Cont: Musk, SpaceX and future of Tesla II

a_unique_person said:
I like the way that no-one on the UK knows all the regional accents.
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They can be very local.
They aren't as discernable as they used to be as people watch a lot more TV and move around.
Forty years ago there were obvious differences in accent between Guisborough, Whitby, Staithes and the villages on the north edge of the moors. It was the same down on Teesside. Redcar, Eston, Middlesbrough Linthorpe etc all had slightly different accents. North of the river from Stockton out to Hartlepool is still completely different.
 
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a_unique_person said:
I like the way that no-one on the UK knows all the regional accents.
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We have so many and accents can vary over very small distances here, Liverpool and Manchester are only about 30 miles apart but have distinct accents, London has distinct accents in different areas of the same city. Television, population mobility, gentrification and immigration are having an effect of course with some dying out but some new ones arising too.

Also: What @Andy_Ross said.
 
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Then add dialect on top.
When I was was a 'bairn' in the 60s and 70s we still a lot of old Norse derived words in everyday use. You don't hear them so much now, We slip in to them to annoy our son and his friends, they don't know any.
Some were repurposed, for example 'Gimmer' for a girlfriend (see the list linked)
My Mother-in-law hated thrm, she thought they were common and vulgar.

www.viking.no

Yorkshire Dialect Words of Old Norse Origin

The influence of Viking language on the regional speech varieties of northern and eastern England is well documented.
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P.J. Denyer said:
We have so many and accents can vary over very small distances here, Liverpool and Manchester are only about 30 miles apart but have distinct accents, London has distinct accents in different areas of the same city. Television, population mobility, gentrification and immigration are having an effect of course with some dying out but some new ones arising too.

Also: What @Andy_Ross said.
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I lived pretty much halfway between Liverpool and Manchester - just off the East Lancs road, if you went up or down the East Lancs every town and village had a distinctive accent, sadly most of these have been lost or are dying out.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tesla to axe Cybertruck as Musk shifts focus to robotics and AI

Carmaker will wind down production of futuristic pick-up truck at its gigafactory in Texas.

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Just as the bottom has fallen out of LLM stocks, not because of the midterms as newspapers are reporting; but because Anthropic have been junk rated and institutional investors have realised (six months too late) they're backing a pig in a poke.
 
Tesla has now shrunk its product line from five to two, axing the S and X and soon the CyberTruck. The remaining two - the 3 and Y - are excellent vehicles. But in spite of incremental improvements, now quite dated designs.

That leaves satisfied customers like myself with little motivation to buy a newer Tesla. I’m not promoting planned obsolescence, but it would take something new and innovative from Tesla to get me to consider replacing my ‘22 M3. And I suspect I’m not alone on this.
 
a lack of options in the us helps them but they’re shifting focus to robotics and ai anyway. probably even more so after the merger, if that happens
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Just as the bottom has fallen out of LLM stocks, not because of the midterms as newspapers are reporting; but because Anthropic have been junk rated and institutional investors have realised (six months too late) they're backing a pig in a poke.
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And it gives them a good story to paper over their irrationality and inability to do maths.
 
Darat said:
Why Musk thought he could escape the inevitable consequences of associating with Trump is beyond me. Anyone who associates with Trump ends up covered in Trump's ◊◊◊◊.
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So the genius tech Bros who fauned over Trump have shown that they are very short sighted and shallow in their strategic thinking.
 
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