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@Whatdidyousay82 @e_considine @Noahpinion insideevs.com/news/748568/pr… as of 2024 the difference was 12%, and Ev prices have come down even more since then. This is also scewed because the most popular models are luxury brands like Tesla competeing for high end buyers. its easy to find an Ev under 40k or even 30k if you want

@willtobeWill89 @e_considine @Noahpinion "Even in the US a new EV is about the same price as an equivalent fossil-powered car" I'm sorry, but this is some kind of retarded shit you can't even believe! The closest you can find is a 50% gap between a Toyota Corolla and BZ .

The United States is almost unique in choosing to believe in a bunch of anti-EV nonsense. Anti-EV B.S. is a luxury belief. And it's a luxury the rest of the world is deciding it can no longer afford. noahpinion.blog/p/maybe-you-sh…

@Whatdidyousay82 @e_considine @Noahpinion Even in the US a new EV is about the same price as an equivalent fossil-powered car, far cheaper in lifetime costs, and nowhere close to "2-3 times more". You'd have to be doing some extreme apples to oranges comparisons to get numbers like that

@willtobeWill89 @e_considine @Noahpinion The US isn't "most places".

@Whatdidyousay82 @e_considine @Noahpinion Evs are now the same cost or cheaper than equivalent fossil powered cars in most places in the world

@e_considine @Noahpinion Or they cost 2 to 3X a gas powered car...

@carruggy @e_considine @Noahpinion Evs are now cheaper than fossil powered cars in most places in the world.

@e_considine @Noahpinion You left "i can't afford one" off your list of favorite canned, generic stupid reasons. But you totally nailed coming across as an entitled prick who's out of touch with average Americans!

@GordonWalker13 @Noahpinion lithium mining is downright environmentally friendly compared to most other mining and batteries can be used thousands of times then recycled whereas fossil fuels get used once

@Noahpinion Where does 90% of electricity come from? How and where is lithium mined? How are batteries disposed of?

@GordonWalker13 @Noahpinion nothing provides 90% of electricty anymore its highly diversified. oil is rarely used,currently coal is being phased out everywhere, natural gas use is limited outside the US. renewables are 30% and growing every year, and china is building a bunch of new Nuclear.

@dilanesper The last 10 years have broken a lot of the politically involved people's brains on stuff like this. But Ohio voted for Obama twice, and even for those that didn't deep south in 1960's levels of racism are quite rare in the midwest.

People are bashing on the cops for the obvious Streisand effect, but I bet the cops and their lawyers made the same stereotypical calculation that a jury there would side with cops over a rather profane rapper. Well, juries are a little smarter than that.

A quick comment on Afroman. I think a lot of liberals have caricatures of midwestern folks' views about race and the police, and there's a lot of bipartisan disdain for juries. So it's worth noting that an Ohio jury bought a free speech argument by an LA rapper sued by cops.

@DerekPederson3 @ahron_maline 1. there were earlier cases 2. yes its a different lab the BSL4 lab is across the city, the BSL2(with lower safety standards) is across the street and seems to have done contract work for the bsl4. bats and pangolins were not sold in the market are not native to northern china

1. Yes the first case was a shrimp vendor at the market. About half of the cases in the first month were associated with the market, which at that point was largely lineage B. The first two cases for lineage A were also significantly closer to the market than you would expect by random chance. 2. The WIV is on the opposite side of the city so is this a different lab? 3. Yes many live mammals that can carry SARS-CoV-2 have been proven to have been sold at the market.

The lab leak theory is genuinely just one of the most delusional consensuses in history. It’s substantially more improbable than the theory that Trump legitimately won the 2020 election and yet it is treated by everyone other than a select few as plausible or even likely.

@DerekPederson3 @ahron_maline The evidence for lab leak is mostly anecdotal but so is the evidence for zoonosis and the anecdotal evidence for lab leak strikes me as exceedingly strong. Also lab leaks have happened many times at biolabs, it is not like its an unprecedented proposal

@willtobeWill89 @ahron_maline Sure if you keep changing the theory it's unlikely that I'll ever be able to disprove it, so I would prefer to focus on where we actually do have evidence, which is for two zoonotic spillovers related to the wildlife trade at the Huanan Seafood Market.

@DerekPederson3 @ahron_maline lab leak doesn't necessarily require gain of function in the "using crispr to gene edit it" way, a natural virus using animal models to enhance transmissability and thus becoming more dangerous is just as viable.

@willtobeWill89 @ahron_maline There is no evidence that they did gain of function research on sarbecoviruses at all and particularly not on any like the backbone virus of SARS-CoV-2.

@DerekPederson3 @ahron_maline They were doing experiments on that type of virus. It was the world leading lab on coronaviruses collected a wide variety of them from the wild and the Wuhan lab was the only level 4 biolab in China when the outbreak occurred there

@ahron_maline Well for starters they weren't doing genetic experiments on that kind of virus.

@RobERussell1 @disco___cat The very remarkable thing about EVs is that even if they run on a power plant that burns deasel they STILL go farther with that than a vahicle that burns it because vehicle engines are inefficient compared to power plants, and the transfer to electricity in EVs is very efficient

@disco___cat Not necessarily. If you have a look at your EV electric chargers you’ll find they’re attached to diesel generators that kick in when the renewables don’t supply enough power. Which is a lot of the time.

If more people in the city drive EVs then there’s more diesel for you mate. This isn’t hard to understand.

@brianrdhamm @mattyglesias a lot of the special sauce is simply the fact he was on TV and constantly in the news for like 25-30 years before entering politics

@mattyglesias Also, most OTHER Republicans who do XYZ in swing states lose (look how much better he did in Arizona than Kari Lake did in the same year)! Trump clearly has a special sauce that isn't easily emulated (as baffling as it may seem).

A lot of Dems reason “Trump XYZ and he won twice so we should XYZ” but Trump 2016 and Trump 2024 were the least-popular presidential election winners on record and actually much less popular than recent losers like Romney, McCain, and Kerry. We should set higher aspirations!

@pjcboro @johnrhanger @janrosenow Is it an outlier when every country in the world is headed the same way as Nepal? The US is the only outlier I see with our slow adoption of a superior technology

@johnrhanger @janrosenow Relying on quirky outliers to try to force your suspect product 🤔

Nepal nears 80% EV in 2025! Incredible. Developing countries cannot afford the huge cost of oil imports. The economics of EVs versus oil burning autos is why EVs are skyrocketing in many developing countries. Credit @janrosenow

@mattyglesias I actually think the problem is exactly the opposite. Methane emissions are generally much worse for global warming than these types of studies indicate because the frontloaded warming means they have the most impact right away at the worst time and accelerates feedbacks

Very few elected officials, generalist staffers, or journalists understand the time horizon shenanigans being pushed to make methane leaks look so bad that gas crowding out coal and oil is no longer climate-positive.

@moultano @fightuntil I understand it like this-1. Enivormentalists from the 60s and 70s era are broadly anti-nuclear(both weapons and power) an animating issue during the cold war the german groups had more influence than most. 2. Fukishima had a big impact on nuclear everywhere especially garmany

@fightuntil Do you understand it?

The surreal thing about this for me is that I don't even understand what their argument was in their own terms.

@Thatguyoffline @aragon1500 @KHendrickson91 @playlikeajet24 @MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob An article that provides soem timelines of the story, and links to other articles including the 2023 article in the New York times verdict.justia.com/2024/12/30/was…

@willtobeWill89 @aragon1500 @KHendrickson91 @playlikeajet24 @MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob Can I get some links to articles?

People will say Buchanan or Andrew Johnson but I kinda view those guys as plumber-ball era presidents. The US was just so much less globally important and powerful so even a truly terrible president mattered so much less. Trump’s idiotic whims become instant global problems now.

@Thatguyoffline @aragon1500 @KHendrickson91 @playlikeajet24 @MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob Here is a PBS segment on the new witness on the story and the new witness that came forward in 2023 pbs.org/newshour/show/…

@Thatguyoffline @aragon1500 @KHendrickson91 @playlikeajet24 @MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob No it wasnt "disproven." There are A ton of witnesses that it happened. And more stuff came out in 2023 that corroborated the story with the Reagan campaign, but in the 90s congress couldn't find enough evidence to charge anyone (or decided they didn't want to charge anyone)

@aragon1500 @KHendrickson91 @playlikeajet24 @MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob I know Nixon and Trump did but wasn't there an investigation that disproved it?