I’m not sure they can spin their way out of this one. The number of new car manufacturers that are spinning up in the last ten years compared to the fifty before it is mind blowing.

I see Tesla getting swallowed whole in a very competitive market in the next twenty years. Their early mover advantage is all but erased.

Edit: and the European manufacturers are catching up fast. I heard the new Renault is a super little car. There will always be some bias to buying European in Europe (as I’m sure is the case with other places, but Tesla had genuine caché for a while). That God awful cyber tank thing will never sell well here.

European view: I always thought I’d love a Tesla when I make the move to electric.

Would never, ever buy one now and it’s purely because of mister half a trillion election purchasing oligarch.

My dad used to say that all you really need when traveling is your passport, tickets and cash and that’s true enough IMO.

It’s brave though. At a minimum I always take clean t-shirt, undies and socks. It has paid off more than once.

SBU doing a superb job offing senior folks inside Russia. Hats off to them.

The latest android versions on quite a few phones allow you to stop charging at 80%.

On my phone it’s: settings->battery->charging limit.

It may be different on your phone so maybe just search for “80” in the settings menu.

Yeah spot on. Deleting.

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100% fair and I do generally follow that rule with my phone and mostly enable the “stop charging at 80%” feature but I’ve noticed two downsides to it:

1. It occasionally needs a full charge / discharge cycle or it loses true 80%
2. If I do it overnight I find the phone unusually warm in the morning which is quite disconcerting so I mostly manually manage it these days (OnePlus Nord 2T 5G). I’m hoping they fix that in the future.

I’m a bit more carefree with the headphones partly because it’s harder to tell and partly because it’s a much, much easier battery replacement.

They’ve been delivering bucket loads of cash for oil and there was a recent deal for $4 billion USD for radar kit.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-russia-all-set-for-usd-4-billion-deal-for-advanced-radar-system-2646849-2024-12-09

I read it as “European imports from China face lower duties”.

Cheers. You too. :)

Interesting as Trump has said he will continue arms deliveries in that case. No way even Trump could expect Ukraine to give up even more land than is currently occupied at the negotiating table. It would be a “terrible deal”.

Some benchmarks were leaked and thought you would be interested. Link.

Apparently full press embargo will be lifted on the 12th.

On paper they look really good to me. It’s only 9 days until launch of the more expensive one so maybe worth holding off for proper benchmarks if you can?

edit: Unless it’s a Christmas present I suppose!

I didn’t either. Others saying it’s a mud dauber which is a type of wasp.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber

*screeching Irish noises*

It’s true that it all comes down to the deficit but it’s easier to create a calorie deficit when you include exercise. When “making weight” in the run up to fights I used to meticulously calorie count and aimed for a 1000 calorie a day hole.

When you’re burning 3500 calories, eating 2500 doesn’t feel uncomfortable at all (except towards the end where your fat levels get very low and your body is just constantly telling you you’re hungry).

But yeah, it’s all just numbers in the end.

I initially thought this was going to be an onion article, but here we are. Class.

Ah the UK and EU are inexorably intertwined. Don’t stress too much. We’re still best buds.

Europe has been fucking pumping money into Ukraine. Now we need to start pumping arms in. It is ludicrous to imagine that this hasn’t been prepared for. The only question is whether our arms production capacity will be enough or ramp up quickly enough.