BMW EV surpassed Tesla sales in Europe for July.
You sure about that?
So how do you figure there is no competition without China?
That’s not what I was saying. What I am saying is that if left unanswered, those cars would kill all of the current competitors over time and then after that we’d be at the mercy of whatever the Chinese car manufacturers would want to charge and we’d be unable to stop it.
Ugh, that is true but no way should we compromise on that IMO
Literally didn’t say any of that. I was stating how the US could be competitive.
The main problem with BYD cars is that they are heavily subsidizing by the Chinese government.
If you remove those subsidies then those cars aren’t going to be very competitive. But the problem would be that by the time the Chinese government stopped subsidies, there wouldn’t be any competition left.
Our best ways to counteract this would either be through heavy tariffs or by subsidizing our own companies in the west.
MAGA wants to do the tariffs route which is basically a bandaid solution that would prevent the Chinese companies from owning the US market but it wouldn’t do anything outside of that. Plus it doesn’t solve is being competitive, it’s just covering its ears and “lalala”’ing the issue for later generations to deal with it. Which honestly, that tracks for basically their whole platform.
If you do the subsidies route though, we’d have to make sure we’re not just constantly lining Musk’s pockets but Tesla is the company has the biggest head start. And Musk is a PoS but the devil’s credit is that our EV market wouldn’t exist without Tesla.
IMO, we need to diversify our EV makers and help provide the capital to bootstrap it. And while that’s happening we need to not let cheap Chinese cars flood the market to undercut any chance we have. So basically we need a combination of both solutions.
Totally. I was just being silly.
Uhhh I’m not trusting nobody named vault dweller about this particular topic
My only regret is that I have but 1 upvote to give you. This is a fantastic summary!
Right??? AP is left center?!? They report the literal facts so I guess facts are left center?
Wait that actually checks out…
Ignorance is ok but apathy is not
I misspoke. I meant this isn’t in front of the Supreme Court currently. It might be making its way up there though.
There was a script for one but Alan Rickman passed away (😭😭😭) and it got shelved. There are always rumors circling about still but nothing concrete.
This isn’t going to the Supreme Court. You might be thinking of this https://www.vox.com/scotus/367701/supreme-court-arizona-rnc-republicans-mi-familia-vota
Do you use those for everyday wear?
This was done a a 3-2 vote. These things are so close that if we work a little bit harder we can stop it and make a difference. Vote and help others vote as well!
If that doesn’t sum up the path that this crazy ideology leads you down I don’t know what will.
At each step they just keep doubling down 🫠
If you’re in Arizona, come canvass with me! The margins are so small you could really make a difference and help choose the future of our country!!
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Listen, I’m happy for everything that makes communicating easier but to paint Google and Android as some champions of messaging is just straight up crazy.
I was an android user since the beginning of modern smart phones (and before that I used Windows Mobile 6.5 😵💫) and messaging has been an absolute shit-show on android for almost the entire time. Google finally had a good solution with Hangouts (circa 2014) but they killed it and spawned so many messaging clones that I lost count.
The reason why we have such fragmentation and so many different apps we have to juggle to communicate on android is because of the clear lack of vision and leadership in that area in Google.
Even RCS is freaking fragmented as well. Take for example E2E encryption, that doesn’t work unless you go through google’s servers which you can’t really guarantee so you’re getting a different “RCS” UX depending on who you’re texting and what servers are being used on the backend.
After I switched to iPhone from Android it was like a slap in the face on how much better just communicating to people was on iPhone. Google isn’t the fucking hero here.