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  • Iran intentionally caused all of this when they had Hamas attack in October. The whole point of Hamas starting shit was to derail peace talks between Israel and the Saudis. With one of the main focus areas being an official Palestinian state.

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141302

  • EV GTI is exactly what I'm waiting for. VW claims 2026 so first US availability is probably 2027. My current GTI is in good shape so shouldn't be a problem to hold out 3 more years.

  • Flag them and move on. That account is one of the dumbest tankies here on lemmy. No argument made will be in good faith.

  • Where beer crate?

  • Really? I just joined it cause I thought the instance name was hilarious.

  • Bingo. Both is good. Not all life is precious.

  • It's definitely intentional. That account gives some plausibility to horseshoe theory.

  • They've been attacking intermittently since 2015. It's just convenient now to claim they won't stop because of Israel. They'll keep going until Iran wants them to stop. Which won't be anytime soon even if Israel stops.

  • BYD owns mining rights no foreign maker would have been able to invest in per Chinese regulations. The Chinese government sold them Xian Qinchuan for a faction of it's value. A state owned car manufacturer that was in really poor shape that the party wanted to offload. BYD then shamelessly copied the Toyota Corolla to make the company relevant again. Faced no legal consequences for doing so because China doesn't care about IP law. There have been credible reports of BYD using slave labor throughout their operation.

    So no. GM or BMW or someone should have just invested more wouldn't have achieved the same results. Tesla is the only one that kinda comes close. And even they can't match BYD costs per vehicle because Elon isn't using slave labor just yet. Wouldn't put him past trying in the future to match BYD.

  • It's not impossible to understand. It's currently impossible to mimic.

    BYD has vertical integration unlike any other manufacturer. Because BYD has been fostered by the Chinese government to first ensure dominance in their domestic market. And now disruption in foreign markets.

    China would not allow or subsidize every stage from raw material mining through vehicle assembly for say GM. They have and will for BYD because it was created to undercut all the existing manufacturers.

  • It's the only reason I'm kinda interested in one. But otherwise it got beat with Transformers stick like a lot of recent GM vehicles and I hate how it looks.

  • Pretty neat. Like a carwash kinda setup.

  • A big factor is Lemmy was setup by tankies for tankies. So the constant spam of negative news about _______ western nation is on brand.

  • Had pancreatitis because of his diet. A diet in which he thought would magically avoid creating body odor.

    It turned into cancer. He lucked out that it was a rare form of treatable pancreatic cancer with a 90% survival rate 5 years out. Which is abnormal as most forms of pancreatic are essentially a death sentence. Survival rate past 3 years is under 10% for the more common variants.

    Stuck to his diet anyway. Ignored his doctors. Died to an illness he had a 90% chance of beating because he knew better.

  • That's good. Maybe since your account is there such criticism is viewed differently.

    But that's not the case for others. And that reality is being shared right now by multiple people in this thread.