“The USSR and current Communist China all have far, far worse records on the environment than the liberal democracies around the world.”

How DID Capitalism handle climate change though?

Amusingly enough, there are plenty of people on the Right that seem to think ‘Everything I don’t like is communism’, and on the list of frequently recurring items is ‘environmentalism/environmental regulation.’ Black Lives Matter? Communism. Gay people? Also communism.

This is the second example I’ve heard of SimCity promoting harmful public policy. The other is Euclidean zoning (named for the town of Euclid, not the mathematician), which forces areas to separate into single family residential, dense apartment residential, and business. In most of America, outside of city centers,…

My god can you imagine financing an above-MSRP vehicle right now for that amount of time??   You’d spend the first 8 years underwater.

The real tragedy of Chernobyl is that nuclear power should be one of the most powerful weapons against climate change, but one meltdown in an outdated power plant turned people against nuclear plants forever.  The psychological effects of the disaster will kill far more people than the disaster itself did.

I often think about the “Pygmalion Effect” in that connection, where the outcome we expect to occur is in effect a self-fulfilling prophecy, because our expectations shape our actions and the choices we make, which brings about the expected outcome. (An experiment where teachers were told some children chosen at…

Fleet managers seem to be filling up the order forms for the F150 Lightning on routes that stay local. I know of one fleet manager who has a mess of them on order and have orders for the EV Ford Transit. The biggest thing they’re excited about is the on board power that allows them to use more corded tools. 

Don’t give musky your money.

4D chess move from Elon here: he now has TWO dumpster fires with which to distract you... he’ll have them synchronized to flare up when the other needs the spotlight shifted away.

“ If you have a functioning car, the best advice is to take care of it and avoid the market for as long as possible. But that advice doesn’t work for everybody.”

Keep your car.

Yeah, but you’ll get bullet-proof(ish) windows STANDARD!

Might not even be Tesla stock, just trying to draw everyone away from the twitter thing.

Tesla stock needed another bump, eh? We’ve seen this one before.

The Cybertruck is click-bait. Per the Drive article, this issue has hit a few Model X and Y owners.

Ahhh so tesla is just embracing being the Apple of the automotive world. 

This is effectively a non-issue as the cybertruck is not a real vehicle and will likely never be produced.

They’ll probably sue for infringing on their religious freedom because he is their God.

So this now out of reach?