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EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them
  • Luckily I'm pretty sure we are at least on an up trend when it comes to the ozone layer so even when eventually it kicks the can you don't need to worry too much about that anymore. Now we just gotta fix carbon emissions.

  • As Biden Plans to Reschedule Marijuana, Advocates Say 'Fully Legalize' It
  • I'm mostly with you on this one, but you have to admit, "an animate bowl of tapioca" has got to be one of the funniest ways I have heard of President Biden described as. But yeah, I think he does care and is trying pretty hard to effect some level of significant change. I feel like he's trying to softly get the ball rolling for a second term where he really shows what he's made of.

    I hope for and look forward to great change and progress in the coming years.

  • FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks | Ars Technica
  • "However, the proposed settlement against Razer includes a $100,000 civil penalty, plus $1,071,254.33, which the FTC said is equal to the amount of revenue Razer made from the Zephyr and will go toward refunding "defrauded consumers."

    Fucking. Yes. The money goes back to the customers. Hopefully, every last cent.

  • FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks | Ars Technica
  • 110% seems like it could be a middle ground between actually nuking the company into the ground vs. impose to little of a fine.

    They're forced to give every cent back (hopefully that can find its way into actual customers hands instead of the government pissing it away) plus lose an additional 10% of whatever they made that is now a loss on the company financials. Shareholders wouldn't like a loss on their spreadsheets and quickly fire whoever was in charge or sell. It's bad for the business, the stock market, and the economy.

    It would quickly train the stock market to deter that kind of behaviour. But we need politicians who are not bought by these companies to be able to pose these strong fines across the board.

    10% loss on something on the scale of the likes of what someone like Apple or cough Tesla cough brings in on products would add up very, very quickly. More money back into people's products going back into the economy in the form of more spending anyway, which is good, and more tax revenue that the government might one day learn how to spend efficiently and dilligantly, since the government would keep the 10% loss, I'm sure getting that 110% out of the company takes work, time, and spending anyway.

    Capitalism only works with extremely tight regulation. And humans can corrupt that regulation very quickly.

  • How the fuck can I kill 20 hours?
  • Fuck, I could use 20 hours where there's nothing that could guilt me into feeling I could be spending my time better than gaming. Go find a nice comfy couch somewhere and just veg man, enjoy your freedom from responsibility for 20 hours. Won't happen often.

  • Choose your side carefully ☯️
  • It's not if you consider that the install base for Lemmy is still waaaaaaaay smaller than Reddit, it starts to make more sense. And if you ask almost any longtime user of Sync, the price is still worth it considering how many hours we will spend in this app. If I can get better value than a movie ($ per hour) then it's so worth it. By the time the app dies you will have spent pennies.

  • First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
  • Hey wow, it's great to see we are still persuing this avenue for energy, I hate how stigmatized nuclear became (with some good reasons). Like any technology, we just rushed to using it without understanding the full consequences when shit goes wrong. Hopefully we're better prepared now.

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