Buffalox

@ Buffalox @lemmy.world

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3h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales
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Buffalox @lemmy.world 3h ago

I have zero idea why there would be 14 recalls of ID4 in Canada, here we have had none that I know of. It is on the contrary considered among the most reliable together with BMW and Mercedes, slightly above Hyundai.
The only recall I can find on the ID.4 was due to a battery overheating issue, where it could catch fire, but the issue was merely a software fix.Admittedly a serious enough issue, but an easy fix.Such recalls are not uncommon, for instance Hyundai had it here with the Kona, but way more expensive for Hyundai since the entire battery needed to be replaced.The ID.4 battery is in 26 modules if I remember correctly, and defect modules can be replaced separately if needed, making it one of the more serviceable batteries.Tesla has had a LOT of recalls, but in reality most of them are not really recalls, because they were things that could be fixed with an over the air update.
Regarding VW reliability we have by yearly mandatory safety checks here in Denmark, and also Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.In those safety checks, VW is in the absolute top, I linked the story on the enough musk spam sub, and get replies from the other 3 countries, that the picture was the exact same in those countries.
https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandalen-fortsaetter-naesten-hver-anden-tesla-model-y-dumper-til-syn
In the chart you can see Tesla failing 45% for model Y and 34% for model 3, and 2% for VW ID.4.(Tesla is unheard of bad, which is the reason for the article.)I have never seen anything regarding VW like what you claim is happening in Canada? And why don't you supply the source you are quoting?I am not saying VW is good because they are better than Tesla, that just happens to be the main thing the article is about.I'm saying VW is good because they top the chart as the car with the least failures at the mandatory safety checks, and it's in line with what I hear from reviewers and owners.All 3 data points match up, and your story true or not, is very extreme outlier from the norm. And I don't think it's the weather, because then we should have heard similar stories from Norway, Finland and Sweden. So kind of a mystery if true, but maybe the article you omitted to link to has an explanation?

5h ago

Super Vegan

Of course I can, it follows logically from your opposition to my post questioning it.It is also logically in line with the fact that you suggest "librarian" as a better example than "foreigner".Thinking those 2 posts make sense and are OK, but the examples I gave you consider sociopathic, shows you can't really distinguish between what is OK and what is not.

5h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 5h ago

you have no idea who I am.

I know what you wrote, and my response is based on that.You obviously think it's OK to make fun of people for being Vegan, and think it's OK to make fun of people for other reasons too, like being a librarian.That clearly makes you "insensitive".

Maybe you should consider why you think it's OK to behave in a way, that makes you look like that?Try to image the situation where Trump made fun of a handicapped journalist, is that who you want to be?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-s-worst-offense-mocking-disabled-reporter-poll-finds-n627736

Edit: Dialed it sown a little bit.

6h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

Unhinged from what?If I'm unhinged, it's because I find you "extremely insensitive" towards people that may stick out for whatever reason.

Edit: Trying to be less "unhinged".

6h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

I could, but those examples are not equivalent except for librarians.Nobody calls themselves hipster or beer snob.

6h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

That is not reasoning, but examples of other groups people make fun of.You are failing basic logic, and failing to answer the question.

Everyone should be made fun of.

That was what I responded to. Because that means making fun of the above groups too.But maybe you too is ~~a sociopath~~ extremely insensitive?

6h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

I think that is spot on the main issue here.But everybody needs to be able to accept they are not flawless, because nobody is.

6h ago

Spain and Norway Expose the Bankruptcy of Europe's Iran Response

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

Oh for fucks sake, Spain UK, France, Italy.

Starmer: (PM of UK) war on Iran is “Illegal”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZXHA8pcVA

Macron: (President of France) ‘outside international law,’https://www.politico.eu/article/us-strikes-on-iran-outside-international-law/

Giorgia Meloni: (PM of Italy) "outside the framework of international law"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/italy-does-not-want-to-enter-war-despite-sending-defense-assets-to-gulf-premier-says/3859741

Sánchez (PM of Spain) "unjustified and illegal"https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-emerges-eu-chief-critic-donald-trump-war-in-iran/

Of the 5 most significant countries in Europe, Germany is completely alone on this issue, and the only country to allow attacks going out from their airbases!

Sending warships is not support for USA, and definitely not to attack Iran, but to defend their own interests and innocent civilians.

6h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 6h ago

Why exclude one group from humor? Everyone should be made fun of.

OK what are these other groups? Redheads, handicapped, foreigners, women, fat people, small people?

What are these groups that should be made fun of?You are reasoning like a true sociopath.Making fun of people for doing the morally correct thing is simply wrong.

9h ago

Super Vegan

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 9h ago

I don't understand why it's supposed to be funny to make fun of vegans?I am not a vegan myself, but I absolutely understand their moral reasoning for being vegans.

The drawings are pretty funny, the "joke" is not.

11h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 11h ago

VW in North America has a huge reliability problem

What?

19h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 19h ago

they insisted, even though it was untrue, that VW Flex and SIXT+ were the only options for me to lease

That's such a despicable salesman trick, I almost completely lost respect for a friend once, when I found out he did something almost identical to his customers.IDK if it is company policy for VW to do that, it could be the salesperson.

Post tax profits dropped? boohooo. Eat shit VW.

It's a capitalist world we live in, but unfortunately of all the models we have tried, democracy with regulated capitalism seems to be the least bad model we have figured out how to make work somewhat reasonably.That said profits are necessary for future investments, without profits the company dies. That would be true even if society wasn't capitalistic. Then the resources for investments in maintenance and improvements would just have to come from somewhere else.

19h ago

Epstein paid for a conference of top scientists in 2006. His motives are now clear

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 19h ago

Cold fusion is bullshit. There are no ifs or buts about it. It is purely bullshit.

20h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 20h ago

My app is extremely limited, I can see charging state, and plan charging, and it has a map where I can see where the car is, and I can turn air condition on and off or set a timer/planner for it. Then there is a health report with a lot of status items.I don't think it gets much more basic than that.

PS: It also has some sort of roadside assistance, but the one through my insurance is way better. The one VW offer also seems to be limited to if there are injuries. But why would I call them for that?Finally there's a number to a help line. Which I've never used.

The only thing I have missed, and only once, is the ability to lock the doors.Open and close windows could probably be nice in the summer, (We bought ours November 2025) but we have dark rear window and in rear doors too, so it shouldn't get too hot if parked correctly, and the air-condition is very efficient. It does however have a function to control all 4 windows at the same time.

Despite the simplistic app, we are very happy with our ID.4. There are so many clever little details, including how many of the automatic features work. Lighting up the surrounding when you get out if it's just a little dark, lights in the cabin when you park, how the fob turn on the screen before you get to the car. Phantom pedal for the trunk. The convenience of the HUD. The fully automatic climate control, which I didn't even touch for months after we bought the car, because it was just right.But to be fair, our old car was rather old, so this is a HUGE step up. Despite out old car was also a very nice car with full leather cabin.I bet a Mercedes beat it, but we don't drive enough to justify buying a Mercedes on our budget.

21h ago

[Video] German Chancellor Merz says Israel is as much of a victim as Ukraine

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 21h ago

I have to admit that Merz is a huge disappointment on this issue.Defending an illegal war with numerous war crimes committed against Iran and in Gaza, and standing basically alone in EU/Europe, where just about every political leader have denounced the war. It is also only Germany that is allowing the use of their bases for the war!

21h ago

Iran begins laying mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources say

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 21h ago

Oh no, Trump will have a hissy fit!

21h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 21h ago

OK I don't know most of those services.VW Flex is a car rental service, or some sort of car sharing program, why are you mad that VW offer such a service? If you don't want it, you are 100% free not to rent a car from VW or anyone else.SIXT isn't even VW but BMW!

I can see you may have a point about some of the other items.But here we don't have those, but the app is also very limited here, and I cannot lock the doors of my car remotely, something I found weird, since it must be extremely easy to make.Navigation is however included without charge. And there are no subscriptions.

Regarding Dieselgate that's moronic, VW was just unlucky to be the first that was caught, all the other manufacturers of diesel cars did the exaxt same thing, and VW wasn't even the worst.I have no idea what the points below are supposed to be about. Except VW works fine with unions in Europe, but USA has no protections of unions, so blame your government and fellow Americans for that one too. Absolutely fight for unions, If I were American I would support a unionized brand as well.

You make some good points, but I don't get why you start out with points in both sections that seem pretty stupid non issues, apart from diesel-gate of course being an issue, but since everybody did it, you can't really use that for anything.

23h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

What subscriptions?Regarding the lies I suspect you mean diesel-gate. Yes diesel-gate was because the test was rigged, which can be called a form of lie, but everybody did it, so why target VW in particular?There is a "subscription" to the App for my ID.4, but it's free, so what is the problem?

The brands that have really aired the idea of subscriptions is BMW and Stelantis, but maybe you are just confused?

23h ago

VW to cut 50,000 jobs amid Trump tariffs and falling Chinese sales

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

What a ridiculous take!?VW group make the best affordable EVs in Europe and have 50+% marketshare.Why is such a blatantly moronic comment upvoted?The reason they are in trouble is that it is expensive to have double the product line while also developing new EV models.And of course increased competition from China, and US Tariffs that are also noted in the article.

What exactly is this "innovation" you complain that they aren't doing?And no VW has NOT received huge subsidies from EU, where did you get that idea?EV makers in USA have received subsidies in the form of tax credits. And in China they have through a diverse system of support for developing and building EV's and batteries.

In EU subsidies are required to NOT favor any single country, so reduced prices for an EV has counted exactly as much for a Tesla as for VW, and DESPITE that, VW has taken huge marketshare in EV.

I honestly get a little sad when I see such uninformed posts as the above. And that people for some reason seem to agree with it.

23h ago

Spain and Norway Expose the Bankruptcy of Europe's Iran Response

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Buffalox @lemmy.world 23h ago

The article uses Germany as an example, but Germany is clearly an outlier, almost all heads of European countries have declared the war illegal, and have prevented USA from using their bases. And none are aiding Israel/USA in this war.How is that bankruptcy of Europe?