Trump bringing down Shein. Fuck! Did I just convert to MAGA?
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Well, are you ready to apologise to @toro, @LuisSuarez, and @Nobluff?
I think Poilievre here might be DOA in the next election, the nickname âTemu Trumpâ is sticking.
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The overlying problem with the USAâŠyou just canât fix stupid!
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Weâre in the peak dunning kruger era
And get ready for the press to fail to do their job yet again. This guy is going to get tons of attention not because he has insight, but simply because he gives them good copy and so they will elevate him to a status his performance does not justify.
https://x.com/tarapalmeri/status/1887692198898266291
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Pennsylvania is the new West Virginia
Resoloot Desk
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Iâll raise it to 0.01 Rs. Almost fuck all
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???
Donât they use the same charger ? We do in Norway. There are electrical chargers for EV cars everywhere. Tesla by far the dominant brand and makes the best electric cars (according to the electric car nerds I know, my car is unfortunately still petrol), but every car use the same public charging stations obviously. To make actually dfferent ones would naturally be very stupid (I mean, why the F would anyone do something that dim and make charging the car more difficult?), so I donât get why the US would not create a common charger solution like we have and thus save much money and pain.
Anyway, in Norway, everyone knows someone who owns a Tesla (usually more than one). Everyone. Most sold cars by a very wide margin and I donât think Musk will manage to destroy that brand with some mere neo fascism. I read above that Tesla is not selling abroad, but that would be news to a Norwegian. But then again, itâs been the pet child of the previous 2 Norwegian governments to electrify the car park with public chargers popping up everywhere and economic incentives (less tax) on new electric cards and more. So Tesla + Norway very much = True.
In Norway, 9 out of 10 cars sold (88.9% in 2024) are electric (because the environment is supposed to matter these days). Most by far, are TeslaâŠ
Source, just because I wanted to google and check my own numbers (which check out):
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Trump making the deplorables pay tax for the first time.
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This is impressive.
You have to be impressed with his time management skills, between running the Kennedy Center and saving America from paper straws, you wonder where he finds the time to be President
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No doubt heâll be putting on performances of himself âdancingâ to Ave Maria twenty times in a row.
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Our sovereigntist neighbour at the lake is flying a Canadian flag from his flagpole. The Quebec flag above it mind you, but still, it is a first since 1976.
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Itâs fascinating how little Americans seem to care about the leak of their personal information.
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Iâm glad you asked, but you wonât be.
The situation dates back to the early days of EVs, where, naturally, different companies/countries adopted different designs. Off the top of my head, Tesla had one, Japan had one, China had one, and those pesky non-Tesla manufacturers also had one.
Naturally, the big bad EU and its evil regulators decided to standardise EV charging connectors for whatever weird reason, and settled on a system used by many non-Tesla manufacturers, called the Combined Charging System (CCS). So Tesla in the EU has no choice but to ship its vehicles with that system.
However, in the US, because Tesla had first mover advantage, and regulation of any sort is a mortal sin, while CCS networks were being built out, Teslaâs network was unfortunately bigger, and eventually, after they published the specification in 2022 and called it the North American Charging Standard, many manufacturers selling vehicles in the US have now announced moves to that network.
If theyâre still making that claim, unfortunately the nerd part (and probably at least subconscious, if not conscious, worship of that waste of space and oxygen) probably dominates any rationality. There are many better EVs out there, unfortunately many of them coming from China. As cars though, I think Teslas are universally acknowledged as actually rather shite. Extremely poor quality control, although I hear Mercedes-Benz has tried to rival them in that aspect, poor design (no more signal stalks apparently). Theyâre cars for the easily impressed.
I will condition this on not being sure how reliable the numbers that Ars Technica has are, but my post above (Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 2) - #3356 by redalways) points out that even in Norway, Tesla sales have plummeted 38% this year so far.
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We were discussing this at work. Essentially, what would happen if a similar thing would happen with our data centres? As it is, we are forbidden from taking data out of the EU (which is a pain in the backside for a UK based company) but things like this really make the point of why we have those rules.
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