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Tesla cuts corners, and their “cheap luxury” engineering habits extend to safety. Recalls are endemic. Their safety record is…bad. There’s hints that their battery cooling system is sub-par. And it’s nearly impossible to escape a Tesla in an emergency unless (1) you’re in the front seat and (2) you’ve practiced using the emergency latch.
Poking around at public data, Cybertrucks ••burn people alive•• 57 times more often than normal cars. Not 57 percent. 57 ••times••. That’s…bonkers.
Now for those of you who know the Ford Pinto, you know that the car bore the brunt of endless jokes. A comedian could always get a laugh based on the universally shared assumption that they’re terrible cars that catch fire.
That’s a kind of communication that can reach people who aren’t reading nerdy threads on Fedi. So:
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities.
"How do you safely dispose of secret government war plans? Simple, put them in a Tesla. Nobody will look there, and soon enough it'll explode or self-drive into a lake, problem solved"
The scary thing here is that EVs as a class are 30 times less likely to catch fire than a gas car. That says good things about EVs and very bad things about the Cybertruck. motortrend.com/features/you-ar…
“From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines, often hundreds of miles away from the communities they affected.”
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.
@Dave_Goldsmith Exactly. It's like gold. Something that has very little useful value but is used to gamble or accrue wealth. The damage bitcoin and gold mining does to the environment is equally huge. It takes 20 tons of earth that is poisoned with cyanide or mercury to make one gold ring. Bitcoin does the same type of damage, just in a different way.
Ce 2 avril, la Cour de cassation étudie la demande de prescription déposée par ses avocats. Précédemment, la Cour d'appel avait rendu un arrêt riche d'enseignements...
#Ukraine - A confirmer mais apparemment les milices de #Zelensky qui enlèvent les jeunes hommes dans la rue pour les envoyer se faire massacrer ont reçu des instructions d’arrêter leur kidnapping lorsque quelqu'un filme...
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de #1793 - article 35 : "Quand le gouvernement viole les droits du peuple, l'insurrection est, pour le peuple et pour chaque portion du peuple, le plus sacré des droits et le plus indispensable des devoirs."
Mais les humains fragmentés et déconnectés de leur être des idiocraties occidentales n'ont plus conscience de rien. Ils ne connaissent pas le sens du mot "politique" ni la notion de pacte social. Ça fait un moment que leurs droits sont violés.
Chad Prather fills in for Dinesh today and dives into what the myth of the Red State really means for the Republican Party. Sara Gonzalez of Blaze TV joins the show to discuss the shift in culture ove
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans released a new budget blueprint Wednesday that would pave the way for $1.5 trillion in new tax cuts in addition to making President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent.
Linda McMahon gave unexpected remarks in the spirit of nonpartisanship at the House Democrats' press conference on Wednesday, but she did not answer when pressed on the timing of the DOE shutting its doors.
Democratic fundraising powerhouse ActBlue changed its fraud policy twice during the 2024 campaign, implementing “more lenient” standards that let foreign and other suspicious donor money flow into US campaigns, according to internal company documents and other records exclusively obtained by The Post.
By December 2024, an ActBlue sheet tallying just the “known instances of fraud” revealed hundreds of donations — including from Brazil, Colombia, India, Iraq, the Philippines and …
Like, if you actually cared about the continued existence and economic welfare of your nation, you could inject fresh life into it. There are people who just want a fucking stable place to live and work and, yes, raise their kids.
There is no goddamn reason for any country to be "in decline" just because people don't dedicate themselves to providing children for the homeland.
The choice between enslaving uterus-havers as breeders or allowing some brown people in should not be so goddamn hard, but for some reason it feels like every place experiencing "population decline" is eyeing that first option.
It would be unthinkable for your country to become less white. Much easier to contemplate reducing some people to baby-ovens.
also, birth rates would naturally go up if the future that would-be parents could expect for their children were not utter shit, but somehow things like rich people paying taxes or not forcing people to work multiple jobs to survive or not slowly turning the planet into some manner of poison soup never come up as potential solutions either.
You know what else helps? A combination of making sure people have enough time and make enough money to support a child, and fostering both a literal and sociopolitical environment in which people would *want* to raise a child instead of ones that would be hell to grow up in.
I went on a jolly to Japan - a bunch of British local government people doing a tour of various Japanese local governments.
We started off being very polite, not raising any "interesting" topics, not giving any "interesting" answers.
But towards the end of the trip we'd become more honest. So when the population decline question came up - they raised it, not us - we felt able to say "ah, we've got a solution for that, immigration" (this was before #brexshit ).
Dead silence all round followed by a change of subject.
it gets even worse when you see data that indicates the biggest drivers for the drop in fertility rates are a drop in teen pregnancies, and reduced childhood mortality (so no need to have as many children)
And that is before getting into the racial motivations that some of the worst of them are quietly concerned about (increasingly less quiet)
@gooba42 larger point about this: if not for capitalism's constant mortgaging of the future, declining population could be a good thing: fewer people with same resources should be richer people. Every time someone mentions declining population like it's a bad thing, there should be someone else who brings up this point.
@gooba42 I have finally started to see the appeal of having kids, but they really aren't my thing, however... a lot of humans *really* want to have kids. The drive is clearly incredibly strong (stronger than makes any sense to me personally). So yeah, if a large amount of the population isn't having kids, the reason is probably not simply "they don't want to".
But the capitalists say it's absurd and selfish to expect to be economically stable and in good health before having kids.
@violetmadder @tiotasram @gooba42 Yes, you see. We must have more. More growth forever. This is definitely a real thing that is possible here on this planet with finite resources.
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🇺🇦🫶🇱🇹 Sculpture by Lithuanian artist Martynas Gaubas, timed to coincide with the three-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Every generation likes to think it is on a cusp of some historic transformation. But ours is cursed enough to actually be on such a cusp. So rather than focusing too much on the character of the man in the White House, we would do well to recall that the Nixon Shock was much more important than Nixon. If Nixon reshaped the world once, leaving it nastier and more unbalanced, Trump can certainly do it again.
@Tom Grzybow the problem of US is that its main industry is dollar printing. You can't at the same time live on a large trade and budget deficit AND reduce dollar's availability. The targets are mutually exclusive. Either the dollar becomes a "normal" money and tariffs may work, or it doesn't, and they won't.
That's why the US is producing much fewer engineers than Russia : it's simply not worth it. You're better off getting an MBA or law degree and work in law and finance, because that's the way the Empire works, printing dollars for free and getting actual goods in return. Domestic production and scientific research can't rebound without killing the dollar first; but killing the dollar is killing the Empire, the easy money, and the power. There is no easy way out for anyone.
Biden's IRA was based upon printing even more dollars so that part worked great in the current geopolitical environment. It was "more of the same". Trump tries to turn the boat, but my guess is that they didn't really understand how incredibly important the Nixon shock was.
Le système mis en place illustre particulièrement bien la théorie du Triangle de fer. Ou comment machine bureaucratique, décideurs politiques et groupes d'intérêts s'auto-alimentent mutuellement.
Senate Republicans led by South Carolina's Lindsey Graham are reportedly set to bypass the Senate parliamentarian and her expected ruling this week on whether they can use a legislative process – known as budget reconciliation – to pass President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
The parliamentarian is a tool that is often used in the Senate by the majority party under a process called budget reconciliation which allows them to avert a filibuster.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday confirmed Elon Musk will leave his position as a "special government employee" next month as planned, after he completes his work with the Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk is considered a "special government employee" which means he can only work for the government for 130 days in a one year period. This means Musk will need to leave federal service by May 30.
The recent dismissal of Christine Grady, head of the N.I.H. Office of Bioethics and wife of Dr. Anthony Fauci, signals significant shifts within the Trump Administration's health leadership.
Google is like, you don't like that we dropped stuff from our so-called AI principles? Hold our beer.
"Google announced that it was paying...$32 billion for the acquisition of the Israeli cloud-computing security company Wiz. The acquisition...will be the largest ever of an Israeli firm...the co-founders of Wiz...are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military, which is playing a key role in helping to carry out Israel’s wars...
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A federal judge's recent ruling maintains the momentum of John Sabal's defamation suit against the Anti-Defamation League, marking a significant setback for the organization as the case heads to trial in July 2025.
With the "big announcement" coming out after close I wanted to maintain room and flatten by deltas for tomorrow so I rolled the shorts of the diagonal up to make it a calendar again while keeping the downside room of the fly. Just trying to keep things flat and wide until the news settles down.
Ah.... #LFI (en tout cas Alma #Dufour) en est encore à penser que l' #Ukraine pourra/pourrait/devrait récupérer le #Donbass .... impressionnant la déconnexion totale de ces gens-là .... #France #Russie #Ukraine
Nice : Polémique autour des drapeaux israéliens à la mairie - Depuis octobre 2023, des drapeaux israéliens flottent sur la façade de l’Hôtel de Ville de Nice. Sept habitants viennent de déposer une mise en demeure exigeant leur retrait ou l'ajout de drapeaux palestiniens sous 15 jours. En cas de refus, une troisième action en justice sera engagée contre la mairie de Christian #Estrosi.
Mieux vaut tard que jamais....certains commentateurs se réveillent :
Le drapeau israélien à l'entrée de la mairie de Nice n'a aucun sens et aucun but et ne signifie rien si ce n'est un signe d'allégeance à Israël. Il n'a pas suffi à la France de s'aligner sans conditions sur les positions israéliennes et à se taire face au génocide en cours depuis 16 mois à Gaza, il faut aussi qu'une mairie dirigée par des sionistes arbore le drapeau israélien ! N'ont pas tort ceux qui affirment que la France est devenue le laquais d'Israël, auquel elle ne peut rien refuser et qu'elle est incapable de critiquer. Pire, que la France - pays des libertés et porte drapeau de la liberté d'expression - pratique la désinformation et la propagande en interdisant tout avis, toute analyse qui ne soit pas favorable à l'État sioniste, et interdit d'antenne toute personne qui parle des droits des Palestiniens. Tout le monde sait que les lobbys sionistes en France font la pluie et le beau temps, mais de là à ce qu'ils deviennent - en fait - les maîtres du pays, c'est un pas qui n'aurait pas dû être franchi. La France n'est plus souveraine.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he spoke with Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day announcement. Ford suggested that Carney told him a zero-tariff situation was possible if Trump agreed to drop all tariffs.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday named a lawyer who represented several of his top aides in criminal probes to a senior post in the U.S. Justice Department.
A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced on Wednesday.
URGENT: mRNA Covid jabs change genetic structures in ways linked to cancer and autoimmune disorders.
Scientists call the changes caused by the Pfizer and Moderna shots "epigenetic" - they occur around DNA's core and activate genes in ways that can promote tumor growth.
NOTA : la France étant contributeur net elle pourrait faire économiser 1,15 M€ aux contribuables en finançant souverainement toute seule et sans faire chier le peuple ces prébendes espérées en réconpense de l'instauration des #ZFE (#Zone de Fascisme Européen)
La commission spéciale chargée d'étudier le projet de loi de "simplification" a voté fin mars la suppression des zones à faibles émissions dont l'accès est réservé aux véhicules les moins polluants.
Supprimer les Zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), comme le demandent des députés, pourrait coûter à la France plus de 3 milliards d'euros d'aides européennes, selon une note de la Direction générale du Trésor. La commission spéciale chargée d'étudier le projet de loi de "simplification" a voté fin mars la suppression des ZFE, ces zones urbaines dont l'accès est réservé aux véhicules les moins polluants, censées pousser les automobilistes à renoncer aux voitures très émettrices de particules fines mais qui pénaliseraient les ménages modestes selon plusieurs politiques. Les députés ont adopté des amendements LR et Rassemblement national en ce sens, avec des voix d'autres groupes politiques, contre l'avis du gouvernement.
Pour le cabinet du ministère de la Transition écologique, ces discussions sur la suppression des ZFE "envoient un signal politique négatif" qui pourrait "remettre en cause les subventions déjà obtenues" pour leur mise en place. Selon la note du Trésor citée par le média Contexte, cette suppression exposerait la France "à un risque de remboursement pouvant aller jusqu'à un milliard d'euros". Mise en péril des prochains paiements européens dans le cadre du PNRR
La Commission européenne pourrait par ailleurs "considérer cette suppression comme une annulation d'engagements, ce qui mettrait en péril les prochains paiements" de l'UE dans le cadre du plan national de relance et de résilience (PNRR) de la France, selon le cabinet de la ministre Agnès Pannier-Runacher. Ce plan permet à la France de recevoir 40,3 milliards d'euros de subventions européennes jusqu'en 2026, "à condition de respecter certains engagements". Pour 2025, la France doit recevoir à ce titre 3,3 milliards d'euros.
Or, parmi les buts affichés du PNRR, l'adoption de la loi Climat et Résilience votée en 2021 (où figure la mise en place des ZFE) et la réalisation d'études préalables à la mise en place des ZFE dans 18 agglomérations sont deux objectifs clés pour prétendre aux aides européennes. Le respect par la France de l'objectif de réaliser des études préalables aux ZFE est en cours d'évaluation à Bruxelles, pour pemettre un versement des fonds communautaires en 2025.
Initiées en 2019 et étendues en 2021, les ZFE affichent l'objectif d'améliorer la qualité de l'air et de limiter les émissions de particules fines, responsables de maladies respiratoires et de 40.000 décès par an selon Santé Publique France, en excluant certains véhicules en fonction des vignettes Crit'Air. Actuellement, elles limitent la circulation des véhicules Crit'Air 3 - les voitures diesel immatriculées avant 2011 et les voitures à essence immatriculées avant 2006 - à Paris, Lyon, Montpellier et Grenoble. TT avec AFP
La commission spéciale chargée d'étudier le projet de loi de "simplification" a voté fin mars la suppression des zones à faibles émissions dont l'accès est réservé aux véhicules les moins polluants.
probably has sludge buildup like the RSX did
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Tesla cuts corners, and their “cheap luxury” engineering habits extend to safety. Recalls are endemic. Their safety record is…bad. There’s hints that their battery cooling system is sub-par. And it’s nearly impossible to escape a Tesla in an emergency unless (1) you’re in the front seat and (2) you’ve practiced using the emergency latch.
Poking around at public data, Cybertrucks ••burn people alive•• 57 times more often than normal cars. Not 57 percent. 57 ••times••. That’s…bonkers.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •57 times the normal rate. That’s 17x worse than even the Ford Pinto:
fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-t…
Now for those of you who know the Ford Pinto, you know that the car bore the brunt of endless jokes. A comedian could always get a laugh based on the universally shared assumption that they’re terrible cars that catch fire.
That’s a kind of communication that can reach people who aren’t reading nerdy threads on Fedi. So:
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It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto
FuelArc NewsPaul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Do you want to hear my new recipe for barbecued chicken? It’s super easy!
1. Get a live chicken.
2. Put it in a Tesla.
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You know, stuff like that.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •When jokes like that can get a laugh, Elon Musk is cooked. Like a Tesla.
/end
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •People have escaped from Alcatraz.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Put a Tesla under it.
Matt Pennig
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •are we sure all these cybertruck “arson” incidents aren’t just the trucks setting *themselves* on fire out of shame?
One must ask these questions
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •What do you call 10,000 Cybertruck owners barbecued inside their own vehicle?
A good start
Andy
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •What's the difference between a swastika and a swasticar?
A swasticar blows itself up!
Pablo
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Poloniousmonk
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Don't forget--they drown you, too.
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
Details reveal the desperate attempt to save CEO Angela Chao, trapped in a submerged Tesla
Kinsey Crowley (USA TODAY)Darrin West
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Alexandre Oliva
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Friends' Phoebe Buffay's half-brother Frank, Jr loves to watch things burn and melt
no doubt his favorite car brand is Tesla
Mike McCaffrey
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Apropos of Val Kilmer...
youtu.be/4-Qj58o87sY?feature=s…
Ford Pinto (Top Secret!)
YouTubeWitty Dragon
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •The #Swasticar is not luxury or cheap and since #Musk is not an engineer, it's no surprise the car is a failure.
King Midas was plagued that everything he touched turned into gold. Musk turns everything he touches into shit.
sleepfreeparent
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Witty Dragon
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •John Dark
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •