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Vintage geek, high mileage. Tesla, low mileage. Software engineer, pragmatist, Science nerd, Kiwi, AuDHD. $TSLA

New Zealand
Joined August 2013
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For the haters...
J'ai vu une Tesla décoller. Et j'ai entendu beaucoup de bêtises. « Ça ne sert à rien. » « Gadget de milliardaire. » « Qui a besoin d'une voiture qui vole ? » Personne. Et c'est exactement pour ça que c'est important. En 1978, Brabham a aligné en Formule 1 une voiture équipée d'un ventilateur géant à l'arrière. Il aspirait l'air sous le châssis et plaquait la voiture au sol. Elle a gagné sa première course avec une avance insolente. Elle a été interdite immédiatement. Quarante-huit ans plus tard, on y revient. Un système de succion qui colle la voiture à la route et lui permet de passer sous la seconde au 0 à 100. Personne n'a « besoin » de faire le 0 à 100 en moins d'une seconde. Comme personne n'a besoin d'une Formule 1. Et pourtant : les freins carbone de votre berline, l'hybridation de votre moteur, l'aérodynamique de votre SUV, les palettes au volant — tout ça vient de voitures de course que personne n'utilisera jamais pour aller au travail. La Formule 1 ne sert à rien. Pourtant elle sert à tout. En 1973, quand la France a lancé Ariane, l'Europe sortait de onze échecs consécutifs du programme Europa. La presse parlait d'argent jeté dans l'espace. Vingt ans plus tard, Ariane détenait la moitié du marché mondial des lancements commerciaux, et chaque satellite de télévision, de météo ou de GPS que vous utilisez a bénéficié de cette obstination. Le progrès a toujours la même tête au début : un truc inutile, cher, ridicule, construit par des gens qu'on prend pour des fous. Ce que j'ai vu à Dallas, ce n'est pas une voiture volante. C'est un châssis, une gestion de l'énergie et une maîtrise des flux d'air que l'industrie automobile mettra dix ans à digérer. Les applications viendront : sécurité, freinage, stabilité, consommation. Elles finiront dans des voitures ordinaires conduites par des gens qui expliqueront, en 2036, que tout ça était évident. La question n'est jamais « à quoi ça sert ». La question est : qui ose encore construire des choses qui ne servent à rien ? Il y a cinquante ans, c'était nous. La fusée, le TGV, le Concorde, le Minitel. L'Europe construisait des choses absurdes et magnifiques. Aujourd'hui, on commente depuis le siège arrière car nous sommes hors course. Merci @elonmusk de nous faire rêver
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“You’re $3 away from free shipping.” Bro. Now I’m buying a spatula so my socks can get a ride home.
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Breaking News! Tesla releases new Model Y-380 with physical controls, no screen Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained that the backlash from customers disliking the screen prompted the new model, saying "No functionality is lost, there's a control for everything". He says that for instance to adjust the regenerative braking you simply pull out knob B on panel 6, rotate it to the right by three clicks, then press and turn it to the desired value. The vehicle can even be personalised since every switch has a small motor which will restore your preferred settings when entering the car. We will bring you our impressions after we've completed our 4-day training course and taken it for a test drive.
🤖 Made with AI
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So why is everyone going mad about data centres in space? Obviously, because space is not anybody's back yard.
Six US states now have bills to pause data center construction. New York just introduced a three-year moratorium. Florida's governor is publicly opposing them. Bernie Sanders wants a national freeze. The same AI infrastructure buildout that's driving $500B+ in annual capex is hitting a political wall at the local level. Energy costs, grid strain, and community pushback are real constraints. The companies that figure out efficient cooling, smaller footprints, and community benefit-sharing will have a massive edge. wired.com/story/new-york-is-…
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War seems to have been declared on X between the USA and Canadians from the posts and replies I read. The vitriol flows like wine. I see this as one of Trumps truly magnificent disasters, one which will take decades to fix, if ever. I'm not making judgements about who's doing what to whom, just observing a fractious divorce between the US and the world, and the fallout that will destabilise the planet. At least I can watch the informational/AI transformation of humanity into some kind of swarm-like interconnected unhinged intelligence, and forget about boring old politics. But by the time AI can make sane decisions for us, I suspect we'll be too far gone.
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I haven't heard it expressed so eloquently before. 💯
From the Outside, America No Longer Sounds Like Itself This is what people are talking about around the world today. A lot of us are sitting here listening to the United States and thinking: do Americans hear how this sounds. Because from the outside, it sounds like a country coming unglued, impulsive, and willing to throw rules out the window the moment they get in the way. And what is honestly shocking is how normal it seems to have become inside the US. People repeat the talking points, argue about the usual teams, and act like this is just another news cycle. But the rest of the world is hearing something else entirely. We are hearing threats. We are hearing contempt for allies. We are hearing a willingness to take what you want because you can. That is the kind of behavior Americans used to point at in other countries and say, that is not who we are. Now it is coming from Washington, and people abroad are not guessing anymore. They are concluding. In North America right now, Canada looks like the only adult in the room. Stable, boring, predictable, democratic. The kind of country you can actually trust from one year to the next. Maybe Americans do not feel the change because it is happening from the inside. But from the outside, it is loud. And it is not a good sound.
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Because, for many of them, it has become a badge on honour Being inarticulate means you are authentic And virile... Educated people make them feel small and insular, so education becomes the enemy So they don't want anyone smarter than themselves in charge
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Priceless. It doesn't affect me much at all now, though my wallet has become thinner in direct proportion.
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Maria Shriver obviously comes from a very political family and has supported candidates for office, like her now-former husband Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama, but for the most part she has always chosen to focus on storytelling and journalism. She has clearly hit her limit and has just posted this video about President Trump’s post and comment about Rob Reiner.
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every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.
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Capitalism doesn’t assume humans aren’t greedy. It assumes they are and refuses to give them power over others. That’s the point. Greed under capitalism is constrained by consent. You only get richer by offering something others voluntarily choose to pay for. If you stop providing value, the money stops. Greed under collectivism is unconstrained. It’s backed by force. You get resources whether you create value or not, so long as you can moralize need or capture political power. Also, capitalism doesn’t pit competition against cooperation. Competition is how we discover who can cooperate best. Every successful business is a massive act of cooperation with customers, workers, suppliers, and investors. It just isn’t coerced cooperation. And the claim that capitalists never give back is empirically false. Private charity, philanthropy, reinvestment, and voluntary aid explode under capitalist systems and collapse under socialist ones. What you’re really saying is this: You don’t trust individuals to choose generosity. You trust the state to enforce it. That isn’t moral. It’s just replacing voluntary cooperation with compulsory obedience.
LMFAO Capitalism is corrupt because humans are greedy. A Capitalist will never say "I've accumulated enough wealth time to spend all the income I don't need in the communities I am closest to!" Capitalism depends on the false premise that competition outperforms co-operation.
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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“Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offense or from insults or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society.” — Ann Widdecombe
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Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard 😀
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