I'm curious, but suspicious. Tesla Y is the top selling car model by a large margin inside China, and UK reviews I've read of Chinese EV imports has made them sound underwhelming. UK reviews make them sound nowhere near as good as a Tesla, although decently priced.

But if you could post what model you're talking about, and what the cost of that car is vs. a Model Y in your home market, that might be interesting!

Ultimately the Tesla 3 or Y cost less than median value new car, Nissan Leafs are cheaper than that, and compliance cars like the eGolf or the eFiat 500 were (once you consider the lower maintenance/fueling) the cheapest new cars you could buy.

Electric cars are the future, whether that happens in 5 years or 20. I think the subsidy helped get the industry started and smoothed the 1st stage of adoption, which was always going to be rocky. Despite my issues with Elon Musk, ultimately I think it's a good thing that the world's #1 largest car company by capitalization and world's top selling car (along with Rav4 and Corolla) is from an American company, and the subsides made it possible. But of course they were temporary, and while personally I think they should have been phased out, they were always going to be a temporary measure.

Before September 2025, the government was throwing in $7,500, and maybe your state government was kicking in a few thousand extra, and then the local utility maybe was subsidizing your charger. So your $45k Tesla was effectively selling for $35k. Of course nobody is going to buy a used Tesla for $33k when a new one is selling for $35k, but the depreciation was still being taken as if a $45k vehicle was selling for cheap. What we're seeing isn't as much a change in demand for EVs, as much as seeing that removing government subsidies has normalized the used car market.

I remember buying an egolf back in 2015, I paid like $21k after subsidies. This was a good price, but that basic value held true for a number of years. Used price was great, for many years I could have sold it for $15k+, and it even went over $21k during 2022 due to supply side issues. But articles talking about used value mentioned that the egolf used value had tanked, going for $37k to $18k. But really that was a 10% drop, because if it went down a normal 30% or whatever you'd literally be buying a used car for more than you would spend on a new one!

The numbers are often taken from sticker price (the article itself doesn't discuss how it got its numbers). But of course many cars sell for under sticker price...or in 2022, during supply chain shortages, were actually selling for $5,000 above sticker price. Now that we're mostly over the supply chain issues, these cars are going to see an additional $5,000 drop in used value. But it seems statistically unuseful to account for a one-time extraordinary industry issue.

Oh, forgot to mention that FBI stats - that is, before the current deer-in-the-headlight idiot, shows that crime stats have been *dropping* for the last twenty years or so.

to where the data centers are being built, *not* hiring locals.

Anyone want to tell me why they should get *any* tax breaks whatsoever?

Wrong answer. I grew up, and have lived in neighborhoods that you wouldn't go near. Like, say, north Philly.

...was it "equipment under government control"? It was his phone. They had not seized it, so it was still under *his* control.

Gee, really scared of the world, aren't you? How often have you, personally, been assaulted? While walking down the street?

(Me, once, in fourth grade, by a classmate. My son, teenager, on the wrong block near our house in Chicago. That should cover back to when your parents were young...

1. Record.
2. upload.
3. Chatbot, strip person naked.

So, all the rest of us, including "up-and-coming" writers, can be copied?

It’s hard to imagine. Aside from being partially able to get around corporate censorship, local LLMs are incomparably shittier.

He. Has. No. Right. To. Call. Tarriffs. ONLY CONGRESS can do that, and let me note his teriffs were already thrown out by the courts.

Why he imagines this is not in court today, well, that's because he *really* has lost it.

the noise and vibration from a hyperscale datacenter?

That's hysterical.
And all the students need to flunk the class, and have to retake it. Not only did they not proofread their AI slop, they didn't read the instructions well enough to notice there was odd whitespace.

What we get out of kids like that is like ancient nobility, who's "skills" were "hunting" and "fighting". Read? I have clerks for that. Cook? I have cooks for that. Job? my AI will do it.

NOT.

You're an idiot.

Here, let me provie it - I'll tie you up, and pour boiling water on you till you admit to having stolen $1M from me.

THAT is why it exists.