@sickburnbro@shortstories Private company though. Do you want "bake the cake, bigot" with your "publish the tweet, Elon"? The internet was never a public place (thank god), access to it relies on corporations agreeing to connect with you. We need to stop crying about how unfair things are and start building our own network out.
@LukeAlmighty Shout at them, it's the only thing they understand. It is through Karen-like behavior that changes get made, not by meek acceptance "oh that's just how the world is now"
@sickburnbro Not the fault of capitalism, but you're right this is what happens when high trust is moving to low trust. If we want to survive it we need to stop assuming our peers will do right by us, and instead contractually obligate them to do so.
Businesses already do this to each other because they know there is no goodwill between corporations, so they formalize their relationships instead of pretending they aren't out there to maximize profit. There's a way to solve this, but we are too busy deluding ourselves into thinking we still live in a high trust environment.
@Eiswald@Marakus@LordMordred@Hoss@bronze@JedKron1248@NathanielHigger1488@justnormalkorean Can the West create new media franchises fast enough to replace the destruction of old, beloved ones? Blizzard was the absolute top game studio for at least a decade or so, with mass worldwide appeal. The destruction of our cultural capital is progressing alarmingly quickly.
@ThatWouldBeTelling They've already successfully convinced a large portion of right wingers that EVs are soyboxes despite enabling war more personal independence than ICE vehicles. Sad!
@ThatWouldBeTelling@wizardyuuka@MuscleOrc1221 From a repairability standpoint, ICEs are much more complex with (literally) more moving parts. EVs are simpler, so much so that some of the earliest automobiles were electric (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocken_Elektrowagen). You could even produce your own batteries if you had a supply of lead (easier to come by than oil or lithium). Current Tesla abominations that refuse to start unless the mothership gives authorization isn't specific to EVs, it's just a bad product.
@ThatWouldBeTelling You cannot make gasoline in your backyard, but you can make electricity. Not being beholden to the global price of oil and all the political bullshit that comes with that will be immensely useful.
@ThatWouldBeTelling@MuscleOrc1221 OK well I'm no expert in global oil trade but all I know is I can be insulated better from the price shocks by producing my own energy. The future demands independence from the dying system.