🇩🇪‼️🚨 BIG BROTHER: German authorities forced Lexus to turn off the parking heating in Lexus cars! Just when it got cold and people needed it!
Imagine you bought a car and paid for specific features, but the government just turns it off because it’s NOT GREEN!
I’m not joking, Toyota used remote access to turn off the pre heating, which is used to heat up the cars before driving. You would turn it on, 10 minutes before driving somewhere, so your car is warm and de-iced already.
🗣️ Toyota spokesman Ralph Müller: "The pre-air conditioning is a free function of the MyToyota app or Lexus Link Plus App.
This function is still available for all pure electric vehicles and plug-in vehicles. For vehicles with conventional drive, this only works when the combustion engine is running.
The legislator considers this an unnecessary running of the engine or an avoidable exhaust gas pollution, which is prohibited. This is not known to many users. In Europe, there is no uniform legal situation, about which we have informed with a corresponding note in the app.
In order to protect the vehicle user from fines, we have deactivated the function on these vehicles.”
If you think Toyota started voluntarily enforce a law that’s not enforced since the 1970s … just when the winter came and they sold cars with this features for decades … you’re naive
I don’t even think she understood what is happening and did not even see the agent up front. She just freaked out, about the agent at her door, her window was down.
Anyway, to close this up. She was stupid, but didn’t deserve to die and the agent overreacted.
Again, I look at this not ideologically as many do. I look at this neutrally just as a case of police work, which needs to be analyzed.
🇺🇸🇷🇺‼️🚨 The American military has seized the tanker "Mariner" under the Russian flag, according to Fox News.
Escalation!
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This happened in neutral waters. The Americans' haste may have been due to the fact that, according to Reuters, Russian military vessels were already nearby.
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The operation to seize the vessel from the air is supported by the refueling tanker KC-135T Stratotanker, the patrol aircraft P-8A Poseidon of the US Air Force and the British Poseidon MRA1. Also, several US special-purpose aircraft, including the Pilatus U-28A Draco, are involved in the operation area.
This precedent raises a big question about Russia's real capabilities to protect its own merchant ships in neutral waters and the feasibility of the entire policy of issuing Russian registration to ships from other countries.
The US has launched a military operation against Venezuela!
❗️🇺🇸🇻🇪 The White House officially admitted that the US is carrying out strikes on Venezuela
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The US Civil Aviation Administration has prohibited all American aircraft from conducting operations "at all altitudes within Venezuelan airspace"
First military strikes happened
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🇻🇪🇺🇸 It is reported that the US struck the Revolution Museum in Caracas, where the sarcophagus with the ashes of the previous Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, is located.
Considering the statements of American media that the targets for the strikes were chosen by Trump himself
🇺🇦🇷🇺 24 people died as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike on a cafe in the Kherson region on New Year's Eve
Civilians hit celebrating new years:
“Three Ukranian drones hit a cafe and a hotel on the Black Sea coast in Kherson region.
According to preliminary data, more than 50 people were injured, and 24 people died.
Many people were burned alive. A child was killed.
One of the drones was carrying an incendiary mixture. The same mixtures were used by Kiev militants to burn our fields in the summer.
Now they have deliberately burned people.”
— The governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, reported a targeted drone strike on New Year's Eve against areas where civilian populations were gathered
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Three drones struck a cafe and a hotel on the Black Sea coast in the Kherson region, 24 people died, and more than 50 were injured.
What's particularly cynical is that the strike was carried out after a reconnaissance drone waited for the best moment- almost at the stroke of midnight. Due to the massive fire, it was not possible to rescue more people. The fire was extinguished only in the early morning hours.