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F*ck faster acceleration though. The 0 to 100 kph in 2 seconds trend is absurd and dangerous. We should lock all that behind a regulatory wall.

I don't think we need a strict definition. If people really got the message "processed food is bad" and made reasonable choices from that information and their intuition (or a google image search) they would stop eating the worst things, which would help a lot.

And by vandalize you mean touch?

One way to approach answering this question is looking at history. Do individual people with a nice stockpile and contemporary weapons tend to survive the collapse of their civilizations (or even local, short-term famines for that matter)? I don't think so. For example, in Europe the social/physical structures that successfully faced these situations were walled cities & towns. Castles. Entire communities and decades of planning and construction.

IMO, no way this scales down to a single household - I'm chuckling right now picturing a knight and their family in a house-sized castle.

Another angle: if things get bad even just food wise, people who have nothing to lose will keep coming - starving people who will die unless they get to your resources.

To me prepping to survive by yourself is a dumb fantasy and a waste of resources that would be much better spent building resilient communities.

Also: noise. Those things were loud.

> Accusing others

They are pointing out that Monsanto does it, not accusing anyone here of being a shill.

I thought it was a good reminder that views can be, and are influenced by industry (it's the foundation of modern PR?). I believe it's helpful to make others aware of this.

At least that's how I read it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm saying people repeating talking points from industry without realizing it, or having really considered them in any serious way. This extends to offline conversations with family / friends so it's not about shills.

You're not responding to the parent's point. They're not saying that it causes or doesn't cause cancer.

They're saying Monsanto and other multi billion dollar industrial players have permanent PR campaigns running that include posting on social media. I think that's obviously right and a big problem in terms of public discourse, at the very least, because it drowns out legitimate questions and concerns.

Just unbelievable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GewIC_zsjWs

I felt like I was watching a bunch of 12 year olds having fun building the security/surveillance state. But now I understand how they came up with the taser drone idea.

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One flaw in this logic: helmets don't protect against cars ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's not negligent to drive below the speed limit

The smallpox blanket givers are maligned now but they and their people (~europeans) did grab and are still holding 97% of the territory they set out to conquer. History is written by the victors, and it's questionable whether this outcome is actually beneficial for mankind / the planet. On the surface it is - look at all the tech! On the other hand the tech actually results in an ever growing rate of destruction (of native nature and culture, aka. whatever was there before), and that trend was visible from day one.

In other words, bitcoin & co. aren't the first toxic, destructive get-rich-quick schemes, and we as a society have shown time and again we're unable to really resist most of them.

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> tens of million dollars of profit are simply vanishing

vanishing or delayed six hours? I mean

EV != Tesla and Tesla != Autopilot Also maybe hydrogen is the future?

Out of curiosity, what kind of artifacts are you deploying and how are you building them?

Just like with chemical weapons, banning them makes total sense to avoid overwhelming mass production and ubiquitous use.

You'll still see them used in targeted assassinations and some countries will have illegal military stockpiles, but that's very different from these things being treated like regular guns/ammo, being commercially available or legal to build.

Median scenario: so you grow up in that world, then go through 2 world wars, a few pandemics, the loss or death of most of your friends and family, gradually disconnect from the rest of society, just so you can see what amazing thing humanity will invent next (spoiler alert: it's more phones and huge cars and maybe a dozen folks living in tunnels on mars), while the forests are ripped out and the oceans boil and nature is paved over and your body turns to crap. Amazing, sign me up.

My grandma is 105 years old and is pretty much waiting for it to be over. If you live a full life it's not about how old you get, 90 is more than enough to experience the world and see your grand child grow up.

I submit to you that a lot of folks buy things they don't really need or end up using \_(ツ)_/¯

These couldn't be more different. Tax software choice is a private choice with no effect on the public space. Tax commercials happen for a couple months.

Car choice influence an incredible array of things up to how cities are built. Car commercial are omnipresent and include product placement in movies as well as, apparently, US presidents gunning it in a new truck, which is the topic of this whole thread.

Advertising/marketing/PR persuades people to want buy certain things, not by telling them these things exist at a certain price, but by influencing them psychologically in deeper ways. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

This in turn has actual effects on their behavior, including but not limited to making certain purchases more likely. Obsessing about power and speed and commanding the road definitely has an impact on how people drive - especially younger folks.

This. The crazy acceleration rates make speeding easier (you get to high speeds in no time) and more dangerous (you surprise other people) while offering no tangible benefit except maybe for killing the sports car market.

The market can go nuts, and regarding vehicle size, it is. It's basically an arms race.

I bet the people excited about oversized trucks have never walked in a city for more than 5 minutes.

Incorrect based on 50% of trucks on the road today being absolutely pristine, and simply looking at commercials and their wording ("commanding the road")

Lots of the negative comments are about how tall this truck is (and how tall trucks in general are getting).

Truck owners don't just use them to carry rocks and trees, they also drive them to the city, where the high grille, large footprint, crazy rate of acceleration make them threatening, dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, and frankly just detrimental to improving the quality of life in cities.

It's absolutely rational that a vehicle optimized for rural workload isn't going to be ideal in cities.

What's irrational is pretending they have to be taller and wider every year.

You should try it?

But it doesn't require major investments. It's really minor investments compared to other infrastructure projects. The issue is taking away even a tiny fraction of car space basically triggers some kind of political road rage.