PonyOfWar

The original cheap price is just as artificial though, as the Chinese government puts massive subsidies into its EV industry.

Of course it wouldn't arrive via an official approved update channel, but a backdoor. Easy to implement and hide when you write the software. Even VW put manipulated software in their cars before to fake lower emissions. Regulators didn't notice for a decade. That's even though it was being actively used, unlike a killswitch that would lie dormant until it's too late.

I'd like to buy from democratic countries if possible, especially with such a large purchase. Not a huge fan of my money funding China's regime.

As for exploding on command, that's highly unlikely. Although it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for China to push a little OTA update that just turns all the cars off if we ever went to war against China.

VW will always have the advantage of being from Europe. Tesla's decline has shown how much politics can influence people's purchase decisions. I know many people wouldn't consider buying a Chinese car, myself included, even while acknowledging that they're pretty good from a technical perspective.

Could you give us an example of such a location please?

Russia, which is blocked from other international payment systems. Or any other authoritarian country where you might not necessarily want the government to know where you donate your money to.

Whataboutism fallacy.

We're still throwing around fallacies like it's 2010? Okay, I cast fallacy fallacy!

When talking about whether a donation button should have a specific payment option, it's relevant if the alternatives it offers are better or worse. Otherwise, the argument might as well be to not have a donation option at all.

Depending on where users are located, it might be the only realistic option they have if they want to donate. Besides, traditional payment systems like PayPal, MasterCard, Visa etc are all problematic in their own right.

I don't really get the need for a term like this. People are attracted or not attracted to all kinds of aspects of other people, so do we also need hyper-specific terms based on hair color, ethnicity, body size etc as well?

For me, as an individual, I don't think the cultural relevancy of my generation matters at all when it comes to getting involved in society.

Nothing in particular? I don't see how my cultural relevancy would affect my life in any way.

Berlin is the only place in Germany where I sat down in a restaurant and was approached by the waiter in English before switching to German.

I see no practical reason to build one on earth. It would be prohibitively expensive to build and maintain and there isn't really any point to it. On planets without a breathable atmosphere, maybe, but I don't see it happening within our lifetimes.