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  • You inserted yourself into a conversation about how “EVs are bad because children have to mine lithium to make them”.

    You’re trying to change the subject to ‘look I found this rare method of mining something that is not lithium, it doesn’t matter that it is rare in the context of the manufacturing of all EVs’.

    That is like saying ‘I don’t need to work for a living because look at this rare example of someone winning the lottery’.

    Context matters.

    Spodumene is not lithium.

    Your rare example of mining some thing that is not lithium isn’t relevant in a discussion about children mining lithium for EVs.

    You’re trying to argue semantics in bad faith.






  • Again, cobalt isn’t needed to make batteries and there are many other battery chemistries that can be used in EVs. If that is really a concern of yours then you would be arguing for EV manufacturers to use a different battery chemistry. Which they are already transitioning to.

    But you aren’t arguing for manufacturers to change battery chemistry. You’re cherry picking information to argue that EVs are the same as ICEs vehicles. Which makes your intentions obvious.

    You argue against EVs then claim to want to end car dependency. So you want everyone riding busses and trains run on diesel?

    Climate change is real and we need to end our dependency on fossil fuels to prevent the extinction of our species and EVs are a required step in doing that.








  • Companies are able to add this many jobs even with higher interest rates because they are still flush with cash from decades of low interest rates, lobbying, income inequality and PPE loans.

    Raising interest rates forces companies to spend their own capital to add these jobs instead of using money that the Federal Reserve prints to keep the interest rate low.

    Raising interest rates sucks in the short term but it is required in the long term and severely overdue.

    We can’t print free money forever just to have low interest rates.



  • drewdarko@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlsooo....
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been an Automotive Technician for a couple decades now and I can safely say combustion engines have way more parts that fail and if you can use a youtube video to diagnose your ICE (very rarely is this possible) then you’re smart enough to do the same with an EV.

    There is way less parts on an EV and they are way easier to fix.