“ and from an influx of Chinese competitors that have been able to undercut traditional brands.”

All you need to know.

It has been obvious for at least 10 years that the Yuan is undervalued allowing China to undercut and undermine all your local companies.

China also makes and sells hybrid and standard ICE cars in the UK

The best selling car of 2026 is a Chinese non-EV.

So I think the cheap Chinese cars will can el out of the equation.

The local brands being forced to move down market to sell smaller/cheaper EVs as the sales requirements mean they can no longer hot required levels of EV sales by targeting the high end of the market is a bigger influence I think.

in addition, this doesn't take into account that there are a plethora of expensive, big, petrol/diesel cars for which there is no electric equivalent. There are lies, and then there are statistics.

The Hummer EV is sold in the UK.

Admit to having drank the koolaide, it is the first step. I wrote an entire system with tech I barely understand (duckdb), next.js etc, made 7 to 10 iterations per day, and multiple new functions and integrations in hours all while doing my main job. What does the code look like ???. It works, I do not care. Can the AI modify it in under 5 minutes, yes. New features that would take minimal a week, got done in 2 to 3 minutes. Did the AI ever complain, no it did not. Anyone who thinks they will be hand coding going forward is completely fooling themselves. The AI tests better than most engineers. When asked it builds flawless test harnesses and even suggests better solutions. Never going back.

Is ok, the AI was going to replace them in a few weeks anyway.

I remember a junior dev who thought he was done when his code conpiled without syntax errors.

Whenn I lived in Atlanta the Krogers each had a nickname. There was disco Kroger because of its disco ball. There was murder Kroger that purportedly had been the site of a murder.

This I guess is Robo Kroger.

In Charlottesville all the Krogers are quite different.

A weird, dark, maze-like warehouse-feeling Kroger that just closed.

We have a really nice Kroger a bit outside town. I always think of it as the Gucci Kroger.

A college-kid, cheaper Kroger close to the center of town. The cheaper version of the Harris Teeter nearby.

There's as much variation in individual Krogers as between other grocery chains!

A common practice in Denver. Kroger's local brand is "King Soopers". There's Scary Soopers, Queen Soopers, and ironically El Safeway and Soviet Safeway.

I like to imagine that whenn is like iff -- ie, when would mean "when and only when", lol

> There was disco Kroger because of its disco ball.

... As in the supermarket had a disco ball? Was it spinning?

Hallucinate much?

There are four bullet points that answer the question why would you want this.

The one that really stands out to me is

“ 03 :: Predictable low fees

Transform your cost structure with near-zero transaction fees that are highly predictable and can be paid in any stablecoin.”

I question why some of large companies that are named here as partners would want this.

That’s true! That’s a big conflict of interest for a company like Shopify who makes a lot of money charging payment processing fees.

Serendipity.

I feel sorry for that guy who has zero wasted time and 0 hours of fun. What a crappy way to go through life.

You can read and understand the code in a minute. Very creative.