Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla

• whatsisface@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  EU != Europe

  Europe is a continent. The European Union is a group of countries in Europe, no longer including the UK.

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Great Britain and the British Isles are geographical terms, not political ones. Sometimes publications will say Great Britain to mean England, Scotland, and Wales, but not Northern Ireland but they also don’t include things like the Isle of Man in that even though technically Great Britain does include the Isle of Man.

      Unless the conversation is explicitly about geography, and land masses you should not use anything other than the United Kingdom.

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    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It’s a “colonial relic” is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.

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    • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ukraine is a candidate country, by the way.

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• toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Read the comment. EU - maybe, but not the Europe,how do you leave a continent?

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Give it a couple million years of plate tectonics.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The UK and Ireland are part of the same plate as Europe. Anyway 2 million isn’t even that much time for continental drift, If you traveled back in time to the Jurassic that wouldn’t be a significant difference between the layout of the continents then and the layouts of the continents now.

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    • gianni@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or maybe if everyone jumps up in the air at the same time.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes but not the continent despite what certain people would like

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