>Make your content on-topic and valuable, and users will return.

nope they won't. have zero ads on my site of 20+ years, plenty of content, but AI is just delivering the summaries on their platforms, nobody visits the source. AI is what google dreamt off when it launched their first google search frontpage, and have been working towards all this time, keeping people on google sites and not letting users visit other sites. GG: they won.

ah yes

> With fuel costs headed nowhere but up and no end to the war in sight, even fools recognize that EVs are the smarter option.


cause charging your EV with electricity will never come from anything other can fluffy clouds... LOL

> We've entered a phase of society where "rules for thee and not for me"

We've never ever entered a phase of society where "rules for thee and me" existed... JFYI

ah yes, 2025.. because before 2025 nobody taped a banana to a wall and called it art.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

it definitely does not only affect clickbaiters... it gobbles up all content, spits out mangled versions to LLM hosted frontend to its visitors, never sending any traffic to the original site. reducing the incentive to post any valuable content, reducing the quality what LLM will put out, downwards spiral

recently started aggressively filtering any none human traffic to a website I run.
before the filter was active it was serving 80-100.000 pages per day 2-3GB traffic
after using geo&IP banning automated bots and scrapers: 17.000 pages per day good for 800 MB

and actual tracking visitors:
without filter: 30.000
filtered: 6400
actual measured unique visitors : 500

so about 1.67% was actual people visiting the site...

>Compare MG with similar cars

no.
comparing same brand cars.

"oh look this Chinese state owned company called "MG" has cheaper cars"
/care

> In Europe they reached price parity with fossils a while back.

LOL! They definitely did not reach any price parity with ICE. Not on features, not on price. You pay more to get less.

VW Polo entry level
80 BHP
5.5L/100 KM
Range: 700-800km
Trunk: 351L
€25805

ID.3 entry level
170BHP
Range: 356km
Trunk: 385L
€34000

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if you use it for short trips, then the ID.3 is cheaper to run, but you paid almost €9000 more... that was the price of a small car not too long ago... and for a small car the ICE maintenance is low cost , so it's just a parity in every which way you turn.

now imagine taking this small car on a longer trip for a vacation run, of about 1600 km... taking the first charge of the EV at home at low cost, but then full price once on the road...

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VW Polo
– Uses 5.5 L/100 km needs 88 L total
– Fuel price €1.65/L €145 total
– Range 818 km per tank 1 refuel stop
– Refuel time 10 min total
Trip cost €145 / extra time 10 min


VW ID.3
– Uses 152.5 Wh/km 244 kWh total
– First charge €0.25/kWh, next €0.75/kWh €169 total
– Range 341 km per charge 4 stops (5 legs)
– Charging time 1 h × 4 = 4 hours extra
Trip cost €169 / extra time 4 h

how horrible is that.. and remember... this is for the smallest model, for larger cars the difference just increases.

> Europeâ(TM)s

ah yes, the well known country known as "Europeâ(TM)s"

...you guys all wanted unregulated capitalism?

but I thought you guys all wanted unregulated capitalism?....

step 1) copy and produce product that's slightly worse than Western option
step 2) undersell price of competitors outside China, with help of CN government
step 3) improve product quality to make it a worthy alternative
step 4) use capitalism pricing and ruling system against western companies to drive them out of business
step 5) maintain monopoly of product and production lines, lend western customers money to buy your products
step 6) increase prices, make massive profits with cheap labor

expand to any and all markets and products originated outside CN, rinse & repeat.

congratulations Western Countries, ya got played

> U.S. solution works pretty good. Lots of labor laws don't kick in until the company reaches a certain number of employees.


same in EU, more job protection and regulations are added as your company surpasses 20, 50 and 100 employees, etc.

> They only care about $$$.

wonder if the company is based on the idea of capitalism... ah yes.. it is.


surprised pikachu face.

at least the first time it appears, it also shows you a "disable hotkey" option. So it's a one time thing. Better than copilot clippy & chrome gemini being in your face