ElegantBiscuit

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[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

The video is the post itself, not in the comments

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Unfortunately Reddit is still one of the best and easiest ways to find stuff like this - here is the full performance

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Did they stutter?

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

One of my best fried chicken experiences was a $5 fried chicken buffet somewhere in rural Kentucky near Lincoln’s birth home.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

The midwest has always been pretty centrist at least within living memory, usually split right down the middle. It only ever gave the impression of heavily republican leaning because they've been gerrymandered to shit. Wisconsin in particular has been ratfucked by redistricting - both a democratic governor in 2018 and Biden in 2020 won because those are state wide votes, but as of 2022 the state legislature is 66% republican while only having won 53% of the popular vote in that election.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They can. They just need to pay a little more. We’re talking 25 pence per liter at most compared to no sugar tax. Higher sugar intake is correlated with obesity which means more health problems which is more expense for the NHS. It’s like a train ticket or gas taxes or taxes in general, some percentage of usage that causes the problem needs to pay for the thing that deals with the consequences or expenses that solve it.

It’s the companies who have decided that they would rather sell shit soda, and consumers who are probably unwilling to pay anything except the cheapest price possible - wealth inequality and poverty problems aside because that’s a different social policy that should not be addressed through a sugar tax.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Just the robot dogs for now, but I’m sure they’ll be first in line when the tech is available.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

To give you an idea of who is on the tesla board of directors, it includes Kimbal Musk, his brother, and James Murdoch, of the Murdoch family you’re probably thinking of. Musk himself owns something like 20% of the company, the board owns some, his cult members also have some share. The rest of the shareholders are either institutional or retail investors who are some combination of not willing to rock the boat, don’t have enough voting power, and/or just don’t care.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Not the person you responded to and its been a while since I’ve done it, but I’m pretty sure you can just open the file with notepad (or TextEdit on Mac), scroll down to the timestamp, make the changes, and save the file.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I don’t know how anyone could ever stand going to Costco on the weekends. Just don’t. That’s like voluntarily driving during rush hour when you have the option not to. Unless you work the exact hours that Costco is open, going on a weekday evening is so much better of an experience all around. Weekday mornings aren’t bad either. I would have to be truly desperate for gas or groceries to go to Costco on the weekend vs just waiting until Monday.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BYD was selling ICE vehicles up until March of 2022, and their current split is somewhere around 50/50 BEV/hybrid so they’re still not a full EV company. Their lineup is still being supported by their existing infrastructure, subsidized by the already established supply chains for ICE that they can incrementally cannibalize while building up the EV part of the company. It’s a good blueprint for legacy auto, but not for an EV startup. That is even before mentioning the very generous subsidies and incentives for electrification provided by the national, provincial, and city governments to producers and consumers. Not to say there is anything wrong with that, because I believe the US also needs that level of investment into electrification, but my point is that it’s not the same business model.

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