I’m surprised they aren’t announcing it as they saved 550,000 lives assuming the fentynal will kill exactly 1 person per lethal dose. None of that kinda comparison in the article.
I’m still waiting for the bust that happens that manages to kill every single Canadian.
Not even a mention of street value.
Just the facts.
Did they hire the wrong person by mistake to write the article, this is, unusual.
A 120v outlet will do more than the average Canadian commutes daily.
It could still be an issue with winter charging for places that don’t have a garage when it hits -10c or so.
For colder places with no garage, I think a nema 5-20 outlet would be enough to overcome that, and most houses will have the wiring for that already in place. You might just need to upgrade the breaker in the box which would be cheap. You’d need an electrician to be sure, but if the house already has the wiring and box supports a 20amp vs 15amp breaker it it’d be under $100 vs getting a 50amp service set up for L2 charging.
We really don’t need L2 chargers at every home to make this work.
I think it’s worth another reply to mention, while I think you’d be fine on 120v and most people could probably cheaply upgrade to a nema 5-20 outlet and 20amp breaker switch if they needed a bit more daily charge, neither of those are as efficient as charging at 240v.
I charge my car on 120v and it’s about 80% efficient and drops off as it getd really cold. I think 240v is 90-95% efficient.
If we have millions of people charging their cars on 120v as that’s all they need and it’s the cheapest option for them, that’s a lot of wasted electricity.
So really long term we probably do want people to make the upgrades to their boxes and wire in a new outlet as it’ll help us reduce our power consumption. Hopefully they’ll be a lot of incentives available for people to make the upgrade.
It would be like the big push from incandescent to fluorescent or led house lighting. Semi low hanging fruit to reduce power consumption by upgrading to something more efficient.
I have this problem with games, but there’s no rewind on games, and for some reason every game maker has decided that the most critical information you ever get happens when there’s loud sounds going on as some climatic event is happening and you can’t understand a fucking thing they say.
So most of the game I don’t need it, except for what ends up being the most important times I need it and don’t have it, so I have to leave them on in games.
And ya it’s distracting. At best I’m concentrating on not reading them which is distracting itself.
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It’s more cycles on the laundry machines. You cook more so the stove might wear out faster since things seem to break easier nowadays.
Damage just happens as well in a tenancy, maybe you drop something big that damages the hardwood floors. The security deposit will cover that, but the more people, the more chance for more expensive damage, and you aren’t getting a bigger deposit.
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One of the orcs decided not to give up and blew himself up 🤡
I was wondering what that was.
I bet he was trying to convince the others to do something totally reckless, they said fuck that and surrendered and then he killed himself as he had no other choice now.
I don’t know if I’m blind, but I’m not seeing too many holes?
Back during ww1 or ww2 they figured out that the planes that came home with many holes in them, didn’t take catastrophic damage and instead reinforced where there weren’t holes.
So it’s hard to know if these holes are catastrophic or not
Like repair shops could prevent repairs because to get parts they need to interact with Tesla, which they will refuse, but if a Tesla needed gasoline, can a gas shop actually prevent a customer from filling their tank?
The strike isn’t against the customer, so I’m not sure that’d be allowed?
So you’re saying gas stations refusing to fuel trucks transporting a Tesla? If those trucks are a 3rd party company would that be okay? Can they sympathy strike against a different entity?
100% agree if they are teala employees operating the trucks.
This whole thing and all the side implications are fascinating to watch unfold
Eventually I think Tesla wouldn’t use someone that’d also join the strike, so probably a foreign non unionized trucker, but treating then as scabs make sense then and blocking them that way.
Tesla sued the Swedish Transport Agency (STA) AND PostNord.
The ruling against the STA is to allow them to pick up the plates at the STA instead of the STA via their exclusivity contract giving them to PostNord. It has nothing to do with PostNord as it lets Tesla go to the STA directly. The STA is appealing this interim decision.
There is no ruling with PostNord yet, the judge gave them 3 days to give an initial argument to decide if he would even make an interim ruling prior to the full case being heard. I imagine Tesla is going to have a really hard time with the PostNord case.
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They could have blown the train up in the tunnel which could be different than blowing up the tunnel?
Both would be a hard repair, but getting a destroyed train out with some damage to the tunnel wouldn’t be as bad as a destroyed tunnel with a train stuck in it?
It’s actually sad to see the aluminum plant join the sympathy strike.
No matter what happens now, if Tesla signs an agreement or not, if Tesla leaves Sweden or not, dozens of current and hundreds of future jobs will be lost there permanently.
Elon can be vindictive and there’s no way he’ll give them any business beyond their contract, might break the contract, and won’t use them for any of the Berlin expansions to millions of cars.
It probably would have been better to hurt them some other way. I keep hearing about the finance / banking industry joining which made toy’s r us sign. That would have saved these aluminum jobs and still put the screws to Tesla.
Edit: and their ceo has already said as much will likely happen
But why did it have to be this plant? Why not convince the banking unions instead and just keep the jobs?
Whether or not this specific place strikes doesn’t matter, it’s just the strike as a whole needs to keep escalating.
Tesla will just import the profiles from China or the USA until they find another option near the EU, but NOT in Sweden. Those jobs are almost certainly gone from Sweden forever.
Edit: E.g Tesla needs someone, anyone to deliver the mail. Even after this strike, they have no choice but to use some sort of mail carrier in Sweden, so the mail strike impacts Tesla, but doesn’t threaten Swedish jobs long term. That’s not the case with this aluminum company.
You’re right, this is going to cost Tesla money, probably for at least 6 months, probably a year, but he’s shown he’s willing to throw money at the problem.
Everyone has ignored my main question comment and suggestion
Why didn’t they bring the banking unions in instead.
Save the jobs, force Tesla to sign like Toys R Us as it would cripple them even more than this aluminum thing.
There’s no guarantee that anyone else will want their excess capacity or be willing to make orders for millions of cars. Existing manufacturers are just going from ICE to EV, they aren’t making more cars necessarily. It would probably have to be new entrants like BYD to pick up the slack and create volume. It’s possible, but like you said no guarantee. (Edit and they still could have had BYD in addition to Tesla)
I would prefer to know why they chose this over the banking unions which successfully forced Toys R Us to sign, and not throw the jobs away potentially unnecessarily.
Just another thought on this, as we both agree this will cost Tesla money in the short term.
Do you know why Tesla is the most vertically integrated car company though?
It’s because suppliers wouldn’t work with Tesla early on as they were a nobody, so they had to make their own stuff. They’re even making a lithium refinery because they can’t get enough of it.
If there are no other legitimate EU options, they might just use the expansive piece of land at their Berlin factory to spin up an aluminum profiles production line.
They surely have the knowledge and capabilities and long term it would actually make them more competitive.
That’s too far ahead to really know, but it could actually backfire and make them stronger.
I’ll keep eating downvotes, but this postal strike is different.
This isn’t toys r us again.
A government agency signed a contract that prevents delivery of license plates other than this one service and provides no other way to get them.
It literally prevents any and all auto manufacturers from selling cars without a collective agreement. This isn’t making Teslas life hard which is the unions right, it’s preventing a company from being able to sell items which is on a whole other level.
Tesla has won a temporary reprieve and is allowed to pick up the plates now while the lawsuit continues.
Please see past any hate of musk for how this one very specific action (the government contract) is a step too far that needs to be addressed
Again, you aren’t seeing the forest through the trees.
YES it is the workers rights to not deliver mail. I support this!
It is the unions rights to make Teslas life DIFFICULT not impossible. Make it so difficult they want to leave if that’s their goal.
The government, not the union, signed a contract that prevents the license plates from being handled in any other way. That is the problem, not the striking workers.
The government is obligated to get those license plates out and failed in that obligation.
All they need to do is allow them to be picked up in person.
The judges already deemed it worthy enough to let the lawsuit continue and allow Tesla to pick the plates up in person (and imposed fines if they are hindered) , so they don’t think its meritless.
I appreciate that you can at least see the difference here even if you still don’t think there’s a problem.
As you say, this will be very interesting to follow
The government is obligated to issue and have the license plate delivered. They have met the obligation of issuing it, that isn’t in question.
The government then has a contract with PostNord to deliver the plates, and the contract says it must be delivered, and cannot be picked up in person.
Tesla is going to argue that this restriction preventing pick up in person isn’t lawful.
They aren’t asking for special treatment saying ONLY Tesla should be able to pick the plates up in person, they are asking for the same treatment for everyone. That everyone should be able to pick them up in person, at least in a situation like this.
And again - the judges have already agreed there is merit to their argument and allowed Tesla to pick up the plates in person, and have imposed a fine if they are prevented.
Another rationale if I understand this properly (and I might not, so the below might be wrong)
My knowledge of the whole force majeure side of the strikes is pretty bare, but my understanding is the strikes are being treated as force majeure. The government also needs to be able to function if a force majeure event occurs. In this case, the government is unable to meet its obligation to have plates delivered in the event of a force majeure, which doesn’t have to be a strike, it could be other things that impact the postal service to. So it’s possible that this contract needs to be ammended to account for force majeure
In no way shape or form have I ever said that the postal workers shouldn’t be allowed to strike against Tesla and prevent mail delivery. Or that the aluminum extrusion company shouldn’t be able to stop supplying parts to Tesla. Or that the dock workers have to unload their cars. None of that is the problem. That is the Swedish way.
This is about the government being required to process and deliver the plates, and a contract that is preventing delivery with no alternative. A contract that would prevent delivery even in other non union related circumstances.
The plates have already been manufactured and issued to Tesla. That’s all working as expected.
The plates are then picked up by PostNord who has an exclusive contract with the government agency who creates and issues the plates. The union employees at PostNord are refusing to deliver the plates as is their right.
The contract with PostNord also prevents any other delivery method of the plates, including Tesla going to the plate manufacture and picking them up in person.
The fact that Tesla can’t go to the plate manufacture and pick them up is the real issue. (although the judge has ruled in the interm they can go pick them up while the lawsuit continues)
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