ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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I'm the same way. I don't block people I disagree with but my tolerance for assholes is quite low. I block multiple people each day and have been doing so for over a year. When I see a thread about Elon or Trump for example I just go in and find all the most toxic commentors there and block them. Again, not because I disagree but because I don't want to see incivil assholes in my feed. If I see someone write mean comments I assume that's what they do and I want nothing to do with them. Currently my blocklist is around 600 users long.

My 17 year old truck when it was new cost half of what electric vehicles cost. I will switch to electric eventually but this'll probably take around 25 years.

Tempered glass is much stronger than people imagine. It breaks easily with the proper tool but without one there's a good chance it wont no matter how hard one hits and kicks it.

10 year old is too young to walk alone to town but 16 year old can be trusted with a car.

It's not unique problem to Teslas. People burn to death in their cars every single day. Most of these cases simply aren't newsworthy enough to write articles about where as Tesla on the other hand is under constant scrutiny which skews the image of how safe or reliable they actually are.

Assuming we're talking about a car crash in which the vehicle doesn't catch on fire, Teslas are among the safest vehicles you can buy according to both IIHS and Euro NCAP

What does greed have to do with spreading misinformation? Even the term itself implies ignorance. If it was intentional it would be called disinformation.

We're talking about spreading misinformation, which by definition implies ignorance. If it was intentional it would be called disinformation.

Don't contribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance.

I don't think tax cuts alone are going to make it possible to live off single person income.

All I have seen is that self driving cars will decide to kill people because they cannot make decisions about life in a way that preserves it.

Do you have any examples?

Male genital mutilation isn't really a thing where I'm from so I'd say probably not.

Got too close for comfort nevertheless.

I'm no phycisist but I'd bet that the claim "it consumes no energy" is almost certainly false. I get what they mean but this isn't exactly a honest way to describe it.

No, I'm sure it's probably that easy and they simply refuse to do so because they're evil. I wish Lemmy would run the world so we'd have all things sorted out in no time.

In order to live off of one person's income that person either needs to earn a shit ton of money or prices needs to come down significantly. That's not something anyone can just make happen like that.

As if that's something you can do just like that

My theory is that if we split people into two groups - those who hit snooze and those who don’t - and dropped them on a desert island to survive, one group would rebuild civilization while the other descended into chaos and perished.

Cheaper, safer and one extra seat.

We're obviously not there yet but I haven't heard a single good argument for why we wouldn't be in the future.

Humans are not getting any better at driving. Self-driving cars will eventually lead to tens of thousands of human lifes saved annually. Why do you want to prevent this?

I don't get how it is so hard for people to admit that some number of the "Pro Palestine" people are motivated by antisemitism just the same way Hamas is. Not everyone, but some, and the rest turn a blind eye to it.