Well, hats off to you for at least doing something other too than just reading the news.

You could reduce your news consumption by 95%, and you’d still “know these things.” There’s no avoiding them - trust me, I’ve tried. Nobody is obligated to consume the sheer volume of news your average Lemmy user currently does. At this point, I’d practically consider it a form of self-harm. The only way to maintain anything remotely resembling a healthy media diet nowadays is by actively limiting your exposure to the overwhelming flood of information.

And for blocking comments:

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What I like most about electric cars is that there’s so much less moving parts that break and need to be replaced. With a hybrid this isn’t really the case. I wouldn’t mind getting an electric pickup but they’re just way out of my price range and I don’t quite feel like getting one that’s all new and shiny because I use mine for work and it’ll eventually get all banged up anyway. Also, really difficult to find one with just two seats and a long bed.

I don’t feel like that’s the case. The cheapest used pickup available right now costs 3x as much as I paid for mine. The price difference pays my fuel for 10 years.

Does my diesel pickup truck count as protest against Tesla?

It’s impossible to get a vacuum in all the nooks and crannies. Especially between the fins. Compressed air is pretty much the only option.

The whole idea of having your house hooked into a gas line is bonkers to me. I’m a plumber whose constantly fixing leaking pipes in people’s homes. Gasses have even higher tendency to leak than water and it’s much harder to detect. In the worst case scenario it can literally blow up your house so that’s there’s nothing left of it. No thank you.

That is still considered active trading when someone is manually picking which stocks to buy. Historically, passive investing into index funds tends to have outperformed nearly everyone who does individual stock picking based on their own judgement.

Buying and selling stock based on short term value fluctuations.

I invest to make money, not to make a statement. If you try to combine the two, you’re likely doing one at the expense of the other. People are free to invest however they want, but making investment decisions based on emotions will inevitably be reflected in their returns - or lack thereof.

Currently, about 65% of my investments are in U.S. companies, while 7.8% are in Europe (where I live).

I didn’t know that averaging 10 messages per day is considered “posting like crazy”

Lets hear your theory then about what that means.

I wouldn’t agree with “sticking fingers in my ears and saying it doesn’t matter” being a fair representation of what I’m trying to say here.

I would claim that in the case of person’s skin color we truly shouldn’t care about it any more than we care about the color of their hair or eyes. It’s it’s a description of appearance, not a reflection of who they are. If we want to live in a world where this is the case, then my argument is that paying more attention to it is not the way to go. I’m sure the people behind this have good intentions but it’s the method I disagree with here.

I’ll save them the trouble then and out myself here by posting the only other mention of skin color on my entire post history. Clearly I can’t stop talking about race.

Concluding that someone is a lesser human because of their skin color seems just as illogical to me as calling someone a racist because they drive a lifted truck. These things are completely unrelated.

Interestingly, your post history shows that you are very interested in skin color yourself.

Feel free to dig thru it and post it here for everyone to see.

I think we should come up with a term for the kind of people to whom the color of a person’s skin is this important.