Re:Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for L...
by housemusicfan on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:27PM
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Imagine then sending the 40% through a lossy transmission network, transferring it to batteries made from cobalt mined by child slaves in the Congo, which will self-deplete if sitting unused, then telling everyone you know you're helping save the world.
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Re:Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for L...
by philistine on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:05AM
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So because electric cars have different externalities than gas ones we have to keep preferring gas cars?
We can change things for something with different but lesser problems. And anyway, can you 100% vouch that the gas car manufacturing apparatus has zero child labor as well?