You stated it wasn’t getting better for byd. From the article:
BYD revenues in Q3 (July to September) 2024 were 201 billion yuan ($AU42.85 billion) – a record high for the brand and a jump of 24 per cent over the same period in 2023.
Without any substantive argument you seem to be the one attacking strawmen. Learn to source your argument and present evidence or don’t come to argue. I’m addressing your points and you haven’t added anything of substance beyond stating what seems to be misinformed and unsubstantiated opinion as fact. Moving on.
You are quoting global revenue numbers, most of which is in China, to challenge the assertion that Australian sales numbers haven’t improved since 10/24.
If you’re going to try to correct someone, at least understand the actual argument that is being made instead of attacking strawman arguments.
The second link I posted is specifically from the Australian market. How becoming no 6 in 2024-2025 for a model selling is not “improvement” is logic I don’t understand. They shot to no 6 after not being in the market — that’s obvious improvement. Maybe your definition of improvement is not one I share.
For clarification I’m not arguing against your claim Tesla outsells in Australia. I take issue with the unfounded claim they are not improving sales since it obviously is not true. That’s my bad I didn’t make that clear from the jump. That second article is just for the first two months of 2025 so again obvious improvement since 10/24.
Because Russia did undeniably open hostilities? They even admitted to this both times. The second admission being in the form of announcing a “special military operation” when the ceasefire was still active. We also have photographic evidence of them building forces on a border during a ceasefire and then invading. This is like responding to: “did Alexander the Great invade Egypt” by going on a diatribe about how much war there was in the ancient world and that the ptolemaic dynasty believed themselves the rightful rulers therefore who’s to say if they did invade or just take their rightful place. There is an objective record here: whether or not people want to try and hide it behind circuitous arguments is different. If we’re going down this road I can easily redefine any known historical event with hand-wavy nonsense that doesn’t actually have anything to do with the historical record of events just “vibes.”
One might say, if this were a test being done by a human in a history class, that the answer is 100% incorrect given the actual record of events and failure of statement to mention that actual record. You can argue the causes but that’s not the question.
People making up their own benchmarks for these things has confirmed one thing for me: The bias that people think they mostly have original thoughts is extremely strong. I find if I have a “good” idea someone has probably already thought of it as well and maybe even written about it. About 0.01% of the time do I have an idea that one may consider novel and even that’s probably my own bias and overstated. This example just confirms that these models don’t really seem to reason and have a really hard time doing the basic generalization they can with fewer examples.
in my experience, o3-mini-high while still unpredictable as it modifies and ignores parts of my code when I specifically tell it not to do so (e.g. "don't touch anything else!") is the best AI coding tool out there, far better than Claude
That’s a bold statement. US is a young country. Empires that lasted longer by 5x have been consigned to the dust bin of history with nary but an oral tradition to remember them. If looking at americas military capability is any indication it is already in steep decline especially with regards to its seeming inability to not crash or destroy million/billon dollar hardware purely based on incompetence and short staffing. Its inability to prosecute an illegal war in the ME (occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan) is also a great example of the lack of exceptionalism exhibited by americas armed forces and their inept leadership.
I think USAID could certainly be classified as “soft power.” I think throwing it all out makes little sense in light of the provably good things it did.
I postulate a slow, multi-generational decline in critical thinking skills (maybe this is driven, at least partially, by the over abundance of unchallenging media/entertainment) coupled with grievance politics and the bucket-of-crabs mentality that sets in when people start to sense the “pie getting smaller” or at least having reached its peak size.
What’s beyond a man who would lie about being a gamer (for credz), be so lazy in his lie he is instantly caught, double-down on his lie despite the obviousness of his inability to even use basic mechanics of said games and then beef with Internet personalities while leaking their private convos? I would wager this man has absolutely no ethic and is purely concerned with his own short-sighted greed and vanity.
It’s very obviously improving for BYD.