John Socks @socks.masto.host I am retired in Southern California after working on the computational side of chemistry, medical electronics, environmental monitoring, motion pictures, and even some web commerce.
I am interested in hiking and the outdoors, exercise physiology (especially for someone in my age group), gardening, and old man projects in general.
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@theneverfox I just commuted across Los Angeles. I saw every sort of car, but far more gas guzzlers than hybrids or EVs. These are free choices, by people who might say "they care" or "someone should do something."
The person who buys a Mercedes Maybach SUV, 16 MPG, certainly has other options.
They would probably tell you they care.
@stabby_cicada @UsernameHere I'm afraid I take the darkest view. That is that BP etc gave the public the full option to care about their carbon footprint, and the public decided not to.
At that point why should BP or politicians force it upon them?
Who exactly would be the "we" in that process who knows better? If it is some informed and passionate minority, that is not actually democracy.
It is a collective action failure.
@Delta_V as I say, it's tough. Going back to those margins, companies bounce along trying to make enough, given their cost structures to survive. Margins to survive.
Many did not.
Established British brands ended up in India
Established Swedish brands ended up in China.
@Delta_V going back many years I've heard the description of the automobile industry problem as "overcapacity."
Too many companies in too many countries are fighting for too few buyers, compared to that production capacity. Like, if you ran all plants atlnd all shifts it would be way too many cars.
Now that's happening in EVs right?
To make money, on specifically the Mustang, Ford it has to sell a lot of Mustangs. Unfortunately everyone else is trying the same thing at the same time.
Indeed,
"Ford just reported a massive loss on every electric vehicle it sold"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/business/ford-earnings-ev-losses/index.html
@[email protected] I tried Threads recently. Maybe my experience there was similar to your (big instance?) experience here.
I used a tag, and boy everybody piled in to tell me what they thought about it. Obviously without reading the thread for context.
And so I'm thinking these are really social media problems. Or big media problems.
The only way to avoid them is to go small within the large.
Find a few friends, chat about things.