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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This is extremely generalized falsely concluding from "American" to be "Western", when the reality the difference is HUGE between Europe and USA.
In USA Ford and GM have discontinued some of their more popular EV models. This is NOT happening in EU.
On the contrary EU manufacturers continue to expand their EV product lines.
The headline is a very big false equivalence.
Obviously Chinese brands have more success in EU, with about 13% tariffs than in USA with 150% tariffs.
Still European makers continue to compete on EV.

You can't lump USA and Europe together on EV, they are very different markets, and Trump is specifically undermining EV production now!

You also can't lump in South Korea, that have been very active making good electric cars, Japan is behind, and especially Honda seems to be pulling back on EV, but Toyota is finally beginning to show some decent offerings, and Nissan has been in the EV market for years now.

The article seems to think USA is "the west", when it is nothing like it.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

False headline, Iran attacked near the plant, maybe to show they could?
As a warning to not attack Iranian nuclear powerplants, as USA is threatening, and which would be a another blatant war crime by USA and Israel.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

China is so far ahead on humanoid robots it isn't even funny.
Of course Boston Dynamics is among the best, but China has about 10 companies that can do about the same.
Anyone who think Tesla is a serious contender that can make billions on this in the future, simply isn't paying attention.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Weird that Boston Dynamics (Atlas) isn't on the list?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

OK, the content of the article isn't news to me, but I'll let it rest, so that you can rest. Sleep well.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

the hybrid war is in full swing.

The hybrid war has been going on for decades, where Russia has undermined EU/NATO/USA.

but it wasn’t Russia but the US who was planning to invade.

Yes I think that is a HUGE part of it, European politicians just don't say it directly, because they don't want to anger Trump more than necessary, but everybody knows we can't trust USA anymore. Russia succeeded probably more than Putin ever dreamt of with USA, and Brexit was also in part his doing. Russian ties to Boris Johnson and Farage are well documented.
And obviously Hungarian and Slovakian governments are also heavily compromised by Russia.
But USA must stand as his greatest achievement, but I suspect Putin didn't foresee the Europeans so determination to built a better defense for ourselves.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

OK, I've just seen that criticism a lot. But it's not all well and good if you are a European car maker, because as I mentioned, there is steep competition from China, and tariffs in USA.
So what I stated was that all things considered, they've done about as well as could be expected, and also as I mentioned, we will very likely see a couple of makers that simply can't manage this increased competition and hostile markets in China and USA.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

The subsidies they do in China and USA are illegal in EU.
I agree on the subscription nonsense, but that VW group had to cut workers is a result of steep competition from China, and tariffs and other anti competitive messures in USA.
You simply can't claim they dropped the ball, when they managed 50% market share for EV in EU, and managed to still turn a profit.
It's not like everything stayed the same, and they lost money from making shitty products that customers don't want.
I don't really see anything in what you write, that validates saying they dropped the ball.
Being able to resist being squeezed from outside seems to me to be the opposite of dropping the ball.
No doubt almost all global car manufacturers will lose some market share to China, I don't see any way around that. It seems many here on Lemmy, think that we should be able to stave off China completely, which is obviously completely unrealistic.

But I agree on subscription, and really hope the subscription model fails badly.
Intel tried something similar with their CPU business, and that failed completely.
For me it would be a major reason to hack my car. And get ALL the subscriptions for free.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

At least it's not Murdoch or Ellison.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

refusals of vitamin K shots nearly doubled

TIL:
https://www.chop.edu/pediatric-health-chat/vitamin-k-newborn-baby

One shot of vitamin K given to a baby after delivery can prevent devastating bleeding and strokes.

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/vitamin-k-shot.html

Until they (babies) start eating solid food at about 6 months of age, babies don't have enough naturally produced vitamin K.

Seems like something you would want to give your child.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I’m not surprised that European brands have dropped the ball,

How exactly do you figure European car makers dropped the ball?
IMO European car makers didn't drop the ball. VW, Mercedes, BMW and Renault are doing pretty well considering the circumstances.
You can't have a major new industrial power house like China enter the industry without it causing disruption, China is 10 times bigger a manufacturer than Japan was back in the day.
And China has been supporting their EV and battery makers as strategic industries.

If you compare European car industry to Japanese and Korean battery industry, China has taken just as much market share from them.

Then theres Toyota. I guess they wasted all their money with hydrogen and only focused on hybrids.

Yes, when you compare with Japanese manufacturers like Toyota and Honda, Europe has been stellar, even Stelantis is ahead of them on EV. The Stelantis problems date a bit further back, and is not so much about dropping the ball on EV, but alienating their customers with declining value of their products for higher profits.

It's easy to say the big European manufacturers dropped the ball when looking at Tesla that got enormous government support, from the tax credit system that funneled enormous amounts of cash into Tesla, and in direct support from many states in building the Tesla charging network. Obviously the other American makers scrambled to make electric cars too, so they didn't have to pay their entire quota to Tesla. And obviously the Chinese EV and battery industry have been directly state subsidized.

European manufacturers have not received comparable government subsidies, when an electric car sold in EU has subsidies, it's the same subsidy for American made and Chinese made cars. But where Chinese cars have a 13% import tax, to compensate for the subsidies in China.

Edit PS:
UK carmakers didn't manage to compete in the increased competition when Japan arrived on the market. The problems in the UK car industry date back to early 70's. So now there are no UK owned big carmakers left. They are all subsidies of manufacturers from other countries, mostly Germany, but also India and China.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSOPtIXP9eU&t=32s

My comment that I can't see if I am not logged in to Youtube:

@buffalox8492 for 2 timer siden (redigeret) How is that piece of sh*t car street legal in Norway?
The design conflicts with standards that protect soft/vulnerable road users as well as other cars and the driver, The sharp edges are a hazard to soft traffic, and, the extreme rigidity lacking crumbling zones and weight of the car is an insane danger to everybody, even including the driver. And there are numerous safety issues with the technology that you depend on to drive it.and something as simple as the lights on the car are simply designed wrong for safety!
I thought Norway observed EU standards, but apparently not. Shame on them for allowing this car on their roads. Norwegians should demand to have it removed ASAP! For their own safety. Be warned, This is probably the worst most dangerous car to drive in modern times!

This video explains some of the problems that make it illegal in UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F72TTdT344k&t=609s

 

Across its full range, Tesla sold just 83 vehicles in total in January 2026, marking an 88 percent decline compared to the same period last year.

 

Article in Danish, please use your favorite translator.
I tried to make a Google translate link, but it absolutely craps out? But the one built in Firefox works OK.

 

With little innovation and lacking new models, Tesla has decided to cut prices again, this time the price of the model 3 is cut by 10%.

This may be to regain some of the lost marketshare. But it may also be because they simply have too much stock.
Cutting production is expensive, and obviously producing just to stockpile unsold products is expensive too.

I have no doubt that this price cut is an act of desperation, not a result of being competitive. Tesla is losing money no matter if they cut production or they cut the prices or they stock up on unsold product.

Whichever is the case, I had a good laugh that the Swasticars are so hard to sell Tesla has to cut prices yet again, and that's despite inflation.

Allegedly the profitability on a Tesla car was recently estimated at just 2%, so cutting the price by 10% is going to hurt for them.

Here's a link to a story about it by a major news outlet in Denmark:
https://www.bt.dk/udland/tesla-med-bombe-dumper-prisen-igen

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Buffalox@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
 

Anton Gerashchenko on Bluesky story about a strike at a nuclear plant with documentation:

https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3m56ndvbujs2i
The post contains video from the situation.

As I've been posting many times before, many workers in Russia are behind on payments. People working in factories being 3 months behind is not uncommon.
Anna from Ukraine explains the situation here. She is a good source IMO, because her English is excellent, and being Ukrainian she understands Russian, and makes frequent news updates about the Ukrainian war from various perspectives.

Anna Danylchuk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6EQ0ubmsIk

Inside Russia on youtube was first to report on the Russian population beginning to have had enough to a degree they are actually beginning to complain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoR5_bJywWQ

I've claimed before I don't think Putin will last through the winter, and I see this as the first signs that the Russian people is about to have had enough.
The story reported by Anna and Gerashchenko tells that the workers are at least 2 months behind on wages, they were promised transportation to work, something that is important because of the lack of fuel, and public transport becoming unreliable. But they do not get the promised transportation. They were also promised 1 hot meal per day, but do not receive that either.
Finally in their homes, they are out of water and heat.

This is the economic and infrastructure collapse many have predicted was inevitable, that is now beginning to really show. And it isn't even really winter yet!

PS: The moderators removed my previous post with false accusations, so here it is posted again according to their demands.

 

1: 12.992 electric cars sold, the most electric cars sold in one month.
2: 91% market share with private buyers.
3: 73% market total market share.

 

English translation by Firefox:
FDM warns of errors in several models from Tesla, and FDM has now been successful by the Danish Road Safety Authority. FDM has previously described that there are several cases of significant veil in the rear suspension and in the steering column of the popular Model 3. Photo: Mike Blake / Ritzau Scanpix Today at 8pm. 11.07 Updated Today at 9pm. 11.08 By Ritzau

The Danish Road Safety Authority has stated that the motorists' interest organization, FDM, rightly did not approve two Tesla Model 3 by sight after the car owners had independently complained about the demand for omsyn.

FDM said in a statement.

In both cases, the sight results were due to "too much veil in bushings in rear-wheel suspension".

However, Tesla found no faults and thought the electric cars should have been approved, which led to complaints and the Traffic Agency's review. Many Teslas have "veil in the bushing"

The agency concludes that the cars had a significant veil and that the vision had been carried out correctly in both cases.

Earlier in the year, the FDM warned that there are many Teslas that have veils in bushings in the rear-wheel suspension and in the steering column. See also FDM comes with call for Tesla owners

Veils in rear suspensions mean that there is a looseness or abnormal movement in the parts that connect the car's rear wheel to the car itself.

This applies to both the Model 3 and Model Y. According to FDM, around 37,000 Model 3 and more than 40,000 Model Y have been registered in Denmark. The error is seen on newer cars

Usually you first see the problem on older cars, which have driven many kilometers, but FDM has seen several models with the error early in the life expectancy of the cars.

It creates doubts about the safety of cars, writes FDM, who has contacted Tesla to get the company to solve the problems. See also Tesla gets fined for flawed marketing

"We expect Tesla to help drivers, as it is not fair that the consumer has an additional cost of repair and possibly overhaul, because the car has a fault it shouldn't have," said Lone Otto, area manager in FDM's technical advice.

At the beginning of the year, FDM said that almost one in four Model 3 from the year 2020, which last year was for inspection, failed - among other things because of veils.

For other electric cars, the dump percentage was nine.

 

English translation by Firefox:
FDM warns of errors in several models from Tesla, and FDM has now been successful by the Danish Road Safety Authority. FDM has previously described that there are several cases of significant veil in the rear suspension and in the steering column of the popular Model 3. Photo: Mike Blake / Ritzau Scanpix Today at 8pm. 11.07 Updated Today at 9pm. 11.08 By Ritzau

The Danish Road Safety Authority has stated that the motorists' interest organization, FDM, rightly did not approve two Tesla Model 3 by sight after the car owners had independently complained about the demand for omsyn.

FDM said in a statement.

In both cases, the sight results were due to "too much veil in bushings in rear-wheel suspension".

However, Tesla found no faults and thought the electric cars should have been approved, which led to complaints and the Traffic Agency's review. Many Teslas have "veil in the bushing"

The agency concludes that the cars had a significant veil and that the vision had been carried out correctly in both cases.

Earlier in the year, the FDM warned that there are many Teslas that have veils in bushings in the rear-wheel suspension and in the steering column. See also FDM comes with call for Tesla owners

Veils in rear suspensions mean that there is a looseness or abnormal movement in the parts that connect the car's rear wheel to the car itself.

This applies to both the Model 3 and Model Y. According to FDM, around 37,000 Model 3 and more than 40,000 Model Y have been registered in Denmark. The error is seen on newer cars

Usually you first see the problem on older cars, which have driven many kilometers, but FDM has seen several models with the error early in the life expectancy of the cars.

It creates doubts about the safety of cars, writes FDM, who has contacted Tesla to get the company to solve the problems. See also Tesla gets fined for flawed marketing

"We expect Tesla to help drivers, as it is not fair that the consumer has an additional cost of repair and possibly overhaul, because the car has a fault it shouldn't have," said Lone Otto, area manager in FDM's technical advice.

At the beginning of the year, FDM said that almost one in four Model 3 from the year 2020, which last year was for inspection, failed - among other things because of veils.

For other electric cars, the dump percentage was nine.

 

Todays numbers June 5th 2025. The official numbers on Russian losses released by the Ukrainian military general staff.
Source: t.me/GeneralStaffZSU/25142

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