#government incentives

[naqati]

The Nissan Leaf: Affordable, High-Performing, and Supercharged Electric Vehicle

Nissan Leaf Cost, Range, Performance, and Supercharging Introduction The Nissan Leaf has been a game-changer in the electric vehicle (EV) market since its launch. With its impressive cost, range, performance, and supercharging capabilities, the Nissan Leaf has become a top choice for eco-conscious drivers around the world. In this article, we will delve into the various aspects of the Nissan…

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#affordable #battery technology #cost-effective #driving experience #eco-friendly transportation #electric vehicle #EV #fast-charging #government incentives #home charging #maintenance #Nissan Leaf #performance #range #regenerative braking #supercharging #sustainability

[kesarijournal]

The Great Australian House Rush: How We're Turning Medium-Sized Cities into the New Sydney Minus the Traffic Jams

Australia, a land vast and diverse, with cities bustling and bursting at their seams. Here we are, at a crossroads, much like that dreaded five-way intersection in Sydney where you’re more likely to meet your maker than make it to work on time. But fear not, for our beloved minister of Everything Important That We Usually Take for Granted (aka Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, and…

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#2024 #Australia #community planning #environmental sustainability #flexible work policies #government incentives #housing affordability #infrastructure #lifestyle change #medium-sized cities #migration policy #Norway #pilot projects #Political-Satire #population distribution #regional Australia #remote work #social disparities #urban congestion #urban planning satire #Urban-Development

[ennovance]

Subsidy Wars Heat Up With US Allies Forced to Pay Up or Lose Out

💥The US Is Playing Catch-Up in Industrial Policy

…. Industrial policy has kickstarted a global contest that’s straining alliances, threatening budgets and channeling unprecedented amounts of public cash into private companies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-25/global-subsidy-wars-force-us-allies-to-pay-up-for-chips-evs

📌 https://twitter.com/mohossain/status/1649460500755873794?s=46&t=GtuOmoaTjOwevz2JidiiDQ

#government incentives #manufacturing #investors

[pen2print]

Carbon Farming

Carbon farming (also known as carbon sequestration) is a system of agricultural management that helps the land store more carbon and reduce the amount of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) that it releases into the atmosphere. Carbon farming explicitly recognises that it is solar energy that drives farm ecosystem dynamics and that carbon is the carrier of that energy within the farm system. Agriculture…

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#carbon farming #carbon sequestration #global warming #government incentives #nature #pollution

[sukimas]

the thing with free college is that even if you cover tuition, your poor students are gonna be up a creek without a paddle in regards to housing. many universities in the US require on-campus housing the first year or so- this often costs more than competitive housing in the area, as there's a captive audience. it's also generally expected to be paid in a lump sum (like tuition) rather than month-to-month (like normal rent)

result is that i have $3.5k of student loans (which would be 7k if i hadn't managed to wriggle out of my housing contract the second semester of my first year due to covid) and none of that comes from tuition. if it had been month-to-month, i would have been able to afford it.

kansaneläkelaitos-type student financial aid and more stringent entrance exams Now or else.

#free college of course provides incentives to game the system for university admin staff #which a national college entrance exam actually administered by government can dodge nicely #(if you do it right. which i have not that much faith that america can do) #(america's only functional bureaucracy is the post office) #kela isn't perfect by any means but in particular the way it addresses student financial aid is quite decent

[crownjewel123]

I have a conspiracy theory that Olof Palme’s assassination was linked to his support of South African’s in apartheid and his support for the PLO to be added to the UN despite Israel’s chagrin.

(He was the first to give both the ACN& PLO and vote to join the UN meetings)

He is an incredibly interesting man. If anyone has any informative books on him I could read please share. (i will learn another language to read them if i must)

#ik they say it was stig but #i genuinely believe the workd governments had every incentive to make him quiet #permanently #olof palme #sweeden

[anthonybialy]

Bill of Wronged

Our rights have been taken to not be safe.  People get every benefit otherwise.  Attempting to manipulate the universe on our behalf is super kind of authorities who expect the gesture to compensate for not actually doing it.  We only get a vote technically.

Wondering how could one be in favor of guns is popular amongst those not into free will.  Sanctimony about how implements hurt bodies and feelings replaces not thinking out that naughty types might obtain them, perhaps even in defiance of legal restrictions.  The mere existence of that choice dissuades villains from initiating nefarious plans.

Figuring what crimes never occurred is hard to measure.  But it’s easy to see what happens when the only people restricted from bearing arms are those who comply with laws.

Trying to get virus season going again is for your benefit.  You’re acting a bit too independently.  A sequel scare might get you to remember who rules over you.  Visionary faux epidemiologists have to plan panic ahead, as one can’t spring fear a month before an election.  The timing of picking a new president is surely coincidental.  Paranoia is a symptom immune to vaccination.

Thoroughness is not a virtue when the right to shop elsewhere is treated as a sin.  The fear of an even worse shutdown sequel serves as an extension of the sickly notion that government should and can be responsible for one’s health.  You don’t get a choice.  That’s supposed to make you feel reassured.

Treating companies who heal you as Satan’s minions is lamentably consistent.  Contempt is similar to what simply must be justified demonization of the gun industry, as they couldn’t merely be offering a product customers want.  Shooting bowling pins in the woods is almost as fun as scaring off potential muggers and tyrants.  But aspiring buyers are told they’re beholden to diabolical shootie-manufacturing conglomerates that would profit any way they could and truly enjoy doing so off suffering.  Compensation for offering something we want is tough to accumulate, anyway, what with inflation remaining a stubborn problem ever since corporations realized they could exploit the populace for excessive profit just after Joe Biden took office.

Pretending money isn’t involved makes life costly.  We’re trying complimentary living right now to see how much more expensive existence can get.  You may notice your consent wasn’t sought.  Being aware of losing liberty is the extent of rights. so be grateful perception remains legal.  That’s only because it’s tough to ban.  The Biden White House’s efforts to control social media narratives through coercion show they try their hardest.  It’s too bad they couldn’t invest efforts to suppress narratives into learning trades.

A caring government lovingly protects serfs from the torture of choice.  Politicians who’ve never run businesses dream of reducing options down to one.  The ensuing dream world will just like what happens when government kindly consolidates industries and takes your money without asking.

Bad examples to avoid will have to count as progress.  Your rulers show their contempt for profit by taking as much of it as possible.  They spend it at will to illustrate the peril of greed.  A biblical situation leads to losing niceties such as options.  Imposing unwieldy burdens upon amalgamations is justified by demonizing them as cruel indulgers of decadence.  Similar logic leads to thinking efficiency means reducing options, not multiple options reducing supply.

It’s their fault for both charging too much and not offering enough.  Those who think the only crime is paying bills also coincidentally double as enemies of capitalism, which as a reminder is another name for trading.  Dragging down others because they have nothing which would enable them to participate flaunts a distinct lack of empathy.

If you want to spend six or seven years which could be spent getting a plumbing business going instead majoring in political science, don’t expect to pay.  College shouldn’t cost anything, at least according to attendees.  Students who take classes in self-righteousness specialize in claiming they benefit society, which is a common delusion amongst the least useful graduates.  Humans who actually help went into business for themselves and contributed to society functioning as a byproduct.  I thought liberals believed in collective benefits.

Endless interventions are based in the seemingly reasonable and wholly delusional notion that life should feature protections.  Wanting to be free of fear is as natural as it is impossible.  Evidence isn’t going to deter a plucky hero like your incumbent executive.  We’re learning the notion does indeed alter our world.  The problem is it’s for the worse.  Making an impact on the world is easy as long as you don’t care what kind.

Deciding which amendments they exploit while scoffing at them is how de facto autocrats respect our Constitution.  They’re free to say any moronic thing they want while law-abiding firearms carriers keep them safe.  You don’t have to worry about sluggish trials or, if you’re a Biden, testifying against yourself.  Meanwhile, the country is presently propped up by states possessing the option to have rights.  Liberals would quarter troops, but only if they work for the IRS.  They endure the cruel and unusual punishment of having to live with themselves.

#rights #Constitutiion #guns #shutdowns #big government #gun control #free market #incentives

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

i think we should all be blaming corporations less and feeling uncomfortable about our lifestyles more climate-wise and every little bit counts and also that private jets should like probably be banned and it’s fine to cyberbully celebrities about their private jets. however! this post bugs me partly because i think it’s an unfair characterization of OP’s thread (which you can agree with or not but came across pretty clearly to me as being about their climate opinions and not a defense of taylor swift), but mostly because i think it shows kind of a failure to grapple with scale. like, it can both be true that taylor swift is responsible for 2000 times the emissions of the average american… and that 2000 times the emissions of the average american is also actually by itself in the absence of other factors a borderline meaningless drop in the bucket re: emissions overall. here are two math situations to illustrate this:

(1) i’m using stats from different years and varied sources because whatever this isn’t a paper and also i’m not linking anything because it’s a fucking pain to do it on a tablet but if anyone cares about my sources i will provide them but also this is unrebloggable because that stupid medieval peasants post is STILL haunting my notes so like whatever. but. in the US aircraft are responsible for ~3% of total emissions. private jets as per one study are responsible for ~4% of all aviation emissions. putting those together, private jets are responsible for (approximately) 0.12% of US emissions. just over a tenth of one percent. i mean, that’s a lot for a thing that no one actually needs and that is stupid and should be illegal. but it is absolutely not on the scale of “meaningfully move the needle on climate change in either direction,” except insofar as every little bit counts, which it does.

(2) a new york times article from 2016 posited that if americans as a whole drove 10% fewer miles per year (assuming of course we are not replacing driving with private jets, lol), we could save 110 million tons of emissions. this would take, as per their estimate, an average reduction per american driver of 1350 miles per year. if taylor swift’s jet has produced ~8000 tons of emissions so far this year let’s say we’re about halfway through the year and it therefore produces ~16,000 tons fo emissions a year. i ran the numbers (and, again, will justify this mathematically for anyone who cares, but like, i doubt anyone does), and taylor swift abandoning all private jet usage for a year would save the equivalent emissions of the average american driver reducing their mileage that year by….. two tenths of one single mile. across the entire year. like. think about that. if you saw a headline that was like “we can meaningfully impact climate change by parking a block earlier than we arrive at our destination for a single week,” you’d be like, well that sounds fucking stupid. but that’s the max capacity of climate-improvement lying in the potential of taylor swift not using her jet.

and like, it’s totally bananas that an individual could theoretically make a choice that would be equivalent to something undertaken by ALL AMERICAN DRIVERS, no matter how small, and, again, private jets are bad, rich people are bad, they are excessively harmful to the planet and that’s bad, etc. but again: all that can be true, and it can still be absoutely 100% the case that “rich people doing dumb rich people shit” is in no way a major force propelling forward anthropogenic climate change, because there are numerically actually very few rich people. if all rich people tomorrow started living like average middle class americans and nothing else changed ever, we would still be completely and totally fucked! that’s what “taylor swift and kylie jenner are not driving climate change” means. it means that even if they got their act together, environmentally speaking, that would not be enough to set us firmly on the course to a less catastrophic future. which is like… true!

#i feel weird about this post bc again like. typically i am on the side of 'actually individual choices do kinda matter' #and also 'most policy decicsions that could make an impact would make an impact by changing the incentive structures for individual choices' #like one person's meatless mondays are whatever #but the government taxing beef such that it costs as much as lobster #that's a different story #but like #to say 'celebrity culture is a structural issue' is to like... misunderstand what a structural issue is and why climate change is happening

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

*giggling and twirling my hair and sighing like I have a crush*

Welchia… she’s so… beautiful…

I wanna run her on a Blaster-infected PC and watch her work…

#this is not about a girl this is about a COMPUTER VIRUS #specifically a nematode #which is a virus that attempts to do good and remove another virus #Welchia is an example of a nematode which was potentially more damaging than the virus it was trying to protect users against #namely that it was very widespread and infected BOTH the ACTUAL US NAVY and the ACTUAL US STATE DEPARTMENT #causing significant delays for both government entities #but it did uninstall the blaster virus and patch the vulnerability blaster exploited! #anyway #Welchia won’t infect you unless you have like. the worst luck imaginable. idk if it’s even still considered active since it’s been so long #even at the time Blaster and Welchia were active; most systems which were even infectable were using OS that were out of date #or went unpatched. simply because attempting to update them could break the programs that the computers were primarily using #for example: my local dentist office has an X-RAY program that clearly wasn’t designed for Windows 11 #the most recent OS they use to run it is windows 7 #even now plenty of restaurants use special embedded formats of windows XP for their point of sale systems even though they’re out of date #because updating them would be hellish and would put the point of sale out of commission for a while #government systems which have specialized programs which are the sole thing the computers are used for would have no incentive to update #because they have to run 24/7/365 and any delay or outage (say by an update to a new OS) could put them seriously behind #any system which cannot pause long enough to be updated or would potentially seriously lose usefulness if it was updated is extra vulnerable #so like. your Windows 11 computer is fine. especially since Welchia has an auto-kill switch when the date changes to 2004 #but at the time it was destructive simply because installing the security patches and interrupting programs/restarting to do so was bad #for computers which needed to never stop working #namely: the things that society quickly crumbles without #luckily Welchia didn’t disrupt the way Wannacry did

[feral-radfem]

I agree that cutting off healthy parts of yourself is mutilation.

I am, however, such an enormous believer in bodily autonomy that I’m in favor of letting adults do it anyway, with informed consent and a boatload of therapy required prior.

Which of course is *not* what currently happens.

I have similar feelings about assisted suicide - I think it *should* be legal. But the current way it’s being implemented in Canada is causing an enormous amount of harm, and I’d rather shut MAID down than leave it as it is.

Sure, I agree, they can do it.

I will just still have my criticisms of those actions no matter how informed the decision is. Allowing something to happen and criticizing the potential motive and message being sent are not mutually exclusive.

The problem with both systems is that they are looking at the finances first and not what treatment can actually help the patient. HRT makes you a lifelong pharmaceutical patient and MAiD is being pushed onto people who typically need more medical assistance (elderly, mentally ill, poor, ext.). Until the underlying problem of money being put before people gets fixed, it's a no from me.

I'm already on the fence about assisted suicide because statistically most people who lived through a suicide attempt don't reattempt but I also just understand that if you have a terminal illness you may not want to sit there and painfully wait to die. As far as HRT is concerned I don't think cosmetically altering your body is a good solution for any internal distress your experiencing. It simply sends you down the path of chasing a sense of self security you can't acquire through any kind of purchase or surgery. Of course HRT for cases like PCOS or menopausal women is completely acceptable.

TBH, I already have very slim margins of what I consider acceptable medical practice on these topics. I'm probably going to need some very compelling evidence that these programs offer more benefit than they do harm before those margins expand any.

#70% DONT reattepmt we #lily responds #I think when there's a financial incentive for establishments that don't know you to sacrifice your health or life they will #I don't think you can actually trust the government to have your best interest in mind tbh not when they're footing the bill especially #or on the other hand when they have the chance to make a $ off of it. money is the only thing that makes in the government function #ask

[newspatron]

India's Electric Vehicle Revolution: Charged Up for the Future

Share your thoughts! What excites you most about India's EV revolution? What questions do you have? Let's discuss!

हिन्दी में पढ़ना चाहें तो आप इस लेख को न्यूजपैट्रन हिन्दी पर पढ़ सकते है [इलेक्ट्रिक वाहन: भारत का नया और हरा भविष्य – इलेक्ट्रिक वाहन भारत में तेजी से बढ़ रहे हैं, जो आर्थिक, पर्यावरणीय, और ऊर्जा सुरक्षा के लिए लाभदायक हैं। इस लेख में, आप इलेक्ट्रिक वाहनों के बारे में सब कुछ…

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#charging infrastructure #clean air #electric cars #electric vehicles #EV revolution #future of transportation #government incentives #India #Mahindra eVerito #Sustainability #Tata Nexon EV

[professor-doc-emeritus]

Im happy ill get a good chunk of my debt erased, but as always tanstaafl

#one way or anither uncle sam will get his bag back #i cant help but think the need to apply and give the government info about your income #will come back to bite a lot of Americans in the ass come tax time #it also adds a weird incentive to me specifically #as theres a non-zero xhance incould end up w/ a job earning mire than 120k out of college

[beansnpeets]

Ah yes. Manitoba student aid’s phone service is still the worst thing on the planet. Great. I love being on hold for several minutes and then being hung up on without even getting to speak to a person. That’s what happened last time I tried calling them, also. I also filled out their contact form on their website and emailed them and am on hold again to see if I can get through, but last time I never did, so I guess we will just have to see.

#personal #i fucking hate manitoba student aid #they are literally the worst #they have zero incentive to make their services accessible or decent #because they have zero competition and the government doesn't care #i just want this to be overrrrrrr

[disastersiblingsau2point0]

Writing an original character and realizing that they might share some ancestry with Steve Leonard despite their general ability to interact nonviolently with other humans is its own out of body experience.

#writing #literature #cirque du freak #steve leonard #original character #fiction #original story #actual dialogue be like: #Person 1 - 'So in order to make your own job easier you promised [REDACTED] that they could have free range of [REDACTED] as long as they #agreed to only go after and kill the people that you personally have beef with.' #Person 2 - 'Well technically the people who take up name space on the generalized hitlist that I provided also have beef with the US #government for a variety of absolutely heinous crimes including but not limited to the harm of other US citizens - #So in my humble opinion it was less of a personal beef and more of a public service.' #Person 1 - 'You told literal monsters who absorb life essence in order to take the shape of their victims that they could TAKE THEIR PICK OF #A DIFFERENT FLOCK so long as they left your herd of sheep alone?!' #Person 2 - 'Weird analogy but yes - yes I did - and if you think about it protecting civilians IS our entire job so you are welcome.' #Person 1 - 'How did you get this far in our line of work - do I even fucking want to know?' #Person 2 - 'Negotiation and politics mostly - you would be surprised what types of bind a person can wiggle their way out of with a bit of #incentive directed towards the opposing party.' #Person 1 - 'I don't get paid enough.'

[legzeppelin]

can i convert my 2001 toyota camry to electric though

#the government should make an incentive to get regular cars converted to electric #i mean like rich people do that with classic cars

[ingleaisle]

Nevermind the fact that there's options outside of The System at all, it's completely baffling that people look at someone (correctly) pointing out that democratic presidence can and have contributed to persecutionary wars up to and including outright genocide and IMMEDIATELY jump to "so you want us to vote republican??? Huh????" Like there's NO other option than Democrat or Republican

#Liketbc i dont think the US government as it is has incentive to divest from wars such as these #So no i dont think its a matter of voting our way out of this #But i hate how people cant even wrap their head around the fact that there's other options even IN the limited scope of voting