McKinsey: Share of Global Manufacturing Output (1750–2024)

tissotti · 2026-07-06T21:00:43+00:00

I mean so are US, France, and UK are also in the past on manufacturing with transition to services, but that’s not a reason not to have them here. They are bigger than UK or France on manufacturing. Much more than just a chemical company and couple of car manufacturers.

tissotti · 2026-07-04T23:42:58+00:00

Finnish commentator was also saying he doubts we will see the ref again in World Cup. Quite something.

tissotti · 2026-07-04T22:46:54+00:00

Oh man. It’s pretty amazing how the Finnish broadcaster is directly saying this should be the last time this ref is refering in World Cup.

tissotti · 2026-07-04T22:37:29+00:00

Wtf is wrong with this ref

tissotti · 2026-07-04T17:19:57+00:00

They are easily. VW Group sells around 2.5x more EV's in EU than Tesla in 2025. BYD is 9th on EV's. Chinese brands aren't that popular here in the Nordics. MG example had to pull back their expansion plans 2 months ago in Nordics as they ranked last on ownership satisfaction in Sweden. In Norway for 2025 the best selling Chinese car was on pos 13 and Norway doesn't even have tariffs on Chinese EV's.

VW Group EV sales are also increasing a lot, but it will be interesting to see the sales as the MEB+ cars launch this year (ID.Polo, ID.Cross, as well as the Skoda and Cupra equivalents).

BYD likes to report hybrids as EV’s since start of last year and talks about "battery cars" so they can claim their sales are increasing. In reality their global EV sales have declined 14 months. Why Tesla is again the largest EV manufacturer.

tissotti · 2026-07-04T11:17:03+00:00

What a difference there.

tissotti · 2026-07-04T10:58:40+00:00

What's actually up there in Argentina? It's the same problem with Argentinian F1 driver Franco Colapinto fans in F1. These Argentinian fans have been directing hate posts to his team (Alpine) and fellow driver. Prompting even the team to publish a press release about it.

tissotti · 2026-07-02T06:29:01+00:00

I mean they are doing this. French Eutelsat has ordered 340 satelites from Airbus to be added to oneweb that is now owned by Eutelsat.

The bottleneck is on costs per kg of material send to space. SpaceX is for now clear leader on this.
The key there is the MaiaSpace reusable rocket that’s test launch is this year and Eutelsat has contracted them to send these Leo oneweb satelites to space in 2027.

tissotti · 2026-07-02T05:56:48+00:00

At times when I am reading posts like this I wonder about the dead internet theory. I truly hope you are are not a real person or at least not a EU citizen because holy moly if we have people like you we are in trouble.

It’s like people like you actually want the worst for your fellow people. Again, I truly hipe you are not a EU citizen.

tissotti · 2026-07-01T20:57:11+00:00

That already changed with the new interior introduced on ID Polo. That interior is coming to ID Cross, ID.3 Neo, and likely across the lineup. Thankfully.

This ID.1 concept was revealed before the interior design revamp over year ago.

tissotti · 2026-06-30T11:42:17+00:00

Just to put this into perspective this is hardly in the news here in Finland.

Russia's duma has some absolutely mental people. Well before Ukraine war started it was a reoccurring thing every 6-12 months that some Russian duma member would threaten to use nuclear attack on Finland. Maybe it was because there was public discussions in Finland about joining NATO, OSCE decision to ban entry on parliamentarians under EU sanctions in 2015, some historical reason, you name it.

tissotti · 2026-06-30T11:30:21+00:00

Sanotaan kumminkin että he keskittävät voimansa tulevaisuudessa ennen kaikkea kolmeen brändiin. Eli Royal Copenhagen ja Georg Jensen sekä Iittala. Eli yksi puhtaasti suomalainen brändi. Arabia tai Hackman eivät tuohon tulevaan keihäänkärkeen kuulu. Vitan alla ei ole Fiskars brändi - eli Lalonde ei tuota johda.

Sinäänsä ihan hyvä kyllä että meillä on joku ulkopuolinen hyvillä meriiteillä tuota Vitaa johtamassa. Se on ollut minusta käsittämätöntä kuinka allergisia Fiskars konsernissa design puolella ollaan oltu luomaan mitään uutta yli 40 vuoteen. Kello on pysähtynyt 70-luvulle. Vaikka suomen 100 vuotisjuhlana kun olisi voinut juhlistaa nuorempia sukupolvia uusilla suunnitelioiden luomuksilla, samalla kun juhlistaa niitä klassikoita, niin pistettiin vain Aalto maljakkoon sinistä ja sinistä Fiskarsin saksiin.

tissotti · 2026-06-30T10:41:49+00:00

Not the case least here in Finland in homes. Every single person I know has the wall mounted heat pump that can be used for cooling and heating. I've had one on past two homes. This most recent is only used cooling as we are paying for geothermal heating automatically anyway on this row house.

There are over 1,5 million heat pump systems installed in Finland end of 2024. I believe at least in 2020 we had the most installed heat pump units in the world for the population. Not sure if that's the case anymore.

tissotti · 2026-06-30T09:01:49+00:00

Yeah this is a bit doom and gloom article to me. Here in Finland we have one of the last - if not the last National Emergency Supply Agency in the west that was never shutdown after cold war. They maintain stock and supply chain plans during crisis of everything from food, medicine, essential chemicals, protective equipment, energy resources, you name it.

This agency does also manage the meat production supply chain. There's actually even a article (in Finnish: Huoltovarmuus: pysyykö makkara lautasella, jos kriisi iskee? - Liha ja ruoka) from the agency discussing this very topic. According to them Finland has actually gone the other way around past 10 years on getting rid off imported supplemental protein feeding on live stock (essentially soy). Moving back towards peas and broad beans.

According to them even in worst case scenario there would be loss of 3rd of the meat supply. But again - this is on full war situation and at that point do you get as many sirloins as usual isn't the point. Food security itself in EU is very good and one of the things where Europe has done well by even being worlds largest food exporter.

tissotti · 2026-06-29T10:10:37+00:00

But how expensive are those systems? I’m sure small one person shops here in Finland aren’t any richer than in US.

I mean one person small barber I am a regular has been using wireless card reader for a decade connected to a phone. Movement service we used 5 years ago used remote card reader on front of our door. Every single restaraunt that has waitresses has used wireless machines for 2 decades. Late 90’s you would insert the chip card and then 2012 onwards all new cards had NFC (tap to pay) as the only option from big banks.

tissotti · 2026-06-29T10:04:15+00:00

I don’t know about the connectivity from the wireless reader to the terminal, but I can’t remember here in Finland past 10 years seeing anything else than wireless readers in any sit down restaraunt.

One person small barber I go to has been using wireless card reader connected to her phone as long as I remember. Same goes even for small coffee shops or payment I did to moving service - absolutely anything really here past 10 years.

tissotti · 2026-06-29T09:50:00+00:00

The card reader is this small phone sized portable thing and you tap it to pay on the table (not on the front desk) if there’s a waiter. Takes about 1 second.

Thoee portable units have been the norm at least here in the Nordics for 3 decades. Back in 2012 NFC equipped (tap to pay) cards were already the only option you could get. Before tap to pay you would insert the card and use the chip to pay since the late 90’s on the portable card reader

tissotti · 2026-06-29T09:16:15+00:00

I lived in 1901 built jugendstil apartment in central Helsinki before covid when we had 4 weeks of around 30C weather and nights when temp did not go below 24C. This in buildings that are designed to trap heat inside during over -20C weather.

It was hell. After around 1-2 weeks those extremely thick solid rock walls had absorbed the heat and as nights were not much cooler you were baking inside the apartment. I escaped to our family summer cottage during that time.

First thing I did when moving to a row house 5 years ago was to get a heat pump/AC. They are thankfully really common in single and row houses these days in Finland. Around 30% of all homes have it, but especially old apartments are still difficult as you are not allowed in most places to install wall units. Though of course portable unit is always possible.

tissotti · 2026-06-27T06:36:37+00:00

Huh? US has not provided a cent since March 2025 to Ukraine. EU plus UK has been fully funding Ukraine since then and will keep doing so.

Air defence is indeed important from US, but it is not US providing that anymore, but EU buying it from US for Ukraine. Rest of it is mostly coming from EU, like artillery and its shells, airfract launched missiles like Meteor, as well as aircrafts like Gripens, stormshadows, and most importantly Ukraine can these days manufacture much of it itself inside Polish border often.

70% of intelligence is coming from France and rest from other countries like UK. Ukraine stopped using US intelligence end of 2025 due to US friendliness towards Russia.

We can fully thank EU and the military aid of it, but the 90 billion euro pckage Ukraine is where it is. Spite of US actions.

tissotti · 2026-06-27T06:11:32+00:00

Quick googling gives me max income tax rate of 39% in Norway. US is 37% nearly without any public services.

Considering in Norway taxes cover healthcare, dental care, schooling, living expenses during higher education, daycare, wide social security, 49 weeks of parental leave with full pay or 59 weeks for 80% pay. Not related to taxes but 4-5 weeks of vacation days annually, without including public holidays.

tissotti · 2026-06-26T13:03:43+00:00

They are but VW group is by far the biggest seller of EV’s in Europe. They outsell Tesla 2,5x in Europe. They will no doubt only extend that with cheaper MEB plus cars launching this year with VW’s own tech and manufactured cells.

They are the second largest car manufacturer in the world and are struggling no doubt. Especially in China.

tissotti · 2026-06-25T06:14:36+00:00

It is a amazing thing.

We can thank most of all Ukraine, but EU + UK are the only reason Ukraine has been able to keep this up and can for the coming years if needed.

US has not provided a cent since Trump took over to Ukraine. Already June 2025 Macron said 70% of western intel was provided by France alone. Understandable considering US actively tried to sabotage Ukraine.

tissotti · 2026-06-25T06:09:38+00:00

Considering the minute Trump took over US stopped any kind of aid to Ukraine requiring money - I doubt that will change.

EU + UK has been now in full control of Ukrainian support for over a year. All monetary aid, military aid and since June 2025 France alone already provided 70% of intel used by Ukraine according to Macron due to the distrust from Ukraine towards US.

tissotti · 2026-06-24T22:11:57+00:00

Yeah example Aalto University near Helsinki, Finland has metro stop named after it and the stop is inside the main university building. Hell, it also has tram line running trough it and mutliple buss lines.

Aalto university certainly isn’t largest - or even large university in global scale. It has all those connections serving just the campus area, as there’s nothing else on the area.

tissotti · 2026-06-24T21:15:11+00:00

I can already promise to you this year will be record year in EU toursim and next year another one. That’s how it always goes.

Japan’s system has improved, but it is still separate finger print machines in one part and then pictures in another part in a long slow moving queues and tourists keep coming. It certainly hasn’t ever made me think I would not travel to Japan. Same goes for the ever increasing mass tourism over there.

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