let-them-fight

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I’m gonna be honest. I don’t care how environmentally friendly new EVs will be. I don’t care what climate goals will be met if I switch. If the choice is between some EV with a giant iPad in the middle with no buttons, 24/7 cameras connected to a random corporate server, the ability to drive itself away at the company’s discretion, and liable to be towed without violating anything; and a gas burning 2009 Toyota that still has a CD player, I’m going to buy the Toyota.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Good news, then: ZYBERTRUKKKs are a massive waste of resources, even the source of their electricity is dubious and out-of-sight-out-of-mind externality at best, and a used car is probably going to be less polluting then a new oversized dumpster on wheels rolling around anyway.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      It is a Tesla, so it’s highly unlikely to belong to someone with no other method of transportation available to them.

      However, the footage being used to punisg poor people is absolutely going to happen.

      Steal from the petit to punish the proles, all to protect the rich.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      Dude Where’s My Car 2: Electric Boogaloo

      IMDB: 4/10

      Rotten Tomatoes: 33% Critic Score, 52% Audience Score

      Roger Ebert’s ghost via Ouija board: “I can’t believe you roused me from my eternal slumber to review this “film”, 1/4.”

      The A. V. Club: “This is the second worst thing Ashton Kutcher has done, behind supporting Danny Masterson and ahead of the final season of Two and a Half Men.”

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    “You will own nothing and be happy.”

    Yeah, but only because whatever slop the ruling class wants me to own is willing to tolerate me owning ain’t going to be worth it.

  • Pentacat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Thankfully, people who own Teslas take their rights seriously. I’m sure a couple of them probably even know what the 4th amendment says.

  • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    This is exactly what I asked the founder of Cruise once… at what point will these cars become a tool of the state to spy on everyone? He laughed and said they had strong protections in place to prevent that from happening.

    Absolute bullshit. There is no law that won’t get steamrolled to enable this when critical mass is hit.