Communism is great. You can spaff as much money up the wall as you want. Doesn’t matter, anything you want can be done.

Then you wonder why there is no food in the supermarkets.

The market will built it normally, the government doesn’t allow them to.

If you really want to incentive building then you need a land value tax.

Need a Land value tax and the ability to build medium/high density housing.

Can’t even get a carbon tax in place even though economist say it could be the quickest way to reduce CO2.

The level of effort people are willing to put in is mentioning that 100 companies are responsible for 80% of emission or something. “Yea they make oil! You buy it and burn it. That’s where the CO2 comes from. Will you stop? Maybe take the bus or stop eating meat.”

“Oh no. Absolutely not.”

The title is about why “Americans” aren’t buying EV’s. The excuse of them living in an apartment only applies to ~20% of the population.

That’s not enough to explain why Americans aren’t buying, just why 20% if Americans aren’t.

And like I said you don’t start with the most difficult and you don’t push a solution onto a problem when it isn’t the right solution anyway.

Depends what the point is. If we want to sell EVs for some goal of selling EVs that fine I guess. But it still goes back to the point of you start with the easiest 80% first.

But if we want to improve everyone’s life on this planet and the planet itself. Trying to convince people who shouldn’t own a car to buy an EV is very poor planning. It just so short sighted and consumerist for the sake of consumerism.

According to Quota its ~80% of people live in houses.

Classic 80:20 rule. Making excuses for why the most difficult 20% doesn’t work is the wrong way of thinking about it. Most of the result for least effort cones from dealing with the 80%.

What percentage of people live in apartments?

Surely those people should be taking public transport anyway not buying a car when they live downtown.

This is just a price to function issue.

If the price was 0 everyone would have one.

But the cost of it is way too high for what it is. Price and weight etc will come down. Uses will increase.

If its fun or get rich quick. Gambling.

If it’s some boring thing some adviser told you that you are sick of, that you then told your family and they are sick of it. You just going to leave it and forget about it. Then it’s investing.

That’s the worst looking breakfast I have ever seen. Everything on there looks terrible.

I’d go toast, OJ and coffee. Fuck the rest.

I think the recent lack of male only spaces causes a huge amount of problem for men.

Its about stopping issued not fixing them once they are a problem.

All the male spaces I have been in have had guys opening up and getting support.

But when women are around they just seem to judge men for opening up, or belittle their issues as a joke/ insignificant to women’s, or sometimes they shut it down and blame to patriarchy for not allowing men to open up when they are the ones stopping men from opening up.

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Sounds good. I just heard bad things about the work hours and such.

Would love yo go to the country though!

That sounds like you did a good job on your leg.

Least you made it there. How you like it? How many hours a week you work? Made any friends with 100% Japanese people?

What country from to and what job where you looking at?

Also a lot of people don’t use trains because of the last mile problem. (And because in america specifically they are a lower standard than they were in the 1800’s).

But if people could get a lift to the station and then to work. Or get the train 10 times a week and get a lift to and from the supermarket once a week without needing to buy a car. That will be a huge reclamation of space.

Could even be like a 10 lane (total) motorway going to two train lines and a two lane road. Not to mention the space it frees on minor roads.

No mention of precision fermentation.

I think a huge shift is coming to our food. Even if it’s easy things like milk, olive oil, palm oil.

But I think it’s coming for meat and I think it’s going to be the best thing to happen to the environment ever.

This has a huge potential to link up incredibly well with walking, cycling, micro mobility and trains and not to mention high density housing and/or green land. I hope that it is acted on.

The plane drones are quieter aren’t they?

Also cars are noisy as fuck and everyone acts like that are perfect in every way.