The made-in-China cars were already lauded for superior fit and finish compared to Fremont-built cars.

It's not that surprising as Chinese workers have proven that if you give them the right blueprint and pay them enough, they are more than capable of building high quality products. Made-in-China is no longer the guarantee of low quality it used to be, especially as Chinese factories become increasingly automated.

I own a 2019 Model 3. Love EVs, will never go back to ICE, but holy fuck Tesla is absolute garbage in build quality.

I don't expect Rolls Royce fit and finish but when spending $50k+ I think it's perfectly reasonable to at least have something comparable to a Toyota Corolla.

Kia EV6 is on order with a long-ass wait. In the meantime I'm still driving this overpriced POS which rattles loudly from the back seat even on freshly repaved roads.

Worse. I own a 2019 Model 3 and hope to replace it this year with a non-Tesla EV.

Their software updates often have infuriating UX changes that Elon tries to justify by saying shit like "all input is error" only to backpedal amid growing dissatisfaction. And they trumpet the most worthless shit with so much fanfare like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

E.g. in Dec 2021 the V11 update came with the asinine decision to remove quick-toggles for the defroster and heated seats, requiring one extra menu layer to be brought up first. Took a few more months before the toggles were added back but who the fuck signed off on their removal in the first place?

Meanwhile the LTE modem can take 5-10 minutes to reconnect after leaving a dead zone like an underground garage (which cripples the GPS functionality), while all my phones reconnect in milliseconds. Still no fix for that. I literally have to turn on my phone hotspot every time I get in the car to ensure the nav will work properly.

The auto wipers are also the worst in the entire industry - still no fix to at least let me toggle a default minimum speed.

But hey, I now have Disney Plus and stupid touchscreen games in the infotainment system and the car can perform light shows on demand! OMG! Greatest car ever made!

Ironically their Shanghai-built cars have been lauded for far superior fit and finish compared to the US built cars. Probably helps that the Chinese EV market is a lot more competitive especially when it comes to the availability and reliability of non-Supercharger DC networks, which means Tesla doesn't have the same competitive advantage to coast on like they do in North America.

Whatever one thinks of free speech laws, this is a sovereign country and to operate there, a company has to abide by their rules and regulations.

E.g. If you want to operate in Japan you must have Japanese language labeling on your products and if you have a problem with that, you have the freedom to simply not serve the Japanese market.

Don't agree with Australian hate speech laws? Don't operate in Australia. Simple as that.

Friendly reminder that Twitter's current owner is a huge fan of the mainland Chinese market btw.

It's because of something called appeals. The US is not China where once a death sentence is handed out, it actually happens within the same month. Do you want the US to be as liberal with the death penalty application as China? Because that's the only way the death penalty becomes cheaper.

Also unaware that his VR headsets are fun for an hour or two of video games but utter torture to wear for longer than that.

Honestly given that China blocks so much of the global internet that it's easier to list off what isn't banned nowadays, this seems like a fair way of giving China a taste of their own medicine.

And yes, censorship is a big motivator in China's actions but I strongly suspect that the true #1 priority is to artificially prop up their own domestic offerings (after all the firewall is trivial to bypass). Blocking Google helps Baidu, blocking Facebook helps Renren, blocking Whatsapp helps WeChat, blocking YouTube helps Youku, etc.

I generally am strongly against governments restricting a foreign competitor just to help inferior domestic offerings but in this particular case, tit-for-tat.

Buying a steam deck to do game streaming makes about as much sense as buying a modern 4k TV to watch VHS tapes.

Thankfully, law enforcement is not the type of occupation that qualifies one for a work visa.

It's the same with the Jan 6 insurrection.

The vast majority of participants were very, very far above the poverty level.

The majority of participants weren't truckers.

Over 90% of Canadian truckers were vaccinated + the only vaccine mandate that could genuinely impact truckers was under the jurisdiction of the USA. Unvaccinated Canadians cannot enter the USA because of an American policy, so any quarantine requirement is a complete and total non-issue (can't "return" to Canada if you can't leave to begin with).

As a huge fan of Japanese food, Japan is definitely a place where I'd own property and spend at least a few months a year if I were filthy rich.

To make a Canadian Trump supporter's brain explode, ask them to explain why his presidency is a good thing for Canadians. And don't accept answers about why his presidency is good for Americans. Be very specific that they must explain why Trump's presence in the white house is beneficial in any way to Canadian people living in Canada.

The mental gymnastics are hilarious.

In parliamentary systems, the people vote for MPs and never get directly involved in the election of the party leader.

If the leader changes before the party's term is up, that is also out of the hands of the masses.

In practice, it's not really that much different from directly voting for the leader. Ultimately the buck stops with the leader and many voters choose their MP because of who the party leader is, without paying much attention to the MP's actual campaign.

If I'm a math teacher and I insist 1+1=3, and hand out failing grades to students who say 1+1=2, I can rightfully expect to have my ass thrown out of the teaching profession.

Don't see how this is any different.