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It would be nice to know if he's even alive.

VAT is (almost) the same idea as American sales tax.

The difference is only how it is managed in wholesale, how it is displayed to consumers in retail and obviously the rates. Otherwise it's the exact same thing.

European stores show the price including the tax, whereas American stores show it without taxes. The VAT rates are generally higher in Europe than the sales tax in states, but this is not the explanation for the car prices.

Cars are more expensive in Europe due to other kinds of taxes. Germany is actually one of the cheaper countries for vehicles, because they don't have vehicle registration taxes, but they do have an import toll of 10% on cars. The same price increases happens the other way too. A European car will be more expensive in USA than in Europe for the same reasons.

It would be illegal for companies in France to do what Trump is demanding.

What would they get for doing it anyway? More threats?

I wish more companies would take that kind of responsibility.

"no, otherwise thank you" (nej, ellers tak) can be said in a variety of ways.

The entire purpose of adding more words to a "no" is to have more words for expression.

Even in the most polite way it basically means "definitely no".

That's why you ask for the sources, so you can check them.

I think this kind of prompting is an important part of how to use it in any meaningful manner.

You can also input your own sources and ask it to only use that. For instance by uploading a pdf of a law and ask it to figure out how to do something totally legal and then let it show where in the law it says so. You'll obviously still need to check that the law actually says so and that it isn't hallucinating.

It's usually possible to ask the AI for the sources. A proper journalist should always question the validity of their sources.

Unfortunately, journalism is dead. This is just someone writing funny clickbait, but it's quite ironic how they use AI to discredit AI.

It makes sense for a journalist to discredit AI because AI took their jobs. This is just not the way to do it, because AI is also better at writing clickbait.

You could put a blinking neon light ad all over the entire night sky, but if someone farted, you would still look around and ask "who farted?".

The Tesla is so stupid ugly that it attracts attention the same way.

Yes, he'd still be a large shareholder

If they fire him, he would sell. This would tank the stock value.

They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

WTF is a voluntary search?

"Attention all flight passengers. This is ICE on the speaker. If you want to be searched, please raise your hand and we will get to you shortly."

I wonder how they search it. I doubt they manually read every fucking text message in all apps, so I guess they search for keywords or something.

So, let's say someone wanted to get someone in trouble, they could write them an email with some "incriminating" white text on white background and have them stopped by the thought police at the border.

It would be funny if they stopped some Canadian Mexican returning from Cancun and found shittalk about Trump on his phone.

Btw. Does anyone have Ted Cruz's email address?

The panels are glued on. The glue fails when the temperature changes.

I can't believe that this car is legal to drive in public.