paintbucketholder

@paintbucketholder@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said there’s no new technology because there is

  Well, alright then: what is the new emissions reducing technology that 2023 SUVs have, but smaller 2013 cars don’t have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right.

  So no changes between 2013 and 2023 standards for petrol cars. No new technology to reduce harmful emissions either.

  So there’s no actual argument in favor of a new SUV over a 10 year old car, outside of marginal degradation of the catalytic converter or degradation of the combustion process - most of which should still be caught in emissions tests.

  And even then, properly maintaining the car, replacing the catalytic converter or even replacing the 10 year old car with a new car of the same size instead of upsizing to an SUV would all be better for the environment than buying a new SUV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How so? Cars have to pass emissions tests, and ten year old cars have to pass them, too.

  Also: what significant improvements in filtering out “other types of emissions” have there been made in consumer vehicles in the last 10 years, and what “other types of emissions” are those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also such a race to outsize other vehicles.

  I know SUV drivers who bought an SUV because “everyone owns an SUV, and if you’re driving around in a smaller car, you can’t see anything around you any more.” They’re not even wrong, in some communities it’s getting really hard to participate in traffic of you’re constantly surrounded by much larger, taller cars on all sides.

  But of course, they’re now just perpetuating the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oilers' McDavid wants NHL to reverse ban on theme tape including for Pride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not because national anthems are political, that’s one of the dunbest things that’s been said in this thread

  Many national anthems are fairly radical political manifestos.

  Just because they’ve been put to some music and we’ve gotten used to them doesn’t make them any less radical.

  It’s funny to think that statements like “arise, children of the fatherland, against the bloody flag of tyranny” or “O Lord our God arise, scatter our enemies and make them fall!” or “Let’s unite, we’re ready to die! For centuries we’ve been stamped on and laughed at because we’re not one people” should be completely okay and everybody should stand and listen in awe, but “black lives matter” would be too radical and too political for the same setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and you’ll note the heat map correlates with wealth (and thus smartphone access).

  It doesn’t, or else there would be a lot more sightings all over Europe, South Korea and Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Saudi Arabia and various emirates, and a good junk of China.

  Also, smartphones didn’t exist for the first 101 years of the reporting time span.