Yep. If I may recommend a book, the violence of organized forgetting by henry giroax critiques this disinformation machine which has normalized even the worst disasters, atrocities, and social injustices perpetrated by this country especially by laundering it via campaigns like the war on terror. Really compelling read, I can’t do it justice here.

The Republicans had no problem stopping the show when they were the minority party in all branches.

Would be a lot easier if the DNC didn’t align with the Republicans to sabotage third party candidates at any level of office.

Liberals have any respect for people’s intelligence challenge: impossible

You make less than $2.13 an hour, the federal minimum tipped wage?

Energy is volatile, there’s only so much that can be done. Not every single fire is one that can be prevented beyond just not getting in the car in the first place (i.e. giving people a reasonable alternative via well maintained and affordable public transport.)

There’s only so much safeguarding you can do against the basic physics of storing enough high voltage energy to drive laps around your hometown in such a relatively small and locomotive package as an EV battery.

Yes, battery fires will happen sometimes, most frequently in an impact like this one, and they will burn long and hot until all the energy (fuel) is expended. The same thing would happen if you were to set a tank of gas on fire, since gas is another store of energy if a bit less volatile than live electricity. I am certain you will find examples of this with any EV OEM. That is why it is important for the occupants to be able to escape the vehicle, should that ever occur.

Fuck Tesla, their cars all suck squirrel nuts, the cybertruck most of all. All I’m saying is that a few battery fires involving an impact making the news does not prove there’s a statistically anomalous amount of battery fires with a particular brand.

Yes, Capitalism is a big conspiracy involving the capitalist class conspiring against the working class. Look at their class interests. They are and have always been quietly waging a class war.

Two pet theories I have about this

1. it is profitable for big chemical companies and whatever lobby makes the lawnmowers and weed whackers for everyone to have these big lawns that need to be maintained via mowing and pesticides. There are breeds other than bluegrass that don’t grow that tall, chiefly buffalo grass, with deeper roots that make it generally more healthy, less patchy, less susceptible to weeds, etc.

2. It is convenient for the ruling class that we have to do all this maintenance individually, leaving us less time (and wealth) to organize and build community/alternative modes of governance. Divide and conquer and all that.

OK I lied here’s a 3rd:

3. Western society is pretty much defined by our need to control nature/the world around us in outright denial of any consequences that might arise from doing so.

Other EV brands have handles that work when the battery goes haywire.

Not the only source, or a primary source, but the most comprehensive I’ve found so far. How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

To achieve that level of wealth and maintain that kind of position, you must be willing to exploit people. It is a system that self-selects for the worst kinds of people that care about personal enrichment above everything else. It doesn’t really matter how they treat people to their face.

It’s never too late to make one

If you’re spending minutes scrolling then I don’t think the post is the problem here

Your reader should have a way to open and zoom in on the full resolution version if you fullscreen the image. Mine has a “HD” icon in the top right.

Jesus Christ. You’ve canvassed every fucking comment in this thread, and this one is actually doing what you want. Give them a break.

The switch cartridges have a bitterant added to them since they’re small enough to be a choking hazard. It’s not the smell of the construction material they’re talking about.

Yes but you’re doing the punching on the basis of them being a nazi, not of them being a woman

Nobody said anything about taking the high road…

Ask any libertarian how they feel about age of consent and child labor laws.