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The west literally does the same but on a personal scale to its own people.

Its expensive to be poor.

By design.

Its very small.

FWIW, though its been a while, I have done the math for this sort of stuff back when I was studying Mechanical Engineering in college.

Are people allowed to pit Truck Nuts on their EVs?

Also Pretro Masculinity describes exactly why I could not handle watching Landman. Because that show was basically that mindset distilled into TV. Frankly, everything by Taylor Sheridan kind of falls into that bucket.

Its like all the stupid “Lets Go Brandon” nonsense because they are all too much of a bunch of pussies to just say “Fuck Joe Biden.”

Guess what, Fuck Trump.

See, its easy, I don’t need some clever bull shit because I am not some softy ass coward.

It is, in is by a huge margin. Doing things in bulk, efficient, standardized ways, will always be more efficient, for any task.

Even if electricity were all created ONLY using standard car gasoline, generating electricity in bulk on some.giant fucking motor and distributing it out to electric vehicles, would be more efficient than a million little engines running around stopping and accellerating and generting power to power one vehicle.

Hell even generating it using a room full of standard car motors would be more efficient because they could be set to always run at peak fuel efficiency RPMs and gearing (which by design in cars is like 55-60mph).

Its probably just an advertising campaign to try to win the midterms. “SEE, FREEDOM.GAS. VOTE FOR FASCISM PLZ.”

Also, isn’t there already a gas station chain branded Freedom? Are they violating trademarks?

Yes, because supporting the GOP means they get to use slurs again. Thats what really matters.

Yeah but Linux does this shit too with old kernels.

Oh god the religious albums everywhere.

You are awakening some PTSD here…

Data centers are useful.

Massive AI data centers are not.

Same as I do now.

CDs.

You can rip CDs to digital easily. You can get them cheap at resale shops and garage sales.

I buy and listen to vinyls, but also I moatly only buy them for my top 5 artists, partly for display. I do buy some if Infind them cheap or they are special, but I don’t really collect vinyls. They are impractical.

I really like her stuff, Pretending is that song, You’re Not Special is good, Honestly most of the album Woman on the Internet is good.

A fun lyric from a song I like called Pretending by Orla Gartland.

“All the people over there They don’t seem to have a care I’m so fucking self aware, it’s exhausting.”

One I read about once.

Bonking people over the head to knock them out.

If you manage to hit them hard enough to actually put them out like that, they are likely bleeding internally and going to die without immidiate hospital care. Maybe even die anyway.

I sat on the jury for a murder trial last year (maybe 2). It was impressive how inept both the defence and prosecution seemed and how flat out sloppy it all felt.

Especially since fossil fuels gets just even larger subsidies.

U.S. Spending Bill to Grant $40 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Renewable Energy Received Record Subsidies in 2024

In the United States, new Treasury Department figures show that subsidies for wind and solar dwarf all other energy-related provisions in the tax code, costing $31.4 billion in 2024,

Hmmmm, interesting…

Also, in the broader sense, thats the point of the government. So the larger community can collectively support “unprofitable/less profitable” systems for the greater good through Taxes. But then Libertarian and Republican fuckwits keep supporting corrupt as fuck assholes for office.

I saw that speach on Landman about the cost of building Solar/Wind.

You know what else takes a ton of concrete and metal and shit, and a need to deliver from the middle of nowhere?

Fucking Oil.

I have serious doubts that even with a “blue wave” the fuckass Dems will actually DO anything useful.