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$8chan

More like haha hating privileged people rule

Oh, you’re too kind. I can’t nearly compete with the masterpieces shown over at alttexthalloffame.org :))

I usually check alt text before shamelessly stealing it, but you caught me there! Here’s the source: https://wetdry.world/@boxy/111455959207468101

Found it on Mastodon, I don’t know if it’s the original source. The XKCD does have a good point, of course. But I mean, if we’d all think like that, no good standards would ever develop, so people shouln’t cite it as a fundamental truth everywhere and avoid all meaningful discussion.

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That will be !angryupvote@sh.itjust.works ;)

In case you’re wondering, all the symbols are green.

No, it’s the original comment that got deleted (probably by the creator), and then some clients don’t show the following thread because they have no top-level comment to attach to.

Depends on your client. I’m pretty sure you can still see the non-deleted comments in Jerboa.

edit: Yes, you can.

I know, I just meant that I cannot find any source for this specific image, which means it’s probably AI-generated.

edit: And no, by the way, the depiction isn’t completely accurate because the balls are missing. Here is an accurate depiction:

No idea, I found it on Mastodon and TinEye can’t trace it so probably.

I’m just answering the question. They ask what system rewards kindness, I say a hunter-gatherer one does. I’m not implying that going back to the stone age is realistic by any means.

If everyone who normally takes the car would switch to taking the bus, all of a sudden you’d only need one lane in places where you previously needed two or three, because cars are very space-inefficient, so that makes a big difference.

Also, it’s not quite true that they’d require the same amount of roads. I don’t know about where you’re from, but where I live buses use about a quarter of the roads and you can still easily get anywhere by bus.

Additionally, salt isn’t used for rail vehicles at all.

I think we live in very different parts of the world. Where I’m from, it is quite self-evident that we have to transition to EVs, and most people in fact already do. However a lot of people seem to forget that EVs only solve part of the problem and that we have to think further, so from my perspective this comic can basically only be used for good.

But I do get that this could be used by reactionaries to push back against clean energy in places where such sentiments are common. However, I don’t think that’s a particularly big problem on the Fediverse.

This picture comes to mind:

For pedestrians and bikers, you need a lot less surface to deice, plus the lower speeds means it is not quite as vital to see all the snow gone directly. And yes, you will need roads for different purposes, but you would need a lot fewer of them, and with fewer lanes, if everyone wouldn’t take the car. Also, for supplying stores, a lot of the things trucks do can easily be done by trains.

Why, then, does the picture with all the problems depict a gas car, and why is “tailpipe emissions” listed as one of the problems?

Also, usually corporate propaganda is done by less well-established cartoonists that don’t have reputations to ruin.

I really do not think so. Oil propaganda would support cars rather than be against it. I’m quite sure this is directed at the people who think EVs are a full solution.