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    I am with you regarding the big ones. But what about smaller media outlets and journalists to try to make a living on their own ? We need them. More then the big ones. Then the solution is to just ignore all the big ones and read the smaller ones. With ads or paying for it.



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    We didn’t care. We were the hosting provider nor the news outlets. But we had close contact to our customers. And a lot of the smaller customers had a hard time to even survive. The primary source of income was print until paywals came around. Some customers never had print and had to close down with the surge of ad blockers


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    That is true and false. Adblock plus takes money for the acceptable afs program, yes. But there are clear guidelines about the ads. Containing criteria for privacy, size in relation to content and more.

    I work in IT for 20 years now. Half this time my salary was paid for by ads:

    My company hosted big german news outlets. All money they made online was from ads.

    More adblockers meant less income so their required more ads just to come out without losing money.

    ABP tried to break this cycle.

    Now we are having paywals, and paywal breakers. And at this point this is outright stealing.

    If adblockers would allow ads that adhere to the acceptable ads criteria, the world would be a better place. Less paywals, less ads and maybe some companies would pay their employees a little bit more.




  • In theory yes. We are lacking the wallbox for now. We moved just a few month back, and while there is a solution to get the energy paid if I charge at home, I would have to buy a wallbox for way to much money from the payment provider we use for charging. There I would pay around 5k€ for a 22kW wallbox. And this box can not be used for other cars.

    But: My gf ordered her Cubra Born some weeks back. And a wallbox for ~1000 with it.

    I can see the prices my employer pays for my charging. On the most expensive chargers, the costs would be roughly the same as for a Diesel. On some reasonable priced chargers it gets way cheaper.

    But keep in mind that we have extremely high gas prices compared to the US. We tax our diesel and gasoline with a “steering tax”, as the lawmakers want citizens to save on gas, and reduce CO2 emissions.

    If I would charge at home, we could get a second contract with our electricity company, with about half the usual price per kWh for charging only.






  • We are leasing our cars.

    Regarding the feel: The car does feel surprisingly light. Besides his 2.2 metric tons.

    At least here in Europe, the Tesla superchargers work with the car.

    Not sure if this generation is already available in the US. I am german, so BMW is a natural choice ;).

    Currently, BMW is using the same base for combustion and electric cars to safe costs ans be more flexible how to fit the chassis. That may be a reason for the success.

    Nor sure how the price in the US is, the list price for my nearly fully equipped i5 is around 90k€. The only thing I am missing is the pneumatic dampeners. They come only with red or blue breaks, and company policy does not allow for “racing looks”.


  • I got an i5 by my employer. And BMW has their horses together. The car is well designed, the features are impressive, and while not matketed as an autopilot, the driving assistant is far more robust then Tesla can deliver.

    And their are buttons! Not just an oversized tablet strapped with some ducktape into the car.

    The biggest difference for me is: while BMW made sure that you are not distracted while driving (head up display, voice assistant, gesture control for entertainment,…) Tesla does not care if you have to navigate deep inside a touchscreen menu to change the speed of your fucking front shield wipers…