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Put me on the jury and I don’t think it’s a crime. What I’m wary of is making a spectacle out of perceived adventurism and it making us think there’s a revolutionary moment that isn’t actually there. Agitating around Luigi and by extension the one arsonist we can name is its own thing. Those are real events with real public support behind them. If we start indulging patterns that don’t actually exist we misread the situation and end up looking silly.
From 2020 to 2024, there were an estimated 1,544 warehouse fires [in the US]
That’s an average of 386 per year/1.02 per day well before the recent fire that had a direct connection to Luigi-thought. Since then I don’t think I’ve seen any others where there’s a suspect with a message. The background incidence rate is too high already in a country that has only gotten worse economically since 2024. I’d expect it to increase from insurance fraud and undermaintained/vacant buildings. I’m staying agnostic on it being a new trend until more of these are connected to some kind of statement.
I’m really curious to see what happens with the Slate truck. The price keeps ballooning to the point that I don’t think consumers will be able to afford it over an econobox, but an electrified 1990s Ford Ranger is exactly what would give me the most utility from a vehicle. It goes further and hauls more than my cargo bike without any extra shit that will break, while having more safety features than a kei truck that can’t drive well on the roads I would need it to.
Outside of a BYD at half the price, it’s the only vehicle I could see myself buying. Either I get a really nice car at a nice ebike price or a purely practical car at an econobox price. Otherwise it makes infinitely more sense to wait for solid-state batteries to proliferate outside of Chinese models so I don’t have to deal with any of the drawbacks to EVs.
wake up, look at the sports score, my team lost 0:2