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To celebrate 250 this year, I bought the most American-made car in the market: a brand-new Tesla Model 3. The experience has completely blown me away. From the driving dynamics and FSD to the exterior styling, everything is impeccable.
Ode to @Tesla and everyone who worked on the Model 3, you’ve built something truly magnificent.
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Waymo might not be ready for highways unsupervised
High speed + edge case = extremely dangerous
Surface streets are low speed and seemingly 99.99+
Video shows a Waymo in San Francisco on I-280 speeding past traffic as the California Highway Patrol performs a traffic break. The Waymo is seen trying to go around the CHP patrol cars, even at one point turning its blinker on. For more information, abc7news.com/19150225/
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Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank reserved enough gas turbines to generate the power of six Hoover Dams. It cost the company billions of dollars in losses. on.wsj.com/4AkINFX
Now imagine it had been made in America, and cost more. He would have paid the money to an American worker...who would also have spent them somewhere else in America....who would have spent them somewhere else in America...etc., etc.
Henry Ford model of economics.
I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.
It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.
I also paid $155 in sales tax.
Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.
To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.
So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).
52% went to the government in taxes.
Ok. Simple question: eliminating foreign trade would make us so much better off, why should we trade across state borders within the country? Wouldn’t everyone in Kentucky be better off if they only bought goods made in Kentucky?
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Elon has nearly 160,000 direct employees throughout his companies and supports almost 870,000 jobs.
Over five years, based on conservative estimates, @elonmusk’s companies have injected $338 billion into the US economy.
@Tesla makes the first and second most American made cars.
@SpaceX made the first fully reusable rocket and the world’s largest satellite internet constellation.
As Axios says: his “companies are central to America's technological and military power.”
In the end, the only people the Democrats will hurt are the American people.
Elon Musk's empire braces for Democratic crackdown axios.com/2026/11/09/elon-mu…
In 2024 I created this composite showing the launch, separation, return, and catch of the 5th integrated flight test of Starship. This was all captured from over 5 miles away.
On Friday, I’ll be capturing the ship catch even closer, with cameras as close as 300 feet away.
Growing up, I thought my dream car was a Porsche. Recently, I almost got one but then was a passenger in my friend’s self-driving Tesla.
Immediately knew I needed a Tesla.
Got my own white-interior self-driving Tesla and now have absolutely 0 desire for a Porsche. Would NEVER want any other non-self driving car.
Porsche owners are missing out
Pt. 8
youtu.be/_oBn5vsJf-Y
subtitles in: English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, French, German
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#malfoid #vidu #viducpp #ViduQ4Preview #ViduDC #AIイラスト
Pt. 7
Don't feel like typing that much this time lmao, a little BTS at the end, and it was harder than it looks.
There is one thing I wanted to mention though, I fully support reaction style videos and anything that is actually transformative. I do not support straight up reuploads (who tf does lol).
I saw some post awhile ago some guy was making some malfoid anime and said he didn't want to do it anymore, I don't remember what his specific reasoning was but I remember it being like cost, but he didn't want to accept money either through some patreon or something. All of that makes sense to me, putting aside the legality of all of it considering we don't own the IP, there is going to be a feeling of obligation to people who donate you money that might go against what you want to do, the feeling of influence isn't worth the money when you already have a real job. That isn't my main point though; I saw people quoting it and essentially saying how he should teach someone to 'pass the torch' so to speak. As someone who had spent time essentially teaching (I've written a bunch of articles on civitai explaining how I do things) as well as actually teaching individuals because I'm friends with them or I had to in order for some people that should know better that I was on a project with, teaching someone how to do things like this is significantly more work than just doing it. It seems like people don't understand this, so I just wanted to say it.
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#malfoid #vidu #viducpp #ViduQ4Preview #ViduDC #AIイラスト
A friend from college reached out…
Got laid off as a manager at Microsoft
Made $320k and can’t land a new job
His mortgage is over $8k/month
Said he runs out of money in 10 months
Has a wife and 3 young kids
Usually confident but sounded dejected and unsure if he can get a new job
You never think it’ll be you
Young people who grew up with tablets as babysitters may not understand but one of the big reasons we luddites reject AI and Smart devices is so that assholes can't turn all our shit off remotely at the same time
BREAKING:
This morning’s cyberattack against supermarket fridges and freezers has now spread to Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg and Estonia.
The hackers increased the temperature up to 50C. Food worth millions of euros has been spoiled.
Experts warn that such cyberattacks on supply chains and logistics can constitute a threat to national food security in many Western states.
Gen Z & the Boomers aren’t the only generations.
We Millennials know the difference between a villain & a hero.
You can UNDERSTAND why Anakin went dark and still not make him the hero of the story.
Gen Z gets Anakin. Boomers still don’t.
He wants power, love, freedom, and a life that matters.
His elders would like him to be patient.
Anakin Skywalker has rescued the Chancellor, fought a galactic war, and lost a hand on the job. Unfortunately, management has concerns about his attitude.
The Jedi Council acknowledges his extraordinary potential.
Whether he should be allowed to do anything with it without supervision remains under review.
You can see why the Anakin memes have found an audience.
The third installment of the prequels has been going viral on X with Gen Z asking, “Wasn’t Anakin… the good guy?”
But his appeal goes deeper than handsome-man-with-a-lightsaber edits.
Anakin wants a consequential life.
He wants mastery, adventure, recognition, and love.
He wants independence and his mentors’ approval.
He wants to protect Padmé and remain a Jedi.
He wants responsibility before he fully understands what it costs.
That conflict gives him an emotional life richer than the standard diagnosis of an entitled young man who needs to calm down.
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