kingjamez said:
Chalo said:
kingjamez said:
Chalo said:
Car driving is like slavery-- in that it's grossly harmful to everyone and dehumanizing, and also in that most people know it's wrong, but because it's ubiquitous and encouraged, they do it anyway.
That is as ridiculous as it is offensive.
You keep praising your master, then. History will judge you and those like you.
Doubling down? Wow.
I see your comment as one very much like comparing "insert hated person here" to Hitler. It cheapens the evil that Hitler was. You are cheapening the evil that Slavery was in the same manner.
To even insinuate that me driving around in my Nissan Leaf, or even my buddy in his F350 King Cab, is "dehumanizing" in comparison to Slavery? What? That is just sick.
-Jim
I been realizing lately how much the human mind is mostly unable or unwilling to see things the way they really are and rather like to support a political bias or just see things to feel good about themselves.
In Australia I been watching on facebook how much folks loved the announcement of mega-sized lithium battery packs via the left side of the government for stable electricty from the grid but when the federal conservative side of the government announced a pumped-hydro battery (most folks on Facebook at least) hated it.
When I have argued about the hard real world peer-reviewed statistics of solar farms built in the desert with folks (such as a 16km2 solar farm which only gives out 104MW of power during winter months: 77,949MWh / 744_hours_in_December = 104MW average output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Sunlight_Solar_Farm#Statistics ) vs a 5000MW nuclear or gas-fired power plant they don't care if it is truly viable or not.
I found they really don't care what the truth was and will viciously support it over anything else and I mean anything as in "its solar farms or prepare to be killed.. " mentality.
I worked out eventually that these folks didn't care at all about being green and it was in some way "about them" and could be mostly be grouped into 2 reasons.
1) It was purely about supporting their particular political party, these are folks that are unknowingly political illogical nutjobs (most of us), just like our politician's folks will ride this stuff like a jet-ski for more political power all the way to the very end.
2) They had some kind of financial investment in the green energy and couldn't give a crap if it worked or not as long as they got their money back plus gains via force from the government or via taxes/tariffs on people.
The power of bias sets in, when Amnesty announced that up to 40,000 African kids in the DRC are digging away in mines for cobalt for lithium battery packs no one cares. I can see folks don't give a crap with conviction because of all the little details (like statistics) of our world give this truth away quite easily.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/Child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-01-25/wa-cobalt-project-poised-for-slice-of-battery-storage-pie/8187296
Looking at mere basic comparisons of the world via statistical views.
Amnesty were the only ones to release a video about 40,000 African kids digging for cobalt in mines and after more then 1 whole year of it being online for the world to see it only got 82,000 views, even if its a video view for a few seconds it counted.. no one even wants to take a short peek at it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4ASxHIrEA
Picked at random but for a relatively unknown company to announce they are working on a flying lithium powered jet it gets over 1 million views per week. Its only been online for 2 weeks (compared to over a year) and its got over 2million views. Any kind of junk video can get a million plus views in a year or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohig71bwRUE
While it's not my business, I thought about the idea to make people care about the Amnesty video is to use the power of hate and guilt. As in you could make a video of a young blonde 10 year old boy flying a quadcopter with a big smile on his face having fun then cut to shots of some 10 year old African kid digging cobalt for the battery product that made it possible. Or shots other rich white westerners using any modern Lithium cell powered product.
It would get more views this way but it would also be powered the power of hate, by politics and of those who hate to see young western world children enjoying themselves. A video like that world go straight to the top of the list of pro-ISIS propaganda forums. The power of bias is amazing.