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People who know nothing more than how to operate a smartphone are not tech savvy. They can't even do that properly. Never seen anyone from that generation use an ad blocker or revanced or anything else that combats enshittification.

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The Merkel era is what brought us into this heap of shit. It was almost 2 decades of trying to maintain a status quo. No investments in critical infrastructure at all. I appreciated Merkel's professionalism (Scholz is a moron) but that's about it.

This has nothing to do with Hungary. VW alienated themselves from their core products/customers and started building luxury cars and ditching all the affordable options. This means they were domestically competing against the established luxury brands such as BMW, Mercedes and Audi. Since that's nowhere near a big enough market, they heavily relied on the Chinese market. They also completely fucked up the EV segment. Our minister of economy (?) Habeck predicted in 2019 that exactly this would happen to VW if they didn't bring an affordable EV on the market. Now that China doesn't give a fuck about VW anymore because they have their own luxury cars that also perform better, VW is fucked.

Ich war neulich in Tönning (ist zwar noch NF, aber nicht weit weg von Dithmarschen) und konnte dort amerikanische Verhältnisse bestaunen, was politische Aufkleber auf dem Auto angeht. Das war echt widerlich. Witzigerweise haben die auch nicht genügend Unterschriften zusammenbekommen für den Glasfaserausbau. Ziemlich rückwärtsgewandt. Schade eigentlich, Tönning ist an und für sich eine schöne kleine Stadt.

Aber im großen und ganzen ist es hier halbwegs stabil.

SHler hier. Finde auch das Bundesland wirkt wie der letzte verbliebene Haufen Vernunft im Land. Aber ich schiele auch nach Dänemark. Die sind zwar auch rechts unterwegs, aber irgendwie anders. Die Lebensqualität dort (abgesehen von der Sprache) ist im Vergleich zu Deutschland richtig hoch.

Ich hab mich schon immer gefragt, wie sich die ganzen Lehrys sich so'n 80k+ Van leisten können. Ich verdiene mehr als die (sorry fürs braggen), kann mir sowas aber im Leben nicht leisten. Was sind das für merkwürdige Prioritäten?

Ich meine, du hast Recht. Nur dass man mir das Hirn nun mal nicht gewaschen hat, denn ich setze mich aktiv für sowas ein. Aber es ist ein harter Kampf, den wir leider nicht gewinnen können, weil es zu viele Dieseldieters gibt, die nicht checken, dass gute Radinfrastruktur zu besserem Verkehrsfluss für Autos führt. Es ist schrecklich mit anzusehen, wie unfassbar verblödet die Menschen sind.

Isn't that what Google photos does too? I'm slowly degoogling but I must say, I do enjoy that feature. It kinda gives purpose to the random pictures one takes.

I will agree with that. Im honestly very happy and proud that we manage to power through the slight recession. And im 100% sure its because of good management. We jumped on board the sustainability train fairly quickly and we're definitely benefitting from it. It helps that our customers are doing the same. Conservative mindset is what's ruining our industry (and our political landscape). All they do is whine when things won't work the way they used to and then they wait for state aid.

Anywho, thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it!

I work in heavy machinery. We use tons of metal, like literally. We're still dominating the market with competitive prices and good technology. Building cars is amateur time in comparison.

Edit: the main portion of costs is personnel. We have a gigantic service network and they're expensive as fuck because Germany has a good union (IG Metall). Gas is absolutely of no concern to us at all.

I don't know man, I live in a somewhat rural area and just take my ebike to work when i have to. Most of the time i work from home though. I'd gladly see the German car industry die to make way for more efficient cars from Japan or France for example. German car manufacturers have completely forgotten where they came from and are just selling overpriced luxury cars that are unreliable as fuck.