aelwero

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[–] aelwero 1 points 10 months ago

A couple chargers in a central spot, usable only by tenants, as an amenity like you're describing, is likely viable with a small increase in all the rents, but that's likely only viable for a decade or two.

As EVs becomes the norm (and I'm assuming they will), it will become less and less viable. From a very simple economic perspective, you'd essentially be adding the fuel costs of a steadiy increasing portion of tenants to the monthly rent, and there isn't any sort of commercial venture anywhere that's simply going to accept that kind of a decrease in revenue.

It's all good if it's a few tenants in a large complex, but as it scales up, the increase in utility costs (and specific to apartments, the costs of damages) is eventually going to drive it into "pay to play" per individual.

The amenity spots wouldnt be all that likely to be unreasonable in terms of aggressive profit seeking, but once it goes to individual chargers per tenant, all bets are off. It'll go from a feature to attract new tenants at the landlords expense, to being an individual expense, and an opportunity to "small additional fee" some profits...

[–] aelwero 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ChargePoint, for example, offers a template letter to send to landlords and various charging options that can allow property managers to make a profit off the sales of electricity in the building.

Article suggests this a solution, when the reality is that it's the core problem of why renters don't buy EVs as often.

People know God damned well that if they don't own their home, any sort of "support" they get is going to result in not just their paying for said support, but putting profit in a few pockets as well.

You wanna charge your car at an apartment complex... No problem, just pay for the space, pay for the power, pay a markup for the charge point operator, pay a markup for the landlord, pay a markup for this, that, and whatever else we can think of...

[–] aelwero 1 points 10 months ago

Wildly untenable concept in modern society...

I'm sure it would work great in a video game or something, but In the real world, this shit goes crony AF guaranteed.

We don't measure aptitude or ability in our society, we absolutely suck at it. A person's ability is measured by what pedigree they purchased at degrees R us, or worse, by how articulate and verbose they were when typing a resume. Occasionally, ability is measured by how well someone likes a person even...

Competence is valued in a very select few enterprises. Trades, IT, and at higher echelons, math nerds... That's about it...

[–] aelwero 1 points 10 months ago

A punitive assessment for the emotional damage from deaths and destruction of personal property on a grand scale, including the environment the damaged parties live in, is entirely appropriate.

Levying it under that pretense, but putting it in a discretionary fund under purview of government is essentially a 100% tax on the damages done to the victims.

Claiming it will be used to benefit those victims is a whitewash... It never goes to the victims unless it's awarded to them.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the punitive assessment, my objection is purely to the recipient.

[–] aelwero -3 points 10 months ago

They aren't actually doing much... This is something they did a while ago, they're just trotting it out and showing it off because there isn't anything current going on.

[–] aelwero 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or maybe give it to the people who were actually affected by it? The ones in who's names the judgement was made?

It literally says it's a punitive assessment for emotional damages... I don't think the government got its feelings hurt...

[–] aelwero 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They aren't actually plastic though... They're made of starch, as a biodegradable alternative to plastic.

Essentially, they're Cheetos

[–] aelwero 38 points 10 months ago (24 children)

Biden deserves some political reward for this good news, given that Donald Trump and many in his party...

Fucking election year, everybody fire up the spin. I hate politics :/

This is wildly better than whatever shit the repub propaganda machine is gonna fart out though, so I reckon I'll be avoiding Facebook and YouTube for a bit ;)

[–] aelwero -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

the money, which will be adjusted for inflation since 2015, will be put into a state fund and used for projects and initiatives in the area impacted by the dam collapse.

Lol... That won't get abused at all.

[–] aelwero 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...and cue a 4,000% markup on what an MRI costs.

Don't worry though, I'm sure the price will go back down once the artificial shortage that generated it is addressed (chuckle)

[–] aelwero 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nobody wants to hear it though...

Colonization, slavery, even the Nazis. All of it was able to occur because people werent thinking about possible outcomes. Statues of colonizers and confederates are a tangible reminder that might help keep the understanding of possible outcomes in public consciousness, and maybe down the road that remembrance precludes a repeat.

It's specifically why Auschwitz, the site of one of the most horrific outcomes, stands intact to this day.

Personally, I think the next great incident of dehumanizing and persecution is very likely to be perpetrated by a very liberal mentality, in the name of trying to do good. You see signs of it every day. Some of the labels applied to me in other comments are indicative of it, and I said absolutely nothing In support of the shit I was labelled as. I'm a racist, I'm a colonizer, etc... said no such thing, but there wasn't any shortage of hostility and downvotes... It's a dangerous mentality.

[–] aelwero 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And if a novel virus outbreak occurs and the genesis is near a facility fucking around with this stuff, it's totally a coincidence and you should never even think about suggesting otherwise, because reasons.

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