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  • Oohhh boy. Cheaper oil didn’t eliminate automobiles, profit motive did, which is the critical difference here.

    The “shenanigans” you’re referring to was the systematic dismantling of a superior vehicle industry that threatened entrenched interests.

    If we pretend you’re correct and gasoline was invented after electric vehicles, you’d still be missing the point of this post.

    The question is which inventions users would appreciate more if they had been implemented correctly.

    If oil barons hadn’t deliberately killed the electric car in order to protect their investment in and dedication to crude oil as a fuel, I wouldn’t mind automobiles so much.

    Because industrialists did collude to block the development of the electric car, streets have been loud and dirty and motor oil has been poisoning the earth for a century when none of that ever needed to happen.


  • Gasoline cars made industrialists money, but the rest of your assumptions are incorrect.

    There were several electric vehicles in production in the early 1900s, 20-30 years after gasoline vehicles had been developed, popular because they were already more comfortable, reliable, cleaner and easier to fix and maintain, and would become more so as production improved.

    Oil barons systematically bought out and destroyed all electric vehicle companies throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s.

    Until industrialists systematically destroyed electric vehicle infrastructure, the future of the automobile was either stagnant, largely unimprovable combustion engine vehicles that the world was forced into for a century, or electric vehicles which are much more easily improved but because they last longer and consume less fuel, don’t make exploitatatuve industrialists as much money.

    If fuel companies and industrial capitalists hadn’t blocked and destroyed the potential of electric vehicles 100 years ago, EV technology would be decades ahead of where it is now and automobile exhaust and noise pollution would never have been a global issue in the first place.



  • I didn’t even know that was a fringe belief, I started hearing about astrotheology, although the term is new to me, back in high school and assumed that most divine creation stories being tied to the sun and stars was accepted fact at this point for anyone who studies theology seriously.

    I am interested though, I’ll check out your suggestion. Thanks.

    What about the jesus pedo/traitors must pay parts?



  • Maybe brainstorming before a human actually does all the work. Or finding trends, if the data set is large enough that the ai-trend finding is worth all the re-checking and confirmation that you have to do manually.

    I hear it’s good at building software architecture with very strict rules in place so the time saved is worth the necessary manual check afterward.

    Yea, aggregating data and brainstorming right now, but it doesn’t seen worth the trouble yet, maybe in another decade.






  • Lol, got it.

    Weird formal grammar, way too much detail way too fast, non-substantive message content, or long pauses before responding to what should be a simple question are red flags.

    If the conversation feels normal going back and forth, you’re getting the information you want from this person and they’re directly answering your questions, green flag.

    There’s really no way to tell if they’re using AI on the back end, unless you’re extremely computer literate, because even if you find someone trustworthy, you don’t know what they’re doing, and some legitimate web developers use AI as a legitimate tool, so I’d encourage you to first make sure that you know exactly what you want for your website, because knowing exactly what you’re looking for makes any web developers job way easier, and then make sure that’s what the person is developing and that if you guys agree to work together you have a simple written contract that says the developer is going to build this website for this amount of money as specified in our agreement.

    If they are a real web developer, they shouldn’t blink at a contract. If they are not legitimate, they will not want to sign an agreement.

    All of that said, there are quite a few platforms that are drag and drop GUI build your own website templates you can use without any coding knowledge that you could check out and even participate in the free trial for and see if you want to build the site yourself first.

    Squarespace, Wix, there are plenty of platforms on which you can build your own website that will include annual hosting for probably less than hiring a professional developer, especially if you’re looking for a simple website.

    Totally depends on what you’re trying to create.

    You know, fiverr has probably a billion vibe coders, but you could easily ask for a consultation with any of them and get a free five minutes Q&A so you can get used to asking developers questions.

    Full disclosure, i’ve worked with a web developer tangentially, but have never hired one myself, so these are all general business suggestions rather than direct hiring experience talking.