@HistoPol @uanews Why dod you link to a thread about how Tesla buys from Rusal, when I just pointed out that the only known contract is Giga Berlin (so this doesn't apply) and basically all automakers buy from Rusal?

Again: Rusal makes 1/10th of all alumium on Earth.

There's no "there" there.

@HistoPol @uanews What does this have to do with Tesla? Rusal provides like a tenth of all the alumium on Earth. Most if not all automakers buy from them. For example, Constellium - supplier for Ford, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, etc - has been outspoken in their support of Rusal.

The only Tesla-specific contract I'm aware of was for Giga Berlin (an unknown percentage of its total), and - point of fact - Berlin is not America, where this tariff will be.

@HistoPol @uanews @davetroy What "connection with their CEO and the Russian president"? What "working toward the goal of replacing the #USD"? These are nonsensical conspiracy theories. Musk has spoken to Putin a single time - and while the Russian media was fond of his "peace plan", they're not fond of him providing Starlink to Ukraine, and he's regularly squabbled with Rogozin. And while he was briefly a big Bitcoin enthusiast, it's been tempered.

And no, Tesla has a factory in Berlin.

The lava cooling operation appears to have been a success. While the water will need to continue - 26 thousand litres per second, enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool every 1 1/2 minutes - work today is expected to increase the height of the L3 berm atop the lava currently being cooled.

The eruption is slowly weakening, though isn't in a rush to end. Primarily of note, the central crater (of three) has significantly declined overnight.

#Iceland #Volcano #Eruption

Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the #volcano and the #northernlights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.

#Iceland #Eruption

#BlueLagoon parking under lava as night falls. A small service building was destroyed as well.

Visually, the lava appears to have topped the berm; it's unclear if there's any active lava tubes feeding the breach.

#iceland #volcano #eruption

#BlueLagoon parking is temporarily closed. We apologize for the inconvenience.

#Iceland #Volcano #Eruption

"Illegal Immigrant Makes Sexual Threat To Local Woman"

#ElonMusk #Elon #Musk #TaylorSwift #Creepy

The new #eruption fissure is located where the previous ones were, and is now 3,9km long, possibly still growing. Still significant seismic activity, with an earthquake of magnitude 4 even measured.

#Iceland #Volcano #Grindavík

@bonkers Would be awesome if we could convince Surtr to bugger off over to Russia ;)

#Volcano go boom...

#Iceland #Grindavík #Eruption

#Ukraine #Russia #Kursk #NAFO

It's not perfect - it misses things here and there, or identifies things wrong (probably fixed if closer up) - but it's surely good enough to be workable in areas of known hostile activity. You can even filter down by subtypes, like "intact military vehicles" or "air defense systems" or whatnot.

Huh. Apparently Segment Anything can - without any custom training, and with potato-quality drone images - do a pretty good job of finding military targets.

(Якщо комусь з українців потрібна допомога з налаштуванням на дроні з сучасною відеокартою NVidia, я, напевно, зможу допомогти)

#Ukraine #NAFO

@nasa That diameter was the great part about it. Haven't been able to do that since, with only SLS and Starship reintroducing that potential.

#Tennessee Republicans, spurred on by #chemtrail advocates, pass a bill that, on the face of it, appears to unintentionally ban all #CO2 emissions ("injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals into the air affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight")

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68716894

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

@HistoPol Tesla is just switching to signing the car over to the owners before it gets the plates and then the owner files a missing plate request.

Note that there's two court cases, once against the transport authority and one against the post office. The former case has gone much better than the latter.

Tesla does not need ports. It already transports a large portion of its vehicles by road.

Tesla Sweden sales this quarter were about 50% higher than one year ago.

@forteller You're talking ideology. I'm talking pragmatism. I'm telling you the results of this: these people will either lose their job or crawl back in a worse situation than they left.

If your ideology makes you happy with that *outcome*, then knock yourself out.

@forteller OMG, if they can't find strikebreakers, and they for some bizarre reason can't just ship in new people from elsewhere in Europe, why they'd have they have to ship cars 1-6 hours for painting, however will they manage? I mean, that might cost, like, a couple dozen to a couple hundred euros! Surely they'll go bankrupt... :eyeroll:

I don't think people like you get it. The value chain isn't in Sweden. The value chain is in Berlin, Shanghai, Austin and San Francisco.

@clacke @aral Okay, if a person ***actually accepts facts*** then there isn't much more to say indeed.

Nazis were NOT mass forcing women to have children. Any assertion otherwise is 100% ahistorical. They encouraged women to marry with propaganda, awards (such as the Mother's Cross), social organizations (such as NS-Frauenschaft), etc. And even still, women worked - just in "traditional feminine jobs" (nurses, teachers, secretaries, etc).