without even changing the ECU

Wow that’s impressive, and it’s also a very nice car to drive I imagine from what I’ve heard.

Those buyers, he said, are being pushed into the used market.

Haha yes that’s what we did too, we could buy a new car for the same we paid for a 4 year old car. But we wanted to be able to pull a trailer, and we wanted a better than minimum battery, and the luxury of the bigger car is of course nice too. 😋
We got the VW ID.4 a CUV which means it’s built like a real car, not some pickup truck construction that avoids regulation, that American SUV’s often are.

The CUV is an amazing drive with perfect handling, an SUV is not.

Even (former) US allies can see where the tide is moving, and it’s clearly away from USA, and towards China.
The Iran war already accelerated that process when USA attacked Iran for no reason, and it was accelerated even more within a few days when it became clear that USA was losing. Now it turns out that it only takes a week or two for USA to exhaust their arsenal of power, and the respect for the US military might is at an all time low.

1. USA military might is no longer respected nearly as much as it used to.
2. US political power is diminished by USA alienating allies and even threatening invasion of an allied country!
3. US economic power is declining because of Trump policies.
4. The war with Iran will probably bring an end to the petro dollar.
5. The combination of declining economy and the end of the petro dollar will accelerate the decline of the USD as a global reserve currency. Which will lead to further decline in the US economy.
6. The above points will all decrease the soft power USA has enjoyed, from a combination of military power, economy and allies.

Hopefully the free world will gather around EU instead, and EU and China will work within international law, and establish relations that will create progress on both sides, while USA becomes a lot like what UK is today, after also being a global empire.

Putin is finished, he is a walking dead together with the Russian Empire he wanted to create.
But we need to support Ukraine more, so this stupid war isn’t prolonged more than necessary. When the war is over both Ukraine and EU will prosper.

That’s the consequence of Brexit, I wonder why it took so long?
UK is no longer part of EU, so EU citizenship doesn’t work in UK, Just like a UK citizenship no longer works in EU.

Hurray for Brexit, so much better for everybody. Less freedom and economic harm on both sides. 🤡

My guess is Orban was corrupt from the beginning, but he was hiding it, because that’s what you do.
Of course Hungarians need to be vigilant and take note if Péter is just a repeat, but my guess is that he will quickly normalize relations with EU, and to do that he needs to reestablish democratic values.
I guess we at least agree that Orban is bad both for Hungary and Europe, and hopefully Péter will be a lot better for Hungary first, and for that good relations with EU are important too.
EU is all about mutual benefits, if Hungary think it’s better to stand with Russia,they are actually free to do that, but then they should not be member of EU.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_arrest_warrants_for_Israeli_leaders

Netanyahu is a wanted criminal for war crimes!!

if you know where does he come from.

I know he comes from Orbans party, but I also know that Orban wasn’t thought to be corrupt in the beginning.
So it seems to me to show character for Péter Magyar that he no longer could stand by Orbam destroying Hungary.
Hungary must I assume have been pro EU to seek membership, and work for years to meet the requirements.
So it seems to me it is Orban that changed, while Péter Magyar maintained his democratic anti corruption values.

no, obviously I’m entirely unaware

You hadn’t yet stated “here” is Hungary, so your sarcasm is misplaced.
Your “easy thought” is very likely emphasized by propaganda, it’s a typical Putin strategy to make an election seem futile to the opposition. And this is right up that alley.
If you had the thought yourself, you might not have noticed it as propaganda, because of confirmation bias.

I have never had so little interest in a space mission. This seems to be without any real scientific goals, and being an American political project since NASA is now micromanaged by the White house, makes this seem about as irrelevant as it can possibly be.

Edit:
Kind of uplifting that people here have more optimism than me, but I’m sorry I simply can’t share your optimism about an agency that has been politicized and redesigned to promote private enterprise taking over space exploration. I hope your naivete will not be exploited. Except actually I don’t really have any hope of that.

Oh for fucks sake, google it yourself, why is that in any way relevant?
Even if it never happened, it remains the purpose of NATO, because it will definitely happen if article 5 is called, and there is an actual country that is the enemy, and the only country to ever call article 5 was USA. But that was based on a terrorist attack, so a bit of a weird situation.

This is the idiot who led a group of 30+ countries to put pressure on Iran

Your link says nothing of the kind. But instead it says this:

"We’ve been pulling ⁠together a coalition of countries … working on ​a political, diplomatic plan,

So exactly as I commented, European countries are seeking a diplomatic solution, you grossly misrepresented what happened to a degree it was unrecognizable to the reality behind your claim.

You can call it asinine if you want, but you just proved that I was 100% right. And you made a false claim.

From Google:
An official NATO engagement, in the context of military operations, refers to actions taken by NATO-led forces authorized by the North Atlantic Council (NAC)

How would that make any sense while Iran is being bombed by USA and Israel?
Also I never heard about that, so I guess you are misrepresenting what really happened.
What I heard was that Europe was seeking a diplomatic solution. And we are in no position to pressure Iran with sanctions in the current situation. It would be more sensible to lift sanctions to allow the strait to be opened.

If there is a war that NATO is engaged in as an official NATO engagement then yes. But that is never gonna happen under Trump. Hence NATO is dead.

Yes

Yes, Putin will use any misinformation and manipulation he can, including making a terrorist attack and blame it on others to promote his agenda. That is how he came to power!

No I’m not French, I’m from Denmark.

Ditto for the US.
FWIW their system is so much worse than the French one

Yes in USA it’s worse, because the president of USA has even more extensive powers, and congress isn’t entirely democratic either.

On this we are 100% in agreement.

I have no doubt they are no good, and undermine the societies they make their money on, but there are degrees of evil and there are degrees of insanity.
And by comparison American billionaires are the worst, and decidedly undermine democracy heavily using their money for greater influence, probably mostly because they are allowed, not because Europeans are better people. But the system in USA celebrating money and sociopathy make Americans worse.

That’s exactly how it works.

Unfortunately despite there are a lot of good Americans, there are more that either don’t give a shit or even support the current regime.