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Can't rule out automated manipulation and bots on any social media site these days.

Why does it matter whether you think someone "needs" a pickup or not?

Align their crash ratings and NCAP values with every other car and the problem will take care of itself.

Personally I have the huge white vans because they reduce visibility when driving as well as while parked. I live in a big city and its difficult to drive when there's a wall parked at every other intersection.

It is amazing how much concern trolling there is about EVs on a site like this.

The tires that are "disposed of" in the third world and then burnt?

Exactly. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

> US-style pickups exist mostly because of weird tax and emissions rules which should be harmonized with cars.

This is the truth and is basically protectionism for the Big 3 American automakers. Don't look for this to be fixed anytime soon. The system is working as intended.

Europe has plenty of massive white vans.

I recently bought an EV and love it. I barely ever touch the brakes and the wheels stay clean, unlike my old BMW where the front wheels turned gray from brake dust very quickly.

Some comments here are looking for a 100% perfect solution, which doesn't exist. Transportation is polluting. Sorry but even public transportation is polluting, even if it is more efficient when its above a certain utilization. Where I live, some buses are EV and it is a joy to ride them compared to diesel ones.

With an EV there is less local pollution, less noise pollution, more dynamic response when needed and no need for wasteful oil "changes" where the old, dirty, useless oil doesn't just magically disappear.

Europe is a big continent. Even within one city you can have neighborhoods with more aggro drivers than others. If there is a protected bike path I don't have problems taking it.

The British Raj never died, the babus just took it over and sat down in the same chairs and kept the institutions running the same way.

You only have to see the anti-Musk astroturfing on reddit to see how easily people are manipulated. The same has been happening against Modi, regardless of his merits.

Everyone wants something for nothing.

This is true in all countries.

What you said doesn't refute the point.

India has low tax compliance, so people who pay taxes (middle-class, salary jobs, no way to hide income or wealth) shoulder an unfair part of the overall tax burden. This is obviously being worked on by the government, but it remains true.

Once you add up the expenditures from double-spending (for example private health insurance, private retirement saving, private school, toll roads) the tax burden is well above what you would pay in an EU country.

I love bikes but I value my health so I keep my exercise to places where I won't be crushed to death by rogue road users.

Does the maintenance time include regular servicing or is it only the time spent out of service in a day, for example charging?

I think electric vehicles are such a clear win for pollution (air and sound pollution) in cities that rolling back to ICEs should be clearly justified.

Oh no, if only there was something they could do about it...

Glib aside, the brand factor for some of these companies is insane and they are milking it for all its worth. They are obviously not limiting themselves to the local middle-class, a Disney vacation is an aspirational thing for many nouveau riche in China, even wealthy people in other parts of the world who would not have traveled so far for a vacation, or even been aware that a place called Disneyworld exists.

Disney is just reaping the harvest from years of sowing the seeds of cultural dominance.

This could be a reCAPTCHA test, to train the models to better detect eye position and face angle.

The US's $34 trillion deficit would like a word.

Just take a look at how much debt was added since the debt ceiling was lifted.

Most of the expenses around kids revolve around the space they need. Bigger apartment, bigger car, more food are the bare necessities. Then come the expenses for additional flight tickets for vacations, bigger or more hotel rooms, needing to go on vacation during high season or not at all, extra-curricular activities, and so on. One kid can easily double your expenses from a couple's level.

I'm guessing Apple just really likes to sell accessories including replacement powerbanks.

You'd be more likely to break your neck if the cable doesn't disconnect if the cable gets stuck on something while you're wearing your battery on your hip and moving around. Isn't the end that connect to the headset magnetic for precisely that reason?

All in all, brings back memories of walking around with my Walkman clipped to my belt and headphones on.

If anyone working in tech in Germany is feeling overpaid, I would recommend they get out of their current rental contract or mortgage and get a new one at current rates. Or simply forego their inheritance.

Saving for retirement in Germany as a middle-class employee is tremendously hard.

Berlin, Munich and other big cities, where most of the tech jobs are, have had massive inflation over the last few years. There is a huge gap in terms of rents and mortgages between those who bought or signed a rental contract prior to 2021 and now. Meanwhile the strong CHF has led to Swiss inflation being somewhat lower. Kurzgesagt: German CoL is catching up but salaries remain behind.

Deutsche Bank is cutting 3,500 jobs as it pushes ahead with a plan to reduce costs by €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) by 2025.

Germany’s biggest lender said Thursday that it had made progress towards the target but still had to find savings of €1.6 billion ($1.7 billion), some of which would be driven by “simplified workflows and automation.” Most of the jobs will be lost in back office functions, it added in a statement.

The cuts amount to about 4% of the company’s global workforce.

Agreed. However, since we don't have the power to set the salary of childcare workers, we will just ensure we don't pay you as much as your colleagues in the US, UK or Switzerland.

Sincerely, FAANG

I'm a Millenial. This was my reality starting out.

> Everything was awesome and nothing could possibly go wrong!

Sounds a little like the soft landing scenario that's currently making the rounds, as the stock market keeps making new highs.

In Switzerland you have to apply for citizenship to the local government, and each one of them is xenophobic to various degrees. There are some famous cases where citizenship was denied because the person had a few speeding tickets, or thought that loud cowbells should be forbidden because they torture cows.

They're probably going to do their entry via B2B. Its not like other Healthcare companies don't like to save a buck.