What was the third vehicle? The one that got abandoned at a loss without a single one made, which gifted a huge strategic win to the Chinese EV company?

The Fusilier

The Landrover-replacement brainwave from a petrochemical-magnate brexit-backing billionaire Monaco tax exile...

Jim Ratcliffe.

XPeng mostly make their EVs in China, but 'semi-knock-down' them into parts to be shipped to graz, Austria, to the empty and desperate bargain-priced factory for reassembly to sell to Europeans. Its a big part of the Chinese EV company's European sales strategy, and was available with perfect timing

...the third vehicle the factory was banking on was cancelled, because it was a total project train-wreck that never got made, and wasted a fortune, meaning that the graz factory desperately needed something to make, to keep people employed and keep the lights on. Enter Chinese EV maker XPeng...

Fisker were dreamers, who spent a crazy amount to make ludicrous claims about a fantasy car that was always doomed and could never compete. The company was a comedy of errors. The I-pace... was ok, but not good enough to compete with Tesla. The i-pace was cancelled, Fisker went bankrupt and then...

My game uses a bunch of shaders, and I never have to spend more than perhaps a tenth of a millisecond compiling all of them on game launch. I honestly do not understand how the process gets at least 1,000x slower for AAA games. Its nuts.

I think they should be force fed that beautiful coal, and so should their kids. To give their kids anything else to eat wouldn't be patriotic.

From the man who brought us fracking, so there is no level to which this arrogant ,selfish little imbecile will not stoop sadly. I wish he would fuck off to Texas where his world view is welcomed.

Sure. I just dislike the state making such decisions. A true UBI regardless of industry would feel better to me. I know people in severe financial stress trying to grow food who also need such support, for example.

"State decides what is considered art" is how I read it tbh.

I had no idea 'Genital ideologists' were a thing. 2026 is wild.

Yes indeed, I thought it was too small too.

Turns out yes... its a wind farm maintenance vessel: www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/deta...