Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/21/west-carmakers-retreat-electric-vehicle-risks-irrelevance-iran-war-evs-china

#HackerNews #WesternCarmakers #ElectricVehicles #AutomotiveIndustry #EVs #FutureOfMobility #Irrelevance

Irrelevance cannot be aimed at
because aiming is already relevance.

Irrelevance happens
when contact is finished
and nothing leans forward anymore.

The moment you want it,
you’ve reentered the field.

Irrelevance is not chosen.
It is what remains
when nothing is being held.

#Irrelevance #Consciousness
#ConsciousnessAndEnergy

“The Judge at the End of Europe”

by Yanis Varoufakis in Savage Minds on Substack

@EUCouncil
@EUCommission
@grassrootsforeurope
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
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“The US Government Has De-Personned Nicolas Guillou for Carrying Out His Duties”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-judge-at-the-end-of-europe

#Press #EU #ICC #Gaillou #Sanctions #France #Trump #Macron #Vassalage #Irrelevance #Cowardice #EconomicAssassination

Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

-- #NeilPostman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

#book #quote #truth #irrelevance

America is becoming the Baghdad of our millennia, the decline to irrelevance.

A doctor saves a MAGA patient as the GOP hides federal data while America’s global relevance crumbles under Trump’s chaos and right-wing extremism.

#Baghdad #irrelevance

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