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Alan Dail retweeted
Elon Musk in new interview on @SpaceXSI's data center site in Memphis:
"I insist on doing some of the work myself manually. I've pulled power cables the size of an anaconda. I've done the fiber optic cabling; I try to do at least a little bit of everything so I'm not numb to the pain of the people who are actually doing it. It's not as though I'm sitting in an office and someone has to come to me. I'm walking the floor asking them questions actively."
(via 33rd Annual Baron Investment Conference today in NYC)
Alan Dail retweeted
Neuralink gave Noland Arbaugh something to wake up for.
“I didn’t have anything to wake up for in the morning, and this has changed that for me.”
@elonmusk says he’s fairly confident Neuralink could restore full-body functionality at some point in the future—not a capability achieved today.
Alan Dail retweeted
It is easy to support people when they are up.
It is harder to support them when they are down.
When I was down I learned who my real friends were.
Elon has the most diverse factory I have ever been in.
And hires thousands of my neighbors.
He runs my social media. My internet. My electricity. My transportation.
He is the innovator of our age and is trying to push us to a safer, more affordable, more fun world.
It is love to be there when someone is having a tough week.
The guy isn’t perfect. Haven’t met a human who is yet.
But I study the future and he still lays out the best future I have seen anyone lay out.
Certainly better than the datacenter haters.
And I am happy to say I love Elon on a day when it isn’t popular to do so.
It is the hard days that reveal love.
Alan Dail retweeted
2 years of 100% process wastewater recycling at Giga Berlin – putting 465 million liters back in production
Alan Dail retweeted
I actually feel bad for Elon, even though I deeply disagree with him on some things.
Imagine trying to build a car company in California in the mid-2000s, when American manufacturing is being completely offshored and almost all of Wall Street thinks you’re a joke and is rooting for your failure, while the entire oil and gas industry is using all their power and leverage to make you fail.
But against all odds, you actually pull it off. You build cars that make electric vehicles desirable to millions of people, create an enormous number of quality American jobs, and force the global car industry to play catch up and move away from oil and gas.
You would think California would be proud of you and the team. Instead you find yourself having to fight a completely corrupt and incompetent left government impeding all your efforts while you sleep at the factory night after night to avoid collapse. At some point, you would go to the right too.
And because of your politics, it becomes a justification for people to celebrate your companies failing in their personal ideological fight with you. Even threats against you become something people explain away and use mental gymnastics to justify.
Meanwhile, people like Scott Galloway and Bernie Sanders who have made absolutely nobody better off other than themselves get to lecture you about your value to society and even call for your murder without grounds from their vacation home while you're on 20 hour benders in your factories trying to get things built for all of society. If this were me I would lose my mind.
Criticize his opinions. I do sometimes, especially on Ukraine. But the pleasure people take in wanting to destroy everything he’s built is hideous and frankly suicidal for the masses, especially coming from people who insist they care about workers, the climate, and civilization as a whole.
As you try to make good things for society you are confronted with a world that worships people who care only about the perception of being good people, while they actually fight against your tangible efforts of making improvements for humanity.
I don't think almost anyone would have made it out of that and if they did, they would probably not come away feeling so warm towards the left either. So I am rooting for Elon to succeed, and for humanity.
Alan Dail retweeted
“AI is a tool for the rich.”
It’s $20 a month.
Hiring a lawyer is $300 an hour. A tutor is $60. A developer is $10,000 a project.
The rich always had access to expert help.
AI is the first time everyone else does too.
Alan Dail retweeted
Governor Greg Abbott on @elonmusk today:
“Well, put aside for a second the incredible innovation that he's brought to the country, to the world. But look at what he's done economically. He has hired tens of thousands of people in the state of Texas, given them a good paying job.
But look at the story about his SpaceX company and when they went public. There were great stories about workers there who were welders who turned into millionaires because of what they were able to do for SpaceX. And no one has made the average worker a millionaire more than Elon Musk.
We've got to continue that economic growth, that job growth that Elon and his entire team and his companies are providing. That's one great spur, if you would, to our Texas economy.”
Alan Dail retweeted
The only traitor is you, @profgalloway.
You moved away from America in 2022, but still get behind a microphone every week to talk shit about the country that helped make you rich.
All while publicly calling yourself a Florida resident and talking up the tax savings that helped build your wealth.
Then you lecture everyone about paying their fair share.
You’re a raging HYPOCRITE.
What have you done to contribute to the United States economy over the last five years?
Musk’s companies employ people to build cars, manufacture batteries, launch rockets and deliver satellite internet.
Your contribution to American industry doesn’t come close to his.
Yet you have the nerve to call him a traitor and invoke the Rosenbergs’ execution.
It’s disgusting and disgraceful.
You can keep trading smug takes with Kara and having @edels0n laugh at your jokes.
An audience clapping at your bullshit doesn’t make you America’s moral authority.
Spare the rest of us the fucking moral superiority.
Alan Dail retweeted
Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla - marginalrevolution.com/margi…
Alan Dail retweeted
FSD once again saves my Model S as well as a few deer.
This is the 5th or 6th time FSD has saved my Teslas from hitting a deer.
Especially this time of year.
How many times has FSD saved your Tesla from hitting an animal?
Alan Dail retweeted
“FSD is revolutionary – a step change in what it means to drive. I don’t think any other car at a similar price comes close. It’s the best car I have ever owned.”
Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla - marginalrevolution.com/margi…
Alan Dail retweeted
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Alan Dail retweeted
“Does this qualify as a medical device for my taxes?”
Ashley has Parkinson’s and she refuses to simply lay down and give up.
She picked up her brand new Tesla yesterday and she’s going to extend her freedom and Liberty as far as she possibly can.
These are the moments that the Tesla team deserves a moment of thanks and recognition for delivering life altering technology to the people who needed the most.
Alan Dail retweeted
Navigating the hospital to radiology using only my Neuralink mind drive.
No joystick, no hands — just thought. The interface on the laptop is translating neural signals into movement in real time. This is what independence looks like.
#Neuralink #MindDrive #BCI #BrainComputerInterface #Accessibility #Independence #Neuropod #ElonMusk
Alan Dail retweeted
True story, this influencer in Montreal may have just given one of the best Tesla reviews of all time.
Alan Dail retweeted
DSA candidate Tim Denson tries to sell the crowd on “democratizing the workplace” and says Walmart should belong to the workers.
Big mistake. The guy 6 ft away from him grew up in Venezuela. And he’s heard this communist fairy tale before.
DANIEL DI MARTINO: “So you want to take it [Walmart] from its owners and have the workers do what?”
TIM DENSON: “I want the workers to own it and get paid better and have better benefits and be able to provide better lives for their families.”
DI MARTINO: “We can buy shares in Walmart right now. In fact, all of the SpaceX workers became millionaires overnight.”
“You can start a workers’ cooperative right now. It’s legal, but under a socialist country, you’re not allowed to own your own property and start your own private corporation.”
Denson tried to refute Di Martino’s point. Then Di Martino dropped this line on him:
DI MARTINO: “It’s very easy to be a socialist in a capitalist country. It’s illegal to be a capitalist in a socialist country. That is the difference.”
[audience applause]
Then it got personal:
DI MARTINO: “When I had to go to the grocery store, Tim, I had to put my fingerprint in a scanning machine so that they would tell me what I was allowed to purchase.”
“And I could only go Mondays and Saturdays because we have to ration food, because that’s what happens when there’s no profit motive and the farmers, their food is confiscated because they had to sell it to the government and everybody else at the price the government tells the farmers.”
“My mom made chocolate bonbons for parties.”
“Well, people have a right to chocolate, so we had a price control on chocolate.”
“So my mom had to buy counterfeit chocolate, put it in black bags as if we were cocaine drug dealers. That’s what socialism was in Venezuela. That’s what worker ownership of the means of production is.”
“Where has it ever worked?”
Denson had no answer. Because there isn’t one.