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CGMthrowawayon The auto lobby spent millions on media manipulation

The average age of an EV on the road is less than four years, compared to over 12 years for hybrids and ICE vehicles. I'm not suggesting an EV can't also last that long, but it feels premature to say anything is "obvious" about TCO when they are such a new product category

CGMthrowawayon Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

That's a lot of words to issue a reproach of people using manipulating "truisms" and propagandic non-specifics, without using any specifics of your own.

You might have a strong argument but you seem to be afraid to name anyone or anything.

CGMthrowawayon Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

>Corruption in the US isn't new, but it's never been done as openly as it has been recently.

It's been open a long time. Patriot Act/Snowden/Assange, JFK coverup, shutting churches to keep Walmart open, social media censorship, gerrymandering, immigration enforcement, etc

CGMthrowawayon GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

Tell me "it's different" with this one please https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/study-links-past-em...

CGMthrowawayon Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)

>Crocodiles haven't changed much in 200 million years. Maybe it's possible that a form factor is largely correct

Then why is Apple releasing a folding phone now?

CGMthrowawayon Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)

Apple has not had an SVP of Industrial Design for 7 years, since Jony Ive left. This is why every phone is a copy of the last and there is no real product innovation anywhere

CGMthrowawayon Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

>Ad blocking has become a safety issue. My parents are at an age where they fall for things. If a malicious ad pops up and offers to install McAfee, some other form of crapware, or outright scamware, they'll click that ad and install the thing.

I've been using the internet since the 80s. This has always been the case. Even before graphical browsers.

CGMthrowawayon Executive order changing name of lake-Ontario

You think a president should be impeached for making a stupid name change? Cape Kennedy, Denali, etc come to mind

CGMthrowawayon Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

Smoking on flights is less dangerous than lithium batteries. At least a cigarette fire can be seen and put out. A lithium battery in thermal runaway can explode and is not possible to extinguish as it is self-perpetuating.

CGMthrowawayon Trade (and Tariffs)

Maybe letting other countries rob us blind is worse. The US has hardly any factories left. Is that "peace" or is that just losing, slowly?

Open borders can be GREAT, but they can also be a point of vulnerability if we lose control of them

CGMthrowawayon Trade (and Tariffs)

Totally, that is a great and valid add

CGMthrowawayon Trade (and Tariffs)

I totally agree trade should feel fair. If the US sends jobs, money, food or goods to other countries, then we shouldn't get garbage back.

Tariffs are a way of warning other countries "don’t take us for a ride." They help American workers, factories and towns that were hurt when jobs went overseas.

Tariffs shouldn't feel like hurting yourself for no reason. They are an important tool for standing up for yourself when other countries (to say nothing of bad trade deals) want to take advantage of you

CGMthrowawayon Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf]

Separate issue yes I realize that you can always go out of network

CGMthrowawayon Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf]

@getnormality Two main differences:

1) medical loss ratio rules mean insurers are expected/required to pass a certain percent of premium on as payment for medical services, in a way that a grocery store is not required

2) insurer is selling you a contract that they will pay your medical bills if you have any - they are NOT retailing you medical services

CGMthrowawayon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Those are refunds of money already paid, it's not any extra money

CGMthrowawayon Dolly Parton has died

Thankfully we have Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, the White Stripes, etc for you

CGMthrowawayon Dolly Parton has died

Shameless plug for the Dolly Parton Book Club, for which you can register your child (even not yet born) and they will send them a free age-appropriate book every month until they turn 5. https://imaginationlibrary.com/

CGMthrowawayon Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

> It is the same reason for serial/12 tone music

I don't see ANY dearth of originality in American 12-tone music during the cold war. What are you meaning by this?

CGMthrowawayon Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

>Most of greatest works of modern art are European

Convincing post-war europe that they are outside the influence of the US was also a great psyop

CGMthrowawayon Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

>It self-propagates

Part of the design spec of the psyop, perhaps

CGMthrowawayon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Peak oil is not really a thing anymore, we are on to global mean surface temperatures now.

CGMthrowawayon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

We are doing a lot. Almost 90% of electricity capacity added last year was renewables. Nearly 1 in 3 cars sold are now EVs. The world is spending over $2 trillion every year on low‑carbon energy investment. Solar and wind have already avoided more than 2 gigatons of CO2 being added to the atmosphere. In the US, the IRA will drop emissions 40% to below 2005 levels.

What do you mean we are doing nothing?

CGMthrowawayon Wildfires across Europe detonate forgotten World War bombs

Specifically, “a few sporadic detonations” were recently heard in Belgium.

Aside from that, France says a wildfire uncovered a cache of suspected WWII-era ammunition, which did not detonate. No specific reports of any weapons exploding in Germany or Holland either. Slovakia removed and buried two naval mines for a controlled explosion (not wildfire related) and Germany and Hungary each found a bomb as well (not wildfire related).

The subheadline "High heat has caused several weapons to explode in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands" is not fully supported by the article or the facts.

CGMthrowawayon Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

Tiktok is also well-known for giving brand-new users/first-time posters a TON of artificial boosted exposure tuned for follower and engagement growth of the content they post, to give them hope and dreams of becoming an influencer before eventually tuning down the algorithm to normal levels.

Ask anyone who ever posted on tiktok - "when i first started I got a ton of new followers and likes! "

CGMthrowawayon Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

They are all reward hacking, but tiktok is audiovisual immersion, dating apps are romantic validation and twitter is outrage/information foraging

CGMthrowawayon The Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA

https://archive.ph/JfB5V

CGMthrowawayon Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Why are you being downvoting for sharing this relevant truth, complete with sources?

CGMthrowawayon A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

That is, until we find a way to unify the fields

CGMthrowawayon The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

>If you want to compare Obama and Trump insofar as “presidents generally don’t do 90% of what they say” that is valid but to imply their admins are/were anything alike beyond that would be ridiculous. I’m assuming that’s not what you mean but I just need to throw that out there.

Yes you're right, I absolutely did not mean to imply that. I just forgot to say "orange man bad" as a signoff. Thanks

CGMthrowawayon Buy Your Friends Batteries

How do I properly think about the fire hazard posed by a big battery in my house?