Anyone else notice more frequent extreme weather?

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I mean this is not the first time that companies take advantage of less develop countries for their resources and utilize child labor.

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Yeah it needs to stop though!

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What type of phone do you have?

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Google pixel.
What do you rec?

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I have a pixel too, Iā€™m not sure about that manufacturer but several phone manufacturers use child labor so if we want anything to change, the consumers need to show it with their wallet.

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Iā€™m thinking of postponing my next phone purchase. I donā€™t know what the life of my phone is thoughā€¦

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Could research to see weather Google uses child labor to manufacture phones and if they do you could always find another phone brand that doesnā€™t.

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For the first 40 years of my life West Virginia never had any tornados. Not 1. Now we do. Itā€™s weird. We had like 2 some months ago within a 2 week period.

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Ah ok fair play!

I forget in the US there is a ā€˜conversationā€™ going on that makes it political

Turns out you can legislate stupidity but thatā€™s all I will say

:wink:

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It took you this long to notice, lol?

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The thing is that ā€“ whether you believe in climate change or not ā€“ you should be trying to pollute less, leave less garbage lying around, and avoid wasting. Nobody likes pollution and breathing gross air full of particulates and exhaust. No one likes going to a park and seeing birds with plastic six pack rings around their necks. No one likes being in a lake and bumping up against garbage.

We should all be doing our part to reduce our environmental footprints, period. Yes doing this helps with reducing carbon in the atmosphere, but it also helps with everything else. So just do it.

Hah. Rumour has it he gets reminded several times a month. LOLOLOL.

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I heard that China is the leader in evā€™s. They make affordable versions and have cornered a huge part of the market. The United States wonā€™t let China sell their evā€™s here lol. China got out in front in investment and development of electric vehicles.

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I heard they have their own version of self-driving cars too, but Iā€™m worried if I owned one I might have an accident after spicy take on China online.
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Yeah China is tricky but I do believe they are ahead when it comes to evā€™s. I donā€™t believe weā€™ll have self driving cars anytime soon

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Screw it. Iā€™m just going to say my idea. If its too political another mod can feel free to flag me.

I think @Joker was spot on alot of his stuff. The charging stations and other stuff, but if people really want more of the US population to switch to EVā€™s, rather than putting huge tarriffs on Chinese electric vehicles, which Iā€™ve heard can sell for as little as 10,000 dollars, they should be lessoning the tarrifs and then offering a government program to help pay for domestic EVā€™s.

The concern here seems to be that if Chinese EVā€™s were to sell without huge tarrifs, the domestic vehicles would have no chance because China subsidies the car companies. The US government seems to be caving to car makers and making evā€™s more expensive for everyone.

If , instead they were to lesson tarrifs and lesson domestic vehicle costs, both could compete for consumers business on an equal playing field where more consumers could afford vehicles.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Maybe they are flawed somewhere, but it seems logical to me.

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I think itā€™s healthy to talk through this stuff

Especially when youā€™re talking around the issue with your own concerns

Politics only becomes an issue in my view when people just parrot sound bites and get overly focused on personalities and what stripes you have

Opinion canā€™t be suppressed just because itā€™s on the political menu of the day

EVs are fair game as they have so many issues

Think itā€™s great that people are trying to make more environmentally friendly vehicles but the execution is just awful

But hey, who am I to criticise!

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Right, but I am a mod, so I have to be careful and not be hypocritical when it comes to what I post and allow others to post. I have to try to stay within the rules.

As far as the topic at hand, I think if they came midway on the tarrifs and domestic subsidies to arrive at a medium price for both, they would be able to get more consumers to buyā€¦

Anyway, iā€™m probably repeating myself.

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Dood, I would kill for a 10,000$ brand new car. And electric too!

Sign my ass up LOL.

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YEah, at the current time, I dont think they sell many of them here at all. But Iā€™ve heard they are putting huge tarrifs on Electric cars from china so they can and then competing with domestic vehicles.

My idea I think of milder tarrifs and US subsidies to find a middle ground would enable some cheaper evs for US consumers.

They are likely going to get around it by selling through Mexico, I heard anyway.

The 10,000 is the price in china with no tarrifs I believe. We will likely never see that here, but a middle ground for competition would be nice.

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when homes get destroyed, people will take this extreme weather seriously.

sadly realizing life is worth less than property

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