I guess it’s not as broad as that? From teh wikis
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Polestar is definitely sold in the US.
Volvo is still considered a Swedish company even though the Chinese-owned Geely is a majority shareholder.
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Not to mention that Geely bought Volvo from Ford. Volvo hasn’t been Swedish for over a quarter of a century by now.
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Also, the Polestar 2 is approved by Aging Wheels 
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Polestar in St. Louis. Rivian yes
On the plus side I’ve only seen two Cybertrucks IRL (and both were in 2024 and one was at the Tesla dealership.)
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I envy you. I’m up to seven in the wild. I can identify them by their markings, like a naturalist. (Okay, maybe not: one is black, one is red, one is wrapped like a pizza box, one has a lame tank joke license plate, one is plain non-descript, one plain but has a bed cover, and one, I kid you not, if for a roofing company (but not that roofing company)).
I hate that I can identify them, from memory, on the bus.
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psst…they were never cool…
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TLDR: Musk steals some more data that benefits him with no relation to cost savings.
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Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB’s systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis’ disclosure. The attempts were “near real-time,” according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it’s possible the user was disguising their location, it’s highly unlikely they’d appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained.
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Weeeelllll…
There is an episode of Cinematic Titanic, I assume it must be Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, where Joel takes a minute to give the other cast members silhouettes of extravagant gifts. This was in 2008. When he comes to Mary Jo Pehl, he says, I paraphrase:
And for you, Mary Jo, I know you’re really concerned with the environment, so I got you… A TESLA ROADSTER! (as animated as Joel could get)
And she was really exited.
To hear that in 2024 was really a shock.
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Okay, I never thought they were cool… 
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A ton of people used to think Elon Musk was cool in a geeky way too. I suspect both had a lot to do with how well you could or couldn’t see through the hype around them.
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Yep. Zuckerberg too. The adorkable and entirely coincidentally white geniuses whose eccentricities were signifiers of their inherent superiority.
I was too close to gen x and too beat up by the world already to get swept up in this technodystopian romance but plenty of people, particularly in my generation, seemed to lap it up with gusto, especially if they were in any way shape or form gifted themselves.
Rot.
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Tou go, Grok! Probably trying to educate the uneducable, but props for the effort!
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Next step, Sky Grok-Net
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