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The bitter irony of it all is that the liberal definition of a tankie has more in common with the guy standing in front of the Tienanmen Square tank than the guy in the driver's seat.

Protesting a tyrannical hyper-military government for failing to deliver basic living quality despite the seeming endless wealth of the capital? Fuck you, you traitorous removed! We should run you over!

Tapping the breaks and trying to kind of work your way around a protester, so you can continue the parade of killing machines that is intended to make your country look strong? Listen, he's just doing his job and we have to respect him for that.

Running out with a truncheon under a cloud of tear gas and beating the shit out of the protesters, then dragging them off the main road? My. Fucking. Hero. Blue Lives Matter! Protecting our nation! Liberty! Whiskey! Sexy!

Warden at the prison where we shove all the dissidents until we've forgotten they're there? Have another $100B dollars, champ.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

The math gets fuzzier than that.

The Tesla 3 scenario above was for driving in the United States, where 23% of electricity comes from coal-fired plants, with a 54 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery and a cathode made of nickel, cobalt and aluminum, among other variables

It was up against a gasoline-fueled Toyota Corolla weighing 2,955 pounds with a fuel efficiency of 33 miles per gallon. It was assumed both vehicles would travel 173,151 miles during their lifetimes.

But if the same Tesla was being driven in Norway, which generates almost all its electricity from renewable hydropower, the break-even point would come after just 8,400 miles.

If the electricity to recharge the EV comes entirely from coal, which generates the majority of the power in countries such as China and Poland, you would have to drive 78,700 miles to reach carbon parity with the Corolla, according to the Reuters analysis of data generated by Argonne's model.

Of course, if alt energy continues to fill up the grid, you've got to plot that over a shifting timeline that gets better. But that also presumes you don't sit on a used car for five years and get in on the EV when the green energy split improves.

Disposing of a used vehicle has its own environmental consequences, too. And where are you going to throw those used batteries once we've fed all the ocean eels? Etc, etc.

I certainly don't trust a Tesla to outperform a Toyota or a Ford over the full 173,151 miles either. If your EV just plotzes on you, the math gets even worse.

So much of the "bigger car" argument is just "there are too many big cars so I need one too".

The most environmentally friendly car is the one you already own.

By all means, ban new ICE vehicles. But you're not doing anyone any favors by ratcheting up how many new vehicles we produce

• Places with money

• Places with less money

• Places with no money

Honestly, if you can inject opioids and still drop a deuce, that's pretty amazing

Or when Obama became Deporter-In-Chief

• We need to stop Trump because he will do the Bad Thing

• You people who do not support Not Trump are enabling the Bad Thing

• If Trump wins, I will cheer the Bad Thing

• I hate Muslims so much that I'm going to vote for Trump

Oof, yeah. A real moral hazard.

I've been working my gang stalking internship for six months now. Still no openings on the paid side of the business, but I'm learning a lot and getting some amazing networking opportunities.

There's a not-entirely-unreasonable argument that business owners hate any kind of construction on their streets, as it results in a short-term drop in business (particularly if the construction company is painfully slow). But this goes to the precarity of retail business operation thanks to predatory loans and forever-increasing rents.

There's a spot around the corner from my house that's built up along a bike path, and they do absurd amounts of business in the area. Enormous crowds out frequenting the shops five nights a week, thanks to the local running club organizing out of their patio and the park next door always hosting events. The spot is surrounded by these enormous five-over-one apartment blocks and super-dense town homes, so there's tons of young people with disposable incomes.

That's the real driver for the businesses. Sheer volume of Yuppies and DINKs.

Business owners hate any change they didn't think was their idea (and that they are therefore entitled to a kickback for stating).