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Why can’t we western wankers have those?

What a handsome bovine!

@pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip

Blahaj.zone is very trans inclusive. Feel free to check out our communities.

A valuable person has joined the fediverse yay 🥳

Consumer Reports subscribers, who filled out surveys during much of 2024, reported that electric vehicles had 42% more problems than gas autos on average. But that was down from 79% more in the 2023 survey. The survey released Thursday measured reliability of vehicles mainly from the 2022, 2023 and 2024 model years.

Plug-ins, which travel a short distance on battery power before a hybrid powertrain kicks in, had 70% more problems than gas vehicles, but that was less than half the difference found in last year’s survey

Gas-electric hybrids, which switch from internal combustion to electric power to get better mileage, were about as reliable as cars with combustion engines. While the technology is pretty technical, it has been refined for a quarter century, mainly by pioneer Toyota, Fisher said. “CR’s tests have shown that they are often quieter, quicker and more pleasant to drive than their gasoline-only counterparts,” he said.

Consumer Reports said its 2024 survey of subscribers representing about 300,000 vehicle owners found that Subaru was the most reliable brand for the first time, followed by perennial top finishers Lexus and Toyota. Rounding out the top five were Honda and its Acura luxury brand. It was the first time since 2020 that neither Toyota nor its Lexus luxury brand were in the top spot, Fisher said.

Subaru took first place in the survey by following the same formula that Toyota uses to get high reliability scores: It doesn’t make huge changes when updating or unveiling new vehicles, Fisher said. Instead of going with new engines or transmissions, Subaru carries parts over from the prior generation.

The highest-ranked brand from a U.S.-based automaker was General Motors’ Buick at No. 11.

The five lowest of 22 brands that were ranked were electric upstart Rivian, followed by GM’s Cadillac luxury brand, GMC, Jeep and Volkswagen, Consumer Reports said.

Electric vehicle sales leader Tesla finished 17th, down three spots from last year’s survey.

The survey found that the gas-powered Toyota RAV4 small SUV was the most reliable vehicle, followed by the Toyota Corolla compact car. The RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid was third, followed by the RAV4 gas-electric hybrid, Fisher said.

We must thank the tireless efforts of the protestors at Victoria.

One of the hottest pics on the internet ❤️🐧

https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/cesspools.pdf

"People living near factory farms are placed at risk. Hundreds of gases are emitted by lagoons and the irrigation pivots associated with sprayfields, including ammonia (a toxic form of nitrogen), hydrogen sulfide, and methane. The accumulation of gases formed in the process of breaking down animal waste is toxic, oxygen consuming, and potentially explosive, and farm workers exposure to lagoon gases has even caused deaths. People living close to hog operations have reported headaches, runny noses, sore throats, excessive coughing, respiratory problems, nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, burning eyes, depression, and fatigue. The pathogenic microbes in animal waste can also infect people. Water contaminated by animal manure contributes to human diseases such as acute gastroenteritis, fever, kidney failure, and even death. Nitrates seeping from lagoons and sprayfields have contaminated groundwater used for human drinking water. Nitrate levels above 10 mg/l in drinking water increase the risk of methemoglominemia, or blue baby syndrome, which can cause deaths ininfants, and contamination from manure has also been linked to spontaneous abortions. Moreover, the practice of feeding huge quantities of antibiotics to animals in subthereapeutic doses to promote growth has contributed to the rise of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, making it more difficult to treat human diseases. Scientists recently found bacteria with antibiotic resistant genes in groundwater downstream from hog operations."

Use !friendica@lemmy.ca instead of Facebook.

Not only that but they’re met with tiring sealioners who demand perfection.

Pit bulls are only banned regionally in China.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-ban-pit-bulls

They don’t like facts.

America is nothing special.

UN peacekeepers need to be stationed along the Palestine borders to help defend against IDF invaders. However sadly Lebanon lost theirs. The world must defend Gaza and the West Bank like we did for South Korea and Kuwait.

This article is obtuse and infuriating to read. Glossing over so many disgusting developments from garbage Trump and his maga goons. Of course CTV refuses to properly cover this whole situation while sourcing quotes from CNN...

Here are the worst parts:

Many Canadians have boycotted taking U.S. trips and buying American products since the spring. That’s when President Trump made false claims and belittling comments about Canada in the midst of a tariff war.

“It’s hard to be angry, because it’s not just me,” he said. “For all the promises of a good economy — and maybe people were thinking, ‘we’ll sacrifice some culture war things for this good economy that’s going to come from this administration.’ It doesn’t seem like that’s happening.”

Canadians turning away from the U.S. is particularly worrisome.

No it's the people of colour people being detained by ICE without due process and sent to god know's where. What an absolute moronic statement.

Without a doubt, he said the “softening” of business at his downtown store has been disappointing. But Mondello said “time heals all.”

Woody believes there is an opportunity with the FIFA World Cup in 2026, when his marketing team in Seattle will be collaborating with Destination Vancouver. Seattle and Vancouver are the second-closest geographical grouping of any of the FIFA host cities, and match schedules have been aligned so that spectators can easily travel to see games on both sides of the border.

Hill said other international tourists have still come in relatively stable numbers. He also believes there will be more Canadians returning in the fall and winter when they tend to escape the cold and enjoy hockey season in Las Vegas.

“Trying to get them to overcome that too significantly, I don’t think works very well,” Hill said. “What we told them is, you know, we’re here when you’re ready. We hope you’re ready soon.”

“I look at the hard-working Americans just as I do local business owners here in the U.K.,” Hawkins wrote to CNN, adding that he would “hate to see them suffer” because of government decisions.

Support and do nothing about fascists you absolutely deserve to suffer. Crummy americans enabling war crimnals, ableists, transphobes, racists and misogynists. You get what you deserve.

“I wouldn’t care what political affiliation the owners would have, as I find if you take politics out of any conversation (which I do often), you are pretty much going to have good stuff in common with people.”

Tell me you're a privileged cis-het white man without saying it.

@irelephant@anarchist.nexus @flamingos@feddit.uk

I’m in the clear. The ban has been reversed as it was confirmed to be a false positive.

The oriental orthodox and assyrian church of the east would blow their mind.

Google indirectly, since it allows people who buy them new to resell them easily (and thus encourages them to buy new pixels).

That is an outside factor that isn’t a guaranteed outcome. Many people sell phones that they’re no longer interested in after trying them out.

Disengage.