Peter F

@brandenflasch Whatever they did to the newer batteries sucks. The older ones were better.

Tesla Roamer now has degradation from over 16k used Teslas and Teslas are typically seeing 7.5% degradation in the first year / 10k miles.

@brandenflasch With 220kWh wouldn't that be easily possible?

A Tesla could only dream of 250kW avg for 11-85%

@brandenflasch RIP

Model S.

@SilchQuatch @Devon_Eriksen_ Weren't like 100 soldiers deployed?

@Devon_Eriksen_ I love Sweden. I am a patriot. That is why I HATE AMERICA, because you elected a demented and retarded pedophile who threatened to invade Greenland. Swedish soldiers, and many more, were deployed in order to stop the US. Fuck you, fuck your president, I pray for his death.

Europe's disease is not a disease of America. It is a disease of World War 2. In 1946, after we rescued them from themselves and each other, Europeans crawled out of the rubble they had made of their continent, looked around at their mess, wept for a bit, and then formed the wrong conclusions. They decided that ethnic nations are bad. That patriotism is bad. That supporting your tribe, in preference to random strangers, is bad. They decided that these things had led to the horrors of global war and genocide in Europe itself, and so all vestiges of loyalty to one's own people must be stamped out. Nations were, forever afterward, to be post-ethnic, post-cultural legal and economic units filled with... well, anyone, really. A bunch of people who didn't, in fact shouldn't, share values, goals, morals, customs, or even a common language. Nations were to be mere fiefs, their boundaries determined by which set of political elites controlled them. America, having not been smashed to rubble in WW2, did not share this view. We saw WW2 as an expensive adventure in bailing out Europe, which we spent our treasure and our blood on (including my own grandfather's life, and his chance to ever see his grandson) precisely because we shared cultural and ethical values with the people we were rescuing. But they hate us for it. They see our patriotism as fascism precisely because they see all patriotism as fascism. Psychologists have long understood that humans respond to favors with gratitude only up until those favors become so great that they have no hope of repaying them. At that point, their gratitude turns to resentment. How dare we believe we did them a favor? How dare I believe that my father gave up his father so Europe could be safe, peaceful, and free? Don't we know that, because ${ELABORATE MENTAL GYMNASTICS}, we didn't do them any favors by fighting that war? Don't we know that, because ${ANY PATRIOTISM = HITLER}, our love of our country and favoring of its interests makes us fascist and problematic? Well, no. I don't know that. I don't think any European nation is our ally any more. Certainly, we have shared interests, but how much does that really matter, when they refuse to act in those shared interests, because they have come to believe that acting in your people's interest is bad? They hate us too much to work with us. They resent every ounce of the burden which they are asked to share. Our support has made Europe into a pack of idle welfare recipients, complete with sense of entitlement and self-destructive behavior. But if we didn't defend them... who would? Their native populations have been purged of all patriotism, and who would blame them if they didn't fight for ruling elites that hate them? Their imported third-world barbarians won't fight for them. The very idea is laughable. What's left? And what will make them wake up and think about these questions? Perhaps they need to dig themselves out of the rubble of another war.

@Fraulinhoo @athsoc @firasmodad Selecting for immigrants who contribute is bad?

@athsoc @firasmodad I have no problem with banning all immigration, it's based on them being foreigners, at least it makes sense But targeting some and leaving others is based on Israeli interests, it's Jewish propaganda. I can't support that he can't defend it because it's illogical, not smart

Nothing good comes from Somalis flooding your country and building colonies in it.

@GarryCheeseman @KutarkV @DANNYonPC Linus of LTT? LMAO no he's not.

@KutarkV @DANNYonPC Bro he’s right wing as fuck, lol

The Linus Media group recently bought a private plane and officially announced it today. This was Linus (And luke's) opinion on private planes (And first class flights) back in 2023 during the ''WAN Show September 1, 2023'' I wonder what changed

@joeyscleaning @Handre You don't think the 13 million used vehicles exported from the USA since have a much larger impact than the 677,000 destroyed?

@peterf @Handre About 84% of the vehicles traded in were trucks, SUVs, etc with clear utilitarian value. Many have surged in price because they’re simpler and cheaper to repair. Thousands of OBS trucks were scrapped, and those same vehicles have now appreciated significantly.

Cash for Clunkers destroyed $2.4 billion in working capital in 2009. The government paid dealers to pour sodium silicate into 690,000 perfectly functioning engines -- rendering them permanently inoperable. These weren't junkyard cars. The program required trade-ins to be drivable and insured. You had working vehicles that poor families desperately needed, and bureaucrats systematically destroyed them to boost GM sales (while GM was under government ownership, naturally). The environmental impact? Pure theater. Most clunkers got 18+ mpg -- hardly gas guzzlers. Meanwhile, building new cars generates 25 tons of CO2 per vehicle before they leave the factory. The program likely increased net emissions while making transportation less affordable for everyone earning under $50k.

@LoveBlacks88 @Handre @grok AI is good at looking up data. Cash for clunkers in a negligible impact at this point. I agree, immigration is the reason that beaters are expensive. I have replied with that point to other people in this thread.

@peterf @Handre @grok Can't just have a normal conversation anymore lmao

@LoveBlacks88 @Handre @grok how many cars were destroyed by cash for clunkers? How many used vehicles were exported from the USA since that program? What percentage of cars did cash for clunkers destroy compared to the amount destroyed + exported?

@peterf @Handre It significantly decreased supply, it absolutely affected prices. The bigger driving force behind sky high used car prices now is rampant immigration, both legal and illegal

@sauerkng @Handre If that program never happened there would basically be zero difference in used car prices today. Stop whining.

@peterf @Handre Because I want to be able to buy a shitty beater for 500 bucks not 1500 bucks, there's no reason a 98 that isn't considered desirable with 147k on them with peeled clear coat AND dont run should go for that. It's also artificially increased parts rarity and vehicle rarity

@BitSlappin851 @Handre x.com/i/status/20390…

@peterf @Handre Wait, are you justifying that program because they've printed more since?

@fuzzychubbywolf @juskom95 @Handre No one will argue against the government being wasteful but the impact on used prices now from this program are basically zero.

@peterf @juskom95 @Handre Both are true. What cfc really did was show gov is wasteful.

@joeyscleaning @Handre It was 17 years ago. 800,000 used vehicles are exported every year. 13 million exported and removed from the USA market since then and you think 677,000 is still significant?

@peterf @Handre also irreversibly impacted auto insurance, auto repair etc. Those old beaters were cheap to fix

@BitSlappin851 @Handre Lmao. That is negligible in comparison to what else they've printed.

@peterf @Handre You're economically illiterate. The inflation alone from the money the government had printed for that program continually bends us over.

@juskom95 @Handre The USA exports 800,000 used vehicles annually and you think 677,000 destroyed 15 years ago is still having an impact?

@peterf @Handre Because its impact IS effecting current used and new car prices. It reduced supply, while demand remained high.

@tpodoll1 @Handre @grok how many vehicles were destroyed in cash for clunkers? How many used vehicles are exported from the USA annually? Can you estimate the demand for user beaters for the millions of illegals who crossed the border during the Biden years?

@peterf @Handre

@minegotstolen @FunkmasterGrim @Handre And millions of illegals who crossed the border and want beater cars.

@FunkmasterGrim @peterf @Handre Isn't the current wave of expensive used cars cause of the chip shortage during COVID putting increased pressure on the used car market and it just hasn't recovered yet cause of people holding off due to economic uncertainty

@FunkmasterGrim @Handre You can't also forget the millions of illegals who have poured in and buy tons of beater cars.

@peterf @Handre It’s seemingly easier to blame a garbage policy from 15 years ago than to recognize that the current problem is far more complex that involves government regulations and auto companies that make more money financing cars than actually selling them.

@AEROBATIX @Handre Yes I'm sure. Prices before COVID weren't crazy. That program was so long ago that the remaining effects are marginal.

@peterf @Handre You sure? Had someone bid 25k for my restored 1999 Tahoe. They destroyed a whole segment of affordable, easy to repair vehicles, it was not just a stupid program, it was catastrophic and you see the effects of it today when you have to shell out 80k for a SUV.

@JCleverOne @Handre Used cars were cheap before COVID

@peterf @Handre Beaters went from $1000 to $3500 overnight and the used car market has never recovered. Car lots asking for $9,000 for a 15 year old car with 120,000 miles that sold for $15,000 brand new.