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Cake day: October 11th, 2023

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  • I think it’s better to think of it like this:

    How do you make your money? Do you need to make a wage? Or can you let your property (land, buildings, stocks, etc.) be your income?

    The real amount doesn’t matter, it’s whether you have to work to live or not.

    If you have to work, you are the working class. If you don’t, you are the owner/capitalist class. But your analysis is still somewhat correct: millionaires and small business owners are closer to the working class than billionaires, it does still matter how they make it though.





  • The criticisms are also that companies use slavery to acquire the materials to make EVs. And they don’t work well in the cold (see current cold snap in Canada), the lifetime of the batteries aren’t great, and we still need to destroy huge swaths of land to create cars, park/store cars, and drive cars.

    EVs are only going to save the car industry. To fix it requires a redesign of cities (see Strongtowns, not justbikes, city beautiful, etc.).




  • And what are you going to do about it? Be upset? That sounds like a waste of your time, emotions, and intelligence.

    Like I said in another response, I’m sure what happened is mostly true, but the framing is for political purposes. It’s important to be critical of the purpose of an article (to inform? Or to influence?) so you can focus your energy on the politics that you have influence over.


  • Good point. North east US.

    And you are right they didn’t mention a storm, but that’s not my point. The article title clearly exacerbates the problem, and points the blame in a way that suggests the Russians are either too stupid or too poor to fix the problem. Why should any of us care about such a small thing for one? And two, what is their intention? It’s well known that NYtimes toes the state line when it comes to propaganda against American “enemies” .

    Really the only thing useful from the article is:

    “20,000 without heat in Russia due to infrastructure failure. Crews working to fix it.”

    But then why would anyone care about that?