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  • In Europe at least, Chinese cars.

    Last month on my neck of the woods, YoY car sales were up 16% and yet Tesla was down 68% this month alone, while BYD was up 331,6% (yes, 3 digits).

    With these changes, Tesla isn't even in the top 10 anymore (at one point it was #2!) and has been leapfrogged by BYD, who seems very likely to continue climbing and break into the top 3 sellers.

    Tesla is dead.

  • He who sucketh a dick can accommodate a second one.

  • No. We get exactly what his comment is about.

    If he was in the renewables camp, there would be no point, in this discussion over solar, to bring up nuclear. It's absolutely unrelated.

    What he's doing is pushing the thought into people's heads that nuclear is a good solution, and that's why I'm calling him out for. For being a shill.

  • This is the sort of stupidification of issues that we see from bot farms: cherry pick one point, then blow it out of proportion so that there's no more nuance, no more gray, no room for middle ground.

    Everything becomes black and white, polarised, simple: with us or against us.

    Fucking moron.

  • This just hands over an EU country to the Russian and Chinese influences, which is why Hungary is where it's at in the first place.

    This is the kind of thing that needs covert counter-ops: undermine and question orban at every online forum, constantly make Putin look bad, push against every single government policy, etc.

    So basically what they're doing to every other western nation.

  • These are his policies:

    rent freeze, making city buses free and raising taxes on the most wealthy

    If this goes ahead in NY, you can be damn sure that it's going to stir the pot.

  • Millions thrown away just so he can fold over.

    The US PACs system is absolutely broken...

  • Sweet summer child, you should have seen Europe at the turn of the century.

    I've seen doctors pulling out a cigarette and start smoking in the middle of a ward. Any place you'd go at night - a cafe, a bar, a pub, a disco - and you'd nearly vomit at how your clothes smelled the next day.

    Everything and everyone smelled like tobacco.

    Nowadays? It's paradise I tell you.

  • Like with tobacco, the ones who had no doubt about the ill effects were the insurance companies.

    They measure the impact in dollars, and the math is clear.

  • No, I'm in that boat too.

    I'll pick up different songs as I hear them, but my brain after a while defaults to 4 non blonds - what's up.

    I have no idea why, I don't particularly like the music, I never listened to it much, and still it got imprinted into my brain somehow.

    Out of the blue, my brain just starts playing
    And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
    And I take a deep breath and I get real high
    And I scream from the top of my lungs, "What's going on?"

  • If he was a (us) football star he'd have gotten a scholarship instead.

  • This is based of your extensive knowledge of NOT being a business traveler?

    • 1.3 million people travel for work every day in the U.S. alone.
    • 40% of hotel guests are work travelers.

    Random source.

  • They're getting indoctrinated by the fox news and qanon groups or sovcits or whoever gets to them first. It's not a question of if they get indoctrinated, but by whom.

    Some will actually be capable of realising it and break free, but then you have the one actively opting into it.

    At least the churches have discernable objectives, unlike many other groups operating in the cesspits of the internet.

  • Meh. If social media served a purpose, to me, it was to show just how many dimwits are out there who will beg for someone to tell them what to do and how to act and what to think.

    You can take religion from them, but they won't stop being gullible and lost, and they'll just fall prey to the next scumbag with no scruples that comes along, be it a politician or some other con artist.

    The problem isn't religion - it's an excuse, a cover.

  • Looks like they moved on to the fireworks business.

  • And why would you wake up at 6 or 7? There are zero hotels that end breakfast service at that time, that's just a bullshit argument.

    What I'm saying is that they need to start early to accommodate other people staying there, and that at some point they need to start lunch, so if you wake up at 11 that's perfectly reasonable, just don't expect the world to hold for your lordship to come back to the land of the living.