The goal for the political parties is to just get into power temporarily in order to further your own career.

Just to be clear, to get to the definition of affordable (3 times medium family income) most detached homes in cities would need to lose 80-90% of their value.

That has never been the goal, it's not the goal of ANY of the major political parties because it would be political suicide.

For housing to be affordable, current house prices would have to drop significantly, which would means loses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for most home owners, and 65% of the current residential properties are owned by the family that live in them (the majority of voters)

You should post the comic to mildly infuriating too.

Shouldn't they charge themselves with genocide first?

The US killed more than half a million civilians in the middle east in retaliation for 9/11

Did everyone forget this? Or does it just not count when it's the US that does it.

The UN approved borders for Israel after the world wars, and 5 neighbouring countries invaded Israel the day it declared independence and was supposed to take effect because they weren't happy with them.

So clearly annihilation was a perfect answer.

Being elected democratically does not make you a government. It makes you in charge.

A functional government needs to perform things like taxation and civic spending. As far as I can tell, Hamas didn't do those things. Most the infrastructure in Gaza was built by foreign aid groups.

I'm consistent with all of history.

Borders wouldn't exist unless people (and groups of people) had some sort of conflict over who controls what.

Hamas was never a proper government. It has always been a military organization. It was literally formed to fight Israel.

Yes, that's how it works. He already took Crimea in 2014 from Ukraine.

You've got the metaphor wrong, and it's a useless argument to defend even if it was correct because almost every other country in the entire world is on "stolen" land.

Jewish people have been there for literally thousands of years. So have the ancestors of the Palestinians. Neither was the country that existed even just prior to the formation of Israel. So they fought, and even with support from multiple neighbors the Palestinians lost. Now it's Israel.

Who wins is how borders work in the real world.

Unless you're also supporting giving back your land to the previous inhabitants completely... Should all non-native Americans leave north America? Should England give their land back to the Celts? Should we all climb back into the womb in Africa and just disappear the human race?

And it's not recognized by a single G7 country in that 75%.

It doesn't even have it's own proper government, and Gaza specifically doesn't even have a puppet government anymore because it's being controlled by Hamas rather than the PA.

So not false.

Hamas is not the one that had to build a wall and a multi billion dollar rocket defence system and still got attacked.

Israel tried to defend itself, Hamas kept at it, and now they're paying the price. This is war.

Hamas could release them any time they want.

They took them for a reason, to use them against Israel.

Palestine is not a country and has never been a country.

Every one of them until they stop attacking Israel and especially taking hostages.

If your kids got take hostage, would you limit what you would do to get them back?

Sorry, did the person who took hostages just say "if you care about the lives" you should stop supporting Israel?

This is why I still support Israel. Fuck these terrorists.

Counting by units biases you towards junk that isn't bought by the first world because it's bad.

My winter range on a highway with heat on is around 385, which is the sticker value when I bought it.

My summer range is almost 500.

It's a lot more than people think.

Switching to cheap EVs does not get us off fossil fuels as much as you think.

Personal transportation only accounts for something like 20% of the total fossil fuel use.

Having been to China myself, and seen the inside of multiple factories and worked with multiple experts, no, it's not happening to every other company.

Western people simply do not understand the mindset of the Chinese government or populace when it comes to exploitation, corruption, and cheating. There's a reason why China is having issues with buildings literally falling apart, and why people consider Chinese products to be inferior in quality.

Same deal, apartments should be mandated to have them too.

This is a common misconception. Fast chargers are EXPENSIVE. Even the BC hydro owned fast chargers are 35 cents per kwh for level 3 charging, compared to the 10 cents I pay at home with my time of use rate. Private chargers are even more expensive, sometimes as much as $1 per kwh.

It does not make financial sense to use fast chargers as a primary way to charge your EV, they are really only meant to be used for long distance travel where you're driving 500km+ in a day.

It makes sense that they cost more too, the chargers themselves, the land they use up, and the extra electrical infrastructure to bring in the huge amounts of power they use them all cost money. Just for comparison, a 200 amp house gets around 24kwh of potential throughput, while the latest fast chargers can each draw 350kwh.

It's far easier to just have a spot you can pull into once a week at your condo, and plug it in, then drive off the next morning with a full battery having paid only $6 for another 450km of range.

Yes... It's quite common for companies to bid internationally for such projects. They tried and failed so badly they had to be replaced on a multi billion dollar European project a few years back.

Can you not read past a headline?

BYD outsold Nissan worldwide in number of units, but that includes BYD's China sales which make up almost all of it's sales.

If you eliminate sales in China, BYD sold only 242k vehicles globally, and Nissan sold around 2.4 million.

BYD is NOT a major brand outside of China.

That's like saying China Railway Group is a major international construction company because it's the worlds largest by revenue, despite essentially operating only in China.

If China was playing fair and being a good ally, I'd be okay with that. They aren't. Their companies regularly engage in everything from dumping to industrial espionage, not to mention the worker exploitation and abuse, and extending into the government interference both internally and externally.

Protecting ourselves from a single country still allows every other country to compete with us.

That's based on number of units, not revenue. They sell cheap cars in China to a billion and a half people, of course they move a lot of units. They had to redesign them to sell them outside of China because they don't meet western safety standards with their normal model.

BYD sold 242,759 vehicles outside China in 2023, according to data from BYD and Chinese Customs.

Nissan sold 3.4 million vehicles in 2023, only a million of which were in China.

BYD is not a major brand outside of China, and or even globally if you count by revenue.

Street chargers would be good. If I recall those laws for requiring condo boards to respond are very recent, and a good start.

You're absolutely right about the lack of education though. I swear half the people I talk to think the only way to charge one is via an 800v fast charger, and the other half assume my range is about 100km in the winter.

BYD is not a major brand, they aren't even top 10 in the world yet and 95% of their sales are in China.

Nissan sells more than they do, and it's the third largest Japanese car brand.

So, I drive an EV already but here's the rub with just taxing gas powered vehicles.

I still believe some people need (or should use) gas vehicles currently.

The first case is for people who have no access to a charger at their home (primarily condo dwellers, since home owners can easily install them) This should be regulated by the government, every condo should be required to upgrade their parking to include a certain percentage of chargers. We don't need more chargers at random places around the city like we have with gas stations, vehicles should always be charged wherever they happen to sit overnight.

I've had an EV for 3 years now, and I've never once needed a fast charger, I've never driven more than 400km in a single day so overnight level 2 charging is perfectly fine for me, I even used only the standard wall-socket level 1 charger for 4 months when I first got the car. It was do-able but a bit annoying.

The second case is for long distance drivers and/or towing, if you drive more than 2x your battery range in a day as a normal action then EVs just aren't yet sufficient for you. This is common if you need to tow heavy things, because the towing range on EVs is absolute shit so 2x that battery range isn't very far. A ford f150 lightning is fine for hauling your trailer around the suburbs for your yard maintenance business, but if you tow farm equipment a few hundred kilometers a day to different farms, it's not going to work with the current options.

Third, People who already have vehicles. When you replace it, go EV, don't bother until then. If you are a low distance driver, when you go to replace your vehicle, buy a used gas vehicle not a new one. EVs make more sense both financially and environmentally the more use they get.

These issues are all getting sorted out (slowly) but we aren't done with gas vehicles just yet so I'd rather see the taxes on the Gas than on the Vehicle itself.

Still failing kindergarten I see.

And that isn't suspicious to you at all?

I had to actually read the FDA page to figure out how this is a problem. Too much Vitamin D for infants with impaired renal (Kidney) function can be bad. It's unlikely to impact the average infant consuming it.

It takes months of very high consumption of Vitamin D to become toxic. Like 60,000 IU per day (for an adult) for 3+ months continuously.

For comparison baby formula normally contains about 30 IU per 100mL, and they drink about 800ml per day as a newborn (or a total of 180IU per day)

Infant Vitamin D drops are 400IU per drop, these are recommended to give daily in Northern States and Canada in addition to what they get from other sources.

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Please go look up what reduce means in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

You clearly missed that part of your primary education curriculum.

Correct, but that doesn't mean we need the ones designed and manufactured in China. There are already other options designed and manufactured in better countries.

Do you understand what reduce means?

Withhold choice? Do you not realize that there are electric vehicles from literally every major brand available today?

I love my Kia Niro EV, going on three years and 80,000km now.

Hard disagree, we should be reducing our reliance on China, not increasing it.

Piracy has nothing to do with global supply chains crashing.

Almost none of it.

The amount of data flowing through undersea cables around the world is insane compared to the inter-satellite links available.

That being said, a lot of data that you use as a consumer on a daily basis doesn't pass through any undersea cable at all. It's more of a business problem than an individual problem.

The majority of the websites or online services you access are locally hosted on your own continent. Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, etc. all have local servers. Even for video games, most of the traffic is local just due to lag issues caused by too much distance.

What would break? Banking and financial institutions transferring money to or from overseas institutions to complete investments and loans ,Communications (Like e-mailing or calling a factory in China from the US, or contacting your Grandma in Thailand), International shipping, Flight tracking, etc.

While the satellites could take over for some of that, what would likely happen is specific companies would bid up the price for that limited capacity, and less financially valuable uses like being able to look at the latest lemmy posts from European submitters wouldn't work.