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  • Not this nonsense again. 60% of EV owners have solar panels for starters

    Secondly, they’re becoming increasingly less reliant on rare earth metals and all that can be recycled anyway

    Their battery can be used for v2g to assist solar and further transition

    Finally, they’re incredibly effectively compared to combustion.

    In comparison to combustion and hybrid, they’re way cleaner over the entire life

    And now with sodium batteries coming into the market, they’ll increasingly become so.

    Are they as clean as bikes? No

    But not everyone wants to be isolated within 5km of public transport and their home.

    I’d have to travel 2 hours by train to get to work, and wouldn’t be able to go mountaineering or hiking anymore

    Also, what’s with the nonsense about there aren’t enough mineral resources.

    EVs don’t need to use lithium batteries. The technology can evolve with any battery chemistry or power source.

    Whereas gas or hydrogen is limited to those two options permanently

    Hydrogen in particular has absolutely s*** efficiency in all parts of the process. It’s only clean if you ignore the high energy wastage









  • Yes, bias is a thing. Ever hear of the placebo effect? It gives people a bias before clicking the link.

    In fact, showing rankings actually makes it easier for bots because of that bias, they just randomly click stuff to appear neutral, and upvote their target posts, which when they say +1.4k, you’ll be biased into thinking it’s a popular opinion. Hence why hiding them by default actually maybe has benefits. There are no advantages to seeing the votes other than abuse. Name some.

    As you said, they’re already accessible, so there is no point of bloating the code. Let’s not make them even more so and encourage abuse.

    What problem is being solved here by doing this?


  • My implementation would be hide it from the UI by default for instances

    Also, never said unranked… I meant simply hide the rankings. Part of the disadvantage of showing the totals on the UI means that high upvotes make it seem like it was highly popular. It also means that people don’t mindlessly upvote posts simply because there were a lot of upvotes. By hiding them, you know its popular, but no how popular. It changes the way people interact so it’s more normal.

    Showing Upvotes/downvotes doesn’t show whether they are bots are not. It just means they’ll upvote/downvote more random shit and mess around wit the rest of the posts, so more crap rises to the top because they’re interfering with the rankings.

    There are easier ways to identify bots… And, it just aids abusive people. I don’t think it will assist with bots at all… Sorry.




  • Something tells me that you’re not at fault…

    We have similar extremist dickheads here similar to trump (but Trump helps give them power too).

    And yeah… It’s absolutely clear trump won’t change his behavior. That became clear after he had a second judgement filed against him for defamation by E Jean Carroll, and he can likely be sued a 3rd time successfully. He really is dumb as dog ****. Could have spent the rest of his life playing golf lying about his profitability. Instead he chose to offend half of the country, and draw attention to himself and his crimes by bragging