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Yes, for something like yoghurt or protein drinks, where you want to shake them first, the drink stuck to the lid will end up dripping on your face or clothes when you tip the bottle to drink. I tear them off first with those bottles.
One exists and is wildly useful. The other is self indulgent bullshit to distract from the fact that Tesla is a terrible company that would be bankrupt without the circus act.
How much fucking money was deposited to make a piece of shit car fly for a couple of seconds that could have changed many many lives makes me sick. Fuck this timeline and fuck that musk gooch
How much fucking money was deposited to make a piece of shit car fly for a couple of seconds
They basically used the stabilization from SpaceX mixed with the old compress air gimmick that was used in the 1984 Olympics, which only work for very short flights because you quickly run out of compressed Nitrogen after a couple of seconds, which is a technology from the cutting edge 1960s. It's great to make a visual stunt but you need to constantly recharge the nitrogen canisters each time the feature is used to impress your friends for a couple of seconds.
It's all nonsense.
That vehicle was built on a lightweight composite frame—essentially just a big, light shell with no battery or other systems. But the Musk fanboys think they'll be flying next year, lol.
I wrote something similar. I agree. He could be doing so many good things, like all the other top billionaires. They would still make money, just not as much. This is a disease. In this kind of world, to be able to sleep at night while children die of starvation daily, while at the same time growing your own wealth by a degree of billions, is lunacy.
The thing is they just don't care. They lack empathy and genuinely don't care about those children. How else do you become that successful if you had a shred of morality?
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID just because he feared legal action is expected to cause 15 or so million deaths by 2030. Those are Hitler levels of death.
This was David Copperfield making Statue of Liberty disappear business. Just keep people staring at the shiny object and move them around on a turntable.
Can you imagine how much fun those people that engineered and design that car had doing that project. It was life changing do something they could only dream of them one day the said sure go for it.
Also America profits from European investors money ...
If all of a sudden all this money only goes to Europe .. It will profit EU R&D in all useful domains... and pseudo flying car is not in this list atm.
As someone who lives in and loves the EU: That shi is not “wildly useful” 💔 just a nuisance and pointless since 99% of people already didn’t lose their caps. Definitely one of the worst things they ever implemented
German here.
The problem is that it generated significant costs for companies to implement this shit. It also creates tradebarriers with foreign entities. For example, swiss companies still have the normal caps, and they cant participate in the EU market if they dont change. Less competition is unhealthy.
Moreover, this whole story smells like corruption. I would not be surprised if some buddy of an EU parlamentarian earned alot with this utter bs.
significant costs for companies to implement this shit.
Which they had over 5 years to implement and amortize
Less competition is unhealthy.
As is a race to the bottom, which is why we have regulations, and this is one of them.
this whole story smells like corruption. I would not be surprised
Everything can be a conspiracy when you don't even bother to do a cursory search on a phenomenon's background and just let your fantasies run wild. von der Leyen can be a lizard person that came down from Jupiter to suck the blood of virgin horseshoe crabs. I would not be surprised
Huh???!!! It might as well have been a conspirancy of the WEF and Soros to weaken EU-unity in favour of a Russian take-over of Middle and Western Europe!!!
Because they cant turn it away from their face and get pissy when the cap splashes liquid on their noses, when they chug. It's like watching children get irate lol
You might wanna ask the marine wildlife like sea birds, turtles and fish which die miserably en masse from swallowing these thrown away plastic caps. I‘m pretty sure they‘ll find the attached caps quite useful.
you every been so groggy in the morning you loose the milk cap and put it back inn the fridge without the cap rather than use up the last few brain cells trying to find it?
Yes, thank you Europeans for getting us started with settler colonialism, religious loonies and slavery, then fucking off to let us think we’re the best thing that’s ever happened.
You know the WWW and the internet aren't the same thing right?
The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. The Internet—the underlying network connecting computers globally—was developed earlier (starting in the late 1960s with ARPANET). Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, which is an application running on top of the Internet that allows us to view web pages, media, and navigate via hyperlinks.
The technology to make cheap flying cars has been around since the 70s. It's just that... well... you know how bad drivers are on the ground, imagine how much worse it could get if you added the Y-axis
we have flying cars. They've been mass produced since the 1940s. They're called "helicopters". The training to operate one is slightly higher than that required to operate a car. Because of that Y axis lol.
If I did an expo where I demonstrated vapourware bullshit to potential investors, I'd go to prison for fraud. It makes me very angry that Elon has not been arrested for committing exactly this crime.
The left one is also th perfect example how america is: The show, excitement, games, fanfares and shortlived elation are more important, than substance
This is just performative and dumb. Drop a modern car 10’ onto concrete and then inspect it for road worthiness, it will likely fail.
Making a car fly with absolutely no requirement to make it road safe is simple. Any company could do this, hell this demo could have been done with a few oxygen cylinders from welding shops and a cheap tack welded shell. Making it able to pass safety requirements, take off, LAND in non-static testing scenarios, and maintain roadworthy status though? Lemme see that.
Those are monopropellant RCS thrusters like they have been used in space travel for decades. They use compressed gases (here compressed air, nitrogen in space) as fuel. So this isn't burning but it brings extra air into a fire of burning metal (=making it burn even hotter and faster). Also they used a pressure of 10k psi which would rip apart any car with its driver when exploding from a structural failure, like one caused by a crash.
The whole concept of thrusters will of course never be road legal. In this case, they must be producing about 10 kN each. If you are walking, bicycling or whatever next to it, you also get that 10kN in your face. Kinda like as if a fireman sprays you point blank, but with 10x more force.
Imagine the first time thrusters fail to fire at the same time and you yeet your car into a 6g barrel roll in afternoon traffic. https://giphy.com/gifs/ZQMVKzoTLdNBu
Practical stuff and something to dream about. I mean we flew to the moon, send probes that reached the end of the solar system and whatnot to get an idea what is possible... even if it not always made sense.
We have longer life expectancy in Europe, half your homicide rate , and less personal debt. We also have way more paid holidays and leaves. So I ll end up seeing my familly and loved ones 2x more than you will , too busy to work for your billionaires overlord (who themselves have miserable lives).
Exactly, you Europeans do not care about the shareholders. They are are my everything. The reason of my being. I slave and toil away, and it is all for them, my loves.
You do resize that the “european invitation” is literally something strictly related to EU. The few non eu european countries that do have these caps are strictly due to logistics of the manufacturing.
Don't you know, Social Media Europe is a fictional place, that combines all the best parts of different regions of Europe into one place, and in the same way Social Media America is also a fictional place that combines all the worst parts of different regions of America into one place
I mean, I know it's hard to believe, but having paid vacations and have somewhat decent labor laws is not that hard. It's hard when there's hostility towards workers right, which happens in the U.S.
Even in the east of Europe, they have standardized paid vacation of at least 20 days. So don't think it's fictional, is a matter of willingness of the government, so fight for your rights.
Not to mention vastly higher median wealth per person (UBS Wealth Report) in major European economies. The Americans can't even get money right, their only "thing".
Also not like American 'innovation' isnt rife with stinkers.
Like the idea of a flying car; utterly impractical, impossible to make cost effective for consumers, and wildly dangerous to put in the hands of anyone who would actually want one.
Also helicopters already exist.... talk to me when we got hoverboards and hover conversions Back To The Future style, we're off schedule by nearly 11 years
Quantum computing is Europe's advantage, but just not in the news a lot. Frontier physics? Europe. Nuclear Fusion? Europe. MAB cancer treatments? Europe. Genetic therapies? Europe. And China is building the first production molten salt reactor based off of work done... in Europe.
One
* exists
* is proven to work
* solves an actual problem
* prevents the waste of resources and keeps the environment slightly cleaner with minimal effort
The other
* fictional spectacle for shareholders
* works only once for a show
* useless and pointless
* unnecessarily wastes ressources
See that‘s the point I never got: Who tf does not keep them together? Like the cap‘s on the bottle, you remove it to drink/pour the liquid into a different container and put the cap back on. Why would I ever separate the bottle from the cap?
everyone is bashing on the attached cap ... yeah , it creates a bit of inconvenience, but long term it reduces littering, also there are also rules for corporations, they are no longer allowed to "export" the waste to non EU-countries.
after the measures were implemented and enforcement improved, the litter on beaches fell significantly.
on the other hand , that roaster is .. what ... 7-8 years delayed (if they do manage to produce it in 2028 ... ), a car for rich pricks ... after the garbage dumpster failed spectacularly. And was launched probably because the wannabe pedo (musk) needed some media attention before elections there ...
And is it really inconvenient? When this came out I used to be annoyed but now every time I travel outside the EU I don't know what to do with the cap while I drink. So annoying to have to keep it in your hand and so being unable to do anything else with that hand.
American innovation a.k.a. a lie - shit wasn't a car, just exterior launched forward with a gyro and small propellers that would never lift an actual car, let alone EV which tend to be heavier.
The push was introduced in 2019 and made mandatory in 2024. I moved to Belgium (my third time in Europe) in 2020 the bottles - plastics and glass - did not have the attached caps. It was around late 2021 to early 2022 when they started to appear.
By the time I left the country before it offically became mandatory, the attached caps were on every bottle.
The lid: initially looks like a nightmare, until the practicality becomes apparent and then you don’t want to give it up.
The car: initially looks fun until you a) realise it is smoke in mirrors and b) even if it wasn’t you imagine the traffic jam and two cars doing this but from opposing direction. Thanks but no thanks.
a climate spectacle that works ... beach littering was reduced like 40% since measures were implemented, sure it's not 99.9% reduction ... but it's better than nothing,... and the good thing it benefits the general population in public place, not pricks on private islands.
it's basically impossible now, as there is nothing that comes close to plastic versatility .... but humanity was able to reach 99% recycling of lead acid batteries ...
Kösters indicates that KHS is not aware of any reports that show the effect of the tethered caps on the reduction of plastic waste, citing a probable lack of data to show a decisive trend-change. He expects more studies to be published in the next few months.
Groot, on the other hand, finds fewer bottle caps in the environment during litter picking sessions. He acknowledges that this might be because of the Netherlands’ DRS.
“The DRS for plastic bottles was introduced in 2021, which led to an 80% decrease in bottles in litter. As a result, the number of caps found in 2023 had already dropped by 24%,” he says.
“The number of bottles hasn’t decreased further since then, but the number of caps has — I’m now finding 47% fewer caps.”
Doesn't seem all that conclusive. And if the number of bottles hasn't decreased but the number of caps has, is that just because the caps are still attached to the bottles and don't get counted?
Go take a look at something called operation paperclip. American innovation fuelled by Nazis. Maybe also take a look at the global inventions that came out of Scotland alone, a country of 5m people.
I think people forget that innovations are cumulative. The ability to do this with a car is going to lead to other innovations that people might have never have even thought of not gonna lie. This was definitely a party trick, but I’m very curious to see where this goes in my lifetime.
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