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Don't forget, EVs are heavier than real cars and thus cause more wear&tear on roads, and also grind down their tyres faster leading to micro-particles from said tyres floating about in the air at face-height.

And Steve Jobs, sorry I mean Elon Musk* decided today to "ban negativity" from X/Twitter, which of course has nothing to do with the ass-reaming he's been handed over the VISA-issue (and his partner Vivek being revealed as - essentially - a grifter from the Pharmaceutical industry).

Musk's love for free speech turned out to be, which a lot of us already knew, not even skin-deep.

As for the cup - havn't that silledritt lab-tech ever heard of stainless steel, glass, or ceramics? Good luck wearing out a ceramic cup unless you break it. To say nothing of a steel one. Heck, he could just as well get himself a kåsa (Wikipedia is the usual racist bullshit, claiming kåsa was "invented" by the sámi!) out of wood and keep it clean.

What silliness.

On the positive side - Trudeau resigned this evening (CET).

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I've been pointing to the heavier EVs for some time now as you know: both tires and roads wear faster, to say nothing about the essentially inexistent re-sales value of any EV.

As to the Musk Psyop, well, the joke's on those who believe that one of the greatest US gov't contractors would be on the side of 'the people' is stunning, isn't it?

I personally find the bioengineer who uses the same plastic single-use cup for decade hilarious: he, of all people, should know about the contamination of his own body by these microplastics etc. And, yes, glass, steel, a good ol' ceramic cup, all of this would be fine--actually--way better, but no, he needed to do some stupid virtue-signalling.

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Good article, just a shame that you had to write this sentence;

'Mr. Musk (whom I dislike now because he sided with the Orange Man).'

Both of them are merely actors on the world stage, doing as they are told. It is the worldwide system that is the issue, the players are just here to create division/hope/anger etc and to be used as scapegoats/heroes/villains.

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Ahahahahaa, was there too little sarcasm here? Apparently.

I'm with you on this one, esp. as I find it hilarious (and then some) that one billionaire oligarch with extensive ties to the military-industrial complex who makes most of his 'profits' by being, well, a gov't contractor, is taken to be 'the saviour' here.

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Hmmm fuck, they say sarcasm is only understood by really intelligent people.

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I don't know know any thing about that…

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It is probably just one of those urban myths :)

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It’s St. Greta von Blackrock, pbuh.

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I do wonder about her and her parents' finances ever since she became 'famous'…

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The sunny side of govt stupidity as compared to the gloom and doom of Soviet dysfunction. In the U.S. we were sliding down that slippery slope of the laughable when Elon Musk showed up with newer uproarious claims. What else can authorities do when they're no longer busy slaying dragons, ruling the seas and saving the world for democracy?

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