I live in a country praised for its IT industry, digital government and whatever

I got off ADSL in 2024. Fucking lol. I don’t even live on a farm or anything. Lucky to receive fiber though, now they want to prioritize 5G home connections instead.

Thing is, you may have to go to jail, depending on what the company is caught doing. Your name will be all over the news too.

With 8 or 9 speeds, you still never really leave that ideal torque band while driving, no modern engine is so peaky that you’re off peak torque after 100 rpm. The rubber banding sounds/feels weird to me too, even though it’s not inherently bad.

Turbo cars in particular have very long flat torque curves.

Also, what IS the sweet spot? Just like on an auto, it’s software that determines what ratio to use in a CVT. Software is not infallible. Sure they test it, but at the end of the day there’s several factors to balance. There is no “ideal”.

Seriously. If you’re looking for a new car, don’t discount them. Research them. They swap the ZF 8HP into monstrous builds now because of its ability to take shit and its ability to put power into the wheels. ZF engineers managed to make it shift better, have more gears, be more fuel efficient… and at the same time, be more reliable AND contain fewer parts than their outgoing 6 speed. The 9G-tronic is just as good if not better, but only available in Mercedes and very few other cars (Nissan 400Z, Astons). I had one and it made my 2 liter 143kW diesel feel faster than my current remapped 3 liter diesel around 200ish kW.

For my next automotive mishap, I’m considering either the ZF or Aisin 8 speed mated to a V8. Haven’t tried the newer Aisin box yet, but the 6 speed in my first gen Cayenne S was the most solid part of the car lol. I’ve got two terrible ideas and one great idea lined up but since the great idea is a Lexus, it means twice the fuel consumption and less comfort than the horrible ideas. The Lexy is also available as a hybrid with CVT and more power but everyone said its the worse car despite being way more expensive than the 8 speed auto non-hybrid

It’s so true. Would you like to buy some Trump memorabilia? Made in 100% American spirit in China

What’s the reasoning behind CVTs being the only non-manual transmissions you’d consider?

They lack the nice feel of manuals and the reliability of modern automatics. Have you tried an 8HP or 9G-Tronic? Either one will last you a long time and shift so smooth during relaxed driving that you can’t tell it’s going through gears.

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Being a CEO and being a shareholder have nothing to do with each other.

The truly rich, AKA the major shareholders, aren’t going to bother with a job, unless running their own company (probably the one they’re the major shareholder at).

Then the big institutional shareholders (Blackrock and the like) invest other people’s money - people like you and me.

Only a minority of shareholders for any given company, are CEOs at other companies.

It’s still a club for the ultra rich and we ain’t in it. I’m just saying that your average CEO is set up to be a scapegoat for even richer and shadier people (while still very much not being one of us working class citizens)

It’s not that they take responsibility, but rather in extreme circumstances they take the plunge and resign, or they’re fired. So the company can say they’re turning a new leaf

Examples from a quick search:

Hank McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, received a US$188 million severance package after his resignation, even after a 44% decline in the company’s stock value since he took over in 2001.

Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million.

United was in the middle of a corruption scandal and of course he took the fall, but I’m 100% sure he wasn’t acting alone.

Shady companies are always gonna be shady. But they’ll oust a CEO every now and then to pretend like they’re gonna change.

That helps, but largely the boards consist of major shareholders, or people that the shareholders have elected to be there.

The board, representing the shareholders, needs to make sure the company maximizes shareholder value above all else. They steer the company in very broad strokes. But if the company does something illegal or highly unpopular, the board members want themselves, the shareholders and the company in general to be as insulated as possible. So the CEO is a sacrificial lamb who either resigns or is fired, and takes the golden parachute. The idea is that the CEO was at fault and everything’s gonna be better now (no it’s not lol)

This must be the 10th time I comment this on Lemmy and you might already know this, but:

The reason a CEO gets paid what he gets paid is not because of the value he adds to the company (as you pointed out, anyone could do the job), but because when the company fucks up (whether due to his decisions, or those of the board, or just anything, really), he takes the fall so the company can keep on doing whatever shady shit they’re doing and the board can act like they had no idea what was going on.

That $15 plan was supposed to not have a data cap (for presidential plans, hence broadband)

A lot of these people were in the military before the second Trump admin made it obvious that they’re going to have to work for an actual fascist dictatorship.

Secondly, for a lot of young people, the G.I Bill is the only real way to afford an education. You know that whole student debt issue that is crippling people financially for decades? Joining the military is a way to bypass that.

Ah this is a whole different set of bots.

The ones in the OP seem to be advertising a different youtube channel that then links to a website that supposedly contains nudes. That’s pretty new

The one in yours, the “multiple people discussing a way to get rich” chain is pretty old by now, has been going on for at least 2-3 years.

Oh wow, I was like “interesting, haven’t seen these” seeing the three emojis and stuff on yours

However

To test the theory, I (a car nut) went to one of the biggest automotive YouTubers, Mat Armstrong, who’s currently rebuilding his dad’s dream car and released the last video 2 days ago.

Two comments, different profile, same profile pic that, zoomed out enough, looks like a vagina. Go on the profile and they both look like this:

Edit: spoiler tag wasn’t working for everyone. Long story short, they linked another channel with a bottomless lady for the thumbnail

Dataset bias, what else?

Women get paid less -> articles talking about women getting paid less exist. Possibly the dataset also includes actual payroll data from some org that has leaked out?

And no matter how much people hype it, ChatGPT is NOT smart enough to realize that men and women should be paid equally. That would require actual reasoning, not the funny fake reasoning/thinking that LLMs do (the DeepSeek one I tried to run locally thought very explicitly how it’s a CHINESE LLM and needs to give the appropriate information when I asked about Tiananmen Square; end result was that it “couldn’t answer about specific historic events”)

Lots of things, yeah. Many countries have set up energy efficiency loans too - for home renovations, or for business purposes. The idea is that you give out low interest loans so people (or companies) can achieve what they need earlier. I don’t know if anything like that is in place in Germany, France or Sweden (or Italy, I suppose they still have a bit of their car industry left), but if I was in a relevant position in one of those companies and there was a need to, say, build a battery manufacturing plant locally so that EVs could be built for cheaper and less dependence on existing battery manufacturers, I’d definitely go ask the relevant nation’s government, parliament and/or business development department, for a loan, tax break, or subsidies. Worst that could happen is they say no.

But yeah, an already successful car manufacturer getting straight on subsidies for selling cars they’re already making and selling anyway - extremely unlikely in most countries I’d think. Now if one or two of the German big 3 were on the verge of bankruptcy because of Chinese competition, that might change. Still sounds unlikely though. China’s GDP is 4x that of Germany’s, they can afford to keep subsidizing their shit for longer.

Sounds like it’s time for more protests then. I’m hoping. This doesn’t directly affect me since I’m not in the US but man it must feel like a gut punch for the black community in general and her family in particular. Hope Americans get their house back in order.

You can get by with English in a lot of non English speaking countries. Moreso with money because you can afford to pay people to translate things for you.

He had enough British ancestry that he was able to get a citizenship (or already had dual citizenship? I dunno). Think that was the only reason for choosing the UK in particular over any other European country.

From what little interaction I had with FlyingSquid, it seemed like his family was very working class and the move to the UK took a lot of sacrifice.

Ellen on the other hand has a net worth in the hundreds of millions and thus was never in any real danger in the US because of her sexuality.