Choke Hold - Idris Elba - From Cyberpunk 2077

Indeed.
That villain once said to me, “Nice to see you,” when I am, in fact, a hideously disfigured mockery of life itself.
You just can’t trust the Kindred these days.

þ looks like a 🅱️

“Þa þeofian, scandalwisan mædena syndon smeaþe and wyrcean” just doesn’t hit a modern audience the same way

the horror . . . the horror

Maybe they have a different log in for when they’ve changed into a black cat? Like, maybe there’s no capital letters in their fursona’s password, because its hard to use the Shift key when you have beans instead of fingers?

imagine thinking liberal capitalists are “the left”, lol

Takes too long to charge. The Seagull EV’s “fast” charge from 20% to 80% takes ~40 minutes and gives ~100 miles of range. The Model 3’s ~20 minute fast charge for ~150 miles was already pushing the outer limit of reasonable.

Still, the price is right to make it a household’s second car.

Buyer: I want a small, light weight, reliable vehicle with no frills or excess features, that will get me from point A to point B.

Automotive industry PR: So what you’re saying is that you want bells and whistles? Why don’t you buy radar in the bumper, a distracting touch screen that can’t be used while going over bumps or around corners instead of buttons, heated seats that don’t work without a subscription, heating elements in the steering wheel that occasionally burn you and set your car on fire, heavy sunroofs that leak, heavy electric motors to adjust your seats, heavy electric motors to roll the windows, heavy electric motors in the steering column that will fight you for control of the vehicle, a video game console for a speedometer, more cameras than a paparazzi, and expensive self-driving software the does not work yet but we totally promise that it will Soon™. Also, it will not get you from point A to point B.

Automotive industry when sales are disappointing:
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stick_in_bike_wheel.jpg: “Fucking China!”

advertising and ALL CAPS

Because those are not good cars. The low range of the Leaf and slow recharge of the Bolt make them impractical.

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Fair enough. Not all monopolies are bad monopolies. There’s a narrow set of circumstances where a monopoly can exist within a market without making that market something other than free.

Government owned utilities for example - natural monopolies that are allowed to exist in a highly regulated state.

Monopsony can also be good for the free market in sectors with inflexible demand, such as healthcare.

But those are exceptions, and not the general rule.

It always becomes monopoly.

One person telling everyone else what’s going to happen isn’t freedom.

Speaking to reporters early Wednesday, Tver Gov. Igor Rudenya said that all drones in the region were shot down and that there was a fire on the ground as a result of debris from a downed drone. As he spoke, loud explosions could be heard in the background.

Yeah, an unregulated market isn’t free.

Prisoners may find it difficult to make the commute and show up on time for a factory shift.

But actually yes, their labor contribution is a significant component in the supply chain.

For example, if an undocumented worker labors to produce food, that frees up another person’s labor for working in a factory.

Some of the things used in the automotive industry that are made by prisoners:
-wiring harnesses
-interior components like seat covers, upholstery, and floor mats
-lighting components like headlights and interior lights
-repair and refurbishment of government fleet vehicles; brakes, body work, painting, mechanical repairs, etc…, which also frees up the labor of skilled mechanics to work on returning broken EVs to the road

Other goods and services produced by prisoners that indirectly assist the production of EV’s include:
-circuit boards, mostly for government use, but lower demand for civilian circuit board manufacturing capacity lowers the prices of EV components
-office furniture
-eye-wear, including prescription lenses and safety glasses that might be worn in the EV factories
-metalworking, including making toolboxes, lockers and shelves that may be found in EV factories
-government warehouse & distribution jobs free up civilian labor that can go into EV supply chain logistics

Yeah, tax incentives and consumer rebates won’t encourage investment in American EV manufacturing capacity because they could disappear overnight and the extra capacity would then be wasted.

Free money to build new factories will do it though, and that’s what Uncle Sam has been spending on - its less risky to tool up a factory for mass production of a low margin family sedan when somebody else is paying for the tools and you won’t lose money if your new model sedan doesn’t sell enough units to cover the one time factory startup costs.

I don’t think the Bolt was a practical vehicle? You can’t take road trips with it, even across the charger-dense East Coast USA - it won’t get you from Miami to Orlando, or from New York to DC.

Driving it from 80% to 20% charge gives a range of 155 miles, which is decent, but then a fast charging station would need 1.4 hours to charge it back up from 20% to 80%.