Being in Europe right now and following the local market, Europeans seem to prefer Chinese models over Tesla for a variety of reasons, Elon Musk being only one of them. Others I've heard include:
Teslas look stale and boring. They are too expensive to be everyman cars, but a 10 year old Tesla looks essentially the same as a new one. Luxury car buyers want to show off.
Tesla keeps downgrading features after the car was bought. What used to be included requires a subscription later on. Worse, Tesla decides when your car works and when it doesn't.
That's the more important ones I've heard. So far, all I've seen on the streets are European competitors and Koreans. There is a BYD dealership in town, and it's very busy, but the vehicles they have on display are American-sized and too big for traffic here.
So it's him against Eric Adams now. Shouldn't be all that hard, and I wish him the best.
Long time supporter of incremental change and centrist policies here. Saw the way the Democratic party crumbled to dust after the election, saw the way Schumer and Jeffries went AWOL. It's time for change. Not just generational, but also political, social, and philosophical.
Let Mamdani win, and let him turn New York into a better, more humane place.
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WE understand that. Someone deluded themselves into thinking that a couple bombs would magically produce peace. This is not a Harry Potter movie, so Explosio Nocturna did not work.
I heard something similar. And that any "blue" or "neutral" comment is followed by an immediate suspension or outright ban. I haven't witnessed it myself, though, since I haven't been active on Reddit in over a year now.
Like many who responded, I don't think it's hardcore to not be on Reddit. I was for a long time, then my local forum in Denver was crushed by Reddit admins overreacting to the API rebellion, then the hobby forums started being taken over by AI, and finally the tone on other subs became absolutely toxic, with no variant of the prevailing opinion allowed. Hello, /r/Summit!
The only thing missing from Lemmy is depth, and that will fill in automatically as more people join. For a change, I am delighted to be on a platform that isn't beholden to a small group that makes all the decisions regardless of user input. In fact, I started out on KBin until that flaked out massively (back to normal, now) and was excited that I could just switch to Lemmy and see the exact same things.
Now I am on piefed because I like Python and would like to contribute. But I love all the people at Lemmy <3.
There is one good thing about "Abundance:" it makes for much better messaging than the traditional leftist framing.
Traditionally, leftists focused on taking from one side (the rich, owners, capital class) to give to the other (the poor, workers). That makes it appear like this is a zero-sum game and focuses the conversation on givers and takers, and engenders in some/many people fear as the primary response.
I don't think leftists emphasize enough that this is in fact not a zero-sum game: by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, you are not just being fair, you are also automatically generating growth. Capitalist economies are giant machines that suck money from the poor to the rich, and if the poor have nothing, then the rich also eventually starve.
I fully agree with the criticism in the article: Abundance tells a story without villain, and following its recommendations leads to nowhere because the problem is much bigger than what Abundance says it is. At the same time, Abundance focuses on the more. While "more" is not automatically "better," focusing on the former probably reaches a lot more people on an emotional level.
That's been happening for a long while, now. Years ago, you could get different prices on Amazon if you went with a private browsing session. Granted, the barrage of trackers online makes this a lot easier to dial in for corporations.
That's the rub: They are precisely the ones that lost the funding.
On Tuesday, the Trevor Project, a LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit that contracts with Health and Human Services to respond to the calls, received a stop-work order, effective July 17.
I personally was forced to pack up all my most important things and told I had to be ready to flee an approaching wildfire within 20 minutes. We were lucky and they stopped it before it crossed the highway, but I've been very preachy about climate change since.
Tulsi Gabbard started life as a Democrat. I am assuming they are going to kick her to the curb because she was a "crypto-Marxist" or something like that.
Americans have so much of their wealth sunk in their real estate / home that they eye any change with deep suspicion and an eye on how it affects their home value. Surely, a 5 story building next to your ranch home is going to lower your home value, so it must not happen.
I think this is a dilemma that everybody in the Bay Area faces: you can universally agree that more housing and especially more dense housing needs to be built, but you can't allow it to be built near you because that drags your home value down. Even just a 5% drop in value may be all the equity you built if you are a recent buyer.
I guess a compromise might be to give people near these new buildings a property tax rebate as counterbalance. Also, instead of mandating parking, maybe you mandate that people moving into spaces designed to be near public transit not register cars there.
Very good questions. I think the primary is that some form of workout is very important to your overall health, and you should just pick which type of workout works for you in the long run.
It doesn't really matter if you get a home gym, or go to parks, or to a gym, as long as you are consistent and have fun. For many people, the gym is intimidating, they might be better off with a home gym. I find the place semi-social, which means I get distracted by people watching, but don't have to chat with anyone. Works for me.
The key, I think, is to shift from "I can do all of that at home" to "I will do all of that at home." An insane number of home treadmills and exercise bikes collect dust because the mind is willing, but the flesh lazy. I love the distraction, others love the camaraderie or the friendships you make at a gym. They push you to go even when you don't feel like it, and that's the important part.
I am not so sure this is unintentional. Mesa County is the very strange place that brought us Lauren Boebert and Tina Peters. Their respective Wikipedia pages are astounding.
I am sorry, but this is just absolutely incredible. Do you have a channel somewhere where you talk about how you do it? I'd love to know more.