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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually still much better even to use an ICE generator to charge an electric car than to attach that engine directly to a car and that’s the least efficient way to use non-renewable resources to charge an electric vehicle. Generators are smaller and built to run at a peak efficiency vs cars where they’re almost never there and often keep running even when stopped.

  That aside, subsidies are not inherently bad but they are very easily misused. Yes, if a corporation claims it needs to be bailed out then in many ways it should be taken over as it proved that it couldn’t handle the task but that is a different scenario, albeit similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is always going to be a need for some people to have personal vehicles and electricity is a damn sight better than gasoline. Used correctly, a subsidy is an incentive and a support for something which may not be able to be very profitable on its own but which is still worth having around and investing in.

  The problem is that they are so often misused especially by two North American countries and things go south.

  Public service spending isn’t a subsidy but I also didn’t directly call it that and I think you missed the message I was sending. The point is that sometimes you want something that cannot be directly profitable but which is of a certain benefit to society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. Sometimes government aid is a good thing. Public transit is a good example of something that should actually be free because of the returns it gives in taxes. The issue is that corrupt governments are subsidizing profits and trying to help the companies when they should be simply aiming for the betterment of society. I don’t care if GM goes down, they’re awful, but I do care if hospitals and clinics can’t stay open because they’re providing their services for free.

  Subsidies to get people onto renewables as soon as possible are good things but not if companies just raise the price by the amount of the aid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking of consoles, if you buy a game for PC boom, it’s also on your Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild that when I do well in my job I maybe get a pat on the back but an executive does, well, literally anything that might be related to their job even if it’s bad and they get a huge bonus.

  “I made things more efficient!” “Ok, that’s your job.”

  “I bought some shitty printers and laid off a bunch of people.” “HOLY SHIT HERE’S SIX MILLION DOLLARS!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Sures Seems Pleased His Tech Is Capable Of Getting People Killed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We love disruption, and whatever’s good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir,” Karp said, apparently excited about Musk’s effort. “Disruption, at the end of the day, exposes things that aren’t working,” he continued. “There will be ups and downs. There’s a revolution. Some people are going to get their heads cut off. We’re expecting to see really unexpected things and to win.”

  What an incredibly stupid set of things to say. Just one after the other, a real Mortal Kombat combo of nonsense bereft of any level of intelligence.

  Incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To put details to other person’s point: Even if you lived pretty close, for a lot of things, the gas cost would probably offset a lot of the savings. For big things for sure it would make some sense but for other things it just wouldn’t make any sense. You’d have to live right on the border and have a town with stores that carry whatever you’re buying also be pretty close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What they’re confused about is how it was deemed necessary to spend all that time and money on making a game look that good but not to do the same for the gameplay. It’s insane that they can make a world with such immense detail that most people probably won’t even see but don’t value the effort that would make it play well, something that everyone notices. It’s in the title, it’s about the dissonance.

  You’re agreeing with the author of the article. They even point out pretty much exactly what you said when they said “How can someone look at this, this majesty, and say, “Hmmm, seven out of ten?” And then a guard sees me through a solid hillside and ruins fifteen minutes of painstaking stealth, and I wonder how it can be on sale at all.”