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"I bought a ZYBERTRUKKK because I care about the environment" excuses have never sounded more hollow.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never forget the wealthy would happily fly an untested, unverified rocket directly into your house, killing you and your family generations over and then would go on TV and blame you for it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they all literally want to get to act like Stockton Rush and his amazing imploding submersible company.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they want to act like him they should also end like him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

my-hero should personally test every single rocket, i think.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

If Musk wants to launch rockets so badly, we should tie him to a rocket and fire him at Tel Aviv.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fuck the fish we've got rockets to launch to-the-moon

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ruining one planet for the sake of fever dreams of colonizing a dead and poisonous planet. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's so gd stupid

What would be easier y'all terraforming Mars or abolishing capitalism and figuring out how to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I truly believe that bazinga billionaires and their sycophantic cultists generally have an unexamined belief, derived from their treats, that just landing on Mars is a "science victory" with a Hans Zimmer BWAAAAAAAAAM treatment and a credit roll that must be done for its own sake.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

CNSA should land armed taikonauts in secret then ambush the first billionaire landing party for an impromptu interstellar struggle session

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

For a liberal, it is easier to imagine end of the world than end of the capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This is what I tell people. Like even the most climate change addled earth is immensely more habitable for humans than Mars is.

If we solve our problems here... Ya know by ending capitalism... Then we can start doing truly badass humanity spanning achievements. Terra forming mars? Why not give it a go once we've got everyone fed and housed here. Surely it'd be a cool project. But as a solution? Entirely foolish.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Facts. Even God the damn Antarctic or the sahara are more liveable on their worst days

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally. The Sahara with 50 years of more climate change will be more habitable than 50 years of intensively terra forming the best parts of mars...

And yet the unrealistic thing is simply stopping climate change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm reading the book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought this Through? Sheesh some things I haven't considered.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also if humanity actually does become interplanetary. What kind of precedent do we set with how we take care of our home planet? It creates a culture of hyperdisposability. Consoom all the resources on one planet, then hop off its carcass to the next.

Then we won’t exactly be “interplanetary” then, just us on one planet we haven’t ruined yet. And I’m saying this while humoring Elons initial delusions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Your take is my take and I share it gladly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hexbear really have emojis for everything i can imagine and everything i cannot imagine too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

it's honestly overwhelming sometimes. i need to create a keyword cheat sheet because you only get a quick menu for 20 (?) of your most frequently used ones

not a complaint though you can never have enough

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it was ever about protecting the environment with the electric cars, more about owning the libs via king bazinga's racism.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I contend that early on before my-hero got particularly scratched, there were plenty of libbing-out (and I lived near so many of them) wanted a performative gesture of their own "progressiveness," like what they already did by shopping at Whole Foods, and they wanted to (direct quote from offline person here) "save the planet and look cool while doing it." fellow-kids

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"save the planet and look cool while doing it."

cringe

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

talked to a couple who has one of the first year Teslas, the battery has lost a good portion of its range capacity and they are worried they won't be able to resell it for much

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is going to be a problem with all electric vehicles, which makes it that much worse that we refuse to make anything affordable and we’ve essentially banned China from selling theirs here.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I love the hot-swap design where the batteries are modular and replaceable. "charging" is swapping your battery for a fully charged one. I read somewhere that some cities in China have been using this for transit buses

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have it for EVs as well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard it's widespread for scooters and ebikes as well

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it's in this video somebody posted here on Hexbear over the summer. these American dudes visited China and had their minds absolutely blown.

my husband and I just writhed in envy the whole time we watched it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Are they one of those who bought a Tesla as "an investment?" If so: lol. lmao, even.

There was that one bazinga brain who sold a bunch of his stuff and bought a cybertruck for that reason, then had all the problems cybertrucks have had. Still loves the truck though.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i'm crying who came up with King Bazinga i-cant

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I might have, but I didn't come up with "bazinga brain" first. I just liked that and kept using it with modifications.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bazinga brain is so good and has made it's way into my irl discourse

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish I remember who said it first, or at least who said it where I saw it first. sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah I can't find any references to it earlier than like november 2021 (and that one was from you)

There's also this post which I'm assuming the deleted comments are referring to the Musk cameo on big bang theory?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Oh that takes me back.

My memory is foggy of that time but I do recall seeing "bazinga brain" and being like

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish Trump loses just because it would annoy Muskrat

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I will take some bittersweet comfort if jokermala wins and continues Blue MAGA because I assume it means my-hero eats shit. Unless there's just too much class solidarity and nothing happens and he keeps getting his subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nothing will probably happen to him even if the Democrats do win elmofire

I'm just so tired of this fucking idiot coasting from embarrassing failure to embarrassing failure without anything approaching real consequences while simultaneously just becoming more and more of a brazen Nazi

On the other hand I can't imagine how much more awful and insufferable he will be if Trump wins

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I want to hope he eats shit, if only because he's said so much against jokermala already.

It's her election to lose, though. trump-moist can clown all he likes and his cult remains steady in numbers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yea if dems win step one is gonna be giving him a billion dollars to "bridge the divide"

He will continue to post accounts called "HitlerLover1488" asking if she's actually fidel Castro with a boob job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I just want to have one thing happen that gives me a hint of bittersweet satisfaction biaoqing-copium

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I do not think that this man should have a Fish license. I also do not think he should have a Meat license, a Vegetable license, a Fruit license or any alternative way to get nutrition.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

It just makes it all the more puzzling why tf he wanted to be the Tesla guy at all? Shouldn’t someone like Elon Musk be disgusted at EVs because they don’t do emissions (and that’s uncool!)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another great example of how if somebodynis complaining about "ridiculous regualtions" it's because they want to break those regulations.

"Why the fuck do I need a permit from the fish people" - person who keeps shooting exploding rockets full of rocket fuel into the gulf of Mexico

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Everyone’s all “law and order” until we come across one of the few remaining laws that apply to elitist white men. Suddenly it’s all “legality =/= morality”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

capitalist coping "The bad evil regulations are why we still don't have the bazinga Mhurs rockets"