{"id":66453,"date":"2024-04-05T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=66453"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:11:37","slug":"qotd-when-the-faculty-lounge-turned-nasty-over-the-electric-vehicle-charging-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/qotd-when-the-faculty-lounge-turned-nasty-over-the-electric-vehicle-charging-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: When the faculty lounge turned nasty over the electric vehicle charging stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You’ve heard me say quite often that the nicest car in the faculty lot always belongs to the wildest-eyed Marxist. Given what we know about the stiffness of the “most insane Marxist” competition among eggheads, it seems to follow that the faculty lot must look like a rap video \u2014 Bugattis and Bentleys and Maybachs everywhere. But that’s not the case, comrades.<\/p>\n

Not because academics are worried about anything so prole as hypocrisy \u2014 as we know, cognitive dissonance only affects the Dirt People \u2014 but because eggheads operate on a different scale of values. Bentleys etc. are what those people drive … so professors have to kick it bobo style. Thus the faculty lot is filled with Priuses (Prii?), Teslas, and so forth. Back when The Simpsons<\/em> was funny, it had a throwaway joke about Ed Begley Jr. driving a car so eco-friendly, it was powered entirely by his own sense of self-regard. If they actually marketed those, every professor in America would have one … but since they don’t, the “eco-pimp my ride” competition continues unabated.<\/p>\n

Which is hilarious for two reasons. First, there isn’t \u2014 there won’t be, there can’t be \u2014 sufficient infrastructure to support more than a token few electric vehicles (EVs). Flyover State is nothing if not eco-friendly, though, and so they fell all over themselves giving the faculty charging stations … but see above: All they could manage was one charging station per level, in one parking garage. Which naturally led to much agonizing in the Faculty Senate, not to mention the student newspaper, the town newspaper, and every boutique coffee place and head shop in College Town. How can charging station time be most equitably distributed? Does the Lesbian Negress outweigh (supply your own joke here, please) the White FTM tranny? What about the genderfluid hemophiliac Inuit? Where does the wingless golden-skinned dragonkin rank?<\/p>\n

Severian, “Luxury Beliefs”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-06-03.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve heard me say quite often that the nicest car in the faculty lot always belongs to the wildest-eyed Marxist. Given what we know about the stiffness of the “most insane Marxist” competition among eggheads, it seems to follow that the faculty lot must look like a rap video \u2014 Bugattis and Bentleys and Maybachs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,41,13],"tags":[111,497,480,1462,764,1238],"class_list":["post-66453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-electricity","tag-hypocrisy","tag-severian","tag-university","tag-virtuesignalling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hhP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88364,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66453\/revisions\/88364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}