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I guess I just don’t see things in such a short-sighted way. It makes no sense being mad at a car that plugs in to charge if you bought it knowing full well you can’t do that. It makes no sense to blame a fridge if there’s an electrical outage because the fridge didn’t cause it. It makes no sense to blame your solar panels on a rainy day because your solar panels do not control the weather. While you need to consider the limitations of anything you purchase before you purchase them, blaming the whole package when anything goes wrong is neither helpful nor productive. I don’t blame my car when a charging station is full, I blame our shitty charging infrastructure in this country that causes this problem.
Blame yourself and/or your housing situation if you can’t charge your car, blame the power utility if the power goes out, blame the weather for your bad day of solar power production. In each case, the problem doesn’t lie with the appliance, it lies with the infrastructure (and/or poor planning on the individual’s part). The appliance is working as designed. If that upsets you then you’re never going to be happy with anything.
I can’t believe I just had to say that.
Let me posit it a different way. Do you know how to design a car? or a fridge? or ANY of the appliances we've dragged into this at this point? Did you make the device? Do you think that you could have or would have designed something differently if you were in charge?
So if a designer/engineer makes a product that RELIES on something... Do you really have much say in the matter? Considering that like 99% of fridges rely on power coming from a grid... Safe to say you really have no options here?
So when the one thing it relies on goes out... Who's fault is it? Nothing stopped that designer from putting a few SLA batteries into the thing and continuing on for hours during a grid outage... It's both the appliance designer for not having the foresight, and the grid maintainers fault for the outright failure. Both together could have made something foolproof, but didn't.
I can't believe that you think you're point of view is the only one that matters out there. What a ugly statement to make as if you were just explaining something to a child. Get over yourself. The world isn't black and white. Lots of things are gray out there, like it or not, infrastructure is a core part of decisions people make, including what vehicles people will buy.
My dude you literally just explained why you shouldn’t blame the appliance 😄
I already agreed infrastructure needs to be taken into account when making large purchase decisions.
You can leave this thread any time if what I’ve said upsets you.
Didn't know you were telepathic. I'm just telling you that you're behavior is nasty. I don't give a shit either way.
K bye