The NSA takes it badly when their people are identified, let alone charged.

Fission had its day, a long time ago.

Norway is not in a class of its own. It was, but it's not any longer. Denmark is now in the same class. And the next class is catching up pretty fast: Sweden, Iceland, Nepal, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Finland.

The 2CV looks really good. Fingers crossed the production car keeps most of the look, as Renault managed with the R5. (I still preferred the look of the Zoe, tbh!)

1. You've assumed that Chinese OEMs' lower costs are the result of unfair practices. Self-evidently, the bulk of the cost advantage they have comes from greater efficiencies of scale, more automation, more integrated supply chains, lower energy and transportation costs, and fierce domestic competition.

2. More fundamentally, you retaliatory and protectionist are not mutually exclusive tariff categories. A tariff is protectionist if it is aimed at shielding local producers from overseas competition, and it is retaliatory if that happens in response to another country's (purported) conduct. Unless the goods are made domestically, all tariffs are inherently protectionist.

Dumping is *defined* as selling the product abroad for less than it costs in the home market. Wake me up when I can buy a car like the Zeekr 7X for less than the $34k it costs in China, because it ain't happening any time soon. It costs $49k in the Netherlands before you add on EU tariffs that take the actual retail price up to $63k. And it's still absurdly good value at that $63k: the video below shows you the interior.

Chinese OEMs are selling cars abroad to make up for a weak home market, and offering big discounts, but they are absolutely not dumping, or anything close to it.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts...

There's no way an employer is using MDM to control this setting. They're much more concerned about managing copy-paste etc and protecting data.

I have no idea what you're talking about: you say safety, then immediately start talking about (absurdly) long commutes.

As a reminder, the average US car is driven 40 miles a day, and the average car in the UK is driven 30 miles a day. The percentage of cars being driven 400 miles a day in the US is vanishingly small, and the percentage doing a 400 mile round-trip commute is even smaller. Anyone who does that needs to get a new job, frankly.

Your weird size obsession is one of the reasons your roads are so unsafe compared to roads in my country. These giant vehicles are dangerous to everyone else around them.

I have consistently talked about the *UK* and the US. The UK is quite famously *not part of the EU*. Time for you to wind your neck in

I agree, especially when the story is plenty positive enough anyway: In 2019, only Norway had EVs accounting for a majority of new car sales. In 2020, there were two countries where this was true. In 2021, still two. In 2022, three. In 2023, five. In 2024, five. And in 2025, nine: Ethiopia, Norway, Denmark, Nepal, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and China. In 2026, they’re likely to be joined by Singapore and Vietnam, and in 2027 by Belgium and Portugal, among others. Several of these markets have seen EV shares grow from 10% in 2023, so it’s been very fast. If we look at the three wheeler rather than car market, India is already there as well. The important question is when do Germany, the UK, France and Australia get there. Japan and the US will lag way behind, for obvious reasons.

You got lucky. A person I was in a HS class did a prank in college that was a break in to get something for a frat. He did get jail. I expect that 17 saved you. Barely. But I think jail is required here. Nothing less is going to stop this insanity. I expect fear of jail would be a very good deterrent for the cohort doing ai. All of these things are text book criminal, breaking in for monetary gain. My HS mate got jail and I doubt it even qualified as monetary gain.

I saw another story about booz allen running some tests on infrastructure. Except they bothered to setup a completely isolated environment to see what happened. I'm sure it cost them some money to setup process controllers etc, but they did the right thing. They did not release a potentially deadly ai out in the open.

Or if it costs flock more money to send moving images, throw up some displays with old movie chase scenes or something that will trigger the ALPR to send back to HQ. Extra processing costs for flock.

It can often feel like everyone is really invested in ICE vs EV culture wars. But that’s a very Anglo perspective on things. There’s tons of noisy comment in the Anglosphere, a fair amount in non-Anglo European countries (eg Germany, Italy) and in Japan. Outside that, people in SE Asia, Africa and S America largely don’t give a shit. They are not invested in ICE as a part of their soul. They are interested in buying cheap cars (and two and three wheelers) that meet their needs, which include low running costs. And if they can get a cheap EV that delivers those low running costs and charging is relatively feasible, they are not going to start banging on about a “lack of soul” or “microwave on wheels”. And the upfront costs are rapidly reaching parity too.

There was a time when GM etc understood what it took to win in, say Colombia or Thailand. Not so much any more. Which is why they sold their factory in Thailand in 2020 to GWM (natch) and shut in Colombia in 2024. And it’s why new car sales looked like this in the following markets in 2025:
Vietnam: nearly 40%
Thailand: Nearly 25%.
Indonesia: 15%, having more than doubled in a year.
Uruguay: Nearly 30%.
Costa Rica: 17%.

thingan has it right. The contract is worded as if too good to be true. And so the admins go sure why not, next to free and solves our problem. It is not unlike the deal I just got offered from base here in austin. It sounds good, we'll put a giant battery on your property that you can use in a blackout. What they don't say is they'll discharge that sucker down to as little as I think 6KWH from its capacity of 40 if they can make money from it. So when you likely need it most, it could be nearly exhausted, giving you no benefit. But they don't hilite that. Worse, you've given them an easement, so now they have the right to come onto your property whenevr the thing needs service. And don't even think about selling your house without disclosing the 20 year lease. But on the surface, looks like a great deal. 13 grand battery for 695 + 20/mo.

As much of the blame falls on the audiences, they just don't care most of the time but they are out there:

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