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Paywalled, sorry, here are highlights;

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” puts at risk a crucial source of profit for Tesla by neutering rules that allow the electric-vehicle maker to sell billions of dollars of emissions credits.

Trump has vowed to kill the US’s three parallel systems of emissions credits, in the name of lower car prices... His “big, beautiful bill” targets a third system, the federal “corporate average fuel economy” (Cafe) standards. The programme penalises automakers whose vehicles fall short of fuel-efficiency targets and rewards those that produce no emissions with clean air credits, which can then be sold on to gas-focused rivals to offset their fines.

Selling credits under Cafe and similar systems in other jurisdictions contributes a substantial and growing proportion of Tesla’s profit.

In the first quarter, Tesla’s reliance on the systems was stark: it would have made a loss if not for credit sales, which rose 35 per cent to $595mn, eclipsing Tesla’s overall $409mn of net income.

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He claims Trump would act immediately upon winning the election, before taking office. Which sounds legally dubious, but not that that's ever stopped Trump....

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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago

This is the one that's partly funded by Mihoyo, using the absurd amounts of money they made with Genshin Impact.

The power of the anime waifu, in the palm of your hand...

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago

It's nothing to do with stopping pedos. The people pushing this year-in and year-out don't care THAT much about pedos. It's not a cause that's motivating enough for them to be putting in so much effort, trying to sneak in legislation after being repeatedly rebuffed.

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Always weird to me how France is so insistent on clinging to its colonial empire, two decades into the 21st century, despite the headaches that causes.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 84 points 2 years ago

Sympathies to whoever it was at the pension fund that had to work with Google's "customer service".

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

US policymakers screwed themselves with crappy urban planning, leading to insufficient housing supply and bad transit options. Blaming AirBnB for high housing prices is like setting up a chain of dominos, and criticizing a guy who comes by and knocks it over. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, or the wind.

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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago

The crazy thing is, they had a nascent social network going with Google Reader, populated by people who were engaged and interested in the content. And they threw it all away to chase a Facebook clone, which was doomed anyway.

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Guess which country is doing the alleged interference...

"Mr Chan, the managing director of several real estate investment firms, was invited to attend China’s annual Two Sessions parliamentary meetings in March 2023 as an “overseas Chinese representative”."

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago

"EV winter" is a silly framing. Many Chinese EV companies are on a roll, with BYD just surpassing Tesla in EV shipments in the last quarter. EVs are now mainstream in China and the car markets in other countries won't be far behind. Obviously, Tesla faces more challenges from the fact that it no longer has the market to itself, but competition is a good thing.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago

At the same time, the gravity systems are designed by the best engineers in the Federation because they never, ever, give out, even when the rest of the ship is disintegrating.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 180 points 2 years ago

The rest of the developed world has had this for decades.

So I fully expect this initiative to be lobbied out of existence by Intuit and the rest of the tax filing industry.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 194 points 2 years ago

He's not wrong. But it's worth remembering that when China faced a far smaller provocation from their own restive Muslims, in Xinjiang, they responded by locking up a large fraction of the population in vast reeducation camps...

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

I feel like 911 jokes should be fair game by now...

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 174 points 2 years ago

"Enhanced Ad Privacy." That's the technology that, unless switched off, allows websites to target the user with adverts tuned to their online activities

That's some Orwellian shit right there.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 112 points 2 years ago

Even more horrifyingly, children addicted to books stayed up late, reading under their bed covers using flashlights...

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