Rodeo

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

German cable providers cheaped out and didn't upgrade their infrastructure for quite a while.

This is always the real reason.

Rich people being cheap.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

The fix to being broke is to get more money.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (12 children)

So if you have to use an arbitrary unit anyway, why make a new arbitrary unit?

Because whole point of metric is to use powers of ten.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (24 children)

If we're redifining time, why do we have to keep the same unit size? Simply adjust the duration of a second to make exactly 100 ksecs per day.

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

I know this is a joke but my dad was excessively touchy and huggy when I was growing up and it's the reason I hate hugs now.

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

Oh my go that's literally the point of my whole comment. You stated that EVs are a good solution. They are not a solution at all.

It's not a matter of perfect being the enemy of good, it's a matter of people mistakenly thinking that personal EVs are a solution. They are not a solution at all, they only serve as placebo to make people feel good while while continuing the same habits and relying on the same infrastructure that caused all this in the first place.

That was literally the point. Continuing with the same sprawling, oversized infrastructure built for personal, usually single-occupancy vehicles is not going to solve climate change. We are so far gone the only real, actual, solutions are in fact drastic, society changing measures. So your solution is for us to keep doing the same thing we already are but with 20% less pollution? While the earth is already past the 1.5C global warming mark? If that's your best solution then it's not a solution.

EVs are here to save the automobile, not the environment.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're a child prodigy.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

This is 100x funnier lol

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But it's not a good solution. In fact it's not a solution at all. EVs aren't going to save the environment, they're going to perpetuate our reliance on personal vehicles.

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

I wonder what happened to him in March 1997

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Now this is pod racing!

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