Or if you can just walk a quarter mile and hop on a light rail. Or if instead of driving a Ford, you just use your Chevrolegs. Of course, this does also require development patterns to support it, i.e. roads that aren't fucking death traps for anyone outside a car and stuff being close enough together that you can actually get to it in a reasonable amount of time, but hey, there are also non-car-related reasons we should be doing those things too.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My guy, your source proves my point, not yours, even by your own summary of it. If you were capable of feeling ashamed of yourself, now would be a great time to do so.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, if you had heard the things Elon says, seen the people he signal boosts, or heard of the people and groups he associates with, then you would understand why people are accusing him of spouting far right nonsense. It's because the things he says are frequently far right nonsense, the people he signal boosts are frequently people who spout far right nonsense, and the people and groups he associates with are frequently significant sources of far right nonsense. And I'm not a Democrat in any sense other than thinking they're not as bad for the world as Republicans are, but I can think of at least one good reason to throw rocks at "the other color," that being when they're propagating harmful far-right nonsense. I'd have thought this logic would be bulletproof, but I find myself cowed by the counterargument that "I have no idea what you're talking about but you seem mean."

Paying attention to the world around you is a great way to avoid making yourself look silly, if you're interested in stopping it from happening again.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Then why does a Big Mac cost almost the same at a unionized McDonald's in Denmark as it does at a non-unionized one in Tennessee? I mean, I guess anything is possible when you just lie, but a lot of things become a lot clearer once you acknowledge reality.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

what exactly is the left's batshit insanity in this instance? literally that the game lets you pick your pronouns?

did you know that fallout: a post-nuclear role playing game (1997) also allowed you to do this? a few other games that have let you do this are fallout 2 (1998), mass effect (2007), fallout 3 (2008), mass effect 2 (2010), skate 3 (2010), the elder scrolls 5: skyrim (2011 and also every year since), mass effect 3 (2013), fallout 4 (2015), sonic forces (2017), mass effect andromeda (2017), cyberpunk 2077 (2020), trackmania 2020 (2020), and literally every other game ever to feature a character creator. if this is batshit insanity, then i can't wait to find out what you think of unions.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

stupid pronouns

which is stupider, "he" or "she"

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have you heard the things Elon says, or seen the people he signal boosts, or heard of the people and groups he associates with? It's about as big of a leap as me getting out of bed in the morning, specifically back when I lived in a treehouse and slept on the floor.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you know what he's talking about, right? Why be so pedantic about it?

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Union-busting is absolutely part of the fascist agenda.

No, it’s part of the capitalist agenda

That's what they just said.

and its a good thing.

If you're an obscenely wealthy ghoul who profits off the suffering of everyone who has less money than you, then yes. In all other cases, absolutely the fuck not.

If you don’t want to do your job then quit. That goes for cops, UAW workers, teachers, and more.

So you'd be happy if all the cops, auto workers, teachers, nurses, firefighters, etc. quit? You'd rather have massive and continuous societal upheaval than workers collectively bargaining for the right to make a decent living doing their jobs? I'd rather have a functioning society, personally, and that's why I support unions and you should too.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is blatantly ahistorical and you'd almost have to deliberately keep yourself ignorant to think this.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Trump is going to get hit harder the fifth time a jury finds him liable for defaming E. Jean Carroll than they did the first time.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

It could be better. I'm in the Bay Area, which has some areas that are cool and some areas that are not so cool. And my workplace is in one of the areas that is not cool, by which I mean rich, heavily suburbanized, relatively conservative, and like six miles from the nearest Bart station. And in order to make biking there remotely feasible, I have to live over the hill from Oakland, where nothing cool happens. If I had had the good sense to apply to one of my employer's locations in a place that wasn't a massive fucking pain in the ass to get to, I'd be having a much better time right now.

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