Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger…

What do you expect, its a Politico article lol

And thats why I keep accounts separate. I don’t link anything to anything, I have different usernames on different services and whatnot. Even if someone somehow figures out my (now deleted) Discord and reddit usernames and starts spamming them to someone, I can just say “well thats not me lol” In that hypothetical scenario, I’d hope they people I spent time chatting with, would believe me and not the weirdo who started spamming someones reddit history.

But also, I don’t care. I try to be myself all the time, so at worst, the creeps will just be spamming stuff that I normally do/say.

I thought he’s been rather clear on this? Has he started to waver?

Yeah, I’ll admit it was a one sided take, I’m a truck driver so I look at it from a drivers point of view. If I have to sit in a cab for 9-11 hours per day and then sleep in it, I’ll always choose a Euro model.

And the fact is, Chinese products will always be cheaper than European ones, manufacturing costs are wildly different between the places. Euro EV trucks have excellent tech in them, maybe the actual manufacturing pace is lagging behind thats true. But even if we had switched to making only EV trucks, the price difference would still be there.

Rather ignorant take to be honest.

This is not about innovation. Its about price. European trucks are so much better with driver comfort and driver aids than anything I’ve seen. I go to 2-3 truck shows per year and all the non-EU stuff is still a bit “nasty” at best and horrible at worst in quality and comfort.

The problem is, China doesn’t have the same workers protection and benefits to deal with as EU companies. EU makes better products but at a higher price. I hope we don’t go to the American way of big trucking companies not giving a shit about the comfort and welfare of their drivers. Maybe the EU needs to take some action and subsidize EU made truck purchases or something, I don’t know. The attraction of saving tens of thousands of €'s on a single truck purchase is probably very tempting to the trucking companies, even if the real cost is drivers being miserable.

If you want a mindfuck, check out what the Holy Roman Empire consisted of lol. Germany and central Europe used to be full of tiny kingdoms, principalities and whatnot.

It was a bit of a mess

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Italian-unification.gif

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Italy

Do people really think of BMW as a manufacturer of sports cars? To me they’ve always been more like luxury boats. But then again, I’m a car brain so I have a bit different view of car manufacturers than the average person