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kudra

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I like beets.

#UBI techno-#Georgist #4dayworkweek #ev #ebikes #parent #embryoadoption #auspol #health

Allergic to Friendface. Hoping fellow allergy holders & #Twatters decamp here (I was here in 2018! see: https://mastodon.social/@kudra 😅)

Let's decouple our ideas of innate human value from jobs, mmk?

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kudra, to TeslaMotors
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The grid is currently paying me to charge my (and do my laundry!)

leyrer, to random
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You lost me at "Join our Discord".

kudra,
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@erikKroes @odddev @blitter @leyrer @matrix personally never found Matrix even slightly problematical, but most people I know needed significant push to try it, even though even the low tech ones were quite capable of installing Riot (now Element), it was merely a psychological barrier.

kudra,
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@odddev @erikKroes @blitter @leyrer @matrix Zulip looks pretty good. Thanks for the recc!

AnthonyFStevens, to climate
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#ClimateChange #EV #ElonMusk #Tesla

🚨Elon Musk just lost $28bn as Tesla took a beating🚨

Toyota’s chairman Akio Toyoda, tells the EV market "I told you so", as sales slow dramatically.

Toyoda has long advised the industry to hedge its bets on EVs by continuing to invest in hybrids, hydrogen-powered cars, & other alternative eco-friendly vehicles.

UK insurers have hiked premiums to unaffordable levels because of the high cost of EV repairs.

If not EV's, then what?

https://fortune.com/2023/10/25/toyota-chairman-akio-toyoda-electric-vehicles-ev-ford-gm-tesla-earnings-elon-musk/

kudra,
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@mackaj @hansbot @Hypx @AnthonyFStevens @respectmyplanet this is the biggest gripe I have around the discussion of hydrogen. There's a massive difference between hydrogen combustion and HFC. But there's again almost an order of magnitude difference in efficiency of HFC compared with BEVs. Until we have excess capacity of green hydrogen production (and I do honestly think this will eventually come) we should focus green hydrogen production to go towards the uses of hydrogen that can't in the shorter term be taken up by BEVs. That's just practical reality at this point, though I do think all governments managing electricity grids that have small scale domestic solar connected in increasing capacity (ie most western countries at this point) absolutely need to be putting in place the infrastructure for green hydrogen production during times of excess renewable production now.

kudra,
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@kirk781 @Serinus I'm not even on lemmy, the Fediverse is quite awesome and not quite as backwater as you might think, reach is an odd thing, not consistent at all but sometimes things really do go far =)

kudra,
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@baconmash @6368_39162 there is a way. It's actually being commercialised overseas but last I checked hadn't come to AU because the market is too small.

kudra, to TeslaMotors
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Victorian electric car owners win High Court challenge against controversial tax.

... I wonder if that means they'll refund what we've paid already? 🤔

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102989942

kudra,
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@trelord75 I don't have a problem paying a road user tax, but it should be levied on ALL road users, at a federal level, and based on WEIGHT, not fuel used. So those ridiculous utes that just keep getting heavier and heavier are appropriately taxed. Carbon price on petrol should be instigated as well, take the petrol excise out altogether and just make a user change for all vehicles, it was annoying having to submit my odo, but why shouldn't everyone, not just EVs??

The average ute in Australia is now 2 tonne. My Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV weighs about 1.2 tonne, around HALF that of the average ute!!

When ​ute​ owners stop getting tax breaks and start paying road user charges AND a carbon tax for filling the air with far more poisonous exhaust fumes than they need to get where they need to go, that will be a good day.

kudra,
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@Jakra @trelord75 shouldn't be too hard, each vehicle has an estimated weight, and don't they weigh freight vehicles as it is? Though I don't know much about road freight tbh.

badlogic, (edited ) to random
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Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at

The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

https://skyview.social

The protocol is absolutely insane.

There's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post

kudra,
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@badlogic @AngelaScholder they were before Twitter introduced locked accounts.

kudra,
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@AngelaScholder @badlogic I think the login wall and lack of free signup access is enough for many to be surprised, to be honest. Exclusivity and a wall is enough for many to assume lack of open public access, that really isn't unreasonable.

kudra,
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@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon_ I have also had to do this in the last couple of days. To go to the playground, which is right behind my house, I take a Big Stick and Wave It Threateningly.

kudra,
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@SituationCake @bot001 well that just gave me a heart attack! I am glad to see I didn't remember the date wrong and that's just early voting. Phew.

feditips, to random
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Many, many people have asked about error messages when using mastodon.social.

Mastodon.social is far too large. Its massive size causes errors, and threatens the long term safety of the whole Fediverse.

I strongly encourage people on mastodon.social to move their account to another server.

You can find reliable servers on the official site at https://joinmastodon.org/servers or my own recommended list at https://fedi.garden

Here's a step-by-step guide for moving: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/

kudra,
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@bitflipped @feditips I believe Firefish and other Misskey based instances allow migration of posts? Possibly other Fedi projects too.

It's what I'm hoping for most in Fedi generally, I know that there's WordPress plugins to import Tweets, for example... my ideal scenario is being able to get all my old xml files from every social media site that allowed export before they died / became enshittified, to import to one master Social Media timeline for all of my history, including a permissions capability for comments to be imported as well. Yes, I am a dreamer. But I'm sure I'm not the only one.

kudra,
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@feditips @bitflipped yes, aware of all these things. You can't migrate anything and guarantee the links will update, beyond a certain point, and have already been playing around with the WordPress ActivityPub plugin, but it's not playing nice with my shared hosting so waiting to see if that kind of issue gets resolved eventually. Importing posts from one site to another will always be a copy, for me it would be incredibly valuable to have that long timeline even with issues. Back in the days this issue was discussed and dealt with in various ways by LJ clones.

kudra,
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@just_kitten @StudChud ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!​

kudra,
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@StudChud zere can always be MOAR MISSILES

Hypx, to TeslaMotors
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It's time to remind others that fanatics are blatant liars. They do not take environmentalism seriously. It is just a game to promote the BEV over all else.

And it is likely because they own shares in BEV companies, or they are trying to rationalize their own car buying choices.

As a result, they are basically fighting against climate change. They are working for corporate interest and the Chinese government. It has become a nightmare, and arguably the greatest greenwashing act today.

kudra,
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@Hypx @ScottHutchFP ...what do you see in this picture that looks suspect?

kudra,
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@Hypx @ScottHutchFP .... you hate BEVs because of Space Karen? I am no fan of him either, but I kind of think the fact that the big oil companies are paying money to promote hydrogen, is a bit of a hint that it's not the panacea you make out.

Remember, Tesla wasn't even started by Musk. He just sees something he can take and takes it. The big oil companies see the threat of BEVs to their profit model, and are spending big to try and redirect attention.

...you wouldn't happen to be a shill for Big Oil, now, would you? 🤔

kudra,
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@Hypx @ScottHutchFP your hysterical ranting isn't doing hydrogen any favours, you do realise that, right? It's just... weird.

kudra,
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@Gibsonisafluffybutt @wscholermann I used this exact terminology in a message a few days ago to a guy I'd had a couple of good dates with who communicates so sporadically that I have a very hard time believing he's genuine. There's a feeling of exhausted resignation, but I do seem to be willing to bang my head a few more times, just in case the wall does actually crack.

kudra,
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@princessnorah largely the stations that are still technically metro, from memory (and that goes for Ballarat too) beyond that it seems to thin out a fair bit.

kudra,
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@cuavas that sounds like they need to increase services at rush hour - I'll admit I've only travelled that route off-peak.

kudra,
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@cuavas @Jumuta to be honest I'm a little surprised they didn't make the fare cap for off-peak travel only, which would have actually helped to reduce some of the crazy peak crush.

kudra,
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@cuavas yeah, it's pretty shit. I guess allowing more flexibility on when people start and finish work plus continuing work from home options might help a bit. But yeah, there needs to be serious investment to improve things.

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