Ford hikes prices on its F-150 Lightning again, as production resumes after EV battery fire
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notaredditer13 t1_jeddq6s wrote
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Dear lord, that's an awful lot of argument against reality. What a sad, pathetic way to live, believing that reality sucks because even though it is actually great it might temporarily get worse in the future, maybe.
popquizmf t1_jedxoxb wrote
Hold up. Now, I'm. Not suggesting the post above you was all rainbows and dancing, but bro, have you lived under a rock? Shit is less than ideal right now.
Just because it's depressing, doesn't mean it isn't mostly accurate.
notaredditer13 t1_jeexy7y wrote
>Hold up. Now, I'm. Not suggesting the post above you was all rainbows and dancing, but bro, have you lived under a rock? Shit is less than ideal right now.
Prior post: Things suck.
Me: Things are great.
You: Things are "less than ideal".
There's a wide gulf between "perfect" and "suck" and "less than ideal" fills the entire gulf. "Great" is in there too. You didn't actually disagree with me, you just gave a wishy-washy/meaningless characterization.
No, things are not "ideal' (perfect). I didn't say they were. They're merely great.
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Dracoxidos t1_jee4wuv wrote
To be fair. They're not wrong. It's now a matter of "what do we do about it?"
Twisted_Cabbage t1_jeejdma wrote
Not wrong, yet still downvoted. Hopium is a powerful drug.
It's the answer to your question about what to do about it that is so depressing and also why so many people are living in a hopium filled fever dream.
Dracoxidos t1_jegw2ww wrote
I'm a clinical optimist.
Twisted_Cabbage t1_jegwfbg wrote
Well then, here's some reading for you.
Dracoxidos t1_jeh0k8d wrote
Read and used that book as a piece of evidence when I taught toxic positivity and its negative impacts. Thanks for pushing education on me. Still support your original comment as completely valid.
notaredditer13 t1_jeexj3y wrote
It's completely wrong. That's what "argument against reality" means. They're arguing that things (reality) suck, which is objectively false.
Dracoxidos t1_jegvlho wrote
I guess I should have been more specific about what I'm saying isn't wrong. I'm saying all that stuff that was mentioned does exist, and it does suck. I get that's being subjective and some of the stuff in the comment is probably inconsequential to their immediate personal life. It still sucks. So, what can we do about it?
notaredditer13 t1_jegxzmq wrote
>I guess I should have been more specific about what I'm saying isn't wrong. I'm saying all that stuff that was mentioned does exist, and it does suck.
No, I know that's what you mean, and it's wrong. Basically everything that guy said that's specific enough or backwards-looking (so available facts to support/refute) is factually wrong. Just one example:
>...crime... are all at all-time highs...
There's lots of different crimes, but most of them peaked in the 1980s. Here's murder:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/
Note: it went up a bit during COVID to 6.9, still way below what it was in the 1980s.
"violent crime"
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