https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10729313/

Old man shouting at clouds…

Do you have link to an article about that, sounds crazy.

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Is that another American thing? Seems like a dumb idea if you have at least a handful of braincells.

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Took credit for winning world wars* Decided it won the cold war*

It always has been run by fascist slave owners. Welcome to the real world, where america is and always has been shit stain on the history of the world.

It is fairly obviously satirical

Being angry has its place, happy people don’t protest, content people don’t change their surrounding.

No need to be rude.

Because the other option is to be delusional Dave.

How long before they start measuring skulls at job interviews

The point is exactly that, there are people using diesel generators, but the technology doesn’t scale that’s why we have electricity grids. The same way public transportation scales much better than cars.

Or as the comments in the main post discussed, one is individualistic approach while the other is collectivist.

Yes I do agree, I do not think all cars should be destroy right this moment, but the reliance on cars in our current society can be greatly decreased via proper public transportation just like the reliance on diesel generators (on the society level) is negligible because of our electric system.

No one would argue to just destroy all cars, but a lot of the daily transportation is just people going to work or to the store or to the cinema or to see friends/family etc. and these car trips can be replaced with proper public transportation.

No my problem is not with the diesel generator, I wanted to contradict the individualistic approach to transportation in our current society with the collectivistic approach of something like our energy grid.

There was another example with septic tanks vs plumbing. You can say the same for drilling wells vs again plumbing I guess.

Solar microgrids are very interesting technology in particula and very positive again because you can connect and coordinate them collectively with you neighbors for example. With the added benefit of flexibility and resilience the current grid doesn’t have.

One of my finer works on here, it was fun watching people go of the rails (or streets in that case) explaining how they definitely need cars to go the toilet.

Yes, but one system is destructive, polluting and shifts the cost of transportation on the individual. So one system is clearly better here. That is why no one (ok very few people) who have electrified house or apartment decides “you know what I will need a diesel generator”.

Yes, thank you. Very well said.

Renting a car is more expensive than owning?