cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72601186
Creator credit: https://tiktok.com/@twonkcomics
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- 19 days
This is misinformation in the sense that caps got attached in order to reduce the likelihood of the bottle cap entering the environment since it is easy to loose, in particular when dumped illegally.
At least AFAIK.
Also those are cold gas thrusters meaning they do take electric energy to power the compressors that refill them, not fossil fuels to burn them.
That being said super cars are a luxury for the medium rich.
- 19 days
I’m glad that you’ve already pointed out the difference between environment and climate
- 19 days
Most of society’s electricity IS from fossil fuels. It has to be charged somehow.
Also the caps were attached to keep the bottle from becoming two separate pieces to help store plastic waste in a more consolidated manner. Also less choking hazards for animals and children.
- 18 days
I was going to say the same thing.
It’s amazing how many people just think electricity comes magically from the ether
- 18 days
It’s amazing how many people just think electricity comes magically from the ether
I live in a sensible country, my electricity comes from 98% renewable sources.
- 18 days
Well, all you had to do was learn a foreign language (your fourth), have a job in technology, spend a year preparing, get rid of most of your possessions, abandon your family and friends, move over 10,000 KM, change hemispheres, then find a job before you run out of money, and finally, you too could have spent a year in freedom and then have it all collapse as a part of the pandemic and AI boom.
I’m not doing OK. BTW, 19th of November is international men’s day. Maybe if people want the chuds to STFU on march 8th, reach out to people next month.
18 daysi’m so excited for when i finally have enough money to buy: an RV with enough solar panels on it to recharge an EV and an EV powerful enough to tow the damn RV.
what’s the electric version of rolling coal? blasting Leslie Gore when we pass someone? that will be so fun.
- 18 days
Plastic caps being attached to bottles has nothing to do with carbon footprint, it’s to reduce plastic waste in the environment.
- 18 days
For that it has to be collected first. This way it can not get lost on the way, especially not from the hand of someone drinking.
Maybe they meant self-incinerating bottles? When you first open it, you got 60 seconds.
- 18 days
You can’t incenerate them if they are lying on the beach. Tethered caps are not about the question how caps can be recycled.
- 18 days
When tethered caps are done well, mostly seen on flat-caps for water bottles, they’re actually very convenient. Just flip them over until they click in place and you don’t have to worry about holding them or placing them somewhere. Flip them back to close the bottle.
Unfortunately that often is not the case and then they suck.
- 18 days
Tethered screw caps are very easy to use too. It takes a few sec to figure them out.
- 18 days
Well, maybe they don’t sell them here, anyhow, one does not have to buy shitty products. There is choice, at least when it comes to caps.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish18 days
where I live most of them are shit. It’s very rare that they work so good as described above.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
I don’t think so. all kinds of people are complaining about it sometimes around me.
- morto@piefed.socialEnglish18 days
I wish we could organize to ignore those idiotic product show-offs from billionaire’s playgrounds. No talking, no commenting, no sharing, living as if it ever happened. This would make those products be abandoned by investors and fade into the nothingness they deserve, along with their ego and all the invested money.
One can dream…
- 18 days
SpaceX and Xai merger started with the complete fraud that datancenters in space are an economically viable proposition, when even in the US, solar and batteries on leased Nebraska farmland, is over 5x cheaper, even with most optimistic launch cost assumptions.
Adding jump thrusters to cars is an unrealistic/impractical fraud to justify a spacex tesla merger.
- 17 days
That ignores the part where data centers in space are just stupidly complicated to currently basically being impossible
You have to start with little things like network latencies, but when you get to heat dissipation things just get stupid.
Then again, stupid impossible is kinda Elmo’s modus operandi. Just claim you’ll do something stupid and or impossible, people will dance for you, then you just get billions to spend a fee years pretending that you’re actually doing it and then you, you know, just dont do it. Elmo musk in a nutshell. IH, that and Hitler babies, that too is his thing
- 18 days
Fun fact, the EVs normally have a set of fuses which blow when rolled over. These had to be removed for the demo.
EDIT: someone else posted a photo of the demo car itself not even having the high voltage battery installed; in other terms it does not drive.
What caps are attached to bottles? I don’t think I have seen that.
- 18 days
EU decision. All caps used in single use beverage containers (bottles etc). Around 100 billion bottles per year are used in the EU.
The goal is not reduce the carbon footprint, but to reduce litter (loose caps ending in the environment).
It is convenient if implemented well, and annoying if not.
- 18 days
A big thing in Europe now. It might be limited in some areas based on whether the plastic of top and bottle need to be separated for recycling.
- 18 days
It’s awesome. I love having a few drops of liquid in the cap and the cap being in my face while drinking, the drops on my face now.
Also great for people with disabilities who can not hold things that good and caps sometimes snapping back can make a mess eg when pouring.
Yes, while it sounds exaggerated I’ve had it all happen sometime. So I tear them off.
- 18 days
Disabilities are a weak argument. Depending on which one, tethered caps can be either beneficial or not. In any case, they are relatively easy to tear off, by design. If you aren’t disabled they should be no challenge at all. Indeed I don’t know a single person who feels challenged by them, non of them have them in their face while drinking and I have no idea what drops you are facing either. Surface tension that keeps drops in a cap also keep it there while drinking.
- 18 days
I am and I have issues with it. So?
I have neurological issues so motor skills don’t work as they should. I could lash back at presumptions but I am tiredly used to it. Also getting downvoted for speaking out.
I also have sensory issues in public transport with the loud beeping on closing doors, which is the cheap way to help (partly) blind people.
It already sucks to be disabled.but what sucks even more is people like you invalidating personal experienced issues because you have no idea.
Deal with your own weak tolerance.
- 18 days
It’s pretty clear the author here is misinformed and thought that those are rocket engines. Just like they were misinformed about why the caps are attached to the bottles.
Them creating this cartoon and posting it online produced CO² as well. Nothing survives that purity test.
look i played enough kerbals to recognize a reaction control system when i see one
- 19 days
Why the fuck am I seeing bottle caps getting compared to some billionaire’s vanity project everywhere?
- 18 days
The direct connection escapes me, too.
It would be more reasonable to compare a measure, that actually helps to reduce trash and co2 footprint with that flying car. Plus: there is no reason to stop it, just because there is one very rich, annoying guy.
The effect of one toy project (look at me I build flying cars. Look at me!) isn’t that big. Like Kanemann said, people are poor intuitive statisticians.
- 19 days
For me the bigger problem is the plastic bottle attached to the cap.
- 18 days
It seemed to be standard in France when we’ve taken my wife’s parents back to visit their hometown
- 18 days
I’m sorry. But I think you missed my point. I didn’t doubt the attached caps.
- 18 days
No, you just sad you had big problems with them, no one I know has.
I’m not sad, just tired.
- 18 days
The Roadster FV uses cold gas thrusters, IE compressed air. There’s no carbon footprint apart from the energy used to run the compressor.
- 18 days
“Apart from” is doing a lot of heavy lifting for that carbon footprint, and I mean specially for the action itself, not development or parts. Compressed air is about as inefficient as it gets.
- 18 days
Compressing air for absolutely useful and necessary entertainment purposes is always powered exclusively by carbon free energy now I guess…
- 18 days
Are you opposed to EVs in general for the same reason? Because very few places have zero carbon electricity.
- 18 days
very few places have zero carbon electricity
So you admit it does indeed use CO2.
i mean if we abstract it enough we can say my bicycle runs on gummi worms.
- NachBarcelona@piefed.socialEnglish18 days
Well yes, you get the golden cup of shit for the dumbest take on the subject, like, ever.
”Hitler committed genocide, so what’s eo bad about my little murder?“ - OP (allegedly)
I believe they’re making a point about media’s efforts to blame consumers for global warming, while the 20 most emissive corporations singlehandedly released 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2024.
