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It's an extremely lucrative grift to prey on the paranoia of the very rich.
Spot on. Musk is doing it with the cybertruck as well. It's a dog whistle for the rich being mindful about the unwashed masses finally picking up pitchforks.
Interesting read on the BMW 7 series Protection vehicle. Here's a tidbit from the field: I've heard, through the grapevine, about a team responsible for the safety of a certain high-profile individual (no names mentioned, of course ). About a year ago, they made a strategic shift away from BMWs as protection vehicles. Why? Because in emergency escape scenarios, it's crucial to be able to move the car even with the do…
Interesting read on the BMW 7 series Protection vehicle. Here's a tidbit from the field: I've heard, through the grapevine, about a team responsible for the safety of a certain high-profile individual (no names mentioned, of course ). About a year ago, they made a strategic shift away from BMWs as protection vehicles. Why? Because in emergency escape scenarios, it's crucial to be able to move the car even with the do…
Interesting read on the BMW 7 series Protection vehicle. Here's a tidbit from the field: I've heard, through the grapevine, about a team responsible for the safety of a certain high-profile individual (no names mentioned, of course ). About a year ago, they made a strategic shift away from BMWs as protection vehicles. Why? Because in emergency escape scenarios, it's crucial to be able to move the car even with the do…
This seems surprising to me. This is the sort of feature that I could easily see being controlled by the dealer, via 'coding' (effectively just changing config settings via the OBD2 port). It's a fairly easy process that anyone can do at home with a specialty phone app and a bluetooth OBD2 adapter. Though working with BMW as a third party might be troublesome if they didn't make this a configurable setting.
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I’m sure they offset it with some bullshit carbon credits, don’t worry.
Interestingly, I had my first real world encounter with the other end of the carbon credits just two days ago. A friend of mine told me she had tried to get her neighbours (she lives in the woods) to apply for carbon credit grants in unison. They promise not to chop down their trees and/or to protect endangered plants on their properties, and get paid a certain amount by the Mexican government (obviously nowhere near…
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Interestingly, I had my first real world encounter with the other end of the carbon credits just two days ago. A friend of mine told me she had tried to get her neighbours (she lives in the woods) to apply for carbon credit grants in unison. They promise not to chop down their trees and/or to protect endangered plants on their properties, and get paid a certain amount by the Mexican government (obviously nowhere near…
It's a scam because they likely were not planning on chopping down their trees anyways.
You propose that if I don't do something, you will pay me because it benefits you in some way.
I agree to not do that thing and happily walk away with the cash. Everybody gets what they want. Why does it matter whether or not I was planning to do the thing?
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Spot on. Musk is doing it with the cybertruck as well. It's a dog whistle for the rich being mindful about the unwashed masses finally picking up pitchforks.
I cannot stress this enough, a $60k or so electric truck has nothing in common with an uparmored billionaire-mobile.
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Interestingly, I had my first real world encounter with the other end of the carbon credits just two days ago. A friend of mine told me she had tried to get her neighbours (she lives in the woods) to apply for carbon credit grants in unison. They promise not to chop down their trees and/or to protect endangered plants on their properties, and get paid a certain amount by the Mexican government (obviously nowhere near…
It's a scam because they likely were not planning on chopping down their trees anyways.
This is what those opposed to carbon credits believe will happen: abuse and fraud
Very little will be achieved towards the goal of lowering or sequestering carbon.
Carbon pipelines are an excellent example of this: taking advantage of overly generous federal tax credits to achieve very little.
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I’m sure they offset it with some bullshit carbon credits, don’t worry.
To kill a senior states-person will certainly lead to war which is itself highly un-environmentally friendly. The carbon credits in this case are the expected value of any averted war. A single F-35 burns something like 1,500 gallons/hour. Taking the car is a small price, economically and environmentally, to avoid the potential of war.