bergmoose
bergmoose t1_j2a3nzm wrote
Reply to comment by elshankar in Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, bid followers a tearful farewell Friday without stating whether he would attend Sunday's inauguration of victor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by DoremusJessup
Kinda, not explicitly. Saying it is over is not saying what is over - the election itself can be over without accepting the outcome etc (and of course this message itself was not public, but is repeated by others) . He has never conceded, though members of his party have. He has said things suggesting he does basically concede, but also things that suggest he thinks he can still hold on to power.
bergmoose t1_j27y85b wrote
Reply to comment by natalies_porthole in UK and France say no plans currently to follow Italy with Covid tests for China arrivals. German, Portuguese and Austrian officials also reluctant to introduce new measures. by green_flash
As we don't restrict what infected people here do, what would we be trying to achieve? Also as seen last time, restricting entry from one country is utterly ineffective.
bergmoose t1_ixudmct wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Quebec government to appeal racial profiling ruling that banned random police stops by applepiebae
Licence suspended stops can still be done as it isn't random. However the overall tone of your message suggests to me that you think traffic police are there to try and catch people out. They are not. They are to make roads safer. If someone is driving safely and causing no issue, their car is properly licenced and so on then there is no reason for them to get pulled over, so they should not be pulled over.
bergmoose t1_ixpwodk wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee by kishiki18_91
The claim is that it is cheaper to make them the same than to have different manufacturing to the different specs, so they would be (and were) putting the hardware in there anyway but turned off to differentiate between trim levels. Dunno if it's true but seems lots of car companies have done it over the years so I assume so. To me the issue is the wastefulness of trying to create fake differences between trim lines in that case, if you are putting it in anyway then just include it in the lower trim.
I know why they don't, as people will pay to get some features and if seat heaters are on the "important" list then they definitely don't want to give it for free when it can be a hook to buying a whole bunch of crud you don't really want.
bergmoose t1_iui7nc9 wrote
Surprised they're still around to seek funding personally - seemed like a bit of a hail mary attempt from the initial press releases
edit: i hoped (and hope) I am wrong, just the initial messages seemed like they had very little lined up in terms of how they were going to get up and running
bergmoose t1_j64o5v4 wrote
Reply to comment by zedascouves1985 in North Korea slams US over decision to send tanks to Ukraine by hockeyfan33333
Welcome to the jam?