This is NOT just about build quality of EVs or engine problems or problems inherent with EVs, it includes minor annoyances that aren't quality problems. Also, this is from reported problems on a SURVEY, not actual problems taken to a dealer to fix. Dodge has the worst rating here while Ram has the best, because Ram owners don't report problems on surveys and not because Ram has better quality (though it likely does as well).
And most of the issues are with tech that is included in higher end cars (rear collision avoidance, rear seat safety belt alarms, lane keeping assist, automatic braking assist, etc), and almost all EVs in the US are higher end cars that are chock full of these up-sells. People are also complaining about entertainment system software and phone pairing, which isn't different from EV to ICE.
Finally, Tesla is one of the worst on the list while also making up the majority of EVs. So the company that has notoriously bad quality and bad design choices strongly skews the metric, since they ONLY make EVs. If Tesla made an ICE it would be just as bad.
I was pleasantly surprised how good the Bolt was and still liked it after 3 years of leasing it. I was ready to get another one after the lease was over, but the pandemic changed my decision (working from home meant I didn't really need a nice car and definitely wasn't driving enough for the price plus-up for EV to make sense, so I got a used beater).
While I preferred MW2 to MW, I still really liked MW and thought it was better than all others besides MW2. I just got really good at cheesing certain class combos in MW2, which was the only way for me to be good at those games. I'm only OK at FPS games and was able to make use of things like the riot shield for holding points or heartbeat sensor and reload perks for C4 to get good K/D ratios. In MW I got a decent percentage of my kills from Danger Close because I died a lot, and goddamn that was a funny way to kill someone. I also felt MW2 was less sniper-friendly, and I suck both as a sniper and against snipers.
So let me get your stance correct: you think that because Israel is currently committing genocide that they don't have the right to exist as a country?
This is not agreeing that Israel is allowed to continue committing genocide. This is just saying that country is allowed to exist as a country. Or do you think that once a country commits a horrific act that they should no longer be allowed to exist?
Then that's your own issue. Germany is a sovereign country who can choose who it wants as citizens. They have chosen to not allow in their country the kind of people who actively work against the right of a certain type of person to exist. Maybe you aren't that kind of person and are just opposed to the creation of Israel in the middle of someone else's country without their consent (which I agree was very wrong to do, but at some point we as civilized people need to move forward and figure out how to live in peace instead of constant fighting), but the vast majority of people who say Israel doesn't have a right to exist are the kind of people who deny the holocaust and think Jewish people don't have the right to exist. Germany doesn't want any MORE of that kind of person in their country.
Now, the inverse SHOULD also be true where they require people to say that Palestine has the right to exist as a country, but that excludes most of the world right now.
But people are conflating recognizing Israel as a sovereign state with approving and condoning their actions. If all countries were held to that standard, there wouldn't be any countries around. The shit my own country does would exclude us from being recognized as a country under that standard.
Because Germany has a history that they want to put behind them. The already have way too many citizens who are white power, neo-nazi assholes who still call for death to Jews, so it's somewhat logical that they decided they don't want any more of that mindset as citizens who can vote.
Who is the government? Is it an elected body? Who elects them?
Because either you appoint a government that is made from basically Hamas (that'll be peaceful!), or you open elections for a new country where Jewish people are 73% of the population... so basically Israel again but now with officially more territory.
I never said I was against that. I'm just trying to figure out the much harder act of implementing that very simple view of the world. If you just say, "here's a new country that's fully democratic with equal rights for all... but it now includes both Gaza and West Bank and is 73% Jewish," you have effectively given Israel an even larger country. Hell, in the US we have universal suffrage and equal rights for everyone from the ocean to the ocean... but only theoretically. Ask a black man how equal he feels in the US, even though he has all the rights and suffrage of a white man. That's how Palestinians would be treated except probably way worse.
The details beyond that are what is actually difficult and why peace hasn't been achieved. It's all fine and good to say, "we should all be happy brothers" but it ignores how hard that is to do when the two brothers want each other dead. I'm in favor of a two state solution along with reparations, but that will also be very difficult to achieve, as evidenced by the many times it has been attempted over the decades.
You're right, I misread the number of people in the West Bank.
Israel has 10 million people, 7.3 million of which are Jewish. West Bank has 2.7 million, 670,000 of which are Jewish. Gaza has 2.3 million, roughly zero of which are Jewish. So 8 million vs 7 million.
But calling me cowardly because I'm trying to figure out a much more difficult situation than "just do it" is terrible. You have to realize it is much more difficult than just saying, "create a new government." You are trying to do what George W Bush did in Iraq. Just get rid of the old government and start a new one. It's that easy! Just do it! If you half-ass the implementation of the solution, you're going to get a horrible outcome. These details need to be discussed if you want to get to your desired solution.
Do the ultra-orthodox support what is happening in Palestine? Are they pacifists who want the killing to stop?
I'm all for letting people refuse to fight if they are sincerely anti-war. But if they are out there cheering the genocide that's happening, then make them put their necks on the line.
It's one thing to have hotels in the city do this for the millions of tourists, but to force this on the highest performing athletes trying to achieve peak performance at the absolute most important competition of their life is kind of shitty. It's a two week event for about 11,000 people. I'm pretty sure the AC from that doesn't put a dent on the AC from the rest of the tourists from the event or the tourists throughout the year in freaking Paris.
Mixing kids who are simply in government care with ones that are violent, was never a good idea though.
That's the issue here. There's a huge difference between the kids in state care because they are orphaned and the kids who get sent to juvenile detention centers or even what we call in the US "alternative schooling."
Only if you are pushing boundaries of the performance of the helicopter. Yes, they are designed with a specific balance in mind, but that balance is an envelope not a single number. They need to have capability to add people as well as have those people move around in flight. Some are designed to carry payloads/cargo, too, which can be variable in weight and shape. Have you ever seen a rescue helicopter flying with a gurney dangling by a line, swinging in the wind with a patient strapped to it? Same thing.
I had a whole animal based joke playing out with bird fish seal, but I couldn't find an animal term for an army person. I thought about saying seal but couldn't tell what kind of military person it was sliding down the line.
That looked far better than I expected. It had a lot of Horizon Forbidden West vibes to the gameplay, but the graphics definitely felt like being in the Star Wars universe.
indicates that a lot of people at least here have a lot of trouble classifying Hamas as bad people
Oh fuck off with this delusional bullshit. Nobody calls Hamas good people or has trouble saying they are bad people. 99% of the world would happily let every person in Hamas die. The only people who think anyone is supporting Hamas are the same ones who think it's OK to blindly kill 30,000 civilians in response to 700 civilians being brutally murdered.
It's not news because everyone knows that Hamas is evil and doing/saying evil things.
Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...
Ah, so dark as in evil, not dark as in low light. I hadn't heard of that, but going through the darkpatterns.org website is basically a laundry list of shit I hate.
I read that this is being called the "Russia Law" or something like that. It's a way for Russia to reduce western influence on Georgia by paying off politicians to silence orgs that aren't Russia-friendly.
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals....
While whale watching in Sea of Cortez, they were saying one small pod of juvenile orcas are straight up dicks. They will attack anything and everything, including taking down blue whales.
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Someone probably reminded Elon of the giant government grant he took to expand the supercharger network and that he could make the company liable for losing all that money.
Nah, I have been in meetings with him before. While he was an asshole that I hated due to the way he treated my customer, he was really smart and spoke very lucidly and concisely. He had a vision and was doing everything he could to achieve it.
Nowadays it's like he has no coherent vision and is just doing whatever wild shit comes to his head. I think when he went from "barely a billionaire who spent it all and nearly went bankrupt" to "holy shit printing billions" then all guardrails came off and he let himself go free.
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
I'm old enough to remember when cable didn't have ads. I was really young, maybe 5ish, but even then it was confusing to me when they started adding commercials. That was for bad TV with the antenna. Then it was only HBO that didn't have ads, but we couldn't afford that until I was much older.
EDIT: I guess my memories of being 5 years old aren't very accurate.
You're right. I guess I was remembering premium channels and some niche channels that were cable-only. Most channels available on early cable were just piping non-local broadcast channels down a cable.
If I were to have guessed I would have said squid came from both squalo meaning shark and squamata for reptiles like snakes. A squid is like a snake shark, so squa-ish. Add some shift in sounds over the centuries and it becomes squid.
It's not just designer goods. They also have liquor stores that advertise on Instagram and sites that "sell" very hard to find collectors' items that are available now.
So wait, how is this not ransom? They committed a crime and completed their punishment plus paid a fine. Now they are being held against their will and can only be released after their families pay money that wasn't directed by the judicial system. I know this is India and not the US, but that sounds exactly like unlawful confinement and ransom to me.
Planes only use GPS because GPS has a very rigorous signal integrity program that others don't have. The "safety of life" requirements on GPS are onerous. Also, GPS has both L1 C/A and L5 (not enough L1C or L2C to be useful yet) signals. I don't think Galileo or GLONASS have extra signals, but I think Beidou does (not an expert on other systems).
Just this January, ESA completed the safety of life analysis requirements for Galileo to be used as a civil aviation signal.
The military won't give access to the decryption keys to that many organizations, especially foreign organizations. The crypto tech and keys are both classified, so anyone handling a unit would have to be given at least Secret clearance. Anyone doing the key updating would need to have Top Secret clearance (I think, not 100% on that). Every plane would have to be constantly monitored at all times (both in flight and while at foreign airports) by cleared personnel to ensure the boxes aren't taken by adversarial states.
EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software ( www.theverge.com )
MODERN WARFARE: How Call of Duty 4 Changed a Genre Forever ( www.youtube.com )
Pyongyang Says It Will Send Support Troops to Ukraine Within a Month ( www.kyivpost.com )
New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist ( www.middleeasteye.net )
Israeli court rules ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service ( www.theguardian.com )
Paris wants an AC-free Olympic Village. Team USA and others aren't so chill with it ( www.npr.org )
How Sweden's youth homes nurtured killers, creating Europe's gun crime capital ( www.reuters.com )
The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight....
Heads of churches say Israeli government is demanding they pay property tax, upsetting status quo ( apnews.com )
Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. ( www.xataka.com )
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says ( www.businessinsider.com )
Xi Jinping accused the US of trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, the Financial Times said....
TIL India had a tradition in the 1970s of making military helicopters look like animals ( www.peepultree.world )
Biden considering separate hostage deal with Hamas, potentially bypassing Israel ( www.salon.com )
Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Showcase | Ubisoft Forward ( www.youtube.com )
What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters ( www.msn.com )
So to recap the events of a couple of weeks ago:...
Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address ( www.tomshardware.com )
Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” ( www.theverge.com )
Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...
US museum curator temporarily detained in Turkey airport with 1,500 scorpions and spiders in luggage ( www.usatoday.com )
Georgia defies EU and backs law targeting ‘foreign agents’ ( www.politico.eu )
Brussels warns new curbs on civil society flout “European values” as protests grow in Tbilisi....
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar ( www.theguardian.com )
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals....
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht Embodies Eco-Conscious Luxury ( nicenews.com )
‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms ( www.theguardian.com )
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. ( www.theverge.com )
TIL the origin of the word 'dog' is an etymological mystery. (The same is true about the word 'squid' but obviously I already knew that.) ( www.dictionary.com )
See also: https://www.etymonline.com/word/squid
Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests...
Indian prison demands 50,000 rupees to release Myanmar refugees imprisoned for illegal entry at end of sentences ( eng.mizzima.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20747975...
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks ( www.wired.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/30835184
The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan ( abcnews.go.com )
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