ShepherdPie
@ShepherdPie@midwest.social
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 13 hours ago:
How does putting manufacturers out of business lead to cheaper panels? What it leads to is low competition and higher prices in the long run.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 21 hours ago:
Cool you can act dramatically. Now that the theatrical portion is out of the way, maybe you can defend your position by answering responding to the topic of my comments.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
Yeah China has been doing the same with solar panels. Funny you bring it up since my wife used to work at a facility that made the ingots and sliced them up. They shut down several years ago since it was impossible to compete with Chinese prices. Hurray for cheap prices right?
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
A $12k car selling for $24k after the tariff is still highly competitive in the US market. It doesn’t seem so bad to me.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
How does everyone buying a brand new car result in decarbonization versus keeping the ones we’ve already expended carbon building and upgrading them when they break? There are 283 million cars on the road in the US and replacing them all is going to generate a metric fuckton of carbon.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
Where in the world can you buy a $12k EV that doesn’t come from China?
We have subsidized them here with the $7500 credit and loans/grants to retool factories but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what China is doing.
Ford just released their financials for last quarter and it showed them losing $130k for every EV they sold: caranddriver.com/…/ford-ev-revenue-losses-q1-2024… so clearly they aren’t subsidized so much that they can sell them for pennies on the dollar like BYD.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
How does this change anything about car dependency?
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
Is there a benefit to buying a brand new car just because it’s an EV and it was cheap? This is like saying it’s better for the environment to get a new phone because it gets better battery life even though your old one is working fine.
One way to curb emissions is to not waste things that were already built by tossing them in the trash and buying a newer version.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 day ago:
This isn’t just protecting US manufacturers its protecting all manufacturers that sell vehicles in the US. China selling cars at 1/3 the price of any other available on the market is just going to reduce competition and put a bunch of people out of work for no real benefit. If you need a cheap car buy a used one like everyone else.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 day ago:
when I heard people were buying without inspections during the property rush I was agog and I hadn’t bought a house.
Reminds me of all the people buying homes to flip on their Starbucks income with variable rate mortgages back in 2006/2007
- Comment on This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ 2 days ago:
What I do to get back at them is to take all our decent donation stuff to local thrift stores and all the bulky crap that’s barely hanging together goes to Goodwill for them to dispose of.
- Comment on Never Forget 6 days ago:
Robert Evan’s did a Behind the Bastards episode on this back in December I believe.
- Comment on Never Forget 6 days ago:
Also JSTOR never wanted him prosecuted only to have the files deleted and call it a wash. It was MIT that supported prosecution and who called the fuzz in the first place.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
I honestly never tried it simply because the connotations with it being the “date rape” drug (and also because I was already enjoying myself with other stuff).
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
I’d argue that it’s not better if they don’t get a sweet, ironic T-shirt to wear after the fact.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
I’d argue that if there is any gateway effect, it’s solely related to the propaganda taught to the public that tasks apart once you’ve actually tried some of them. I don’t think there’s anything inherent about the drugs themselves that would drive you to try anything stronger. It’s more that the misinformation makes people think “if they lied to me about this, what else were they lying about?” after trying something like weed and realizing it doesn’t turn you into a psychopath or make you want to jump out of a window.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 1 week ago:
I agree too. Just the classifications alone seem close enough, and GHB is absolutely a ‘club’ drug that also happens to be a date rape drug. Back in my heyday, I knew several people that would use it recreationally when we’d go out to an EDM show (or in the hours after we got back to the crash pad to keep the party going).
I didn’t read the whole thing, so I can comment on specific content like ‘weed being a gateway’ drug, but that’s been disproven time and time again and this type of propaganda is common from schools and the government as they’re bound by archaic laws to portray drugs in such a way.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
I’d put them on the same level of victimhood as followers of people like Charles Manson. They probably wouldn’t have done what they did without his influence but they’re still culpable for the damage they’ve caused.
- Comment on A while ago one of my old accounts got banned from r/news for saying I wouldn't bone some celebrity. Now if I forget and comment on a front page post with any account this happens. 1 week ago:
It won’t work as they use more than this to tie your accounts to you. I was permabanned for the same thing and tried multiple IPs. Mine was for mentioning piracy in /r/movies and then accidently commenting there on another account that was still subbed weeks later.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
Or picking yourself up by your bootstraps.
- Comment on my humps 2 weeks ago:
Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t use my corporate name. Therefore, your contract is non-grata null and void according to the Articles of Confederation section 22B.4.22.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
Why’d you even initiate this conversation if you think people are harassing you when they talk about your giant 26pt font license?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely along the same vein, except it doesn’t drag a bunch of innocent people into it like SovCitizens do when they drive without a license or insurance or refuse to pay back loans/credit cards.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it harkens back to seeing people make those posts on Facebook about how they don’t consent to having their data collected and urging others to do the same before some imaginary upcoming deadline.
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Are these people in the room with you now?
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Who is “they” in this scenario other than some strawman in your mind?
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- Comment on Finally, fans are getting what they've been demanding for years, a crossover event between the Kelvinverse and... World of Tanks 2 weeks ago:
It’s such a hilariously terrible idea. I’ve watched through all the series and movies and can’t even recall ever seeing a single rover in any one of them. What need is there for a rover when you have shuttlecraft and transporter technology?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Try tying it before you put the bag in. It takes trial and error to know how much slack to leave, but it’ll allow you to get a tight fit once you get the length right.