It seems only fitting to hear Russia not only is running out of drones due to lack of planning, its remaining drones don’t work due to… what UNIAN hints was a lack of planning.

Российская армия перестала применять против Украины иранские беспилотники Shahed-136 не потому, что израсходовала весь запас, а потому, что эти БПЛА не выдерживают наступивших холодов.

Roughly translated, Russia grounded drone attacks this past month because they can’t handle cold.

November 17th was the first day of snow in Ukraine and also the last day Russia was able to launch its Iranian supplied “kamikaze“.

In related news, Russian soldiers also aren’t doing well with winter. They are reportedly laying in primitive trenches dying or dead from starvation and hypothermia faster than the Ukrainian drones can put them out of misery.

This of course looks familiar to those who study Nazi inability to plan or build anything sustainable.

…according to James Holland, author of the three-volume history “The War in the West,” when it came to the operational level of World War II—the nuts and bolts of producing weapons, supplying troops and other logistics–the famous Nazi war “machine” was anything but efficient. It wasn’t even really a machine.

Russians used to flaunt winter weather as their thing, a rugged (General Frost) reality to their culture that stopped Nazis cold.

WWII winter however was not magic. It involved the same sorts of things being seen today. Russia didn’t learn the right lessons and is failing at simple logic and truth (logistics).

Reading November 2022 news that Russian drones won’t work in Russian weather reminds me of the fact that 75% of the Nazi army was powered by horses expected to freeze to death in 1942.

Deception and lies may have floated Putin in a sea of corruption all the way to the top, but they’re no match against the simple physics of war.

Nearly 100,000 Russians are reported dead after invading a country that was expected to roll over. Foreign military strikes have reached 100 miles of Moscow while Russia at same time has to ground its drones.

Seems unlikely such severe Russian failures in strategy and planning can be denied much longer.

Update Dec 11: a brief break in the cold temperatures saw Russia unleash as many drones as possible, further proving the Ukrainian point about weather. Iran-based designs operated by Russia can’t handle drag from frost on wings.

How do you know a neighbor owns a Tesla?

Fire and smoke suddenly appears, destroying quality of life for everyone around.

The fire was first reported on the Nextdoor app by someone with the username KP Reilly, whose post also included video of the fire. Reilly said the owner of the car had left it charging in the driveway when she got an alert that her car had malfunctioned. She then discovered it in flames.

“Neighbors tried fire extinguishers, to no avail, until fire and police arrived,” wrote Reilly in a message to The Signal.

Of course neighbors couldn’t do it themselves. A Tesla is defective by design, requiring 600 gallons per minute to be dumped. That’s like an entire neighborhood fire department water quota for a month gone in an hour, per Tesla.

And this story is from water starved Los Angeles.

At this point Tesla engineering obviously is so willfully dumb it’s a sin — I mean cities must charge a “sin tax” for any Tesla registration to help cover the cost of everyone protecting society from Tesla.

It’s kind of like a neighbor buying an unstable loitering munition.

Hey is that a cruise missile being operated in our residential area or are you just… no, that’s a missile and we’re gonna need some fees paid up front to cover cleanup costs.

What better way to spend Thanksgiving than communities sacrificing time, energy and precious resources to stop Elon Musk’s clown car company from ruining yet another life?

My favorite phrase right now from industry analysts reviewing the past nine years of Tesla saying it will deliver self driving is…

Turned out not to be true

Increasing charges for future tech while claiming they would deliver self driving this year, has basically become fraud…again.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously promised to “solve” full self-driving by the end of this year (he’s also promised Tesla would get there every year for roughly nine years now). He has recently admitted the problem will take longer to solve.

Let’s admit it already. Tesla is a scam, the infamous African Advance Fee Fraud.

The cost keeps going up, yet promises never come true… will Elon Musk be caught and charged under Nigeria’s 419 code?

Here’s a buried lede in a story about Elon Musk’s lack of integrity and transparency:

Tesla set up its Shanghai operations in 2019 as an unrestricted subsidiary with very limited visibility. Because of this arrangement, Tesla’s investors only get a piecemeal snapshot of the China business’ contributions to the overall company. Tesla has been able to use this obscurity to mask the fact that its China operations generate most if not all the company’s total profits and cash flow while contributing less than 30% of total revenue — implying Tesla’s US operations are still largely unprofitable after 18 years.

Meanwhile, the latest news from China is Elon Musk is failing to trick people there into overpaying for his low quality cars.

…potential cuts in production come after the automaker decreased prices for its cars in China earlier in October and also increased insurance incentives in order to boost supply.

Some estimates put the expected drop in output around 20%.

That seems conservative considering consumer demand in Germany for Tesla crashed this past summer, while overall EV sales for other brands rose higher than ever.

A curious part of this situation is why Tesla thought they should be jacking prices up for its tired and flawed products… as if that wouldn’t backfire.

After a year of increasing prices almost every month in 2021…[in June 2022] the automaker is back at it. Today, Tesla updated its online configurator overnight to again increase prices across its entire lineup.

Dumb moves by Tesla, no? Chinese EV manufacturer BYD has further increased its sales and engineering lead.

BYD has [developed] what it calls a blade battery, a cobalt-free alternative to other rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that are said to be safer and more stable. […] The majority of BYD’s lineup sells for between $13,200 and $46,700. Meanwhile Tesla models started at around $50,000…

A higher quality, far safer AND less expensive car?

No wonder BYD demand has risen so fast while Tesla falls.