Native Texan, Auburn University Rural Studio 2002; Architect, Caregiver to my Dad.
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Purple Cow retweeted
The United States admired the world over around 1960 was broadly homogeneous, a middle class people without excessive wealth disparities, a sense of itself - and an enemy to focus the mind (USSR).
That’s over. The people who should have maintained it just lined their pockets, opened the borders, lowered their own taxes, and sold their own fellow citizens down the river. What we live in now is the fallout of this betrayal.
Purple Cow retweeted
Locking the clocks in Daylight Savings Time would be the thing that would radicalize me. I'd be calling for a second Revolutionary War.
Right now the sky isn't "morning bright" until nearly 8am.
That's SO bad for your body.
Looking forward to turning it back an hour!
Purple Cow retweeted
Q3 Shareholder Update → ir.tesla.com
Highlights
– FSD Supervised attach rate grew to over 75% of new vehicle deliveries in NA
– Unveiled the next-gen Roadster
– Record deliveries in Canada, Australia, Japan & Taiwan
– Tesla Semi now in volume production. Top variant can go up to 500 miles at a full 82,000 lbs while achieving efficiency of 1.7 kWh/mile – about a third of the energy a comparable diesel truck burns for the same load
– Ended the quarter with the largest backlog for our passenger vehicles in 4 years!
FSD Supervised
– 4 new approvals since Q2 (Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
– FSD is now live in nine EU countries & used by over 100,000 customers logging more than 160 million kilometers since initial approval
Robotaxi
– Deployed Cybercab into our Austin fleet
– Hit nearly 2 million cumulative unsupervised miles, 8x growth in the quarter
– Austin service now runs 6 am to midnight, with wait times continuing to come down as we add cars & improve the orchestration algorithms
– Added Grok to Cybercab with Grok Bot & Connectors, letting you interface with your inbox, calendar, files, chats and tasks, all by voice.
Transport, office & living room in one
Robotics
– Started production of @Tesla_Optimus on our high-volume lines in Fremont.
These are the first production-quality bots we've built, proving that the current manufacturing process for Optimus is suitable for a commercial product
SI Compute
– On track for 400 MW of training compute by year end, feeding both vehicle & humanoid autonomy
– Austin Fab construction continues, equipment commissioning planned for 2027
Battery
– Battery supply is still the limiter on how fast we ramp vehicles globally, so we're expanding on every front: pack capacity in Berlin, cathode and lithium refining in Texas, LFP cells in Nevada
– Shipped the first Megapacks built entirely with our own LFP cells
– Increasing 4680 output to support ramp of Cybercab, Semi & Model Y
Energy
– Megafactory Texas is up & running, with Megapack 3 production started
– Highest-ever order rate & backlog for energy storage
Grid constraints & power availability are making Megapack the answer for SI infrastructure demand: it excels at supplying large data center loads, smooths out demand spikes, helps new projects meet grid connection rules & makes the grid itself more stable
All with less local fossil fuel generation
Supporting Infrastructure
– Added 2,100+ net new Supercharger stalls, up 14% year over year
Purple Cow retweeted
Victor Davis Hanson: Europe Turned on the U.S. Because It’s Terrified of Its Unassimilated Populations
Why won’t European countries support the U.S. or even allow it to use their airspace?
Because the U.S. is at war with a Muslim nation.
They’re scared that if they help the U.S., their own Muslim populations will riot.
“Well, they're going to riot anyway.”
Full episode: youtu.be/7ZKCKweOErU
@VDHanson
Purple Cow retweeted
Demonstrating a @Tesla with FSD to an elderly neighbor. She’s a perfect candidate: rich, lives alone, no longer drives at night due to poor vision. FSD would change her life.
She would write a check for one today EXCEPT the text on the screen is too damned small. Even with the display adjusted to large print.
Tesla, you’ve got 100 square inches to play with. Create an optional “old fogey” UI with minimum 48-point type.
Remember, as @tom_peters says… women over 50 have All The Money and control all the car purchases. And they mostly wear bifocals.
Purple Cow retweeted
man this makes more sense today than ever - as France burns.
People used to come to the US to assimilate, work and raise a family.
They were quiet and never complained.
Now they come and raise their flags and tell us we have to change for them- and we must support them while doing so. 🙄
They've even conned the Dem Party, it seems.
Vote for GOP to keep America, American.
Purple Cow retweeted
Palmer Luckey explains why China is advancing so rapidly in technology and why the United States is struggling to keep up 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“The reason China is doing so well with advanced technology isn’t that they have a lot of people. It’s that they made a series of decisions that make high-tech companies much faster and much more effective.
They have very low-cost energy. You can complain about all of their coal plants, but the net output is that they have a very, very low cost of energy.
You have a really favorable labor environment. You have a very favorable logistics and supply chain world. You have very favorable laws regarding the extraction and processing of metals, minerals, and rare earths.
People ask me, ‘Palmer, what can we do to catch up with China?’
I say, ‘We need way more energy. We’re probably going to need to burn a lot more fossil fuels, and we’re probably going to need to relax labor laws.’
And they say, ‘I want to catch up with China, but I don’t want to do any of the things they’re doing to lead.’
You have to make a choice at some point. It’s not really possible to say, ‘I want to win, but I’m not willing to do anything to do that.’”
Purple Cow retweeted
I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
