• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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    15 days ago

    644 mile range? But what if I need to drive 650 miles once in a decade? Electric cars are just a stoopid fad.

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      15 days ago

      I can’t tell if you’re joking or not… What if you need to drive 650 miles once in a decade? Well, since we’re assuming you won’t just refuel/charge, can you tell me what gas alternative you’d choose instead? My gas sedan personally only has about 440 mile range on a full tank, at 40mpg, so…

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        15 days ago

        I can’t tell if you’re joking or not

        I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

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        15 days ago

        The worst part is once the batteries run out you have to replace the car. Who can afford a new car every 650 miles!?

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          14 days ago

          In unrelated news, Chinese social credit is a deeply misunderstood topic in western culture. It apparently does more to prevent corruption than it does to aid corruption, according to one independent reporter found via my YouTube algorithm. https://youtu.be/iXrx9ryVaes

          I’m starting the get the feeling that feeling strongly about almost anything is a pretty strong indicator that I’ve been propagandized. How do we live like this?

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            14 days ago

            Interesting. I read an article about it.

            https://www.tomorrow.city/social-credit-systems/

            I mean to me this reeks of some pretty extreme fascism. Without a genuine mechanism to challenge the system and considering how the government can and will place you on a black list for not towing the party line it is about as dystopian as you get.

            Fascism up in your daily business claiming to produce better metrics according to them is not something I could agree to.

            I already hate the existing US credit scoring system and the numerous catch 22’s it has. While bringing this system under the regulation of government and allowing redressability sounds promising, I don’t think this is really what China is providing.