who cares? that has nothing to do with what i was talking about.

I suggest you look at the correlation between the black plague survivors and autoimmune disease.

Endogenous immunity due to selection has proven susceptible to break out biological threat events. and yet, that is how we adapt and adjust to the ever-changing biome.

pandemics prove this. the remaining members of the species are fitter, largely or wholly immune to the once-virulent pathogen.

vaccines abandon this sliding window of pathogenic fitness updates. in return they offer a house of cards scenario where multiple pathogen keys are able to attack multiple vector points simultaneously. all because selection is withheld for multiple pathogens across large populations.

hopefully natural selection and evolution are false models. if not, our species and some others we hide from selection processes with vaccines are due for a cumulative genetic update.

Fascism is marked by inordinate cooperation between government and corporations, arguably against the will and wellbeing of the people.

It noticed this has been the case in America since at least the industrial revolution. It has been getting worse as of late. Ask Zuck.

Please update your notes.

Easy, replace them all with AI! :D

An assumption, and an incorrect one at that. I don't carry it everywhere. Except when I'm on-call, which means the location data is somewhere within my 35 acres anyway, which tracks the same as if I leave it at home. And it's a librem 5, so when I want to carry it but don't want to be tracked, I flip some switches and I'm offline. Physical disconnect. Not everyone trades their basic privacy for a bit of convenience. Your asaumption tells me what side of that you're on.

The assumption you can't have a quality car without tracking is ignorant. 2015 WRX STI, no onstar, no tracking, 47k miles in perfect condition. 2019 RAM 3500 Tradesman package, 55k miles, no onstar, no tracking (original owner custom ordered from the factory, the dealership apologized for the lack of lojack, I told them that was great). In other words, do your homework, shop around, take care of your vehicles, and you don't have to be tracked.

I do not, and cannot, understand how a supposedly tech-savy site like slashdot (obviously not what it once was) misses this point in every discussion of the subject. For some people, the issue isn't charging, or range, or quality, or any such thing. There is the major issue of privacy. Do you WANT to drive around in a metal box that spies on you at all times? Do you WANT to park a car on your property that has cameras facing 360 degrees around and inside of it? Is no one concerned that, as I predicted, this "private" footage is accessible to tesla employees so they can have a private slack channel to share videos of people screwing in their cars? Show me an EV with no internet connection. Show me the EV that works when you pull the sim card. Show me the EV that's fully functional in an entirely offline state. Show me the EV that I can troubleshoot and repair without permission from the manufacturer. You can't. Because it doesn't exist. Christ on a goddamn cracker, this used to be a tech community that rebelled at the very notion of persistent and pervasive tracking and monitoring, but when it comes to EVs, no one even mentions the complete and total lack of privacy. Even if it was viable where I live (it's not, the temps get so cold the thing would neither run nor charge in the winter, ignoring the fact that there are like 5000 people in my county and maybe two public chargers within 75 miles), I would not park this invasive spyware at my home, much less drive around in it. And no one EVER mentions this issue. If this was MS Car, would you trust MS to protect your privacy and let them slurp up every detail of your every movement, and put cameras all over the place? No, of course not. Or at least I would hope not. So, why is no one here concerned about the invasive nature of every EV on the damn market?!

Wages are lagging behind inflation, and real inflation is drastically underreported.

Corporations and employers are making out like bandits right now because labor costs have not gone up but sales prices for goods have.

The people are feeling the pinch, and blaming everyone except their employers.

That is kind of the big deal here.

Entropy has a countervailing force, in a way.

The universe's bleak descent into entropic dissolution is no longer assured.

It only has to happen once.

That's the worst part.

It was sequestered. Now it's not

I wonder how many people die as a result of each CO2 atom humans release?

We recognize the force in opposition to increasing entropy as spontaneous self organization.

Whenever entropy increases to true randomness, the universe spits out order from that randomness.

Information wants to organize.

Beer has CO2.

It's only a matter of time until it is illegal.

What? You don't agree with the idea of AGW?