• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    I don’t believe for a second that enough people are ignorant of weather-proof charger setups to make this an issue. Maybe if most people weren’t struggling to survive on terribly-low incomes, or renting from cheapskate land-lords, but in this reality? Not buying it.

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    So here’s the thing…my car doesn’t need a fucking house. My car can live outside just fine. I don’t park my car outside because my garage is “filled with junk,” but because it’s filled with gym equipment, tools, and gardening supplies.

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    I believe it. But like…if the story was “Americans’ cluttered bedside tables are hurting smartphone adoption, study says,” we would rightly consider that story downright insane.

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      Capitalism is a trauma machine.

      When you grow up in poverty, you keep something because it will most likely be the only one of those things you will ever get. You may not need it now, but if you do later, youre fucked. So you keep it. Best case? You share “the things” with people you can trust and build a mutual aid network of friends that help each other, but by god you make sure you can get to “the things.”

      It’s no wonder people being exposed to constant trauma do protective things. You could even say it’s a reasonable response.

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      13 hours ago

      Some dude made thousands selling that stuff at a flea market. It’s not that it was worthless, it’s that it just wasn’t worth your time.

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    2 days ago

    And not, like, the prices of said (non-Chinese) EVs or that many (most?) of us are barely getting by?

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    I believe it. I live in an area with lots of 3 car garages and it is shocking how many people have to park in their driveway. There’s one house that charges in the driveway with the cord running under the garage door. Who needs a 3 car garage full of stuff?!?

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      I do, but uh … it’s in my username. If I weren’t running multiple hobbies and a business out my barely-one-car garage, maybe my car could have a house. The one time I parked in my current garage, without stuff on either side, there still wasn’t room to open the doors all the way.

      Anyways, weather-proof chargers exist. Blows my mind that enough people supposedly don’t know this to have any real impact. Well, it would, if I believed it.

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        I have a two car garage. One side is for the boat. The other side is for the tools and gardening setup and supplies for my business.

        The cars can stay outside.

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      not really sure putting a lithium bomb in the house is smart

      Putting a gasoline bomb there is better?