A prime example of the argument propaganda has pushed.

How do I know? Because I’ve seen this argument literally hundreds of times and it’s so easily bunked.

How often do you actually make that drive? Is it every month or more? I highly highly doubt that you’re driving that far that frequently.

If it’s that rare? Rent a car. It’ll be less than buying gas.

Or, if you have a two car household have one EV and one ice. Take the ice on long trips and then 99% of the trips you take near home it’s ev.

Good old Tibor. What do you mean he was promoted?

Having a charger at home is honestly so freaking nice. I just don’t think about gas or gas stations or anything. I will never go back to ICE vehicles after this one

I just realized that he showed up twice! I’ve seen both gags a hundred times and never put together that he was the same guy!

Turns out it was never them being worried about the power usage at all…

You’re clearly trying to bait me into some argument which is why I have no interest in finding resources to show you. I’m not biting. I get some references, you try to tell me it’s bunk or it won’t work, I’m just not feeling it today. I don’t feel like being trolled or pulled into your anger circle. So, won’t respond anymore. Have a pleasant day!

This is technically true, but misses the context of massive PR and smear campaigns against EVs on social media. People voted with their wallet after being bombarded with propaganda on EVs being somehow more dangerous, somehow worse for the environment, and that it’s more fun apparently to go to a gas station every week.

Me, an EV owner who hasn’t gone to a gas station in 2 years now, has had no maintenance, and happily charges at home

Very similar, but not exactly the same episode. That one he was sitting in the core eating a sandwich, but very close :)

Lucky for me, it’s my role or job to pitch them, and I do not need to pitch them to you. You are more than welcome to read the EFF’s writeup on alternatives yourself.

actually… probably true

Two things pop into mind

• Power hungry mods always do stupid things that drive people away from their communities
• Why was anyone with a C-Suite title a mod of an online community?

This is the same solution to the problem. By only proposing the same solution over and over it’s pretty clear they just want full access to messaging. If it was actually about the children or security or whatever they would be attempting more privacy friendly alternatives

I always think of that scene from the simpsons where smithers and burns walk through 8 layers of security doors with various identification techniques, and then in the final room there’s an old screen door hanging off its hinges to the outside.

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and what if to some people following some celebrities is what they enjoy and their own personal escape? Who are you to define what constitutes a good way for people to spend their off time?

I’m not against this, but… well

Our state mandated better reading scores. So the response from the school was to make a mandatory reading period at the end of each day for 30 minutes. I went from loving reading to hating it, and even now 20 years later I still can’t enjoy a book.

I hope this doesn’t backfire.

watching sports and following teams is a hobby.

Video games are pointless and people should not spend millions on hardware, because no one should be playing them.

It doesn’t matter what the hobby is. Let people enjoy things.

Whenever I think back to my hometown I remember how passionate I and many others were about getting the fuck out of there, and remember the types of people who said they’d never leave. It lines up with the comic and political lines perfectly

Probably because whoever posted it here only saw the censored one? Feel free to post the uncensored ones yourself though.