There would have to be at least 14.25 Ford cars on the road (and within whatever length of time Ford are obliged to monitor & issue recalls) for every 1 Tesla for those raw numbers to equal a higher frequency of recall per Tesla than per Ford. No idea where you'd find that info, though.
January 1, 2026 at 11:37 PM
There would have to be at least 14.25 Ford cars on the road (and within whatever length of time Ford are obliged to monitor & issue recalls) for every 1 Tesla for those raw numbers to equal a higher frequency of recall per Tesla than per Ford. No idea where you'd find that info, though.
Tesla recalled 660k vehicles, Ford recalled 9.4 million. OTOH, Ford produce 2-3x more cars/year than Tesla and have been in business a lot longer (and that production difference was a lot higher in the past too) so still not clear what those no.s mean as a fraction of cars in use from each company.
January 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Tesla recalled 660k vehicles, Ford recalled 9.4 million. OTOH, Ford produce 2-3x more cars/year than Tesla and have been in business a lot longer (and that production difference was a lot higher in the past too) so still not clear what those no.s mean as a fraction of cars in use from each company.
The NHTSA table is the number of times an automaker put out a recall, but doesn't show how many vehicles were affected. The Autoweek info takes the total number of vehicles being recalled across all those events. The equivalent to Autoweek data for 2025 (up to Q3) is here: qz.com/most-car-rec...
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January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The NHTSA table is the number of times an automaker put out a recall, but doesn't show how many vehicles were affected. The Autoweek info takes the total number of vehicles being recalled across all those events. The equivalent to Autoweek data for 2025 (up to Q3) is here: qz.com/most-car-rec...
I'm not saying that stopping most of the chuds doing that isn't an improvement, but is it really a solved problem when that still lets, for EG, Musk do it completely casually because whatever the enterprise cost is it's trivial to him?
January 1, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I'm not saying that stopping most of the chuds doing that isn't an improvement, but is it really a solved problem when that still lets, for EG, Musk do it completely casually because whatever the enterprise cost is it's trivial to him?
Nah, that thing is - and I can't believe I'm saying this about a *titan* of all things - far too practical for anything bearing that name.
Should be powered entirely by (clean) coal, only able to lift one leg 6 inches off the ground at a time and fall over if it ever tries to fire a weapon in anger.
Should be powered entirely by (clean) coal, only able to lift one leg 6 inches off the ground at a time and fall over if it ever tries to fire a weapon in anger.
January 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Nah, that thing is - and I can't believe I'm saying this about a *titan* of all things - far too practical for anything bearing that name.
Should be powered entirely by (clean) coal, only able to lift one leg 6 inches off the ground at a time and fall over if it ever tries to fire a weapon in anger.
Should be powered entirely by (clean) coal, only able to lift one leg 6 inches off the ground at a time and fall over if it ever tries to fire a weapon in anger.
I could be wrong, but I think this is the still being fed into an ai set to reproduce it as a b&w comic panel, hence why it *mostly* matches but made very obvious errors where the anatomy was out-of-focus or hard to differentiate.
January 1, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I could be wrong, but I think this is the still being fed into an ai set to reproduce it as a b&w comic panel, hence why it *mostly* matches but made very obvious errors where the anatomy was out-of-focus or hard to differentiate.
Nah, just filters wouldn't have erased the out-of-focus r-index finger curving into the trigger & hallucinated an extra bit of gun instead, while leaving the fingertip. Also wouldn't have hallucinated l-middle finger as originating on r-hand & moved the nail from the tip to the base.
January 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Nah, just filters wouldn't have erased the out-of-focus r-index finger curving into the trigger & hallucinated an extra bit of gun instead, while leaving the fingertip. Also wouldn't have hallucinated l-middle finger as originating on r-hand & moved the nail from the tip to the base.
Ahh, the old Robert Maxwell.
January 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Ahh, the old Robert Maxwell.
(You're still not going to get them voting *for* you, but they're a lot more likely to just stay home come the next election, rather than enthusiastically vote *against* you because they think they can only get a better life by driving out everyone whose family arrived later than 1066)
January 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
(You're still not going to get them voting *for* you, but they're a lot more likely to just stay home come the next election, rather than enthusiastically vote *against* you because they think they can only get a better life by driving out everyone whose family arrived later than 1066)
Or rather, if you want to influence them, you ignore the things they *say* they want, work out what it is that they're missing that they want to punish others for 'taking' and fix it so they get that, instead. They're not open to discussion, but they recognise when their lives are improving.
January 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Or rather, if you want to influence them, you ignore the things they *say* they want, work out what it is that they're missing that they want to punish others for 'taking' and fix it so they get that, instead. They're not open to discussion, but they recognise when their lives are improving.
But you'll never actually win them over, because they're all about satisfying their id, there is no policy so sound or practical that it will persuade them. Trying to meet them halfway will just drive out everyone who DOES support you, while they vote for their con man du jour regardless.
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
But you'll never actually win them over, because they're all about satisfying their id, there is no policy so sound or practical that it will persuade them. Trying to meet them halfway will just drive out everyone who DOES support you, while they vote for their con man du jour regardless.
The right - whether politicians, commentators or voters - tend to see little things like 'objective reality' as something to bludgeon into submission to prove your 'strength'. It's why they gravitate to bullshit artists who put on a strong-man act, EG Trump or BoJo.
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
The right - whether politicians, commentators or voters - tend to see little things like 'objective reality' as something to bludgeon into submission to prove your 'strength'. It's why they gravitate to bullshit artists who put on a strong-man act, EG Trump or BoJo.
I think there's a lot more public support out there for politicians prepared to admit "I was wrong when I said X, I've learned more since then, changed my position and now support Y" than any of them think, precisely *because* it's something that's so utterly alien to how politics is usually done.
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I think there's a lot more public support out there for politicians prepared to admit "I was wrong when I said X, I've learned more since then, changed my position and now support Y" than any of them think, precisely *because* it's something that's so utterly alien to how politics is usually done.
They should let Garbage do another.
January 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
They should let Garbage do another.
To be clear as well, Neil & Melville would be perfectly fine ignoring all of the above if it was being done by a Tory or Reform govt, and they're only complaining now because it's *not*. But they're not, unfortunately, *wrong* about this being a terribly way to govern.
January 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
To be clear as well, Neil & Melville would be perfectly fine ignoring all of the above if it was being done by a Tory or Reform govt, and they're only complaining now because it's *not*. But they're not, unfortunately, *wrong* about this being a terribly way to govern.
Not letting BoJo off the hook by any means - he was as dishonest as they come, certainly, but the gaslighting specifically - the memory-holing of the things Starmer & Labour swore by 5 minutes ago now it's suddenly impractical, and how dare you continue to remember it - that's all New New Labour.
January 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Not letting BoJo off the hook by any means - he was as dishonest as they come, certainly, but the gaslighting specifically - the memory-holing of the things Starmer & Labour swore by 5 minutes ago now it's suddenly impractical, and how dare you continue to remember it - that's all New New Labour.
In fairness - and it pains me to be fair to Johnson, of all people - I don't remember BoJo pretending to be a completely different person while running for leader only to about-face when in power, or suspending half a dozen MPs only to u-turn a year later on the issue & pretend that never happened.
January 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
In fairness - and it pains me to be fair to Johnson, of all people - I don't remember BoJo pretending to be a completely different person while running for leader only to about-face when in power, or suspending half a dozen MPs only to u-turn a year later on the issue & pretend that never happened.
Oh no, not at all! He's just saying that back then, he didn't report on any of them.
January 1, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Oh no, not at all! He's just saying that back then, he didn't report on any of them.
The thing with saying "There was, briefly, an attempt at a national mood of somberness. The president ordered flags across the nation to be lowered to half-staff." is that I don't know that that ever happened, because even that immediately crossed through solemnity into farce:
January 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The thing with saying "There was, briefly, an attempt at a national mood of somberness. The president ordered flags across the nation to be lowered to half-staff." is that I don't know that that ever happened, because even that immediately crossed through solemnity into farce:
I think you'll find it actually mainly benefits hungry children.
January 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I think you'll find it actually mainly benefits hungry children.
Would make for a really odd mix of comedy & tragedy when - I'm just gonna guess here - Waldenethor tries to burn him alive, sets himself on fire and goes hurtling off Minas Tirith.
January 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Would make for a really odd mix of comedy & tragedy when - I'm just gonna guess here - Waldenethor tries to burn him alive, sets himself on fire and goes hurtling off Minas Tirith.