DUH! These AI things will not speak bad about anyone they are programmed too. Plus, with all of the money China is throwing at the anti Data center protests in the United States, you can 100% bet they won't talk ill of Xi in China.

I was "gifted" total fark a couple times. Big whoop! You can respond to stories/links BEFORE they are made public? LOL, not worth spending the money considering they pretty much ONLY allow left leaning content. Go against the grain you get banned for a few days. I wear my bans as a badge of honor LOL. Screw em if they go under.

I mostly go there for the photoshop this posts. If I respond in a NON LEFTEST way, I usually get banned for 1-2 days. They are NOT a free speech place. You pretty much have to align by their views or they kick you off. Hey, it's their site, they can do what they want, but the leftist that go there aren't going to pay money to go there. Plus, the ads? I didn't even know they had ads since my blocker blocks them LOL.

It might have been okay if the /pol/ people just stayed in their little ghetto, but they cross-posted to the main tab while bringing their (even more than usually) biased moderators. That made the main tab toxic as well.

She basically single-handedly killed the site.

Are you stupid?

How do you think Ali gets shit to Europe, clown?

We’re not talking about the national average, the entire population. We are talking about the elements of the main market that are reluctant to purchase EVs. In particular after doing the math for their particular situation.

Not really. Only a small fraction of Australians live in colder regions, in the USA is around half. Much of Australia is sort of like California, ideal EV territory. Again, the people reluctant to purchase EVs generally have valid reasons.

Many in the US prefer hybrids as a result.

But the numbers you just gave for Australia do represent commutes in general, including public transport. Restrict the data to drivers and you’ll find things much more similar in terms of miles. The previously mentioned climate differences do have an impact though.

... with 59% of EU workers using private cars as their primary mode of transportation,)

Their drives are on much more heavily traveled corridors with much better charging infrastructure available.

Not really. We have a good charging network along select major highways due to Tesla. So long range travel between major cities is adequately covered. However for more local needs the network is quite troublesome. Even when there are chargers they are often broken, not well maintained. We have US auto execs trying to do media events driving their own EVs from point A to B and had several unpleasant surprises as apps led them to non-functioning chargers. It was quite the counterproductive and embarassing PR stunt.

And 37 chargers were built. Do you know why so many chargers are unmaintained? Because the federal government provided funds to build chargers but not maintain them. Some scammers collected money, built, and abandoned any that was not profitable.

China overproduced and is dumping at or below cost. The US rightfully won’t allow such predatory practices.

Not that the US auto industry has not made terrible decisions, both in the 70s and recently. One of the recent ones included joint R&D efforts with Chinese auto companies. Some of their low costs have been from leveraging US (ex GM) R&D.

"if they can accuse important people without evidence and make them spend time and money"

So, for example, dredging up (in a suitable venue ofc) some ancient bimbo who diddled some rich guy in a dressing room (though she can't remember exactly when, or what she was wearing, and....well... She does admit to finding rape kinda sexy before she's dragged off the air), carefully not bringing the case to criminal court? Like that?

And they're processing transactions through EU banks. Don't want to follow EU law? Then you don't get to collect EU money. Half a dozen phone calls, and Ali isn't doing business in the EU at all.

But they're collecting payment via banks in the EU, who will not hesitate to tell those banks to refuse all transactions from Ali if they feel the need to.

If they're shipping physical product, that product goes through Customs at the EU border. Or it doesn't go through, as the case may be.

There was an extended period of time that executives for DeBeers (the diamond company) couldn't enter the US without being arrested for anti-trust violations. It's not an idle threat.

There's also the option of just refusing to allow any goods to enter the EU from Ali, period.

Amazon's search function is pretty much useless and has been for a while. The best way to find the specific product you're looking for on Amazon is to search on Google (and that's not exactly great, it just sucks less than Amazon's search).