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mobile man searching for bars, tweets from hot tub, follows the sun

in Colorado
Joined December 2007
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In 1989, a 17-year-old Elon Musk landed in Montreal with about $4,000, half from his mom, Maye, who cashed out a stock account she had opened with money she'd won in a beauty contest as a teenager, and a list of relatives he had never met. The uncle he planned to call had already left town, so he checked into a youth hostel, shared a room with five strangers, and after a week bought a $100 Greyhound pass to cross Canada to a cousin's farm in Saskatchewan. Somewhere along the way the driver unloaded his suitcase with his traveler's checks and clothes, and all he had left was a backpack full of books, while getting the checks replaced took weeks. Elon called his cousin with the coins in his pocket and spent weeks cleaning grain bins and helping raise a barn, celebrating his 18th birthday with a homemade cake on his cousin’s farm. Then he rode on to Vancouver and chose the hardest job on the board, cleaning lumber mill boilers for $18 an hour. Elon has always been strong-willed and never shied away from the most challenging work to achieve his goals. That is true determination! I admire him for that 🩵
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Tesla is already pulling away from Waymo in Austin. 438K driverless miles last week vs Waymo’s 406K (Q2 average) even as Waymo had a 5-year head start. This is going to get ugly for Waymo. Tesla will own the robotaxi industry. $TSLA
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Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.
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Here is a prime example of LA’s success combating homelessness and housing under leadership like Nithya Raman and Karen Bass. One hotel bought in 2020 for $8M is still vacant and will now cost $625,000 per homeless individual ($20M total). LA is pure fraud. Good luck.
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BREAKING: Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman surges ahead of Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral election odds. 58% chance she wins.
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Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals driving around Austin TESLA HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE IMPOSSIBLE!!! $TSLA
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Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful.
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Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ». J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée. Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques. Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil. Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers. Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984. Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag. Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur. C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire. L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.
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🚨 BEFORE THE EXECUTION… THIS IS WHAT SHE FACES 🚨 An Iranian…. Niloufar Esfahani… 18 years old… from Qazvin. Arrested alongside her mother during the 2026 protests… her only “crime” was demanding dignity and freedom. Within days, a revolutionary court sentenced her to death by hanging. And now the reports circulating are even darker… Very dark.. Malevolency. Allegations that she could be subjected to sexual violence before execution… tied to long-documented abuses reported by former prisoners and human rights observers inside Iran’s prison system. This is done as these people believe that execution of a virgin result in her going to paradise… so to prevent that they sexu@lly abuse her. Let that sink in. An 18-year-old girl… facing death… and possibly unimaginable violation beforehand. This is why people around the world continue to sound the alarm about what happens behind those prison walls. If even a fraction of these reports are true… it is a complete collapse of basic human decency. Niloufar is not a headline. She is a human being. And the world is watching… or at least it should be. Say her name. Demand transparency. Demand accountability. #SaveNiloufar #IranRevolution2026 #HumanRights #Astonegroove
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New @openclaw beta is up! Mostly security hardening and fixes today. Ther'e also an early version of an Apple Watch app in there if you wanna go digging in the repo... github.com/openclaw/openclaw…
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Replying to @SawyerMerritt @ABC7
Because @ABC7 doesn't trade in honesty and impartiality.
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So you don’t report the vehicle’s make when it isn’t a Tesla, but you do report it when it is a Tesla? The vehicle in your post above is a Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV.
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BREAKING: ELON MUSK SAYS — 2026 WILL BE “EPIC” FOR $TSLA 👀 Elon is bullish !
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Earlier this morning December 30th 2025 I crossed 10,000 consecutive miles of non rounded up actual true 100% intervention free FSD 14.2 driving in my 2025 Model 3 Premium Long Range RWD This journey has taken me to 24 states & has done all my driving for over the last month including all parking & supercharger stops! Verify the data today using @WholeMars FSD database leaderboard where he’s tapped in & can see all the telemetry data on my vehicle. @fsd_database This was done even more unsupervised Robotaxi rides in Austin, TX
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Tesla secures approval to launch paid Robotaxi service in Arizona driveteslacanada.ca/news/tes….
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Can I ask you all for a little favor? In Switzerland we have an abandoned rest stop since 2003 at one of the most beautiful lakes (Lake Walensee) and one of the most popular highways between Zurich and Graubünden. I think it would be a perfect place for Tesla to reopen it with the first Tesla Diner in Europe. What do you think? I would appreciate every support to bring this topic on Tesla's management table. 🍔⚡️🇨🇭 @Tesla @TeslaCharging @teslaeurope @elonmusk @woodhaus2
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“Elon has nothing to do with SpaceX success!!!” From Walter Isaacson biography:
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Starship rocket booster caught by tower
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Booster starts in top right corner. Watch to the end. Sound on
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