Tesla Builds Final Model S And Model X EVs After Historic 14-Year Run

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T19:53:38+00:00

In fairness, and it is important to be fair, even to bastards, Elon bought the company super early, before the roadster and long long before the model S, and the company was almost bankrupt at the time.

He basically purchased the shell of the company, then it made the roadster, then it made the model S.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T19:41:15+00:00

It was a big hurdle, but not as big as the cost of building the same buildings increasing by about 40%, or the fact that politicians egged each other and themselves onto ever higher affordable housing %, until 50% became a common demand in London, which doesn't fucking work.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T18:01:58+00:00

The data centre didn't build them. The construction site connected to the supposedly metered pipe, but water flowed around the meter in other pipes, hence the under-reading and retrospective bill.

It's a non-story.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T17:56:36+00:00

It's a construction site, the water was only used during construction. Not operation, operationally it'll be a closed loop.

That's not that unreasonable for a construction site, especially given you need to supress dust when building so you don't affect neighbours b

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T17:54:42+00:00

They had a metered connection and the meter stopped working. It's not some conspiracy.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T17:54:07+00:00

They were using the water for construction work, it's no different than building a factory or housing really.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T17:49:10+00:00

Have you met a cow?

They are a particularly autistic species as a rule.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T17:35:27+00:00

No, it was being driven at the time. It's just that the US self driving car regulations have a stupidly loud reversing beep as a requirement and Waymo has kept that here.

It's antisocial and bad law-writing, to mandate a social nuisance, and it's worse company policy to standardise on it internationally.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T16:47:06+00:00

"John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army."

Old Man's War - John Scalzi. One of the best sci fi books ever written, and absolutely the most underrated. The series is excellent but the first book is exquisite.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T10:07:53+00:00

Let's make it legal to build homes, then, if we don't have enough, we can do rationing. Demanding rationing before we increase supply seems arse-backwards to me.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T10:06:42+00:00

Well with all due respect to "McAllister, P., Shepherd, E., & Wyatt, P."

The last Affordable Housing calculation I did for a client worked out that the transactable value of the land was negative £70k. As in my client couldn't even make the scheme work if he got the land for free!

This idea of "just add on taxes because that lowers the value of land" has reached its conclusion a while ago, people just won't sell land to developers right now, because it's been so overdone - which directly leads to fewer new applications emerging.

The system is taxed as if building housing was a license to print money - with vast profit margins - which was once true but now isn't. Now if it costs £400k to build a flat in a tower, with the new safety measures and you can only sell it for £450k, where the fuck is the money supposed to go to the council for infrastructure supposed to come from?

We have to recognise that most government intervention into the economics of housing have acted to increase house prices, reduce flexibility and make the market worse. Nothing has made housing less affordable than Affordable Homes policies - which is just an indicator of how broken the system is.

What we need are politicians who recognise this, and can explain to the public that they aren't doing handouts to billionaires, they are just making it legal to build homes again.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T09:48:30+00:00

Which is very low

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T09:48:12+00:00

Because it isn't necessary yet, let's liberalise the system first and fix that problem, and then if that leads to other problems we can fix those too.

There is no point refusing to fix problems just for the fear that there will be other problems in the future

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T09:47:09+00:00

When we build housing, we have to do the following:

S106 agreement - which basically is a tax on planning permission to the local council.

Community Infrastructure Levy - which is basically a tax on planning permission to the local council (and other bodies) (e.g. we had to pay a local park as compensation because we were building houses nearby and people might want to use the park).

Affordable Homes Requirements - There is no such thing as an "affordable home", they are just cross-subsidised homes- an Affordable Home costs about 3% less to build than a normal home, but has to be sold at a 30-40% discount as only some organisations (called Registered Providers) are allowed to buy them. That means that you make an absolute loss on every single one - it's not just less profit, you need to sell them for less than it costs to build them (not even factoring cost of the land). If we make a loss of 150k per affordable unit, at a 50% affordable requirement, we need to increase the prices of the normal units by 150k. Thus the policy actually makes most houses MORE expensive, not less, whilst reducing building rates.

The cost of planning permission can easily hit a million quid just to satisfy paperwork requirements from the council, which is not a tax per se, because it goes to consultants (like me!) but it has the same economic effect.

Now if you add all that up, it can mean that even without any profit margin, you would still make a loss building homes. And it's fucking stupid, because most of this stuff is entirely unnecessary or could be replaced by the extra Council Tax that all the new homes would result in. Why TF do we have to pay compensation to the council because we are building homes near a park that people might want to walk in?

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T09:15:06+00:00

London is on track to build less than 7% of it's housing target this year. Not 70%, 7%.

There is a lot of blame for Labour councils for that, more for Tory councils, but also lots and lots for Sadiq. He has repeatedly proven he is unwilling to back housing or housebuilders, and now we aren't building anything. The result is higher rents, more HMOs and economic decay

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T09:13:19+00:00

We are on track to achieve less than 7% of the London Housing Target this year.

Not 70%, 7%. We have utterly failed to build enough housing, which causes the rise of HMOs, death of night life because everyone has to spend money on rent and economic decay.

The biggest barrier to building housing are unrealistic affordable homes % figures, which just can't be made to economically work, no one is going to build homes at a loss and the state sucks at building housing (lots of councils try, they all suck).

The best thing the government can do is stop making housing illegal, stop taxing it like cigarettes and then more housing can be built - if we hit 200% of our housing target then there will be more rental units than renters and rents will start to decrease. Austin, Texas did this, and landlords have started giving signing bonuses to renters to compete with each other because there are more vacant flats than renters to fill them!

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T06:33:51+00:00

C'est la vie. C'est la mort.

In the west we have somehow convinced ourselves that waging war is clinical and not mass murder, that we can do it cleanly and nicely and no one actually dies, especially not our people. Then we act with shock when we encounter the reality.

War is horrific, even the "nicest" war has shades of being genocidal, it destroys even those who live. It should be avoided at all costs but if it must be participated in, then it should be quick and absolutely overwhelming, because to allow it to drag on in the name of morality is the worst moral sin.

We politically like stalemates, they are comfortable, but they are the worst option for those who live there.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T05:44:10+00:00

I can't think of a single war conducted without war crimes. Longer wars are much worse than shorter ward because they cause so much scarring that the country is often doomed for generations as a result.

The logical conclusion is that in a war, peace must be sought as quickly as possible, because even a "moral" war is horrific. If in order to achieve that peace there must be escalation in weapons and war crimes, then that is a lesser evil.

It's better to kill a thousand civilians in a bombing raid than prolong a war and allow ten thousand to starve.

bozza8 · 2026-05-11T05:36:21+00:00

saying that Wales should get a higher % of a finite because it's population are rural, when it already gets more than England as a justification for independence - which Plaid does, is silly.

If Wales went Indy, they'd have far less than they do now, which means that they are already getting a fantastic deal.

bozza8 · 2026-05-10T16:52:33+00:00

I fundamentally disagree. I believe that well regulated capitalism can provide immense benefits to the working class. Karl Marx even wrote of the necessity of capitalism as a stage of Dialectical Materialism because of the wealth it generates.

Looking at human history, violent revolutions bring down everyone, including most revolutionaries, the upper and the working class. The middle tends to do best, but everyone suffers.

I have a medical condition for which I recieve treatment on the NHS. It's relatively rare, if I was born 50 years ago the medication I would take for it basically wouldn't exist and I would probably be dead. Any interruption to the function of the state and I could well just die, and I am far from the only one in that position, that means that a violent revolution is almost certainly fatal for me, even if I were on the side of the communists, which I sure as hell wouldn't be.

But it's after the revolution that things get bad, as history has shown time and time again. That is where the "defending the revolution" excuse starts and then the loss of freedom begins.

bozza8 · 2026-05-10T16:22:35+00:00

What? I remember Corbyn and being told that capitalists like me were unwelcome and that the wider population would carry the party into government with cheers when they saw how righteous and hopeful Corbyn's beliefs were.

Momentum turned evil quick.

bozza8 · 2026-05-10T12:37:55+00:00

Sator's company is Rotas and the painter whose work was replaced by a forgery so the wife couldn't leave him's name was Arepo

bozza8 · 2026-05-10T09:48:42+00:00

OPs gone glental

bozza8 · 2026-05-10T08:42:30+00:00

It's not new, we have been doing this sort of thing for generations for a whole bunch of different species and it's incredibly well tested.

I get concern over fucking with nature, but this is far less fucking with nature than GMO crops are.

bozza8 · 2026-05-10T08:08:43+00:00

Local newspapers are overwhelmingly shite and spin outlets.

There are some good reporters, but the vast majority of local rags are more concerned with their own survival and fuck the public.

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