Because I honestly cannot be bothered. Find someone else to mirror your hypocrisy to. You got the wrong guy.

You replied to me. And you’re the one replying to everyone with a novella’s worth of words.

yesterday it was all, “You guys need to do something! You need to fix this! All of you Americans wanted this! You’re ALL pedophile lovers!”

Today it’s all, "It doesn’t matter that you protested and organized and worked the polls and wrested control of your legislature and state governments back against overwhelming odds

The late Sir Patrick Stewart said it best “When America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold. And I think America is about to get a very bad flu.”

You guys needed to do something in the same way the loud, annoying, drunkard neighbours need to put out that fire they lit on their front porch before the whole house catches fire and spreads to neighbouring houses.

You can absolutely not trust someone and still expect them to take responsibility for their actions.

Enjoy your socialized healthcare, because your tax dollars – and mine – are going toward it. We’re helping to pay for your security so you can afford to spend on your healthcare. I want to turn that around.

Oh don’t worry. The entire world have put plans in motion to cut out the US.

And I don’t mean that sarcastically. Also, we really do enjoy our healthcare. Every time I show up at the doctor to get something looked at I don’t get a bill. It’s awesome.

Also the US isn’t “funding” the security of other places. That’s just a consequence of the US projecting hard power globally for capital interests. The impact of providing “security” for other nations is just a convenient side effect that’s used for soft power.

They can still see what you wrote in their notifications of your reply.

For our own safety and credibility.

Do it for your own safety. The credibility bit is now a generational rebuild process. The world doesn’t trust you guys anymore. The process to decouple from the US is already in motion and its not going to stop. The damage is done.

You’ve deemed 90% of trucks are unnecessary by simply observing the use you saw in the moment?

90% was hyperbole. But my point was that most pickup drivers don’t need a pickup for what they do.

https://www.americantrucks.com/pickup-truck-owner-demographics.html

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume

So a truck in a city can’t be a legitimate work truck?

Literally nowhere did I say that.

I said the most fuel efficient, nothing about the most common.

I said the most common, because that’s the stat that matters.

I clearly said “ICE engine”, but let’s bring in more efficient examples to blur the arguement.

We absolutely should include other kinds of engines, lol. Why wouldn’t that always be part of the discussion? That’s so disingenuous, but taking out non-ICE engines doesn’t change the validity of my argument.

I need a truck and I’m not going to justify that to you or anyone else.

There it is! It’s been about you this whole time. Just a minute ago you were complaining about the scope of my argument, and here you are using yourself as the one and only example.

Didn’t I say “and those who genuinely need a truck can pay the higher gas prices”?

If you actually need a truck, then use a truck. My argument was that the major of pickup truck drivers do not need a truck, and then another significant portion of those people can manage perfectly fine with rentals or trailers.

Living in Canada and having travelled to the US frequently (before covid), I see that 90+% of trucks on the road are unnecessary. Most jobs that people use trucks for can be accomplished using more fuel efficient vehicles. And if necessary, get a trailer.

The vast majority of trucks and SUVs are in cities, because that’s where most people live. And most of those are pavement princesses.

Working at Lowe’s dispelled that nonsense for me.

So one of a handful of places where people who actually use their trucks for the actual thing they are literally built for would congregate to use their trucks for truck things. And that’s not a biased perspective how?

The most fuel efficient is close to an average ICE car.

The most sold F150 engine is the 3.5L EcoBoost v6. It gets a rated 12.4 L/100 km, which means in reality it gets closer to 14 or 15.

Your average car is going to be under 10 L/100 km, with many cars getting under 8. That’s a very big difference and not at all “close”.

Hybrid cars do even better with many getting well under 5 L/100 km.

Edit: and for those people who “need” a truck that one or two times a year can rent a truck. Plenty of people do. I do it and I save a ton on the insurance and gas. The rental cost is the same as maybe one or two fill-ups with a truck.

the solar panels on electric vehicles are for show

I don’t think that’s a fair take. They are upfront that it provides a trickle charge. But that’s not what matters. Solar tech will get better over time. Eventually this sort of tech will meaningfully extend the range of EVs, and provide enough power in emergency situations.

Makes me think why dont EV’s have solar panels slapped on them?

Already have

https://www.techradar.com/news/hyundais-new-electric-car-has-a-solar-panel-roof-and-the-ability-to-charge-other-evs

Whoever gave that lecture is more than a decade behind the times then. Flexible solar panels exist, and technically the solar cells themselves are very lightweight. It’s generally the protective glass that sandwiches the cells that make up most of the weight.

And these cars already exist. BYD, Hyundai Ionic 5, Toyota Prius Prime, etc, are all production cars with the option for a solar roof.

https://www.techradar.com/news/hyundais-new-electric-car-has-a-solar-panel-roof-and-the-ability-to-charge-other-evs

That article is from 5 years ago.

It won’t

I bet you in Indiana it’s still 50% (or more) stupid sized trucks or SUVs. Higher gas prices will:

• force people to carpool
• buy more fuel efficient cars (literally happened everywhere else decades ago)
• buy EVs
• take public transit

And then the very small minority who can’t do those things, they pay the higher prices for their gas guzzlers.

Why do you think monster pickup trucks only exist in the USA? Pickups exist in other counties, but they’re sensibly sized with smaller engines. Other counties figured out many decades ago that it’s the most efficient (cost-wise and emission-wise) to use a vehicle appropriate to the job, instead of getting the biggest extended-bed, 4 door crew cab, 5.8 litre 8 cylinder truck with oversized offroading tires to pickup the damn groceries.

The US has a violence problem.

The US has an emotional wellbeing and emotional maturity problem.

No no, they meant left and up

The new Xbox coming out next year is going to have direct Steam support. And that’s no accident.

Xbox series X|S sold a total of just under 35 million. Those are actually estimate numbers, as Microslop stopped reporting their (embarrassing) numbers years ago.

Steam has an average of 38.5 million concurrent users, with a peak of 43.5 million users.

Steam is literally bigger than Microslop’s Xbox division, and infinitely more profitable. Sony’s PS5 has sold something like 91 million units.

The Steam Deck isn’t the relevant metric here. Every single computer with Steam installed is.

Statistically people with children love longer. Just don’t have a choice with the things you have to do. It leads to more exercise (running around) and sleeping earlier (you have zero energy after they go to sleep).

Well, the “pedophile ring” thing turned out to be mostly true with the Epstein stuff.

You know Albert the artist?

SteamDB buyout money ain’t coming back from their now devalued goods

Wait… did I miss something?

I’m just saying CO2 is not the culprit. It may very well be because of something we are doing, but it is not CO2 doing it.

It is. All the data shows it. It’s known that it functions like a greenhouse gas. It traps in heat in the atmosphere that would have normally been radiated away into space.

The part you’re missing is that heat was being trapped for a very long time, and because large heat gradients don’t just sit in one place, that heat didn’t just stay in the air. And water is a extremely good heat sink. So all that heat that’s been trapped in by CO2 has been charging up the oceans over the decades. But we’re at the tipping point now where the oceans can’t pull in anymore, so that heat is staying in the air longer and longer. And hotter air holds more moisture, which makes the air “thirstier” and starts to pull out moisture from vegetation and trees. And then you have drier and more combustible stuff, thus more and more wildfires.

Now the heat in the ocean is hitting a point where it’s radiating back out, that means a ton more moisture going into the atmosphere. And higher the humidity the more literal energy that air holds. And that means more frequent and stronger tornados, hurricanes, storms, wetter winters in some areas and colder drier in others. And so on.

Water vapour does have an impact, but it’s a condensing agent. The more of it in the atmosphere, the more it wants to condense and get out of the atmosphere. It naturally has a equalizing effect, which is why earth’s temps have been extremely stable over long periods. The rate of warming in the past 50 years cannot be explained by water vapour, there had to be an ongoing catalyst to force the temps higher and higher, otherwise the water vapour would condense faster and equalize.

The catalyst is CO2.