Svip

In China it's due to the state wanting all of China to be at Beijing time, and for Beijing, it is standard time. As for Spain, Franco switching to German time, because he liked Hitler, and Spain never switched back. Besides, Spain observes DST like the rest of the EU. Argentina is however an example of a country that switched to permanent summer time and sticking with it (since 2009).

My apologies (I actually knew this, and forgot); unfortunately, I cannot edit my post now to advice people to enter the URL manually.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, no one has taken delivery of the Roadster announced 9 years ago; all of your examples are cars having more demand than supply (and in the case of the Trabant and the Lada, fewer years); as for the Morgan Plus 8, Morgan make a deliberate choice to keep the production figures where they were, despite the high demand. The key difference seems to be between little supply (your examples) and no supply.

Usually, if you had been unable to deliver a product in that time, it's probably about time to cancel it. Of course, I may be wrong, but my understanding is that 9-year-ago-announced Roadster has not been cancelled, and people have not been refunded.

I had not seen the second video, though that car does seem rather modified (not a complaint, but mine is pretty stock (except the wheels which are one inch up, though I have the original rims)), but he does mangle the Citroën history quite a bit (fair, considering he is apparently a novice in the field). Regardless, my intention is to keep this car operational as long as is humanly possible; so far, it's only the usual hydraulic leaks that plagues it, but nothing overwhelming. I have already begun to buy spare parts for the eventually they'll need replacing, since they are slowly going out of stock.

The first video mentions that Moose test as well, and references a channel that tries to do re-attempt it, but fails; I've seen that video as well, and it's pretty clear that those Xantias are not performing as they should; and no where in that video, are there attempts to fix the underperforming suspension. Likely, I suspect, because none of them truly knows how that is supposed to look like. The best description I've heard of the car is that it handles like a go-kart, which feels rather apt.

I recognise the site is about driving costs, ignoring what a car costs to own; but depending on what plates stick to that car, it can make a significant difference. Denmark already tops the list in petrol prices, but unmentioned (largely because it's irrelevant) is that cars have a 150% registration fee attached to them, before the annual ownership fees.

I have a 1998 Citroën Xantia Activa V6, it costs ~1450 EUR a year to keep it on plates. Yes, its due to its fuel economy, but since I only drive it occasionally, it's hardly doing damage to the environment. I also have a 2011 Citroën C1, which only costs ~95 EUR a year. Of course, I was truly unhappy about these costs, I would take the Xantia off plates; however, it's more an observation: due to the high fees for merely owning a vehicle, a lot of car owners are encouraged to drive. And that's just the annual fees, buying a new car is such an investment, that it would feel a mistake to not drive it (I assume, I have never bought a new car).

I'm speculating of course, but it seems to me that these fees on car ownership encourages more driving. I'd love to have data from countries with lower (or no) fees, and how much people are driving per car. There is a reason Danish politicians about talking about replacing it with road pricing, or at least a mix.

If we talk about pain specifically, it is will established that physical and phycological pain can be observed on instruments; stress produces chemical reactions, that can make needles flicker on meters. Even plants can feel pain in an observable manner.

As far as I am aware, the GPUs don't work harder, don't heat up more, and nothing in their mathematical equations are different, when the result of these vector calculations produce text, that to humans look like someone in pain. Whereas real pain is objectively observable, LLMs' pain - so far at least - is entirely subjectively observable.

That being said, I'm a fan of Star Trek's depiction of Data in TNG and the Doctor in VOY fighting for their rights to be treated as equals to the biological crew; and while I support their plight, as far as I can remember, the shows never made a claim that their pain was observable by instruments, thus making the judgement an entirely subjective decision (particularly in the case of the Doctor). Though I'd be glad to be corrected in this matter.

In Europe, they are usually known as MPVs or "people carriers"; Renault has made their Espace since 1984 (though, it looks like they abandoned that format in 2012); there was also the Renault Grand Scénic, which ended in 2022. So not a uniquely American concept, but it seems like the market in Europe for them is thinning significantly. A shame though, I really like the look of that Espace mk1.

It kind of says so at the bottom:

> Disclaimer: styling and error handling throughout this article were cleaned up with the help of AI.

The implication seems to be "light editing", but the LLM styling really comes through, so I guess that tracks.

How about adding the location information as a suffix to the short code, e.g. `/forecast/<shortcode>/united-kingdom/yorkshire/york`? The latter part of the URL is of not use to the site, but is useful for the user.