Back in the day it was the best at what it did, but there’s less demand these days for that kind of old fashioned search.

Its still better than the competition at finding the URL of a corporate or government entity. Its still helpful for searching other websites for particular content - for example, the wikis for some games have an obtuse layout and unhelpful search function, and google can be the best way to find a particular page in that wiki.

Before ChatGPT existed, and before the enshitifaction of Reddit reached the critical level its at today, google searching site:reddit.com was pretty good at finding organic human conversations that provide actual answers to your questions.

Today however, ChatGPT is better at providing useful answers to whatever questions you may have. And Bing is better at image search.

over charging customers and under paying employees

That’s the crux of the issue.

Who’s going to buy it for a high price, if there is no demand for office space, because workers are all remote?

Aren’t English just Italians pretty much? We all know how much they like their Cesar.

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The opposite headline sounds just as bad: Submarine Fails To Sink

The battery’s chemistry isn’t important to the end user. Price, capacity, longevity, and charge time is. If we assume CATL inflates their stats by the amount that’s standard for their market, we can infer their new battery is almost as good as Tesla’s old battery in terms of mechanical utility to the end user - their only hope of competing is to win big on price.

I hope they can win that competition. I’d love to see GM produce an EV that’s almost as good as a Tesla and a lot cheaper.

Avoiding GM and using the most current tech are both bad ideas, for the same reason: Tesla is owned by a horrible person.

After subtracting the expected quantity of deception in Chinese advertising, this new battery tech from China is still not as good as what Tesla has already been making for the last several years.

Wait a minute, companies that run charging stations now want local businesses to pay them for the privilege of installing one of their chargers? Instead of the company selling the recharging to EV owners paying the local business rent for use of their real estate?

Right? Venus, Earth, and Mars should all be pretty similar. Mercury should be about the size of the moon or a little bigger. Jupiter doesn’t need to be fuck off huge, but at least a bit bigger than Saturn.

the inaccurate scale of the planets tho…

Choke Hold - Idris Elba - From Cyberpunk 2077

Takes too long to charge. The Seagull EV’s “fast” charge from 20% to 80% takes ~40 minutes and gives ~100 miles of range. The Model 3’s ~20 minute fast charge for ~150 miles was already pushing the outer limit of reasonable.

Still, the price is right to make it a household’s second car.

Buyer: I want a small, light weight, reliable vehicle with no frills or excess features, that will get me from point A to point B.

Automotive industry PR: So what you’re saying is that you want bells and whistles? Why don’t you buy radar in the bumper, a distracting touch screen that can’t be used while going over bumps or around corners instead of buttons, heated seats that don’t work without a subscription, heating elements in the steering wheel that occasionally burn you and set your car on fire, heavy sunroofs that leak, heavy electric motors to adjust your seats, heavy electric motors to roll the windows, heavy electric motors in the steering column that will fight you for control of the vehicle, a video game console for a speedometer, more cameras than a paparazzi, and expensive self-driving software the does not work yet but we totally promise that it will Soon™. Also, it will not get you from point A to point B.

Automotive industry when sales are disappointing:
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stick_in_bike_wheel.jpg: “Fucking China!”

advertising and ALL CAPS

Because those are not good cars. The low range of the Leaf and slow recharge of the Bolt make them impractical.

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Fair enough. Not all monopolies are bad monopolies. There’s a narrow set of circumstances where a monopoly can exist within a market without making that market something other than free.

Government owned utilities for example - natural monopolies that are allowed to exist in a highly regulated state.

Monopsony can also be good for the free market in sectors with inflexible demand, such as healthcare.

But those are exceptions, and not the general rule.

It always becomes monopoly.

One person telling everyone else what’s going to happen isn’t freedom.