Posts by gandalfcn

American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years

Re: Right on the mark about Musk being responsible

"Tesla would lay off the team responsible for its Supercharger network."

Re: The infrastructure plan is a clusterfscked boondoggle

"EV-charging stations cannot be deployed at rest stops under existing federal highway rules."

"As of December, the United States had 183,000 public charging ports and since the start of the Biden administration, the number of publicly available fast-charging ports has increased by 90%, Bhatt said, adding he is confident the United States will hit the 500,000 charging port goal."

"changing from the established Combined Charging System (CCS) connector to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS)" Why?

" Tesla would lay off the team responsible for its Supercharger network."

"Lindsey Perkins, director of communications and marketing at Plug In America. “It takes time to build infrastructure. If you look at bridges or highway projects from the same timeframe, they aren’t built yet... More than $300 million has been awarded to states, so things are happening—only much of it is behind the scenes. In the next few years, we expect to see many NEVI-funded chargers go online.”"

Twitter 'supersharers' of fake news tend to be older Republican women

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

"Ah yes, the much vaunted N95 mask that was useless in filtering viruses" Says who? The SARS-CoV2 virus was mainly transmitted via water droplets which masks filtered out.

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

"Simple really. It helps me demonstrate to anyone that might actually be interested just how deluded and obnoxious extreme TDS sufferers can be slinging strawmen and ad homs everywhere. And of course you're still a coward who's too afraid to put a name, any name to the words you spew..."

You're getting desperate again.

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

What's the point of this?

JE is a troll, a massive one.

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

You should question your belief system.

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

"I'm used to it. The angry thumbs tend to come out in force when I try and get people to question their belief system."

ROFL. Pure hypocrisy.

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

TDS has entered the chat., indeed you have.

Re: Sarah Palin's X tea party?

JFK: ”My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Trump,et al : "My fellow Americans, ask not what you can do for your country, ask how much your country can subsidise and support you, whilst you avoid doing anything remotely meaningful in life."

Re: where a small group of people distort the political reality for many

"until things began to break with his drug addled son" Ex addict, which was well known.

"and the dam bursting on entities paying for access to Joe." Only according to MAGAts who had no facts and who were soundly mocked.

Re: where a small group of people distort the political reality for many

"Joe Biden couldn't run a piss up in a brewery," So why is he not only successful but running rings round your MAGA mates?

Critical thinking is anathema to the Tories and the Trots.

Re: True statement

Anyone posting "the 'far left' viewpoints that the Bbc tends to represent." must be far to the right of DeformUK as the BBC has been slowly drifting to the right for some years.

Re: True statement

"rejection of the 'far left' viewpoints that the Bbc tends to represent." ROFL^3

Re: True statement

And what Daily Mail readers and Fox News viewers have in common is that they all believe that everything would be lovely if The Poor just did what they were told.

FTFY

Re: If they had been on the left ?

Never forget, there are millions of very similar comments, in fact most, which are not sarcasm.

Re: If they had been on the left ?

"Populists are bad?" Er, yes. Do some fact and reality checking.

Re: If they had been on the left ?

Does your trickcyclist know you're posting?

Re: Did you see Ken Burns' commencement speech to Brandeis graduates?

"* The Wokesters and SJWs, ie the middle people with too much time on their hands, are bullying everyone into utter confusion whilst suffering none of the side effects." Oh dear, seemsyou are seriously guilty of what you are ranting about.

Re: Did you see Ken Burns' commencement speech to Brandeis graduates?

Reaganism / Thatcherism turned many people into "me me me" , the root cause of most problems.

Re: Did you see Ken Burns' commencement speech to Brandeis graduates?

"it was OK to "agree to disagree" " What remained of that after Reagan was totally destroyed by 34Donny. It's standard 'Christian' gogma.

(Most religions but in the context Christian is appropriate)

Re: Pasty keyboard warriors

Methinks "Persona" is MAGAt, not too bright etc.

Re: Re:sexist / ageist

" Both sides" is a totally discredited right wing trope.

China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy

Re: > a simple mine can work with just a mechanical trigger, and many do

Oh dear, the truth's upset someone.

Re: Urban combat operations?

"Err, what urban combat operations are China engaged in?" None, until AUKUS go totally loony.

Regardless, we use the same ""in our ------ combat operations" when referring to hypothetical operations. Or is that too grown up for you?

Re: And they haven't

"Its pretty much all China does now, rob other peoples tech." 'kin hilarious. getalife ffs.

Basically a mechanised sniffer dog. Man's best friend is because dogs protected us from and attacked our enemies.

Re: > a simple mine can work with just a mechanical trigger, and many do

The USA kills / imprisons people for their colour and beliefs, and Trump / MAGAts want to kill / imprison for religion, for being gay, for abortions, for criticising Diaper Donny and so on.

Re: > a simple mine can work with just a mechanical trigger, and many do

1949 Syrian coup d'état

1949–1953 Albania

1951–56 Tibet

1953 Iranian coup d'état

1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

1956–57 Syria crisis

1960 Congo coup d'état

1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961 Dominican Republic

1963 South Vietnamese coup

1964 Bolivian coup d'état

1964 Brazilian coup d'état

1966 Ghana coup d’état

1967 US manufactured coup in Greece

1971 Bolivian coup d'état

1970–73 Chile

1980 Turkish coup d'état

1979–89 Afghanistan, Operation Cyclone

1980 -1988 material support for Iraq against Iran

1981–87 Nicaragua, Contras

1983 Grenada

1996 Iraq coup attempt

2001 Afghanistan

2003 to 2011 Iraq War

2011 Libyan civil war

2011–present Syria

Panama?

IRA

Cambodia, Indonesia, PNG etc.

Activist investor pressures Texas Instruments to stop spending cash on fabs

Re: Priorities

You've got love American patriots.

JFK : ”My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

Vultures : "My fellow Americans, ask not what you can do for your country. ask how much your country can subsidise and support you, whilst you avoid doing anything remotely meaningful in life”.

Europe buying more Chinese phone brands as market starts to bounce back

Re: I wonder what the response

ROFL.

'Profits are needed to keep a company in business (the other side of the coin is losing money on everything you sell).' Exactly what PRC companies are doing, making a profit.

"We can't let them." Whose this 'we'? The world's a big place and was dominated the UK via itas empire, which went tsup, and then by the USA, which made a mess and is now going Christofascist.

Meanwhile the PRC, India et al increased their trade and economics. Most '3rd. world' countries aren't overly enamoured of the USA and are only too happy to look elsewhere.

We blew it, specifically the types who now say 'We can't let them.'

Re: Helpless

Don't blame others for our incompetence and subservience to the fossil fuel industry. We were warned but the demographic now posting things like ' the Chinese onslaught ' scoffed. Now they're snivelling.

Re: I wonder what the response

Hopefully governments will make the mobile networks block the IMEIs of Chinese devices.and hand everything to Trumpistan, lovers of Putin.

Re: I wonder what the response

China's strategy is to make a profit, just like everyone else.

Re: I wonder what the response

LOL

UK PM Sunak calls election, leaving Brits cringing over memory of his Musk love-in

Re: Disappointing

Funny? That comment was daft. Farage made that statement just before the ill conceived referendum, so why the snide?

Farage was basically saying he rejects democracy, which he does.

Anyone with a working brain knows Brexit has been a mini disaster and also knows closer co-operation is inevitable. We also know rejoining the EU is a near impossibility.

What most comments correctly say is that Brexit was bad for all concerned other than those playing games like Rees-Mogg.

Re: Disappointing

Very good but the 4th. July GE is not about Brexit, is it.

Re: Disappointing

"Is that really so? " It most definitely was. The reason for the massive swing to Tory in traditional Labour constituencies was Tory Brexit not 'Labour was too timid to challenge it.'

Things have changed - a bit, not a lot, and the Brexit media (Express, Telegraph and Mail, and GBNews) still influence millions.

Re: Disappointing

We just have the benefit of dying a bit sooner and escaping the almighty cock-ups those in power, the older people, are currently making.

Re: Disappointing

Stating facts isn't ageist.

Re: Disappointing

The all Ireland economy wasn't harmed because Northern Ireland is to all intents still in the EU.

"t took 'til 2019 but it's over, all done." So why is Northern Ireland to all intents still in the EU and we are still trying to sort rules and procedures?

Re: Disappointing

Either that was pure sarcasm or crass hypocrisy.

Re: Disappointing

The EU is detrimental only according to Gammon and weirdos.

Re: Disappointing

"No one -- no one -- is even talking about the damage brexit has done" It has been talked about ad infinitum, at least to those who have been awake. The damage has been done and that cannot be undone. The problem, as we are fully cognizant of, is reversing Brexit but that requires all members of the EU to agree and there is no chance of that after the abuse and lies we have directed at them. The application is lengthy and complicated as well.

We could however join the European Free Trade Association.and The European Economic Area.

All this has been extensively debated.

HMRC must grow 'intelligent client' function to sort out post-Brexit tech issues – watchdog

Re: What could possibly go wrong...

"What could go right." We get blue passports and bendy bananas. We also have to comply with EU regs

" to create a "single trade window" for post-Brexit border arrangements already beset with delays." It would be simpler, cheaper, quicker and better for trade to join the Single Market, like Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. But no, lets make life more expensive and difficult because of (checks notes) bananas and blue passports.

Re: Oh well

Royal Mail is not a publicly owned organisation it is owned by International Distributions Services. In April 2024, EP Group (another company controlled by Daniel Křetínský) offered to buy the 72.5% shareholding in the company that Vesa Equity Investment Sarl does not already own.

"a bunch of American companies." Isn't that the Tory plan? Sell everything to or give preference to their mates across the pond. like the NHS.

Re: Oh well

It''s almost as if you were talking about reality.

Re: There will be no manual back-up.

Funny thing, they are present around the world. Now how about pint wine bottles?

Re: There will be no manual back-up.

It wasn't pint glasses it was pint bottles of wine.