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Off Road Guru / EV-Tech Enthusiast / Science believer Multiple Tesla Owner since 2015 with 350k+ miles experience / Opinionated SOB on every topic 😁

Joined March 2015
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Don't care. I want him to built a more efficient, more upscale Model S sport sedan, and a realistic usable pickup truck with big range, and ditch robotaxis completely. Don't need them if he would ever fulfill his original FSD commitment.
Elon said today that @Tesla plans to introduce an even more efficient Cybercab next year, despite it already being the most efficient production vehicle ever at 6.18 miles per kWh. This updated Cybercab will feature a 40 kWh battery, 16% smaller than the current 47.6 kWh pack. This would likely push the Cybercab's curb weight below 3,000 lbs (down from 3,113 lbs currently) and, of course, lower production costs even further. Elon said this new version will be made in a liquid silver color. Pics below of what that could look like. No other autonomy provider can compete with this level of cost and efficiency.
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A message for MAGA - There are no litter boxes in schools. Kids are not getting sex changes while at public schools. No Muslims are pushing their religion on you. The Koran is not going to be taught in public schools. You’re not going to be forced to wear a Burka. Trump isn’t a “Stable Genius”. Trump isn’t “The Chosen One”. You’re not getting your $5,000. DOGE check. You’re not getting your $2,800. Tariff refund check. 100% of you depends on some sort of socialist program. Trump is named more than 38,000 times in the Epstein Files. Trump’s wife is a former prostitute/porn model who fucked Jeffrey Epstein. Lastly… You fucking lost. The world is tired of your shit. Accountability is coming.
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Just above the Cybertruck and Edsel, by my calculations lol
My opinion on Cybercab: I don’t believe Americans are going to give up personally owned vehicles for a two-seater autonomous vehicle for their daily life, even if it makes sense to. They might buy an autonomous vehicle, but it won’t be a 2-seater. Assuming that Americans are pinched for cash, it’s unlikely even higher-middle class families would spend the extra money on a separate household vehicle for commuting, when they still have a family or work supplies to haul around. That means they’ll buy the single larger, more expensive vehicle for their needs. Because: Americans buy the vehicle that works for ALL of their needs, not the 90% single-rider scenario that a two-seater would be best. IF the opposite of this were true, coupes would already be the most popular vehicle category in America. Instead, it’s a pickup truck. Additionally, why spend the money on a Robotaxi to work (using Tesla’s two seater) if you have a perfectly fine, autonomous vehicle at home already? You won’t. Tesla is trying to use physics logic to solve a cultural problem that doesn’t actually need fixing outside of dense cities. Cybercab is overhyped, at least directionally. By scaling too soon and too large (regulatory concerns notwithstanding), it risks flopping harder than any product in history.
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TBF, he didn't specify mention disabled people in that statement, and since most of us can use our hands and walk now, its kinda accurate, technically. Just scammy marketing. And not right, morally or ethically, to mislead folks who are looking for help
He said this same thing back in 2022. All talk no walk. Playing on the emotions of people with disabilities is a special kind of sick and twisted.
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I have a history PhD from Oxford and try to support all of my historical claims with strong evidence, particularly when regarding the president of the United States. But based on a comprehensive review of 250 years of American history, it is simply irrefutable that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt president in U.S. history when it comes to using the office to enrich himself and his family. Here are the facts, and why there isn’t even a close second. Trump’s own federal financial disclosure reported more than $1.4 billion in 2025 income from family crypto ventures, including about $635 million from his meme coin and nearly $800 million from World Liberty Financial. Reuters separately estimated that the family added at least $2.3 billion to its fortune from crypto ventures after Trump returned to the White House. The clearest example of how Trump used the office came in May 2025. The 220 biggest holders of his meme coin were invited to dine with the sitting president at his private golf club. The coin jumped more than 60 percent when the dinner was announced. To get a seat at the table, you had to buy and hold a product that made the president money. Trump turned access to the presidency into a sales pitch. The foreign dealings raise an even more serious question. Four days before Trump took office, an investment vehicle backed by a UAE national security official agreed to pay $500 million for nearly half of World Liberty Financial. The Wall Street Journal reported that $187 million of the initial payment was directed to Trump family entities. Trump is clearly not the first United States president to be guilty of corruption, but the size and scale of his malfeasance put him in a league of his own. Under Ulysses S. Grant, whiskey distillers and federal officials pocketed money by cheating the government out of liquor taxes. Under Warren Harding, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves. Richard Nixon had a personal tax scandal, but his defining abuse of presidential power was the Watergate cover-up, an effort to protect his hold on office. LBJ’s political connections helped turn a small Texas radio station into a family broadcasting empire. By September 2025, less than eight months into Donald Trump’s second term, he and his family were roughly $5 billion richer than they had been around the 2024 election, according to Forbes. In comparison, a reasonable estimate is that all 44 other U.S. presidents combined added about $250 million to their wealth while in office, adjusted to today’s dollars. That puts the Trump family’s gain at about 20 times the estimated combined total for all other presidents over the course of two and half centuries. The election results were, at least in part, a clear repudiation of this staggering and historically unprecedented corruption. Congress now has a mandate to investigate, follow the money, pursue the recovery of all ill-gotten gains, and enact enforceable safeguards so that no president can ever again use the White House as a vehicle for personal enrichment.
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People left blue states scared of the stuff they were fed by red politicians. When they got there, they realized they'd been scammed all along, but not by Democrats.
Leaving your fucked up blue state, only to vote for the same shit in the red state you escaped to, is like fleeing a burning house & bringing the arsonist as your roommate. This is psychotic fucking behavior.
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Are you confused about separation of church and state, let alone historical fact verses religious fiction? No need to answer, we know.
I want to go back to a time when we taught the Bible in public schools.
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That's not how democratic elections work. If you can demonstrate actual, significant fraud, which has NEVER been done in 250 years, the burden is on YOU. The rest of us understand why folks are angry and voted to throw MAGA out. Not hard to see, if you are sane enough to look.
“There was no election fraud — Republicans just lost!” Oh? Is that so? Prove it, then. Prove that there was no election fraud If you’re so certain, pull out the receipts. You have the burden of proof now. Good luck.
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The design, inside and out.
I would take the Cybercab platform and make a truck that’s in the $40k - $60k range
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Thanks for being a voice of rational thinking and diligent research, instesd of just sucking on Musk's teat like the fanboy base 😆
Replying to @Evautoalex
Do you ever open the 10Q or you just read the shareholder letter? Cause if you dig a little into the 10Q, you'd realize that you are getting Musk-ed. Most of Tesla's free cash flow last quarter came from delaying paying bills. 1. Unpaid bills did most of the work. Working capital added $2.59 billion to operating cash flow. Most of that came from a $3.99 billion jump in payables and accrued liabilities, meaning goods and services Tesla received but hadn’t paid for yet. That includes $722 million of purchases that hadn’t even been invoiced. Strip out working capital and free cash flow was about –$1.06 billion. The core business still burned cash, just less than in Q2 (–$2.5 billion). 2. Some “deferred revenue” wasn’t cash. Deferred revenue rose $1.26 billion, mostly from energy storage. Of that, $588 million was SpaceX being billed for Megapacks that hadn’t been delivered. SpaceX hadn’t paid by quarter-end, so the same amount also sits in receivables. It’s a related-party bill, not money in the bank. 3. Capex is understated. Reported capex was $4.73 billion. But unpaid equipment and construction bills grew another $1.03 billion, to $3.67 billion, up from $1.63 billion a year earlier. Counting that spending, free cash flow was closer to $500 million. 4. Spending was pushed back, not cancelled. About 43–50% of the beat came from capex coming in under the roughly $7.5 billion analysts expected. Tesla cut its 2026 guidance from “more than $25 billion” to “in excess of $20 billion.” Even so, that implies about $7 billion in Q4, which would be its biggest quarter in years. The CFO also said capex will “continue to expand” for the next few years. 5. The cash pile is about to start shrinking. Cash and investments were $45.4 billion, but that balance is inflated by all the money Tesla owes and hasn’t paid yet. Those payables, accruals and the SpaceX Megapack bill will reverse as invoices get paid and units ship. Tesla also signed $30 billion in new credit facilities: a $20 billion delayed-draw term loan and a $10 billion revolver that replaces a $5 billion one. None of it was drawn, but a company expecting to fund its plans from operations doesn’t usually line up that much borrowing.
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It can. But Tesla's doesn't. And Musk only builds what Musk wants - not what consumers are asking for.
Replying to @cruiserlarry
My Model Y is damned near fully autonomous now. It has a steering wheel. Tell me why an autonomous vehicle cannot have a steering wheel for those moments you either want to drive or in situations where you need to?
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Looks like folks are starting to see what many have been saying for years - Musk is all about Musk, is not the visionary he is idolized to be, and wealth and power have clouded his business sense.
Sorry to have to say this, but Tesla needs a leader that builds the Model 2, a larger SUV and lets you buy Optimus and prioritizes FSD on consumer vehicles. This could be @elonmusk, but based on current actions, it doesn’t look like it should be. FSD hardware has not changed on new cars while the Cybercab has received more powerful hardware, new cameras, Starlink, camera washers and more. If you want the future to be pro-consumer, it needs to change.
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If theres nothing to hide, how about release the Epstein files first.
🚨 President Trump just shared something every American needs to understand. Here it is in plain English. An analyst looked at 59 Senate and governor races this year and compared them to Trump's 2024 numbers. What they found is wild. In almost every state, Republicans got about 85% of Trump's 2024 vote. The other 15% showed up on the Democrat side. Here's the strange part. It didn't matter if the state was deep red like Wyoming or deep blue like Massachusetts. The same 15% shift showed up almost everywhere. Different candidates, different campaigns, same number. That 15% is exactly what flipped Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina and North Carolina. Any state where Trump won with under about 58.5% fell below 50% once you take that 15% away. Real elections are messy. Numbers this neat raise real questions. The fix is simple: hand count the paper ballots, check the poll books against the votes counted, and release the voter files. If there's nothing to hide, let's see the ballots. 🇺🇸
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The one people still ordering CTs are SpaceX. 18% of all CT sales last year...
The Tesla Cybertruck order backlog is currently far more than we can make before dismantling the line for Cybercab expansion around June/July next year. We will add an extra shift to try to get all orders done in time.
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Your missing the fact that you can't drive a car with no steering wheel and no pedals manually. Pretty simple to understand to me.
What breaks my brain are people believing that an autonomous future somehow precludes us from owning cars or even having the ability to sometimes drive those cars manually. What am I missing?
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No Democratic administration has ever taken away anyone's guns. Another scare tactic you've been brainwashed with by billionaires and lobbyists who keep you focused on the wrong targets while siphoning your money and your rights. Your guns still safe at home? Thought so.
All of you people in Texas are fucking retarded. 11 million gun owners in Texas are about to get a horrific wake up call. You allowed Democrats to be elected in EVERY SINGLE State wide election… let that sink in! You let the gun grabbing leftists completely take over your State! “Let them come take it” bruh, you ain’t gonna do shit but get on your knees and beg for your life when they come knocking on your door. I get saying fuck the Republicans at the federal level, but to let your State turn blue is extraordinary dumb
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💯. Absolutely true.
Here’s a reality check for MAGA: You all have had power for 1.5 Trump terms. That’s 6 years. And in that time, as Trump has filled your heads with fascist authoritarian rhetoric about prosecuting so-called Democrat criminals and deep state operatives, he hasn’t prosecuted or convicted a single person. And the ones that he’s actually charged never even make it to trial because the claims are so ridiculous, they get thrown out of court. At some point, you need to come to terms with the fact that you’ve been lied to for the better part of a decade. Your cult movement is based on rage-bait and empty promises. In these midterms, many of you finally realized that and either voted Democrat or stayed home. The rest of you are probably never going to disconnect from the cult because it doesn’t matter to you whether the nonsense you believe is true or not. And that’s not something that’s going to get fixed with more fact checks. It needs therapy and counseling.
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💯. This is a difficult idea to understand for racist bigots who can't actually read the constitution, let alone abide by it.
Replying to @JMNewsNetwork_
An oath of office is about the promise to serve, not the faith of the person taking it. The Qur’an belongs in that ceremony just as naturally as any other sacred text.
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Replying to @JMNewsNetwork_
good on him. some religious fanatics here seem to forget about the Constitution. or only remember it for convenience.
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