Thanks for the QOTD! Good on you for naming Joe Manchin. That guy single-handedly poisoned the whole EV credit. Not only are fewer and fewer cars eligible, the higher price $80k limit for trucks is an encouragement for EV trucks (and expensive luxo trucks at that) over EV cars. This is totally the wrong direction to…

Meanwhile we have Republicans telling us the country’s infrastructure can’t support everyone moving to EVs. At the same time they reject any attempts to spend money on electrical or EV infrastructure as “unnecessary” because people don’t want EVs...

Taxpayer money is used for individual benefit all the time, for a wide variety of reasons, and tax incentives are used all the time to encourage movement in directions the government would like to encourage, and have been for a very long time. Nothing new or unique about the EV credit.

The goal of this legislation was to bring battery production to the US, not necessarily to make cars cheaper. If making cars cheaper was the sole goal we would have reduced the barriers to entry, not made them harder. This was more about protecting jobs and fighting a geo-political struggle with China than making…

Yeah and we shouldn’t subsidize oil, corn, eggs, etc. etc.

The answer is “Yes, EVs produce lower carbon emissions than gas in any realistic scenario.” The only reason people in big lifted pickup trucks coal-rolling EVs are asking is because suddenly they care oh so much about the environment?

You’re never going to get an objective answer for a sum total of “how bad” something is. Its not a quantifiable figure. You can quantify how much of many particular many “evils” something is, but you can’t mix and match “evils” and sum them together to get an objective figure. Especially since a lot of what you said…

environmental/econonic/social impact of rolling blackouts due to insufficient power to charge vehicles

You say you honestly want to know, however, it seems like you really just want to nitpick numbers that are spoon fed to you that support your current mindset. The truth is that you’re asking for answers that can’t reasonably reported accurately because there isn’t an accurate way to measure the “social impact of the…

I honestly want to know

Yes, we should be moving to more mass transit and less commuting. We should strive for walkable cities and other programs that reduce our use of individual vehicles.

The same way they afford an Xbox and a game?

A game about using capitalism to bankrupt as many people as possible, enhanced to encourage people into going broke gambling on bells and whistles.

Says a lot about the self-awareness of anyone spending consistently on it.

You can’t get unicorn milk? Seems like if you could milk anything in a game called Unicorn Overlord, it should be a unicorn.

Constantly stuck between not understanding the people who get so upset at stupid publicity stunts like this, and even further not understanding the twitch viewers that bankroll this insanity.

Not everyone is thrilled about all this ass on screen, though.

Green screen body paint is next

How does someone get so famous with such an awful fucking sociopathic fake smile?

My god... I hate this guy’s face so much.

Can someone explain how Mr. Beast got his money?