Not really. They are only cancelling a single product that didn't have a sane market segment placement. Ford still very much make several electric vehicles, in fact their e-Transit is neck in neck with the eSprinter one of the best selling EV vans on the planet. They are still selling Mustang e-tech (despite those being objectively shit cars, at least someone is buying them). Ford have EVs in every market segment in Europe, from small all the way to performance.

You drive a Tesla? Cybertruck by chance? If not why not? Is it because oversized electric pickups are fucking stupid? Ford is right to cancel it, maybe if Tesla were a serious car company they'd cancel their abortion of a "road vehicle" as well (dare not call it a car, and it's way too shit to be a pickup truck).

Not just good, it's an outright roaring success, at least in Europe. There are many logistics fleets that are migrating to it. It also seems to be one of the few "cars" Ford is able to reliably sell internationally.

Correct, you understood the parent's insult.

You don't need SIM locking to put a discount on a phone, just only offer the phone with a contract term with a termination clause to recover the cost. SIM-locking is a stupid solution to a stupid self-made problem.

Same, because I live in a country where such stupidity is banned.

This isn't your daddie's constraint. In many cases it's literally a case of "you can't build here we don't have power", and we're not talking about today vs 3 months from now, we're literally talking potentially years.

Parts of the world (e.g. the countries in question) are at the point where the electricity company is the the one who is holding up something as basic as simple housing construction.

No we definitely haven't always been in this situation. We may have been for massive mega loads like new mines, refineries, smelters, etc. but this is orders of magnitude worse now than at any point in history save for maybe... that WW II think you mention.

Since the Netherlands is quoted, it's worth noting that your idea isn't unique or new. In fact there literally an option to fast track grid connections to any business willing to accept "non-firm" connections, i.e. connections that allow remote load shedding to a certain degree, i.e. if you install a certain amount of solar + battery and load balance in a way that they can turn your power off during peak you get fast tracked.

It's literally the free market pushing solar and batteries as a solution.

To be fair the risk here is to the Chinese satellite. Starlink is mostly a bunch of low cost space junk designed with a view of quantity over quality and with one of the shortest life expectancies of anything non-living we've put into space, and with a designed to fail orbital path shorter than some kids time in highschool.

This is not equivalent to the space station in the slightest.

Fun fact. China is not literally communist, much like the USA is not literally a representative democracy. Both actually share that middle ground where people call them that despite in reality not working anything like it.

Yep a great factoid that belongs in the era of incandescent bulbs. The idea that a "real" vacuum cleaner needs to max out the outlet is right up there with the idea that a "real" car needs a V8 engine, and a "real" wife belongs in the kitchen.

The only vacuum cleaners that max out a residential outlet are those rubbish ones produced by companies who stopped finding ways of improving the vacuum cleaner 50 years ago. A real vacuum cleans, and there are plenty of modern vacuums that are battery powered that can happily outperform many of your "real" vacuums.

That said I'll throw you one breadcrumb. A real *shop* vac does still max out the outlet, because a shop vac has no ability to control the design at the end of the hose and thus ultimately still depend almost exclusively on raw suction to get a job done.

If you think suction is what keeps your house clean it's time to put down your Atari and flared jeans and join us in the modern era.

No they don't. They do one of those things, and when they do them they do not shake down your product. There's a reason you find their products next to yours rather than suddenly seeing yours buried on the bottom shelf.

Even if what you say were true, it is a better outcome. For the end user there is more competition rather than Amazon owning fucking everything.

Congrats you pointed out why this law is a success. You used the word *some*. At no point was the law ever designed in such a way to keep 100% of them out. Most laws aren't.

Kind of like how it's illegal to speed in the car, that ended speeding right?

UID checks out. XD

The reason I said a private window is so you don't need to go and log out and log in again. *sigh*, leave your nerd card in at the door, and come back to get it tomorrow when you're sober.

Is it though? I mean the laws to date have all been upheld in the supreme court. Turns out in the real world laws are not decided by your feelings but by a process outlined in the same document you are complaining about. But let me guess, the only line of the constitution you've read is the 2nd amendment, and even then you simply skim-read it.