If you want an electric Mustang, just convert it to a plug in. You won’t be able to charge it in any practical amount of time relying on body mounted solar, literally no matter what, because the car has a certain mass, and the sun outputs a certain amount of energy per square meter on the surface of the earth, and that amount of sun has a hard time moving that much mass.

Yes.

But also, would the result have been different?

Anyone who isn’t doom-brained could read OOP and come up with some ideas for what they would do in that situation in approximately 5 seconds. Others in this thread have already come up with some excellent ideas.

But having dealt with this mindset in myself and others in the past, and seeing it play out n times on Lemmy, I could already predict the pattern, which you can see playing out again in the other comments which have provided object-level solitions - naysayers come along and start listing every reason under the sun for why that particular idea couldn’t possibly work. And also it sucks. And also if you do it you’re a bad person.

I’ll put it plainly - the solution is to start thinking of solutions. Your own solutions. They are the only ones you’ll ever actually believe.

I’m not dancing around. I’m getting to the actual problem (a lack of belief that things could be better), rather than dancing around it (presenting some object-level suggestions that the doomers will inevitably shoot down, since they aren’t addressing the actual problem - believing things could be better).

All bad movies

Replace all actors with Nick Cage

Right, but the reason it was posted here is to garner sympathy for this sort of doomer attitude, and I see this sort of attitude on Lemmy quite frequently. It’s the attitude of all the people downvoting me. So I figured I’d address the issue directly

This is why no therapist will ever say “okay, so here’s what you need to do to solve your fucked up problems.” Their patients need to come to the answers themselves to accept and take action on them.

This is not controversial. It is literally standard practice among mental health professionals.

The problem with saying obvious things to people with doomer attitudes is that they dismiss them out of hand as soon as they hear them. Literally any suggestion that is made is “dumb” or “impossible” or ends up being more evidence that the system is out to hurt and oppress them specifically.

And of course, whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right - or at least the latter part is true.

Overcoming any doomer mindset and beginning to work on your problems starts with admitting that maybe things aren’t quite as bleak as you think they are, and allowing yourself to believe that a better life is possible. Without that, no advice -regardless of content - will help

I mean, I don’t want to say that the american system is perfect - or even good. But anon is really missing out on some significant and obvious financial options, and really this is due to the defeatist, doomer attitude they express in their last few sentences. They are effectively resigning themselves to the life of poverty they envision because they don’t want to consider that there might be things within their control to inprove their situation.

I mean, yeah, get out. But in the meantime I would suggest trying your best to find some way to relate. In 2 years maybe one of those guys will hear about a good job opportunity and pass it along to you “because he’s a nice guy who gets his work done - even if he’s a bit screwy to not watch sports”

why… why does everything need to look the same, sell the same junk.

Because it is cheap. Build a warehouse, fill it with cheap shelves full of mass produced products. Costs come down due to economies of scale. It’s cheaper to make a kid’s toy if they are all made of plastic from the same mold, and it is cheaper to make buildings if they are all built from the same engineering documents. Stamp your logo on the building so that people know what quality of goods to expect at your store. You can now undercut local stores with lower costs. People shop there because they want to save a couple bucks.

Walmart hasn’t had their greeters actually greet anyone in 20 years. They just stand there. Sometimes they ask to check your reciept when you leave, but you are free to ignore them and keep walking.

okay so shut down AI datacenters (reduce demand)

Lots of people think that these datacenters are doing important things - and some of them might actually be right! So this isn’t going to happen. What could happen is simply instituting a tiered pricing system for electricity, where the more electicity you use, the higher the price you pay per kwh. Most places already have such a system in place for water usage. Then (ideally) we’d reinvest the profits into something like additional renewable capacity.

and smuggle in the cheap chinese solar panels just sitting in storage (increase supply)

I mean… I have to wonder why these are sitting in storage. And the answer is probably that they are defective or underperforming or are known to cause cancer in the state of California. The company that made them presumably wants to sell them, and there is certainly no shortage of people around the world who would like to buy them if the price was right. People don’t just hoard warehouses full of solar panels for no reason.

I wouldn’t attach myself to any particular battery tech - the field is innovating too rapidly.

Solar and nuclear can go hand in hand. Solar is great because the amout of potential harvestable power is massive - the trick is producing panels, connecting them to the grid, transmission, load balancing, and storage.

Wind is nice right now, as it is a relatively untapped resource. But we’ll run out of windy places far faster than sunny places.

Hydro is ecologically destructive, but has an even bigger problem, which is that we have already picked a lot of the low hanging fruit. Good locations for dams are difficult to find, and we’ve already found most of them and dammed many of them. We would rapidly face diminishing returns. Plus, silt is always a looming problem.

Though, the real solution is to simply tax carbon.

I very annoyingly have yet to see this suggestion - go talk to your fucking coworkers!! If everyone is showing up every day, then you have a whole office full of work friends to make! Make a habit of hanging out at the coffee maker or water cooler or whatever and shoot the shit. Ask people how their weekend was. Introduce yourself to people you haven’t met before. Just chat with people for 15 min or so at a time, and then go back to your desk and do something fun/for personal development/for professional development. Then you have things to talk about - and then just always have some job related task on the backburner that you can keep working on, so when people ask about what you are doing at work, you can say “oh yeah, I’m working on X, which will have Y benefit.”

THIS IS HOW YOU PROGRESS IN YOUR CAREER. Yeah, working on your skills is super valuable. But the people who go far, the people who are never short on job offers or pay raises, are the people who have lots of friends.

I like them, and they aren’t controversial. Content warnings have been around since tv stations invented the PG rating

/c/nothingeverhappens

How do you automate removing rule-breaking posts?

50% of lemmy is mostly normal high functioning autists who have crippling social anxiety about the idea that anyone might find them creepy.

The other 50% are creeps

Seriously. I wouldn’t be surprised if rock stars in the 80s bragged about how many teen girls they fucked on tv. And then everyone watching would nod along and think “yes, of course. That is what rock stars do.”