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We've crossed the threshold, and there's been no damage to the nacelles in c/startrek@startrek.website

Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson blamed for slow electric car sales in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] racemaniac@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the policy causes more cars to be sold, which is also an important thing to take into account.

But you initially said "If most people replace their cars every three years they’re not getting to 80,000 km before they buy a new one.", and that is plain wrong, the car is not scrapped after those 3 years, so when it changes owner for the first time is irrelevant. And that 80k km is worst case scenario, that assuming all electricity is generated in the least environmental way possible, in practice it's often <40k km that there is already a break even because not all electricity is generated by coal.

No more monopolies!! in c/risa@startrek.website

[–] racemaniac@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is? I watched the first season, and the ending was so bad it just completely lost me. I'm not expecting much from most star trek story lines, but if your entire season is 1 big story and it's that bad...

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] racemaniac@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm willing to engage this discussion with you :).

I don't believe i'm entitled to any labor for free, but i do oppose the mechanic of huge corporations starting with good & free services, and when they then become a monopoly, suddenly i'm "entitled and want labor for free and an idiot" when i don't agree with all the enshittification, money grabbing, privacy violations, and everything else they think they can get away with.

If you start a service with a certain premise (it being free, little ads, ...), and then once you're a monopoly and want some extra money start changing all that, while making sure any competition has as little chance as possible to challenge you... yeah, good luck with that XD.

And i'll make a predition, give it 5 years at most before game passes go through this phase. Currently all the gamers are "wow, these are such good value", once it gives the publishers enough of an excuse to stop allowing you to buy them, watch the same fragmentation & raised prices, enshittification, possibly even advertising getting added to it once you're stuck using such a system.

I don't believe i'm "entitled", but i won't support such tactics & monopoly abuse. They came to power by pretending to be a free site to share videos on, and they'll die that way as far as i'm concerned. Good riddance.