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    Electric Vehicles

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    10 minutes ago, therealhantsram said:

     

    This is the key quote from the article I think. 

    "most legacy car makers, at least those that are bothering to make EVs at scale at all, are still focused on the top end of the market, selling premium and heavy and high cost EVs, largely to protect their ICE business. In the US, the major car makers are retreating rapidly on their EV plans."

    It's the likes of GM, Ford and Toyota who have most to lose here.

    Well the ICE manufacturers will all lose out eventually anyway when they are forced to move to EVs or cease to exist

    My point was that the cheapest Tesla model in the UK currently is £43k - and that's a ridiculous price for a normal person 

    If BYD are bringing EVs to market at a third of that price, they are quickly going to marginalise Tesla as a "high end" brand, unless Tesla also start to make an affordable model

    Shamima Begum loses appeal against removal of British citizenship

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    2 hours ago, Archied said:

    Can you show me where he has said this ( not where someone says he has ) , I would be extremely surprised because I’ve never seen that from him,

    It was in a Youtube interview that was subsequently deleted (for legal reasons I guess)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52198946

    I don't think he's right-wing either. He is plenty of unpleasant things, but I wouldn't call him right-wing

     

    Season Tickets 24/25

    in Derby County Forum

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    Puts it into perspective - I had 20 years unbroken season ticket up until Covid happened. I then held off renewing because it was far from clear as to when the restrictions would be lifted. Then I got ill and had a major op that left me unable to do anything for a year or so.

    Since I've been back on my feet I've been going to maybe every other Saturday home game 

    I'd sort of told myself that next season I'd get back on board with a ST, but for me and my lad it's £600 behind the goal (which I'm not a massive fan of) and £800 on the side. Not having had a pay rise in all that time, and the cost of living soaring - there's absolutely no way I can afford it now 😞

    Not going to have a dig at the club - but football in general is becoming completely unaffordable for families. 

    Watchable telly

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    Just now, Bob The Badger said:

    Started Griselda last night. A fairly promising first episode, very much in the Narcos vein. 

    Was pondering this one, but not sure if we're just a bit "drug cartel-ed out" 😂

    World of crypto

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    9 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

    The biggest disappointment in the UK was the original promise you'd be able to buy a Tesla using Bitcoin, but the climate lobby put a stop to that.

    So Elon Musk is the climate lobby now? So hard to keep up

    9 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

    they should let you buy with Ether instead

    Use dogecoin bro (high five!)

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    9 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

    There are plenty of countries where you can use crypto as an everyday thing

    There are two where it is legal tender. El Salvador and Central African Republic 

    It's not illegal to use BTC in the UK, or any number of western countries. The reason it's not widely used to buy everyday things has been discussed. Price volatility is the main one.

    But you can buy cars with Bitcoin in the UK if you really want to. Yet more mince being chatted by our resident brain

    https://cryptoemporium.com/automotive/cars/

     

     

    Watchable telly

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    Very late to the party, but giving Ted Lasso a go. 3 episodes in and so far it appears the one joke is that the English have different words for stuff than the Yanks, and the football parts are excruciatingly naff. Almost like watching Murphy's Mob in the 80s

     

    The Ukraine War

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    55 minutes ago, Archied said:

    I know it’s funny for people you don’t like to be targets stive but really where do you draw the line mate , im not keen on Greta t but I’m not sure it’s ok or funny for me to throw stuff of my choosing over her or anybody else who’s views I don’t agree with but hey ho you see it differently 🤷🏻‍♂️
    £2000 suit ,,,,,, the old green eye rearing again😂

    Sorry - the laughing face was because I thought you understood the nuance of what I said

    I'm not advocating for throwing milkshake on people, just saying that people who might like to paint themselves as being the equivalent Navalny-type anti-establishment figures would never lay down their life for their cause. The proof being that they don't even like having milkshakes or even bad words thrown at them. And the cost of the suit was nothing to do with jealousy - again just making the point that these grifters aren't "men of the people" like they claim to be.

     

    The Ukraine War

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    8 hours ago, Highgate said:

    I know nothing about that man, I've only ever heard about him on here really.  Generally speaking if someone was apologizing for their previous beliefs which they genuinely no longer hold...then we should be able to accept them. But I guess it would be a gradual process and people would need some convincing.

    As for Navalny, I don't know to what extent he held onto the racist views of his youth, whether he changed his mind completely, partially or not at all. But given his view that the invasion of Ukraine was an illegal war crime and his support for making Russia an actual functioning democracy he would certainly have been an improvement on Putin. 

     

    This is kind of why I asked the question as to whether anyone knew much about Navalny beyond the way he's been portrayed as a martyr against Putin in the west

    In arguably, he IS a martyr in so much as he went back to Russia, knowing full well that he would be killed, but the old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" should still be asked

    Trump is yet again today comparing himself to Navalny, and it's only a matter of time before the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson do the same. Because we have corrupt establishments ourselves - and they are "the opposition", taking the populist anti-establishment stance. 

    The only difference is that they are all grifting cowards who would never choose the path of martyrdom. They can't even take a milkshake to their £2000 suit without crying

    The Ukraine War

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    Anyone know the deal with Navalny?

    Seems to be being lauded as a martyr in the western press, purely because he was an opponent of Putin

    But then I've also read that he was quite an extremist right winger with racist views

    And then also read that this is misinformation from the Putin regime to discredit him

    So a genuine question. Killing your political opponents is not a great look (although Putin's mate Tucker Carlson has shrugged it off as "all leaders kill their opponents, deal with it") but just because he was an opponent of Putin doesn't immediately make him a good guy. The world is more complex than that

    TV and broadband

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    10 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

    Looking for help with this. Been with Virgin for ages. Want to switch to sky. 

    Now, I thought I'd be contacting sky, organize package etc, then they'd come and install dish, Q box etc, and somehow switch the broadband to them. But......all the deals they seem to have are something called sky stream . Delivered next day, plug and play etc. That means I'd still be on virgin broadband? Is the sky Q box obsolete these days?? 

    Does the stream puck thing work ok? Has anyone switched BOTH broadband and TV from virgin to sky recently, and if so, how do you actually go about it? 

    I'm out of contract with virgin if that's of any relevance. 

    My Virgin package was ending this month and I'd decided to ditch the TV/Tivo and the Phone Line and I never use either of them any more. Foolishly thinking that I could keep just the broadband and it would be considerably cheaper

    Alas no - their whole set of tariffs are rigged to actively prevent you from taking just one service. The bundles are ALL cheaper

    And every "deal" they offered me was slightly more expensive than what I pay now - but also included more features (despite me repeatedly telling them I just wanted broadband and nothing else)

    So I said if they couldn't offer me just broadband then I wanted to cancel and would get my broadband elsewhere

    At which point they miraculously found a better deal that was £20 a month cheaper than what I was paying now. And still included the TV and phone that I don't want. So they are effectively paying me to keep features I don't want or need

    The whole market is a sham

     

    Sibley too good!

    in Derby County Forum

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    22 minutes ago, MadAmster said:

    Playing a different position every game does not help a young lad develop

    Doesn't help them develop a set role I agree, but it does help them develop their all round game. You learn an awful  lot from playing multiple positions. IMO we're lucky to have a classic "utility" man like Sibley - they are rare these days. 

    Derby v Stevenage FC - Match Day Thread

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    14 minutes ago, McArthur Park said:

     genuine question. Did you not get any enjoyment from scoring a near last minute goal

    It's worse than that. Some people were clearly furious about it, because they were so juiced and ready to start attacking PW for mis-managing a 0-0 bore draw. Almost like being on their vinegar strokes and their mum walking in on them...😂

    It's a curious and downright weird segment of the fan base.

    Starship and a Human city on Mars

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

    Just in the last couple of weeks he has moved the incorporation of SpaceX from Delaware (where most US companies are incorporated) to Texas, in order to protect it. The Delaware courts forbade him receiving his Tesla compensation package, which his court documents stated he would use to fund an interplanetary space program, so that money is currently not available. A vote of Tesla shareholders is now being held to see of he can move Tesla from Delaware to Texas. But this is why SpaceX is the most valuable privately held company in the world, because shareholders or bureaucrats would end its mission if given half the chance.

    Musk incorporated in Delaware because their tax laws are favourable, now he's being held to account by those same laws and the $51b compensation package he negotiated and agreed for himself has been found to be grossly unfair and that he misled the shareholders - he's (true to form) crying like a spoilt rich kid that it's all so unfair. He really doesn't like it when his insane wealth doesn't allow him to act with impunity does it? The more you look into his behaviour, the more crooked he looks

    So do you think it's OK that he totally misled his shareholders and awarded himself $51b because he wants to invest that in his space-faring program? Would it be OK if he robbed a bank? 

    I mean he's a visionary engineer and entrepreneur right? Why does he have to resort to the actions of a criminal to fund this stuff? Can't he just use his visionariness?

    PS can you ask your hand model to clean their fingernails - the one in that picture is giving me the ick

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