• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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    Keep going small line! I need to see that go past the $150 barrier! We need oil to be so expensive that the green transition is forced upon everyone; because apparently, it’s the only way.

    It comes with the bonus of making every fascist asshole in the world defending the oil industry to actually suffer for their choices.

    Yup, this is one line that I’ll always enjoy when it goes up.

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      We need oil to be so expensive that the green transition is forced upon everyone

      Oil isn’t used only for transportation, you know. Fertilizers. Plastics. Paints. Medicine. All kinds of stuff depends on it too. The oil insdustry is obscenely rich and can weather this storm just fine, “we the people” will be the ones suffering with high inflation

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        What. You want me to believe there is a giant ball of energy out there that simply powers the entire planet’s years worth of energy every 9 seconds? /s 'cuz ^ that’s real.

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    Trump unwittingly did more for the transition away from fossil fuels than any previous president

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      This morning I just heard they’re trying to shut down one of our offshore wind farms again - we managed to push it through Drump’s interference and it’s been producing power yet they’re trying yet again

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    10 hours ago

    No shit…

    The Russian deal is literally just till the election, Trump’s doing everything possible to hide reality from voters, but it’s not gonna be enough.

    Republicans just won’t turnout for this election, or likely the next one.

    They’re an obstruction party, so actually having control is like a dog catching a mail truck…

    There’s nothing for them to do, so they give up. It’s only fun when they’re trying to catch it, not after they catch it.

    Progressives on the other hand get more motivated the more they win, without neoliberals sandbagging the DNC were most likely at the beginning of a generational snowball.

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      Republicans just won’t turnout for this election, or likely the next one.

      Please don’t assume this! Like people assumed Hillary would suuuurely win over the joke of a candidate that Trump was in 2016.

      Go and vote!

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        Like people assumed Hillary would suuuurely win over the joke of a candidate that Trump was in 2016.

        That was only people not paying attention, and people who thought repeating something enough would make it true.

        Go and vote!

        Everyone should always vote.

        Being informed and voting is better, and you don’t need to say “go vote” every time an election is brought up, especially not in online forums devoted to politics.

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          you don’t need to say “go vote” every time

          Yes, please do. While Lemmy-Americans seem likely to vote, and to vote against fascism, it’s taking things for granted that lose elections

          This time around it’s extra-important. Too many people only vote in presidential elections and skip the years without. However it’s critical to put the brakes on fascism. Everyone needs to vote

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      There is no Russian deal. No Russian diesel will ever be shipped to the US, at least not directly or as part of any specific deal. Trump just did the populist thing and told people a lie they wanted to hear.

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      They’re an obstruction party, so actually having control is like a dog catching a mail truck…

      I would normally agree, but this time around the Republicans really went as far as they could in the direction of enshittification. I can barely recognize the same country of ten years ago!

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        Because the only other option was Biden and he kept making shit even shittier…

        The neoliberals shuffling his corpse around no longer have control of the national party, and are losing the states they still control.

        That problem was solved already, people are getting things to vote for, and we’re already seeing it payoff all over. It’s not gonna change unless oligarchs convince people that voting is useless when it matters now more than ever: because voters are picking candidates instead of the party.

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    Yep I’ve been calling this for a while, last chance to get an EV while they’re cheap! If anyone has any questions about electric vehicles, feel free to ask me, I’ve owned one for 2 years now.

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      Are there any without data collection and overengineered bloatware ?

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        I took a single fuse out of my 2023 chevy bolt and it disabled all that shit. There’s an onstar module behind the infotainment screen that appears to be pretty easy to disable if you want to keep gps and thus location-based charging active. I personally don’t care about that, so fuse was plenty.

        It’s also just a very basic vehicle overall, with physical buttons for most stuff (so touchscreen doesn’t get used much while driving), which I like coming from a 2012 honda civic. The only real modern thing it seems to have other than infotainment is the backup camera, and that’s a decade old requirement already.

        Also, if it matters to you, chevy bolt runs on open source software. You can audit it right on your dash panel, if you so choose.

        Edit: looks like there’s a fork of openpilot for it as well for mostly self-driving? Idk if I’d trust that, but kinda neat. I thought it was a fork of the OS, but its not.

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        Any stellantis car. To be clear they have both data collection and bloatware, it’s just so poorly made it doesn’t work so no worries.

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        Look into SLATE, they claim its data collection free and its a optional add-on for fleet vehicles.

        I am getting one in January and hoping KIA will buy back their overpriced living-room on wheels. EV9.

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          Isn’t slate owned/backed or managed in some form by jeff bezos?

          Obviously, if the product is good and doesnt track you then that’s great, but obvious skepticism would be warranted.

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    Nice cluster fuck that Trump did to help his masters in Moscow. Also insider trading, congrats to Trump and his crime family.

    Who cares how many normal people(who don’t matter) have died in all this?

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    The EU started to get serious in 2022 at the latest. The firsr results of that can be already seen. The resilience to fossile fuel prices is much higher then the US’. There is a lot more to do, though.