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  • Mark Zuckerberg: (probably)
    Objection you honor, when people are stupid enough to give us all their information, we should also be allowed to exploit it.
    I’ve done this since it was just a school project, so I should be allowed to continue to do it by the precedence set.
    This has been known since 2010:

    When Zuckerberg was 19, right after inventing his new social network, he had an instant messenger conversation with a friend where he bragged about having “over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS.” When Zuckerberg’s friend asked why in the world people would give him their private information, Zuckerberg responded, “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb f–ks.”

    The only thing that interest Zuckerberg, is the power the information from social networks gives him.






  • This is complete bullocks.
    China has been busy serving their own market until very recently, it’s only this year China has begun exports for real, and taxes in EU have been modest until now.

    Up until now Toyota has been busy with hydrogen, which seems to be going nowhere.
    When they figured they had to do something with batteries, they bet on hybrids probably due to their many years experience selling expensive hybrids with 3.5 kWh batteries.

    Now plugin hybrids are already losing favor, here the sales of hybrids are just a couple percent for September.

    There is no other brand comparable to Toyota that is as far behind as Toyota, except maybe other Japanese brands, which aren’t doing well on EV either.

    EU has lots of attractive EV brands, VW also with Audi, Skoda and Cupra. Mercedes, BMW, Renault, Volvo, Ford.
    Less attractive but cheap are Dacia (Renault), Stelantis with FIAT, Peugeot, Citroen and Opel and MINI Cooper (BMW).

    It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim we don’t have competition in EU because of import taxes, when those taxes have been low, and are only increased now due to Chinese subsidizing development and production in China.














  • I’m not disputing the 10% maybe even 2% short trips is true, I’m arguing it’s a bullshit argument for making cars with short range.

    gives me the impression you don’t like electric vehicles

    Which is false, I’m all for electric, and my next car will definitely be an electric. But not one that can’t handle what I do in weekends, which would be ridiculous.
    For me that means 450 km range minimum. Which I may only need once per month, but the alternative would be to rent a car once per month, which is obviously idiotic, because it’s extra hassle and more expensive than buying the proper car to begin with.
    Alternatively having to charge on the way, but the 450 km is for charging once, so less than that would mean charging twice or more, and I don’t want that extra time added on a trip that is already long.

    Cars with smaller batteries, very often also charge slower.