Okay, sure, I was thinking cars and consumer products, not aerospace.
With more limited volume products like jet engine parts the savings of manufacturing in a lower cost country probably also diminish. There's a constant overhead in outsourcing things to somewhere far away, and without enough volume to spread that cost over it doesn't always make sense.
Plus they probably can't outsource a lot of the stuff being made for the military, so there has to be domestic manufacturing capabilities for that sort of thing anyway.
I did give a bunch of other reasons earlier in the thread, which are logically consistent. "Norwegians are fascists" doesn't line up with the political reality in Norway, no matter how much some passionate people on the Internet want it to.
Sure, that lines up great with how half the countries in the west are drifting towards fascism, while Norway is still a rock solid social democracy. I guess the fascists in Norway are too busy driving their Teslas around to vote?
Yeah, those two first paragraphs were more about Chinese manufacturing in general, not about the Volvo. The US is still full of Chinese-made stuff, it's just a bit more expensive now. And there are no BYD cars, but as far as I know you can still get Volvos.
My view about Chinese manufacturing is that they make things to spec. If the spec says cheap garbage, you get cheap garbage. If the spec says more premium stuff, you get that.
In my experience, the main indicator of whether something will be garbage is not the country it was manufactured in, but whether the target demographic is Americans. If it's destined for an American retail store or webshop, it will be cheap trash. There are exceptions (as much as I hate their OS, Apple hardware is pretty nice), but generally American businesses will trade quality for margin almost every time.
There was a period where more or less all car manufacturers, regardless of country, were abandoning physical buttons and levers, and that trend is thankfully reversing. The Tesla Model 3 at some point had buttons for turn signals, and one was above the other, so you had to memorize which was in which direction. I believe The shifter was also on the touchscreen. The Cybertruck famously turns into a doorhandle-less cremation chamber in case of fire. I'm not sure I'd blame Chinese ownership/manufacturing for what appeared to be a global trend.
I made no comparison with European cars. I was merely explaining why a lot of Norwegians aren't even considering BYD, which is Tesla's largest competitor.
I've seen a bunch of VW ID.3 and ID.4 in Norway, and VW and Audi are pretty big there in general, so I'm pretty sure they're aware of European cars 🙄
All of these people are extremely nearsighted. I'm just a little bit farsighted, and wouldn't need glasses if I didn't also have astigmatism. The refraction in my case is barely visible. People with an even subtler prescription with astigmatism would possibly have no refraction at all in that direction.
I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if Boebert was actually wearing non-prescription glasses, but she could have legitimate reasons to wear glasses which still would look like that. You'd need to also check refraction in the other direction to know for sure.
They won't need to. Their next guy will make Trump seem competent in comparison, just like Trump did with George W. Bush. He'll be looked back on with nostalgia.
Norwegians are well aware of what Elon is doing. I think it's a combination of multiple factors:
Brand recognition (Tesla sales have always been strong in Norway, from back when there wasn't much competition)
Long distances, and a perception that Teslas have better range
Due to stiff taxes on combustion engines, the Tesla model S was basically the only remotely affordable performance car available for a long time, so a lot of people who don't give a fuck about the environment, politics or anything else bought them. These people are the kind of people who would be rolling coal if they were Americans, and they aren't jumping ship due to anything Elon says.
Now that nobody else is buying Teslas, they get sweet discounts, and Norwegians love a deal
Prejudice against Chinese products is holding back BYD (a lot of boomers think stuff from Temu is representative of all Chinese manufacturing
A lot of the difference from other countries is probably explained by that due to tax incentives, there are a lot of people in Norway buying electric cars who do not fit the usual demographics of electric car buyers.
That's not a given. A friend of mine worked on a weather forecast implemented in Fortran by people who were better at meteorology than programming, and some functions had thousands of parameters. The parameters for one of the calls (not the function definition) were actually supplied in a separate include file.
I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It's possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.
Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don't watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I'd never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I'm more of a "refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name" kind of guy. I'm pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That's also easier to cram into my schedule.
Then I don't understand why you're bringing it up. Are you saying it's a problem with Linux that you spent time learning something you didn't turn out to really need?
I wonder if they were originally from somewhere around the middle east, like perhaps Turkey? Firing guns into the air during festivities seems commonplace there.
Dumbest branding decision since renaming Twitter to X.