I think that is incorrect. They discontinued the model X and model S, meaning they are only going to focus on the model 3 and model Y (which are their better selling models)
I was just wondering about all the Europeans (excluding UK)... like do y'all understand... say, an American movie or TV as well as those in your national language?
I'm pretty much a fluent English speaker. My native tongue is Dutch
There are certain sayings, phrases or slang that I may not be intimately familiar with. And sometimes I can't think of a word that I really should have known and I need to look it up (but I get that in Dutch too)
But generally my thoughts are in English, when I speak English, which I think is a decently good sign of fluency.
Following movies is no problem, but I still prefer to have English subtitles under them in case I miss anything. Watching with subtitles is just something I'm used to anyway, because most movies in the NL are not dubbed, but rather the OG language (often English) with Dutch subtitles
I also speak a bit of French and German, but I'm nowhere near fluent in those.
Just a regular Dutchman from the Netherlands, actually. I got all four languages in school, and got quite a bit of exercise in French as a kid, so some of it stuck with me.
German is similar enough to Dutch that you can mostly bluff your way through it after highschool.
Those who didn't vote in the 2024 election are equally culpable to the Trumpoids in my eyes. It was very clear what Trump stood for, yet they didn't bother to go out and vote against fascism.
Is the way the people of Greenland are responding to America threatening to invade their country really news? Think that one over in your head for a minute.
A Dutch anti-immigration influencer who has promoted conspiracy theories such as the “great replacement” appears to have had her authorisation for visa-free travel to the UK revoked.(..)...
A few years ago I went back from 40 hours per week to 36 hours per week. In practice this means one five day week, and one four day week with Fridays off, giving me a long weekend. A few colleagues do this too, and some others opted for a 32 hour week, with four days each week.
It has been a pleasant experience for me, and I would preferably not go back to a 40 hour week.
I finally feel like I have time to enjoy my weekends again. Leaving me enough time to do chores, fulfill social obligations and engage in my hobbies.
It is also helpful that after taxes the wage difference between working a 40 hour week and a 36 hour week is not that significant in the Netherlands. So I would easily trade the wages for the healthier work-life balance.
Lunch having to be paid is not an EU rule. It just happens to be that multiple countries in the EU have such rulings.
In the Netherlands lunch can still be unpaid unless your union has agreed otherwise in the collective labour agreement.
My job has unpaid lunch according to the employment contract (But thankfully they aren't too picky about working exactly 8 hours in a day)
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From my understanding it isn't the colours themselves that are copyrighted, but rather the system around it. If you happen to accidentally use a colour from the Pantone library without paying them for the privilege, that is allowed. But any system that uses the Pantone names / structure should pay for the rights to use that system.
Tesla, which is due to reveal its total sales for 2025 later on Friday, last week published analyst's estimates suggesting that it had sold around 1.65 million vehicles for the year as a whole....
It is not quite that bleak. They went from 100% EV for all new car sales in 2035, to 90% EVs and 10% being allowed as combustion engine cars.
That 10%'s emissions also has to be offset by EVs sold. And they are introducing a new M1E category for cars that needs to be Electric, European-built, and under 4.2 meters in length (Volkswagen Golf or smaller essentially). Each M1E car sold will count for 1.3 regular cars sold in terms of offset.
So essentially Europe is dangling a carrot to produce small, European-made EVs for the car manufacturers. And car manufacturers still need to produce 90% of their cars as EVs
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January 1st is a national holiday in the Netherlands, and I took three bridge days (vacation days to bridge the gap between a public holiday and a weekend) between Christmas and New Year's.
On top of that I have every other Friday off, and that happened to coincide with this week.
So with only three vacation days spent I have 11 days off from the 25th of December to the 4th of January.
I'm using the time to move house, so not much relaxing sadly.
Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, has voted to introduce voluntary military service, in a move aimed at boosting national defences after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
I believe the point is not to replace the existing carreer soldiers, but to train up part of the population to increase the size of your reserve forces.
That way, if war were to break out, you have a pool of trained civilians to draw from until you finish training your new recruits.
A million today may not be worth as much as a million 35 years ago, but a million still undeniably makes you wealthy even today. Heck.. even 400k in 2025 would make you decently wealthy. You can live a quite comfortable life with that kind of money
I'm not exactly a fan of pretending that millionaires are somehow struggling, and if they don't "feel wealthy" they should take a good hard look at the lives of people in the middle class or lower.
Edit: This all feels very similar to that claim I've been seeing going around recently that somehow an income of 100k per year would be a poverty wage, even though it's twice the mean income of US housholds.
If you can't make ends meet with 100k per month in income or one million in the bank, you might just need to spend a little less lavishly. Your life will still be comfortable, I promise.
Most people aren't cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.
Russia is right at our doorsteps and is increasingly aggressive. So we either rearm in the hope that that threat keeps Russia at bay, or we don't and will hopelessly lose if Russia invades.
Expect more to follow. America is clearly showing that they cannot be trusted as an ally, so countries are going to make the calculation whether it might just be better to align with China instead
Given that it's a humanoid robot, I suspect that this is more of a marketing stunt than any practical deployment of robots.
Humanoid robots don't make a ton of sense in manufacturing. Why mimic the sub-optimal anatomy of a human when you can make your robotic work slave have any appendage you want, which are designed to be optinal for their task along the assembly line?
Humanoid robots mostly only make sense in spaces that need to be designed for humans (like homes or hospitals) where the robot needs to regularly interact with human infrastructure.
There is a difference between human-scale and humanoid.
Human-scale just means the robot needs to fit in a space where humans should also fit, while humanoid means it is supposed to resemble a humans not just in size, but also in shape. A humanoid robot would generally have a torso, two arms, two legs, and probably a head.
As an example, a roomba fits in a human environment but is not humanoid. You could hypothetically make a humanoid robot that is capable of using an ordinary vacuum to vacuum the same space, but it would be significantly more complex and more expensive to do that. A purpose-built roomba is a much more cost-effective solution for cleaning up after humans.
Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and force you to hand over the footage you recorded. It's a higher barrier than if footage is being uploaded to the cloud, but it can still happen.
And even if the cameras are not uploading their footage to the cloud, it still wouldn't sit well with me if every other house has a camera pointed at the public street
Where I live it is technically illegal to record the public street with an automated camera, but it's not really being enforced. So there is Ring cameras everywhere.
I'm also Dutch and I still occasionally use it when I want to be polite to an older person I do not know very well, or to someone who is in a position where I want to show a certain form of "respect" (higher social standing?)
That is probably also why the government uses "u" in its communication. It is proper to be seen as being respectful to your citizens. And saying "jij" after "u" is less likely to offend anyone than saying "u" after "jij"
The rules are a bit vague when you are supposed to use it, and most people will go "zeg maar jij hoor" (you can say [informal] you) after you start with "u" (formal you)
Big companies using the informal you in formal communication can be seen as a way to try to make themselves feel smaller, more approachable, more person-like than they actually are.
I'm not saying that is necessarily the reason behind it, but formal or informal you do invoke different feelings and associations when they are used.
Formal you (u) shows respect, whereas informal you (jij) is more personal and buddy-buddy.
If you ever tried the infamous "Update and shut down" option in any Windows build, it often leads to a reboot instead to an actual shutdown. Now, Microsoft has finally fixed this issue starting with Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200.7019 (or 26100.7019 on 24H2). According to the Windows Latest, Microsoft has shipped this broken...
Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls....
I'm no expert, but I believe this is down to the individual member states.
In my country (the NL) it is technically not allowed to film the public street with an automated camera, which effectively makes Ring and equivalents illegal to install in most places
Practically this is not really enforced though, so you see them everywhere anyway.
From the coverage that I read in my national newspaper (which admittedly isn't Slovakian) the speed limit applies to everyone on the sidewalk. Not just to e-bikes and e-scooters, but also to pedestrians.
The speed limit is set to 6 km/h. Joggers and people making a sprint to catch a bus, would easily be breaking that speed limit.
While that is idealy true, the reality of maintaining an ecyclopedia is not always so black and white.
For example, Wikipedia needs to make decisions like whether to call Scientology a religion or a cult, or whether to call homeopathy medicin or pseudo-science. These are value judgements based on criticism to the subject matter and are not fully objective. But they are still important to allow people to get a full picture on a topic.
The alternative would be to relegate criticism on a topic to the criticism section, which runs the risks of giving certain ideas a false sense of legitimacy.
If I had to make a guess, part of the reason why Musk has such an issue with Wikipedia is because they actually have the policy to name criticism up front.
I'm not even remotely saying you should use Grokipedia over Wikipedia. I kind of assumed that would be a given, considering the other things I said.
I'm merely pointing out that an encyclopedia isn't just stating dry facts, and that there is certain editorial decisions that need to be made when presenting information.
That does not mean I'm saying Wikipedia is bad and shouldn't be used.
To my knowledge, there are designs which allow you to pop out the latch without the need for electronics.
However, if I'm reading the article correctly those wouldn't be allowed either because in their default state they don't have "enough room for a hand to grip behind them". That wording alone explicitely bans flush doorhandles, and not just electronic doorhandles
Wikipedia, being a free source of information, is an incredibly important resource and a net good for humanity. But since Wikipedia is free for all they rely on donations to keep the lights on.
There are groups who would prefer it if that free access to information did not exist, or could be more easily be controlled and/or manipulated.
It is in their interest to convince people not to donate to Wikipedia
I'm convinced that this "don't donate to Wikipedia" messaging that has cropped up in recent years is a psyop, set up by these groups with the goal to starve Wikipedia of income.
Don't fall for it. Support one of the last truly good places on the internet.
In the poll from The Washington Post, 47 percent of respondents said “Trump and Republicans in Congress” are “mainly responsible for the federal government partially shutting down,” while 30 percent pinned the blame on “Democrats in Congress” for the shutdown....
Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor ( electrek.co )
For those who's country's national language is **NOT** English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language?
I was just wondering about all the Europeans (excluding UK)... like do y'all understand... say, an American movie or TV as well as those in your national language?
‘Make America Go Away’: The red hat that’s all the rage in Greenland ( www.irishtimes.com )
Archive link...
Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek appears to lose right to UK visa-free travel ( www.theguardian.com )
A Dutch anti-immigration influencer who has promoted conspiracy theories such as the “great replacement” appears to have had her authorisation for visa-free travel to the UK revoked.(..)...
Folks who work the Reduced Work Week or Compressed Work Week, how has it effected your life?
Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing...
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European leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats ( www.theguardian.com )
China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world's top EV seller ( www.bbc.com )
Tesla, which is due to reveal its total sales for 2025 later on Friday, last week published analyst's estimates suggesting that it had sold around 1.65 million vehicles for the year as a whole....
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What is your go-to karaoke song?
Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds ( www.bbc.com )
Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, has voted to introduce voluntary military service, in a move aimed at boosting national defences after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
Anti-coercion instrument: EU should fire trade bazooka if China de-risking fails, says industry chief ( www.euractiv.com )
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/43056920...
High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study ( www.theguardian.com )
High levels of a toxic “forever chemical” have been found in cereal products across Europe because of its presence in pesticides....
Even millionaires don't feel wealthy these days ( www.usatoday.com )
Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup ( www.politico.eu )
Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation....
America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China ( www.economist.com )
https://archive.is/vpaGm...
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’ ( www.theguardian.com )
People implicated in the late sex offender’s crimes might face criminal charges or, at the very least, social ostracism
Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia ( www.politico.eu )
Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies....
Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD ( www.metameha.com )
Time for robot taxes:...
Android's Quick Share now works with iPhone's AirDrop, starting with the Pixel 10 lineup | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
EU Chat Control Advances as Privacy Experts Warn of Hidden Backdoor Risks ( techreport.com )
good phones for rooting? older than 2020.
Must have:...
flock + ring = ice ( techcrunch.com )
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?
And what language and region is it?...
applogies
Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade ( www.techpowerup.com )
If you ever tried the infamous "Update and shut down" option in any Windows build, it often leads to a reboot instead to an actual shutdown. Now, Microsoft has finally fixed this issue starting with Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200.7019 (or 26100.7019 on 24H2). According to the Windows Latest, Microsoft has shipped this broken...
Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says ( www.bbc.com )
Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls....
What would happen to society if all magnets suddenly lost their magnetism?
Alternatively, what would happen if the loss of magnetism instead happened gradually over a period of time?
Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar ( www.techradar.com )
cross-posted from:...
Slovakia adopts speed limit for pedestrians ( www.politico.eu )
Elon Musk launches encyclopedia ‘fact-checked’ by AI and aligning with rightwing views ( www.theguardian.com )
New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds ( www.wired.com )
https://archive.ph/2GcBa
What's the status on Wikipedia donations?
I have donated in the past, but then there were wild accusations, people saying it's not needed, it's to fund other things, and so on and so forth....
More Americans blame Trump, Republicans for shutdown than Democrats: Survey ( thehill.com )
In the poll from The Washington Post, 47 percent of respondents said “Trump and Republicans in Congress” are “mainly responsible for the federal government partially shutting down,” while 30 percent pinned the blame on “Democrats in Congress” for the shutdown....
What's your favourite niche website that is still running and hasn't changed much in 20~ or so years?
Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?
Thank you.