• Roopappy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It seems like the “cars tracking you” problem is a very real and very serious thing that should obviously be legislated separately of electric vehicles or country of manufacture.

    I got a Mazda recently, and I was reading all the ownership paperwork, and the guy asked me what I was looking for. I said “I’m looking for the language about what data Mazda is collecting about me.” And the guy laughed and said there’s nothing in the paperwork about that. They just do it. You can’t shut it off.

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    1 year ago

    5G, garlic, cars…

    I know this may seem like an unusual concept to capitalist America, but having more competitors drives down prices.

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      Low prices aren’t always a good thing. Especially for the working class when those low prices are on imported goods that replace the products these workers used to make. I thought we already learned that neoliberal policies aren’t so hot for workers.

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        1 year ago

        No one has learned anything. The people who knew outsourcing was anti-worker were proven correct, but it didn’t matter.

    • spamspeicher@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      American OPEC monopoly

      What the hell does that even mean? The USA aren’t even part of the OPEC1, how are they supposed to be in the “OPEC monopoly”? Or do you mean Venezuela with America? And why monopoly? OPEC/ OPEC+ are only responsible for 30-40%2 of crude production, that is a weird monopoly.

      1 https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm

      The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960 by five countries namely Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. They were to become the Founder Members of the Organization.

      These countries were later joined by Qatar (1961), Indonesia (1962), Libya (1962), the United Arab Emirates (1967), Algeria (1969), Nigeria (1971), Ecuador (1973), Gabon (1975), Angola (2007), Equatorial Guinea (2017) and Congo (2018).

      2 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61188579

      …Together, Opec+ countries produce about 40% of all the world’s crude oil.

  • callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    “We need to reduce carbon emissions!”

    “No not like that!”

    Haha. It’s just silly. I know nothing about the actual story.