Buffalox

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

You are spot on that if gold was cheaper it would be used more. It is such an amazing material.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

No it would not tank to be as worthless as paper, which was what I argued against.
You are arguing against a strawman.
If gold was only used industrially like steel or other metals, and the value was according to that, it would still be way more expensive than steel and aluminum.
Yes the shortage inflates the price, I never argued it didn't. But it is absolutely not worthless as the post I responded to claimed.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

You can grow trees and make as much paper as you want.
You can't do the same with gold.
Paper is cheap because it is dirt cheap to make and the resources for it are both plentiful and easy to get at.

Gold is expensive, because it's in limited supply, and you can't make gold, and gold is very hard to extract. It also has many functions due to its special properties and it is often hard to replace with other materials.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gold is as worthless as paper

FALSE!
If a lot of people want to pay for it, it's obviously not worthless.
Gold also has value as a metal of many uses, and in many situations gold is not easy to replace.
So even without being pretty and non corrosive and rare, it would still have value.
Also your post is extremely besides the point of Russia liquidating assets.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

there are 430 Teboil stations in Finland. This is about one fifth of all 2,250 Teboil stations that exist in Finland.

What??? That does not make one bit of sense! So are there 430 or are there 2250? And what was the actual purpose of showing 2 numbers?
Sorry, but I have to downvote this for being nonsense.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago

Oh for a moment there I was beginning to doubt the direction of USA.
Well I guess it's still full steam ahead to dismantle democracy and introduce an authoritarian dictatorship.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why do you want them to have qualified care?
No give them a MAGA nurse, and tell the nurse it's a liberal, and let them eat each other.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Russian economy is collapsing now. So there is no way Ukraine will lose this war.
But supporting Ukraine will help them get their territory back, and make Ukraine win faster.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

It's really disappointing that so many countries don't help more. The average being only a tenth of Nordic countries per capita!

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Authoritarian means it is NOT a democracy, which was the point.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's completely irrelevant, the argument was democracy vs authoritarianism.
You seem to have some sort of attention problem.

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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

 

I'm stressing the European parts, because my post from yesterday about Russian losses in Ukraine war was removed as "off topic".
Despite this sub is about:
News and information from Europe 🇪🇺

 

Merz pointed out that the restrictions have been lifted not only on German weapons.

"There are no longer any restrictions on the range of weapons delivered to Ukraine, neither by the UK, France, nor us. There are no restrictions by the US either,"

 

Putin is getting more and more desperate. As he is running out of options, he is just increasing the meat waves!

 

In Denmark when a car reaches 6 years, it needs to be safety checked to be used on the roads. After that it's every 2nd years.

Tesla model 3 managed these safety checks extremely poorly, with 3 times the average failure rate.

In total, 1,392 errors were found on the Tesla model, which is three times as many compared to the other electric cars.

If you don't have a translate page button (to your own language), You may want to switch to Firefox. I'm showing the original page in danish, because danish is delicious.

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