• 0 Posts
  • 442 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle



  • trump is a child at this game. Walmart has such tight control over its vendors it could require all of them to create new SKUs and slightly change the packaging (perhaps even the quatities/serving size or item packages) which would then be whole new products with the built in higher prices. Walmart could then claim they’ve raise prices on zero new products and its simply the items available are more expensive to buy from their vendors.

    Further Walmart would close stores before it takes a consistent loss. Imagine the damage to trump’s image with his MAGA cohort if the local Walmart shut down with a giant banner out front saying “Store closing due to tariffs”.


  • On top of that what the fuck do you think the prime models are?

    Gas/Electric Hybrids. Not EVs.

    an efficient motor that allows you to use less battery resources which require dirty AF mining.

    Wait, you’re calling battery mining “dirty AF”, when the battery materials are mined exactly one time, while gasoline requires extraction again, and again, and again for the entire life of the car? I think you’ve got your priorities mixed up.


  • Primes are better options for 100% of Americans than a BEV.

    Why do I need to haul around hundreds of lbs/kg of engine, fuel tank, and all the other garbage of an ICE drivetrain when I don’t need it? Oh, for the maybe one time in my life when I’ll need to drive farther than 300 miles between charging stations? If that ever happens, I’ll just rent an ICE car for the day.

    Also, a Prius Prime only has about 40 miles of all EV range. Why are you sending me to the gas station to get more range from petroleum extracted from the Earth, dragged hundreds of miles between refining and delivery when I can just plug my car in at home and charge from my solar array instead?




  • As much as I want to bash trump, understand that this parade would have happened regardless of who is president and when their birthday is.

    Others have already pointed out you’re wrong, but I was just curious how wrong. So I went looking. Any searches within the last year are polluted with results talking about this trump parade, so I set the search first to prior to 2024 which revealed something I had entirely forgotten. tRUMP TRIED THIS CRAP BEFORE in 2018 AND WAS SHOT DOWN ON COSTS:

    source

    So setting the search criteria PRIOR to even the first trump presidency in 2015 gives us this:

    source

    So it is by no means common to have military equipment rolling down Pennsylvania avenue and even that much smaller one cost $12m in 1991 dollars ($28,305,381.17 in 2025 dollars).