save_the_humans

I advocate for a cooperative economy. The best example of it working at scale in the modern world is the mondragon corporation in spain.

I think people are more than that. The point being that nothing is inherently wrong with making individualistic self serving choices except when there is disregard for others. But people can also be compassionate, alturistic, giving, and cooperative, so how about a system that rewards the better parts of human nature?

Capitalist markets are built off of the idea that people are inherently self serving and the ensuing competition will benefit people with lower prices, better products, etc to meet their own selfish needs. Capitalism uses capital to gain more capital, and is exploitative by design. When a company acts in a way to maximize profits, and appease shareholders, they're doing it selfishly, with total disregard for others or the environment, in a system that rewards their actions. This is quite like psychotic, or sociopathic, behavior.

I just think trying to control this is a losing battle, and what we really need are foundational changes to values, motives, and what gets rewarded and how.

I disagree. I think that may actually be the only way out of this mess. "Cooperation [being nice, forgiving, but not a pushover, and clear] pays even among rivals" (Veritasium - Prisoners Dilemma).

Death by unfortunately misinterpreted font. There are worse ways to go.

We bond over that shared trauma, then go kick rocks together to cope.

I can read docs and would be interested in an internship... Paid ideally, but would love to have a mentor to learn devops. I also know multiple programming languages and am comfortable in a terminal

We're all messed up because we've built a society that isolates and exploits us while rewarding psychotic behavior via corporations or people acting selfishly without regard for others

Now if only I could afford the van, I too could be homeless. Just like I've always wanted.

Its MIT licensed. Meaning the code is open but the license is permissible in that copy's can be subsequently closed. This is unlike with the GPL most generally associated with open source code.

Its the electric motors that should outlast an ICE vehicles. Its just a simpler design with less moving parts. They use rotational energy directly rather than converting translational energy via pistons and a drive train requiring a transmission, lubrication, cooling, and regular maintanence. Non of that is hardly needed with an ev, at least to a signifactly smaller degree. An induction motor doesn't even have parts that touch anything to rotate.

Not to mention that should a battery technology develop with anything close to the energy density of gasoline, evs should be able to achieve ranges in the 1000s of miles.

100% agree that the hardware and software should be open sourced though.

Aside from the batteries needing to be replaced at some point, electric vehicles should far outlast their ICE counterparts. A significant breakthrough in batteries could make that well worth it.

I'd love a right to repair, but also prefer to just get rid of capitalism. Not that these have to be mutually exclusive.