It’s why you’ll see some Chinese guy with dogshit taste paying an $80k premium to bring in a Cadillac SUV or Mercedes. Literally just conspicuous consumption on steroids for some folks.

But you have to balance this out with the realization that half the population of China doesn’t even own a car, much less some gawdy Americanized abomination. These sales figures are still just a drop in the bucket compared to 4.8B rail trips taken in the country last year. If you’ve got the spare coin and the extra real estate and you live out far enough that owning a car makes sense, then why not own a Tesla Y over a BYD? But 28k units sold in a year represent a rounding error on a rounding error compared to the total transportation budget of the country at large.

I thought that was always some combination of croaking out a desperate plea for water or bemoaning a splitting headache.

Surely my corporate overlords will respect me if I couch my objection in paleoconservative language.

Oh, what’s that? I’m still being shoved into the trash compactor and squeezed for all my surplus labor value, even though I’ve dangled this nifty religious icon in their face? Oh well… I guess my office is just Woke.

Trolling all my friends who were born after 9/11 by showing them clips from “Love, Actually” and talking about how easy it was to get through airport security.

Me, a Scandinavian Glasses Guy, shuffling his feet nervously.

Technically, The Cure would be applied to someone Down With the Sickness. Meanwhile, you’d want The Vaccines to shore up The Head and the Heart as well as to protect your Nodes of Ravnier, prior to contracting Anthrax.

You don’t really know who you are until those last five seconds before the anesthesia takes you down.

The best parts of theology are the parts that engage in introspection.

I’ve just been reading this article over and over again since the 1980s. We’re way past whimsy and on to scammy pseudo science

Write a letter to ITER and tell all those PhDs they are stupid.

Nobody at ITER is promising to commercialize this technology at scale any time soon.

Do you understand how Federation even works?

Christ. Go back to Reddit with this shit

On a minor plus side, if you dope the walls with mercury, it transmutes to gold, in commercially viable amounts!

There’s literally a startup promising to exploit this. Although, how they’re going to get a commercially visible fusion reactor started remains to be seen

$5 says they put it back inside the next month

Using someone’s random Lemmy server address as an insult

You’re new here, aren’t you?

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in EU power supply

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in EU power supply

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Not much science could be done with a constantly spinning satellite

Virtually all of science has been performed on a constantly spinning satellite.

All three of the people pictured died shortly thereafter while trying to fire a longbow on the back of a horse with their feet.