Perhaps related to the electricity outages in Spain Portugal and UK (Heathrow) too ?

You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy

And then he went to Salon ?

Agree withthe other guy, sparkies are more in demand. There’s a million indian programmers trying to emigrate

Somewhat ironically, the US is one of the easier places to migrate to.

Yeah. That’s not actually true.

The US is about the same as most developed countries, and I say that as someone who has (legally) worked in 6 different (developed/western countries) countries including the US (2 years there was enough, I didn’t pursue citizenship).

The perception that the US is easy to legally immigrate to is a strawman.

You guys do however have paths from illegal to legal that most don’t have - provided you don’t get caught first.

I think the implication is that Mango making the US no longer a secular power facilitated this.

Donated by the owner

https://cybernews.com/news/tank-crushes-tesla/

“The car’s battery was removed and the vehicle made safe before it was crushed, the group said. The Tesla had been donated by an owner who said they were “appalled” by Musk’s public support for far-right movements in Europe.”

who is Ken Turner?

98 year old WW2 Normandy veteran who carried a piece of tank in his neck for 50 years according to BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0j2s9cq

I can’t find any reporting on where he got the tank from but there’s a museum in the Midlands and another in Surrey with plenty of working WW2 era tanks - it wouldn’t have been too hard to rustle one up. I’m betting it’s this one, it’s the largest.

https://tankmuseum.org/

It wasn’t pre-flattened. Watch the video

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37x2qvt3z5iwuyzusvnvlepi/post/3loltwljm2k2t

Edit to add Youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4ZjhOukwU

Thanks

listing the resources it would take to fix that product as a liability, which offsets the profits you made from said fraudulent product, only to then NOT pursue that development…is, in fact, fraud.

Well. If that happened, it might be, but that’s not what happened, is it ?

I take it you’re not familiar with GAAP standards ? You also don’t seem to have a handle on the chronology of the nazi-truck, or of FSD.

First chronology.

Pre-order $100 deposits were taken for the CyberAztek in 2019 - claims made at that time were lawyered with this is what we think it will be clauses

2023 - revised specs and prices and $1000 deposit - they had the right to get your $100 back at this point if you wanted.

2024 - confirmation of delivery price date and specs - again you could get the $1000 back if you didn’t like the new parameters.

IOW EVERYONE who bought a ClusterTruck knew, and agreed to, what they were getting specs-wise. The only thing you can poke about is FSD and the range extender battery. The battery payment has been refunded.

So FSD

Since about I dunno 2016 (I haven’t checked, I can if it’s important to you), all Teslas had an option of “FSD” the price paid clearly stated in the terms it was work in progress, and tesla only booked revenue against that liability (the deposit) when they delivered functionality (GAAP principles).

Again, accounting standards. The deposit for FSD is held in trust account, and is a ** Liability ** for the company (they owe that money to someone until they do the work that earns them the money). They can’t, and didn’t (it has been audited every for years) access that money until they delivered functionality.

Now I have no idea where you get

listing the resources it would take to fix that product as a liability

But it very definitely wasn’t out of the financial statements lodged with the SEC.

The guy is an utter fascist barbarian, but if you could stick to yelling about the stuff he actually does wrong that would be great, it’s what differentiates us from the MAGAt mouth breathers

So they get to keep the money on their books and use it to inflate numbers and invest and then cancel the product and give it back without any compensation? This seems incredibly fraudulent.

<sigh> Nazi man is definitely bad but they’ve done nothing wrong here, let along fraud. They’re compliant with GAAP standards and given is it booked as a liability it’s not inflating anything that you want inflated

https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/us/en/pwc/accounting_guides/financial_statement_/financial_statement___18_US/Chapter-33--Revenue-and-contract-costs/33-3-Presenting-contract-related-assets-and-liabilities-ASC-606.html#pwc-topic.dita_1b68827c-88bc-4c0f-812f-77ea140e516c

https://accountinginsights.org/accounting-for-security-deposits-best-practices-and-impacts/

They took deposits in advance for something they could show they reasonably intended to build, they booked revenue against that in a transparent way.

Yes FSD has a certain amount of smoke & mirrors but there is plenty of footage visible on youtube showing cars self driving to defend against any charge that it wasn’t being worked on.

Failure to deliver a promised outcome isn’t fraud (and they would argue that they haven’t YET failed I’m sure), and very few deposits pay interest - only those with a regulatory intervention tend to (ie housing tenancy)

You have a third option beyond “google as card aggregator” and “curve as card aggregator”. Third option is no card aggregator.

Battery swapping is a nice option for certain types of vehicles and locations

Yep, long haul trucking this would make sense, provided the manufacturers agreed on a standard. Battery swap points at key long haul stops would go a long way towards making EV trucks more viable (it’s close but marginal at the moment). Your own depot can be a swap point for bigger companies.

I’m not entirely sure it’s needed though - the move towards higher voltage faster charging may well make this a moot point, truckies already have mandatory rest periods, if the charge times and rest times can line up then it’s not worth the cost (they don’t quite at the moment).

If they tell you anything on the first day of President school that you absolutely need to remember: DO NOT FUCK WITH MILITARY MONEY.

He’s been doing that since day one. European countries have cancelled a lot of military orders (Portugal cancelled several billion dollars worth of F35s for example), and he wouldn’t even let Ukraine order Patriot missiles (they weren’t asking for freebies, they were ready with cash). Europe has announced a several Trillion defence initiative which is to be spent on EU arms not US ones…

If the military industrial complex aren’t mad with him yet then they’re not paying attention.

Errmmm, dateline Dec 10th 2024 - you’re a little behind the curve here

The first is Asteroid OS https://asteroidos.org/

The middle one is infinitime from Pine https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg

Last one is wasp OS https://github.com/wasp-os/wasp-os

Users aren’t likely to point out a bot when the rules explicitly prevent them from doing that.

In fact one user commented that he had his comment calling out one of the bots as a bot deleted by mods for breaking that rule

I think this is “I’m 14 and I think I’m smart”

I hope so, because if an actual adult wrote this it’s very sad to see

The moment an authoritarian party gets into power the Governor/Queen can and has previously booted the ruling Government out. (See Prime Minister Menzies controversy)

Could you expand on that please ? I assume you’re not referencing Gough Whitlam’s dismissal by the GG at the behest of the CIA ?

I’ve had a quick search and can’t find anything pointing to conflict between Menzies and the Crown, nor anything suggesting the monarch or the GG booted him out. Could be a searching failure on my part of course so info appreciated

Given it looks like you’re the only seed (and a quick check on lime torrents only has 1 seed for the new normal s01 ep 1-22 (I assume that’s the above ?) then yeah, you’re the only one fighting the good fight ! Don’t stop :-D

EDIT

Bollocks to bad search techniques - it seems there’s about 4000 seeders for multiple different copies of it (the above version does indeed only have one though). I just thought “sod it, if there’s only 1 seeder I’ll help out”. Went and looked again <sigh> Help not needed.