theluckycountry wrote:Funny thing is, the majority of people today still use ice packs on injuries, even when told it's erroneous. Why? Because they are stupid, they will believe a pharmaceutical selling the packs rather than their own brains, they have a sort of 'brand loyalty'.
So maybe this story, the psychology of it, also applies to people in other ways? Take a group of genetically ccompromised folks, and then they try and build something..like a ferris wheel? The project is so disasterous that they are then forever more confined to being menial tasks, while dreaming of the day when they will evolve enough to finally, maybe, be able to build something more important, like a car? "Brand loyalty" except applied to an entire country of down of their luck folks, hoping to one day evolve if they can just bring in enough outside genetic stock?
theluckycountry wrote:The exact same people are at work here promoting EVs, even in the face of the insurmountable evidence they are a stupid idea. Stupid people hanging onto stupid ideas because of brand loyalty. No wonder the world is in the state it is...
Your inability to confront a single point from an actual EV owner only demonstrates that you wouldn't know a stupid idea from a good one, as you have zero analytical ability to evaluate information. I don't promote EVs just because I own them, I do, like with peak oil, talk about the experience involved instead. With peak oil it is now almost into the decades of research, with EVs it is the purchasing them, owning them, driving them 100's of thousands of miles, the basic research that went into undersatanding them prior to purchase and direct hands on experience spanning 9 years now.
It isn't the fault of others that you are intellectually selective in your information, and even after having been informed of why your Norway example was wrong, keep using it.
Just as with peak oil, a little education goes a long way towards dispelling the kind of boogie man myths that humans lacking the ability to analyze anything suffer from. Not just analyze, in your case, but this:
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"