Thanks. 👍

It’s based on the reality of Elon Musk always over promising and under delivering.
Elon Musk is a con man.
Why would you buy anything from a con man?
Examples of the above failed Tesla promises are for instance the new Roadster should have been here 5 years ago. Cybertruck was late by years, and it under performed greatly compared to what was promised for instance having 30-40% lower range, and it cost about 50% more than promised.
Finally FSD and autopilot is a joke, and the promises are deemed illegal marketing in states in USA and also in several foreign countries.
The Tesla PowerWall recently has serious problems with starting fires, and so they were shut down, making solar panels unusable and the battery both unusable for customers. With no attempts from Tesla to solve the problem, and Tesla being impossible to reach for customers.

If the Mega Pack actually works as advertised, it is clearly the only Tesla product that does so. And I certainly wouldn’t trust Tesla with even a PowerWall so obviously a 1GWh MegaPack project is way way more risky, and unlikely to actually deliver what Tesla promises.

Thanks, I use the “normal” browser interface. Never used an app for lemmy, maybe I should try it?

No way, I may have been forgiving towards Americans that voted Democratic, absolutely not Trump voters or Jill Stein voters.
It remains incomprehensible and reprehensible to me how people can vote for either of those two.
I am personally sanctioning American goods and services, and I blame USA as a society for Trump.
But of Americans with voting rights, the ones that voted Democratic are not to blame for Trump.

PS: How do you “tag” people on Lemmy?

How does anyone trust Tesla with anything anymore?

1. If they say the project will be ready next year, it might not be in a decade.
2. If they say it will deliver 1 GWh, it might not even deliver half.
3. If they say it cost x billion £, it will probably cost many times that.

there’s a bigger catastrophe the upper class is hedging against,

Maybe Global Warming?

You must be mistaking me for someone else, and I find your comment offensive!! 👎

I was always against Trump, and Trump voters were voting against their own interest. I NEVER apologized for Trump voters, they are ultimately the main symptom of the problem! They are idiots and most of them probably psychopaths that are unable to see that Trump is a malignant narcissist. Just about the worst personality possible for a president, only second to JD Vance.
They may have been manipulated, but it is impossible to be manipulated to that degree without being willingly manipulated. Nobody can be so stupid they don’t realize on some level that Trump is evil!! This was obvious already first time Trump was elected.

It may have been someone responding to me, because I’m generally pretty harsh and unapologetic towards Trump voters.
What you have seen is more likely me calling the American society mentally ill, which is something I’ve pointed out numerous times here.

I’ve also pointed out that voting Jill Stein is just as bad as voting Republican. As it is specifically designed to take votes away from Democrats, just like they attempted with RFK. Jill Stein is an ally of Putin, and a traitor to everything associated with being green. And traditional American values for that matter, just like Trump.

This is total bullshit by Trump, Denmark/Greenland has allowed American military bases on Greenland since the 50’s.
Denmark has been among USA’s strongest allies, and helped USA even in Iraq despite it being a very controversial invasion.and is (was?) a member of 7 eyes.
No doubt if USA needed to expand in Greenland it could have been negotiated just fine.
Trump Claiming USA needs Greenland for security is complete bullshit.

Next Trump will claim USA needs Venezuela and Canada for security purposes!!
Trump is a criminal, and being president of the USA, USA behaves like a criminal.

TLDR:
Fuck Trump, and fuck USA for electing him.

After the Nexperia fiasco to please Trump, I have very little respect for how EU has been handling the USA/China relations.
Even thought the total shut off of the factory between Netherlands and China was ended, all we’ve shown China is that we are as untrustworthy as USA.

This thing could have been handled in many ways, and EU chose the worst of them all.
Same with ASML, EU has zero interest in preventing ASML from selling to China.
If USA was a reliable ally and trade partner, it might have been different, but they are neither of those things.
So for fucks sake we should stop harming ourselves just to suck up to USA!!
USA needs to learn their lesson, that they can’t abandon old agreements, and then still expect to wield soft power supported by EU.

The rich are winning because we allow them to.

Food is not the whole picture:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251215/dq251215a-eng.htm

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.2% on a year-over-year basis in November, matching the increase in October.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-unchanged-november-2025-9.7015905

Overall inflation rate came in at 2.2 per cent. But that rate has been largely outpaced by food since August 2024, and in November it rose 4.7 per cent compared to this time last year.

So Canada has their overall inflation under control, despite increasing food prices. Where I live food is only 10-12% of an average budget, and so similarly is only 1 part out of many when the CPI inflation number is calculated.
Transportation, heat, clothes, rent and other things are also included in the inflation number, to better reflect a normal budget. Rent is often a bigger expense than food.

Compared to Canada having 2.2% inflation YOY in November USA has 3%. In USA it may be even higher than 4.7% for food IDK.

Also in USA where many people live below the poverty level, increasing rent and food prices are more serious.

And the GPU is generally more important than CPU for gaming.

Well I think that’s stretching it, and my old R5 1600 did get a new GPU, but I also had a period where I had to use an older GPU because the original Radeon 5800 suddenly quit on me just before it reached 2 years. I got a full refund, because the GPU prices were insane at the time, and the Radeon 5800 cost more than twice what I gave originally even as a 2nd hand used card!
I simply refused paying that much, and played retro games on a Radeon RX 560 for almost a year, a card I had bought dirt cheap for about €100 for a media machine.

How can you have democracy if the rich control the media?

I bought the AMD R5 1600 (no X) in 2017 and overclocked it, ran on that until last year when I bought the Ryzen R7 5800X (no 3D).
This has been fine for me for gaming, I did spend a bit more on GPU, but still I’m doing fine on a modest budget for my PC IMO.
I did throw in a new motherboard for the 5800X, because the newer chipset is supposed to be better for the GPU/CPU communication.

But a 7 year life on the old R5 1600 is insane, and then being able to upgrade to a new CPU on the same motherboard is crazy, although I upgraded the motherboard anyway.

Stupidest question of the day.

For now Russia doesn’t even have a suitable launch pad for their rockets!
Their last functional pad collapsed with the rocket they launched last month.

https://www.sciencealert.com/russia-faces-space-mission-crisis-after-severe-soyuz-launch-pad-accident

Russia is collapsing just like that launchpad did, and this will never go anywhere.

Corrected to almost half. Still insane that so many voted for Trump, and that Trump broke the Republican record for Latino votes!?!?

Of course it is, but some people habitually think of it as the other way around.

Most Hispanics voted for this.
Almost half of Hispanics voted for this!