• 1 Post
  • 111 Comments
Joined 5 months ago
cake
Cake day: August 15th, 2024

help-circle
  • It’s a superposition. He’s president when the President does something largely accepted as “good” while also not being President when the President does something largely accepted as “bad”.

    This transcends all known perceptions of cause/effect to ensure their sand-based castle continues to stand. That’s what they mean by 4D Chess.




  • karl_chungustoMemes@lemmy.mlWelcome to the Mental Olympics
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Wrong.

    Trump is claiming credit for all of it. Biden is claiming credit for the agreement, while acknowledging Trump was kept informed and is responsible for the implementation.

    Anyone with internet access can compare what we know about the plan and what Biden proposed last year and see the similarities.

    Just because Trump posted to social media first doesn’t mean he did shit.

    Now you’re just grasping at air to try and not be wrong.








  • karl_chungustoMemes@lemmy.mlWelcome to the Mental Olympics
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Dude Trump isn’t even in office yet lol.

    Your logic as viewed by everyone else:

    “If it’s good, Trump did it. If it’s bad, it’s Biden’s fault.”

    PLEASE tell me you’re thinking it through more than this, then let’s have a dialogue about that thought process because I am incredibly curious how you got there.

    Kool aid comes in multiple colors.



  • Regardless of raw GDP per capita there are wealthier nations who could do this. Norway’s positioning to do so smoothly doesn’t invalidate the decision itself.

    Again, if the rest of the world curbed our addiction to fossil fuels they wouldn’t sell as much oil. But as long as they are I’m ok with them using the profits for stuff like this.

    Using profits derived from fossil fuels to transition to cleaner technology is exactly what we should be doing.


  • There are multiple kinds, but that’s not the important part here.

    Much of the world does not have the infrastructure to allow for most people to charge their car at home at all is what I meant to say, apartments are a great example. Unfortunately public transit in my area is also not great, so a car is required to do much of anything.

    If you can’t go anywhere without a car and you can’t charge your car at home, it becomes difficult to justify an EV. But that’s not the EV’s fault, that’s the fault of our infrastructure failing to keep up.

    Ideally public transit would be the solution, but some places aren’t likely to see improvements to that for a while.



  • I’m not trying to give them a free pass at selling oil or anything, but this is a much better use of the profits compared to other countries.

    I’d rather see a country exporting fossil fuels doing something with that money to not use fossil fuels than give it to Billionaires or something.

    If more countries followed their example, there wouldn’t be much demand left for that oil.




  • I guess I just don’t see things in such a short-sighted way. It makes no sense being mad at a car that plugs in to charge if you bought it knowing full well you can’t do that. It makes no sense to blame a fridge if there’s an electrical outage because the fridge didn’t cause it. It makes no sense to blame your solar panels on a rainy day because your solar panels do not control the weather. While you need to consider the limitations of anything you purchase before you purchase them, blaming the whole package when anything goes wrong is neither helpful nor productive. I don’t blame my car when a charging station is full, I blame our shitty charging infrastructure in this country that causes this problem.

    Blame yourself and/or your housing situation if you can’t charge your car, blame the power utility if the power goes out, blame the weather for your bad day of solar power production. In each case, the problem doesn’t lie with the appliance, it lies with the infrastructure (and/or poor planning on the individual’s part). The appliance is working as designed. If that upsets you then you’re never going to be happy with anything.

    I can’t believe I just had to say that.