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  • Highly doubtful. Just read first-hand accounts from the many people that have escaped the country. It is a pretty bleak place to exist. If they literally make it illegal for their citizens to have real Internet, chances are your oppressor is doing some pretty awful things. It’s why the current American fascist regime has “humored” restricting Internet access. Same reason Iran cut off Internet access during their recent unrest where the government killed thousands of civilian protestors.










  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlEmpire propaganda is ahelluvadrug
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    2 months ago

    Uh, what? Look at the context of this post, jackass. The meme is trying to portray Russia as a misunderstood good guy while everyone else is evil. I agree with most of the evil flags being there rightfully, but Ukraine is literally defending itself from unjustified invasion. Jfc, it’s crazy this has to be explained. Just look at the entire history of Russia’s aggression and bullying of Ukraine and try to tell me with a straight face that they’re unjustified in defending themselves from a foreign aggressor.




  • Sodium ion is certainly promising, particularly for large vehicles that have more space for the batteries. I definitely look forward to how that tech progresses and possible becomes even more optimized over time.

    I don’t think drilling/burning oil is the optimal path. I just don’t see another way forward that drastically reduces emissions within a short span of time. Hybrids may not be the answer, but they could certainly be part of the effort.

    Additionally, cars are only a few drops in the overall CO2 bucket. We need to fully go into renewables and/or nuclear energy. It is also absolutely critical to figure out how to drastically reduce or fully eliminate emissions from cargo ships and airplanes, as they account for far more emissions than cars do. Lastly, we need to drastically reduce or fully eliminate meat farming, as they produce a fuckton of methane, not to mention the intensive amount of water and other resources it takes.

    Anyway, yeah, it’s a cluster fuck of crises.


  • Being an asshole isn’t conducive to constructive discussion, either. So, ironic for you to dismiss my opinion in such a haphazard way while ignoring what I’m actually saying.

    Of course I am aware of the global effort to find better battery technologies. Yet, outside of sodium ion, everything is largely dependent on lithium ion. Lithium is extremely destructive to the local ecosystems it’s mined from.

    Lastly, where the fuck do you think the majority of electricity is being produced from in large swathes of the planet? Cars absolutely need to have zero emissions. But, transitioning literal billions of vehicles to EV in a short span of time (~10 years) would require an unfathomable amount of batteries.

    The most ideal solution, of course, would invest much more effort into zero emissions mass public transit. But, again, where is all that money going to come from?

    The obvious answer is that there is no obvious solution that the public will leap to embrace. And even if the masses do embrace it, they’re still handicapped by their income.

    So tell me, how the fuck are EVs going to solve the overall crisis that is climate change in a realistic time span at the current conversion rates, that also doesn’t destroy ecosystems? Not to mention all the toxic battery waste when tens of thousands of EVs start being totaled/decommissioned once they’re mass adopted.

    These problems are nuanced and complicated, so I guess I grow tired of people like you finger wagging and acting like they fucking have all the answers.