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[–] [email protected] 6 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

As should have been done already 10 years ago. When it became clear American authorities can seize any information even when stored on servers outside USA, by any American service provider.
And Obama claimed it was a "fair balance".

USA has in many ways acted almost like a totalitarian regime for decades, disregarding their own laws, international laws, and especially the laws of other countries, even allies.

This became very clear when Obama stressed that illegal surveillance/monitoring wasn't used against American citizens.
Obviously meaning that citizens of other countries have no rights, and there are no laws preventing American intelligence in any way.

As it turned out, what Obama promised wasn't even true, and Americans stationed in for instance Iraq, were very much monitored.

With regard to information of other countries, USA has CLEARLY demonstrated, that they have no regard for decency or even laws.

This was revealed when Obama was president, and the Republicans are even worse!!

USA and EU has made an agreement on this, claimed to make it legal in EU to use American cloud services.
But as we have seen, no American administration gives a fuck about such agreements or even laws, so that agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Absolutely no, it has to be Americans who do it, and decide what to do with their country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I wish you all the luck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The Royal Society resides in London, so Musk can't make frivolous charges like in USA.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I wonder why they consider an investigation likely to be harmful?
What the fuck is going on in the Royal Academy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs)

Yeah huge problem right there! USA has an idea now that Democrats are left wing! while in reality Democrats are right of the center for most European countries.
Bernie and AOC are moderately left wing, and far from extreme, there is a pretty big left wing spectrum to the left of them too.

But USA lacks political nuances because of the 2 party system ingrained in the way democracy works in USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I think it's very dangerous to assume those will be democratic. We are pretty close to Trump arresting political opponents, he has threatened about it already during his first term. And he now calls Tesla protesters terrorists despite they never threatened or harmed anyone!! By declaring them terrorists he can use terror laws against his political opponents.

So I think you mean they THINK they know when the next elections are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

Like this:
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-students-vucic-74fff7381f2d6e6ba084aeb17aa88163
This is in Belgrade, a city with just over a million citizens:

USA has a 40 times bigger population and 9 cities that are bigger than this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

I'm not dissing those that actually try do do something, but it's almost like Americans gave up on democracy and the rule of law.
Or can Americans not see they are about to lose their democracy? And is heading directly towards a totalitarian regime!

Dems (most of them) are just wringing their hands as usual

Exactly, I wonder what it takes to make them wake up? Democracy in USA needs to be restored and reformed, and now is the time to do it.
If democrats are waiting because they believe it will be easier if Trump loses more popularity, they are playing a very dangerous game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Yes there's a lot of truth to that. But at some point people should get concerned enough to take to the streets.
But despite everything happening in USA, that is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

OK so how many rioters were hurt at the January 6th attack again?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (14 children)

As far as I can tell, the Trump administration is meeting near zero resistance.
If people don't do anything, it's the same as condoning it.

And yes I know there are some that do, and I know there are good Americans too.
But you are too few, and you don't make a significant difference to the problem.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago (19 children)

It's already well established that the Trump administration is a bunch of traitors and foreign assets.
What puzzles me is how Americans are OK with that?
They are destroying old alliances, and making them enemies to please Russia and possibly China too.

 

Regarding people questioning durability:

https://thetechylife.com/how-long-do-byd-batteries-last/

BYD batteries are designed to last for 3000 to 5000 charge cycles

If a car has 400 km range on a charge and can handle 3000 cycles, that's 1.2 million kilometers.
While we don't know for sure, there has been nothing to indicate BYD should have compromised on that.

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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

In Denmark when a car reaches 6 years, it needs to be safety checked to be used on the roads. After that it's every 2nd years.

Tesla model 3 managed these safety checks extremely poorly, with 3 times the average failure rate.

In total, 1,392 errors were found on the Tesla model, which is three times as many compared to the other electric cars.

If you don't have a translate page button (to your own language), You may want to switch to Firefox. I'm showing the original page in danish, because danish is delicious.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For the past 6 days, I've received 5 updates of more than a Gigabyte!
What are these updates? Although the game has very few issues, they are never fixed!

Edit:
Apparently it's not updates, but downloads of undermined purpose?

 

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 07.10.24 approximately amounted to:

personnel – about 660470 (+1160) people
Tanks – 8933 (+14) units
armored combat vehicles – 17710 (+31) units
Artillery systems – 19156 (+64) units
MLRS – 1223 (+7) units
air defense – 972 (+2) units
aircraft – 368 (+0) units
helicopters – 328 (+0) units
Operative-Tactical level UAV – 16643 (+65)
Cruise missiles – 2615 (+2)
Ships /boats – 28 (+0) units
submarines – 1 (+0) units
motor vehicles and tankers – 26102 (+96) units
special equipment – 3364 (+1)

The data is being clarified.

Fight the occupier! Together we will win!

SOURCE: https://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2024/10/07/zagalni-bojovi-vtrati-rosiyan-za-dobu-1160-osib-7-rszv-ta-14-tankiv/

Translated with Firefox.

 

AOC speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones, despite the Moto had cheap Panda glass front.

Then I bought my $800 glass back Xiaomi 13T Pro in January, and I loved the phone for the camera and good specs. But alas after only 4 months, and single drop of just 30 cm while sitting on the porch, the glass back immediately cracked! The back now looks like an ugly mess, and the high water resistance is very likely gone too.

For sure the last time I buy a phone with a glass back!!!

I wonder why glass back is so popular, and I curse the media for reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S2 as "feeling a bit cheap", because the back was synthetic, and drop tests showed it was 10 times as durable as the iPhone with its glass back.

Samsung did it right in the beginning, glass backs are a curse.

PS: I don't use condoms for my phones, if they need that for daily use, it's an obvious design flaw!!!

The glass back is supposedly there to give a premium feel to the phone. But because it's fragile, people have to use a cover, but with the cover, the premium feel of a glass back is gone anyways?
How is glass back not a design flaw?

EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION:

I am not clumsy, that's why I believe the phone should be able to last without cover. This was the first time the phone slid out of my packet, and I've NEVER dropped it out of my hands. One 30 cm slip and it's broken. Where for instance my Moto had maybe 4-6 in all over the years, and remained unscathed, apart from some tiny scratches.
The sliding out of pocket does occur maybe a couple of times per year, but it's a low drop, and the phone should absolutely be able to handle that tiny drop, as it's an item for everyday use.
I've also never had problems with scratches on my screen on any phone, which is the reason people use screen protectors I guess, which I don't either, because they are ugly, for instance they create a tiny ring around the camera, and they feel awful IMO, my phone came with it, and it took exactly 10 seconds for me to decide to remove it, because I could feel the edge of the screen protector when using the phone.
But please stop with the dropping my phone regularly comments! Just because I dropped my Moto a few times (slid out of pocket) over almost 4 years! Always from low height, which it should be able to handle a few times.

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