Oh yeah, its more than that. Low weight helps acceleration, braking (so safety), handling, range, wear on every component, and most of all, cost. The same sized tires will need less pressure, wear much less, and grip harder. If the car is lighter, you don’t need as stiff a chassis, nor as much braking to lock the wheels, less battery, motor, which means you can take even more weight off the car… You get where I’m going.

Racecars are fast because they are light, not because they have big engines and expensive bodies. Little 1500lb cars can lap a $3 million 1500hp (and quite heavy, because of all the stuff in it) Bugatti around a track.

Heavy cars can handle OK, but the cost is big.

+1

Weight is everything. Removing it makes almost literally every aspect of a car better, and it’s usually a terrible negative for EVs.

The source doesn’t matter, it’s more about the example, and idea.

More bluntly, horrible people (like nazis) can go on to do good things in life. That’s okay.

On the other hand, posting the picture without a ton of context seems to reinforce the very thing you are worried about:

someone MIGHT get the impression there was something fishy going on at NATO from the get-go

When that doesn’t seem to be the case. Nazis, tankies, whatever populist group you can name operate on negative quick impressions to sow doubt and anger with institutions.

…So?

Poking through some of their history (Ernst and Karl), looks like they were indeed Nazi commanders. They served lower ranks after the war, got more education/experience and rose again to perform well within NATO.

Maybe I’m naive, but I believe horrible people can go on to do good things, and that’s fine. I think my favorite character archetype for this is General Iroh in Avatar, who was involved in unspeakable genocide, changed, and ultimately toppled his own dynasty. He’s one of the most beloved characters in fiction, but a quick bio of his in an image would get him utterly crucified as a terrible human being.

Hence drive by image posts kinda like this without context/history, on the other hand, largely provoke outrage. It’s exactly the kind of thing that would trend on the Twitter algorithm and obliterate any nuance. That’s not necessarily your intent, but it’s kinda the aggregate effect.

His social media posts show a distinct change in his views — one identified by Important Stories as belonging to Gloss suggest he believed in conspiracy theories involving Ukraine, and claimed NATO was an evolution of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party.

As always, the root villain is engagement-driven social media.

Good!

It’s on us for reposting and upvoting them. No engagement algorithm is egging us on here on Lemmy.

Rawstory tends to lean into this, and there’s plenty of science out there to read… But sadly rage bait works.

I’m hoping Arc survives all this?

I know they want to focus, but no one’s going to want their future SoCs if the GPU part sucks or is nonexistent. Heck, it’s important for servers, eventually.

Battlemage is good!

It was selectively given to institutions and “major” celebrities before that.

Selling them dilutes any meaning of “verified” because any joe can just pay for extra engagement. It’s a perverse incentive, as the people most interest in grabbing attention buy it and get amplified.

It really has little to do with Musk.

the whole concept is stupid.

+1

Being that algorithmic just makes any Twitter-like design too easy to abuse.

Again, Lemmy (and Reddit) is far from perfect, but fundamentally, grouping posts and feeds by niche is way better. It incentivizes little communities that are concerned about their own health, while users have zero control over that shouting into the Twitter maw.

Not sure where you’re going with that, but it’s a perverse incentive, just like the engagement algorithm.

Elon is a problem because he can literally force himself into everyone’s feeds, but also because he always posts polarizing/enraging things these days.

Healthy social media design/UI is all about incentivizing good, healthy communities and posts. Lemmy is not perfect, but simply not designing for engagement/profit because Lemmy is “self hosted” instead of commercial is massive.

onlyfans is successful because you can pay for personalized actions and one can build something appearing like a relationship with the porn star. Before one would just passively watch them.

It’s still so one-way though.

I guess what’s remarkable is the collective unawareness of how artificial those relationships are. I get it, I know IRL loneliness and went down the engagement rabbit hole too.

But still, it’s remarkable. I still see articles from professional journalists, all the time, wondering what’s happening to relationships or democracy or whatever then end their post with something akin to a “like and subscribe!” and a busy Twitter profile.

And people criticized this as paranoid and wrong when Biden did it…

Trump just blurts it out. No eyebrows even raised. Again, just imagine the outrage of Biden sat in that chair and said the same things.

It’s great for pushing enraging content though. I feel like the content itself has gravely affected the collective psyche, and so have influencer endorsements (which companies pay big bucks for), even if the explicit ads have not.

Look at her social media posting history. Look at her published book:

BRAVE Books and Ashley St. Clair partnered to write “Elephants Are Not Birds,” a Christian, Conservative children’s book that tackles the topic of gender identity. In the book, children will learn that boys are not girls, and Elephants Are Not Birds.

I retract/regret what I said… I didn’t mean to victim blame. This sucks for her and she doesn’t deserve one bit of it, nor does her abuser deserve any sympathy. She deserves empathy.

But she also appears to have made a living peddling (IMO) hate far and wide. I am struggling to express/process how I feel about that… it’s a tragic irony, I guess? And frustration at that whole ecosystem she was in (which Musk is at the very tippy top of).

Watch this video, ignore the clickbait sounding title:

https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk

It completely changed my view on that.

Basically, without high birth rates, countries are totally screwed. Immigration (which skews young, from high birth rate countries), has softened that issue for the US, hence you don’t hear about it as much here. One can wave their hands and say “elder care and the economy will be automated in the future,” but that’s wishful thinking if you ask me.

Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical. Honestly we’re ridiculously inefficient now; there’s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. And we can use much higher technology to address that.

Yeah, at the very least she needs security and lawyers. 20K is little enough to endanger her life.

…On the other hand, she’s an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

It’s really not funny TBH, it’s all tied to his views on eugenics (or whatever euphemism is used) and frankly horrific visions of the future he shares with a few lower profile billionaires.

This is a known mindset among Silicon Valley uber wealthy.

TF, this guy is still getting millions of views on TikTok and Twitter.

Can we just burn engagement-driven social media? Please?