A thief gets inside your Tesla. They have the key card. They press the brake. They try to shift into drive. The car doesn’t move. A 4-digit PIN screen appears on the touchscreen. Without the code, the car won’t shift into gear. The thief sits in a $50,000 car they can’t move. Your Tesla has a feature called PIN to Drive a secondary security layer that requires a personal 4-digit code before the car will drive, even if someone has the key card, the key fob, or the phone key. The valet who copied the key card can’t drive the car. The thief who stole the phone with the Tesla app can’t drive the car. The teenager who grabbed the spare key card from the kitchen drawer can’t drive the car. Without the PIN, the car is a locked vault on wheels. PIN to Drive takes 30 seconds to set up. Most Tesla owners have never enabled it. A Tesla service advisor who’s delivered over 2,000 Teslas and has seen every type of theft, break-in, and unauthorized use an owner can experience told his customer something during a routine service visit that changed how the customer thought about every feature on the car. “Every Tesla theft I’ve seen in 5 years could have been prevented by PIN to Drive. Every parking lot hit-and-run could have been documented by Sentry Mode. Every valet joy ride could have been blocked by Valet Mode. Every cold morning sitting in a freezing cabin could have been solved by Scheduled Departure. And every dog left in a hot car could have been kept safe by Dog Mode. The Tesla has 11 features that protect the car, protect the people inside it, and transform how the owner uses it every day. Most owners enable zero of them. They drive a $50,000 computer like a $30,000 car using the gas pedal and ignoring the operating system.” He showed them 11 Tesla features that transform the car from “I drive it and charge it” into the machine Tesla actually engineered. Here’s every hidden Tesla feature most owners miss 🧵

My parents paid $16,000 for the house I grew up in. It’s now worth $783,000 on Zillow. Sounds like they made a fortune, right? In gold terms, that house cost 450 ounces in 1962. At today’s gold price, it’s worth 250 ounces. The house actually lost value. Politicians get away with robbing working class people blind because most people don’t realize their nominal gains aren’t real gains. They think they’re inflation-adjusted rich, but they’re not.

Want to have your mind blown? In 1971, the median household income was $9,030, or 220 ounces of gold. In 2025, it was $87,460, or just 25 ounces of gold. Your paycheck went up 10x. Measured in gold, it fell 88%. To earn what the median household earned in 1971, you’d need about $890,000 per year today. That’s what fiat debasement looks like.