Fwiw, different SwissGear model, but after my kids went through cheap backpacks every year like clockwork, I picked up similar backpacks for them, and theyve lasted three years and counting

Ok. Here those terms have common usages which made your claims sound misleading. I’m sure that’s different in different places

Even from the headline, your article states they were profitable in 2020. Yes, back then a lot of it was due carbon credits. So they priced things according to the market they were in?

Are you complaining that GM for example was only profitable because of those credits? They (and other legacy manufacturers) decided it was more profitable for them to buy carbon credits from Tesla than to develop their own EVs. You could argue they were only profitable because they could buy pollution rights from Tesla.

But of course that’s old news. Profits ebb and flow but Tesla has more recently been profitable even not counting those credits.

Regardless the market has changed and those pollution credits no longer exist. It’s a different world for both EV manufacturers and legacy manufacturers, so we’ll see what happens. Pollution is free again, although of course the picture is complicated by trade wars, fascism and musk s reputation, as well as the meteoric rise of competitors in China

Looking into the Denmark thing I see

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/one-in-four-tesla-model-3s-fail-safety-inspections-in-denmark/ar-AA1Awx3J

So this was once, for model 3, because it’s old enough. This is absolutely the same as the very well publicized quality issues from back when model 3 manufacturing was ramping up. They certainly had problems and took 2-3 years to straighten it out.

Since then they’ve had much better quality and the model y had very few problems from the start, so I’d expect a significant change in results as these newer cars get old enough to undergo those tests.

My take is these tests correlate with quality problems from four years in the past and Tesla certainly had those

Still, not trying to be pedantic here but terminology is important. Seems like you’re talking about quality or reliability.

Generally

• safety ratings are government or independent tests on newly manufactured cars. The goal is to detect design issues. Tesla has always had very high safety ratings
• quality or reliability is how these cars hold up over time. The goal is to detect manufacturing issues and places where too many compromises are made. There are many places attempting to do this and one source may be annual safety inspections. Teslas used to have some very well publicized quality issues that would show up here. Early model s and model X were effectively hand made, and they took a couple years to stabilize model 3 manufacturing. As far as I know they are similar to other manufacturers now (except of course the Cybertruck), but I’d certainly expect historical data to not be as forgiving.
• accident data is real life results in how they’re used. In this case we have way too many streamers misusing teslas self-driving feature, convincing others it’s more capable than even Tesla claims, that probably contributes. But I believe it’s also the sheer acceleration. It used to be the Mustang that was stereotypically more acceleration than drivers can handle, but we may have that here as well. Every Tesla has outstanding acceleration and of course you’d try it. It will be more than you expect: can you handle it?

Edit to add

• insurance data generally determines repairability. We see that for a variety of reasons teslas are expensive to repair. Some of it’s the design, some the materials, some the plethora of tech, and some is availability of parts, and the lack of third party parts

Might want to take another look at reality

Yeah, jira is too customizable. I mean I wouldn’t give any of it up, but the one time someone let me have the reins, I mostly simplified. Removed workflows, removed customizations.

There needs to be better ways of defining standard projects and sticking to them. Currently everyone wants their little tweak and you can’t even pick out what’s consistent and what’s not until you run into problems

You don’t say “sue-knee” for “CUNY” (City University of New York) Etc.

Of course not, then it would conflict with SUNY (State University of New York)

And even more annoying, JavaScript is not correctly uppercased for common styles

f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this

P- iNG

When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”

Yeah, I’ve started watching some YouTube lately for the first time ever, and it certainly seems to want me to be conservative incel.

Previously I never watched YouTube because the ads were so intrusive and annoying, now I’m about ready to give up because most of what the algorithm shows me is offensive. Whether it truly thinks I’m conservative, such as based on demographics it shouldn’t have, or knows I’m not but thinks stirring up outrage will keep me coming back, they might be wrong

Yes, and a new one is on my Christmas wish list. I might have bought one for myself my entire life

First it was my mom, then my ex, now I’m hoping my teens will take it up. This is the transition one: if I get one mud, I don’t need to think about it for another 5-10 years and they’ll be full adults by then

If there are other ways to make or obtain a lower than it’s not exclusive to 3Dprinting

My current car won’t start unless m wearing my seat belt.

You need to get a streaming audio service - you only need one playlist. No commercials. No blather. Just the music you requested. Surfing is no longer relevant

My ex gets distracted easily. She always hated that I would ghost brake, but I can’t help it when she’s not reacting to the stopped car in front of us

And the 3d printing part is not relevant.

There is no national firearm registry and manufacturers are not required to track parts or kits. So you can “build your own” weapon without traceable serial numbers - regardless of whether you use 3d printing to create one or more parts

My ez-pass transponder came with a faraday bag - clearly ez-pass is a criminal organization

A former employer handed out branded faraday phone and wallet bags as a tchotchke- I must have worked for organized crime.

Oh no, passport faraday bags are all over Amazon - clearly criminal and needs to be shut down

And it’s not just insurance companies that need to be disrupted. There’s that whole convoluted ecosystem of profit-takers that should not even exist