By chance, sure.

So directly, absolutely not.

Indirectly, probably.

Do you think that prison labor and undocumented workers are a significant portion of the labor used to produce EVs in the USA?

it’s not the manufacturer that bears the cost of tarriffs, it’s the customers.

And the locals that lose their means of providing for themselves.

The counterpoints are about local US employment and thinking comparative advantage is bullshit.

Time to start pushing for EV subsidies from Congress for real.

Elon was already aware of the global landscape and chose Trump as the conduit for government support of the EV market.

I’m saying that scenario has a low probability

Wikipedia has a great image of orientations on the dates of Saturn’s opposition from 2001 thru 2029 (copied below). It really shows what’s going on and the approximate timing of visibility of the rings as they change from a Northern to Southern view from Earth’s perspective. Between March and November of 2025 the rings will be in the least visible orientations.

Rivian will probably be bought out by a larger company if they fail to scale, so that going zero possibility seems low.

Tesla did change the world for the better. Elon took the financial rewards and is using them to offset all of the improvements with catalyzing social issues into worse social issues.

Slow single leg heel drops.

Fore foot raises with your back and butt against the wall and feet about the length of your foot away from the wall.

The above are preventative strength exercises that should be done when you aren’t currently feeling shin splint pain.

Make sure it’s not a stress fracture.

Rest and stretch the lower legs muscles.

Reduce how long and how often you run for a while after your pain stops.

Once Mexico has manufacturing plants building Chinese badged vehicles, I think the dominoes will start to fall. Right now , it seems that Mexico is just importing cars assembled in China.

Something like not registering the car in Texas so it technically isn’t imported. This is similar to all the people in the northeast with cars registered in Florida to avoid higher insurance premiums, but they’re playing games with federal laws instead of state laws.

I’m not sure why you were banned, I was just annoyed about reading a screenshot of text.

It’s different in my view. As the mods and admins are experiencing a loosely coordinated brigade of vitriolic messages. It’s no surprise to me that they responded by filtering out those who are being persistent in bad faith communication. But they have in fact been receptive to improving the bot based on feedback. They have not, however, instantly determined and implemented any improvements.

Reviewing the situation as an outsider. It seems that the mods and admins are not wrong and those complaining are ill-informed about many aspects of what they’re complaining about and are being belligerent in their ignorance. But even if they were 100% informed and correct about Media Bias Fact Check, their behavior has been out of line.

I agree with that.

The boost app developers really should fix that. Spoilers are working the vast majority of lemmy frontend UIs.

The level of vitriol that the banned users have been spewing seems like harassment of the mods.

To be honest, none of what I’m seeing in these comment seems worthy of a ban.

I don’t agree with this. It seems like people are harassing the mods for the mods having a different opinion. These people don’t seem interested in any counterpoints or evidence that undermines their opinions which don’t seem to take relevant facts into account.

Lemmy provides for inadequate moderation tools and the developers of Lemmy don’t see adding additional tools or improvements to existing tools to be a high priority, so there’s not going to be more transparency from anyone running a Lemmy instance or moderating a lemmy community.