Between my states heavy handed approach on forcing electrics and manufacturers turning buying a car into a subscription service, I'm glad I have two relatively new cars and am gonna be able to sit on what I have for a minimum of 7 years.

Covid happened and now you can't own shit without being nickeled and dimed into debt.

Literally, the first paragraph (which I read) mentions how the "simple solution" is subsidies "prudently applied" and then talks about the merits of the asian sector over ours in the following. Thats literally the first half of the article. Also, subsidizing all these fucking corps to do our shit for us is literally how were here in the first place with most our industry shipped offshore.

I'm sorry, but did this person just say that making it ourselves isn't good enough and we should just subsidize asian industries?

Thats undercutting the entire point of this, get rid of our reliance on china and other countries for things we deem important for national defense. I know its not that simple and clean cut, but thats the gist of what the bipartisan politicians who passed this wanted. It brings industry and jobs back to the united states and secures a production line for a valuable strategic asset that would otherwise be cut off by china in a worse case scenario basis.

I agree that its weird to plan for the biggest bad out of the hypothetical, but I'd rather have this stuff and not need it than say, lose an important war due to lack of it.

War is shit. The reasons all of our nations do these things are shit. But until an actual global government takes shape (that places like china, russia and N. Korea will recognize), we gotta keep ourselves safe first.

I guess I won't see it then. Still not getting egs.

But me going out to buy masks is a me problem, not a societal one. Society lied and said "Don't wear masks, they are useless!" and I said "I don't believe you" and wore masks.

Some people followed societies ill informed guidance, some people mocked it, some people just shrugged and did what worked for them because you can't trust a politicized agenda to actually know what's best for anyone but themselves. I'm in group c. The government was wrong, and I as a nurse could see it laughably so, and chose to take care of myself. Funnily enough, it worked.

I have an honest question, why does a sub labeled futurology like to fear monger so many technological advancements? Yall need to rename the sub to preppers or something.

Things are going to change with the rise of ai, I'm choosing to go into it glass half full.

I'm with group of assembled numbers. The good of everyone is a societal problem, what's good for myself is an individual one. If the government is telling me not to wear masks in a pandemic, they have failed their end of the bargain and have done society a disservice. It is now my problem. I'm gonna go buy some masks and flip the ole red white and blue the bird.

I think big games like call of duty and madden are the "big pot of spaghettis" of video games, easy, simple, and widely consumable. It would be silly to not be able to market with them given how much of a staple they are, I agree with you a billion percent though. I like the companies who definitely have an aesthetic/trend going on that isn't just "pump out same game every year".

(And I havn't played it because fps aren't my thing, but I'd watch stuff like platoon over cod any day)

I can't tell if you are trying to be a dick about it or not, but nintendo had household franchises while the gravy seals were still on the tit and when Kratos was just a swimmer in his papas pond.

Everyone was making "childish" games, you had spyro chilling with pokemon and Link, the difference is the kids grew up and started to prefer make believe shootups instead of the make believe pocket monsters. Nintendo also has its own brand of weird maturity that seeps through sometimes like in the metroid and zelda games.

Nintendo just never changed its business model, because why fix what isn't broken?

Finally, something I've noticed from this sub on all that I can get behind. My dream of becoming an aipom is one step closer.

This isn't my argument I am just gonna back him up a little on the two things you seem inconvinced of for sure.

There is more I'm worried about than fish dependency on lithium as current studies (though there are few) show that most sea life, biologically anyway, have a little too much in them currently, mostly around the brain, but too little in the muscles. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32882547/

The real issue (that we currently know of for sure) with solving lithium from the ocean is noise pollution, which sea life is extremely, extremely sensitive to. I'm not going to provide a source for that, watch fish die at your own leisure. I don't vibe with it. (You've honestly probably already seen a few videos on here anyway)

Now mining and quality of the metal. That one you are the big wrong on. Melting it down doesn't make it "pure", and without what would be an expensive and dirty process to chemically drop the lithium out to claim it on its own (like you mentioned with the layer added on to desalination) you'd get a loss in quality for each step you shortcut for cost savings and efficiency. There is absolutely a standard of quality we use for every metal for every job. We will not use steel borne from pig iron to construct a skyscraper for instance (atleast you really really shouldnt), and lithium is a spicy metal, a lot more can go wrong with that if you don't do it the right degree within x% of contaminates.

You both are right. Lithium is by no means exceptionally rare, but it's going to take a lot of money, care, consideration, and time to do correctly. Most people riding the electric trend hard refuse for time to be allowed, most people against the ev trend would refuse to give it money, care, and consideration.

Again, no sides taken, I just like to hit hot steel with a hammer and make things and have dropped lithium out of a few different solutions via electrolysis.

I want to say something anti apple but honestly I'm tired. Fuck meta. Fuck apple. Fuck them all.