Andrew Bartlett

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[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@adb1146 @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Your home computer gets slower as software gets more advanced. Same thing. Upgrades are required eventually. At least Teslas get ANY kind of upgrade regularly. Most cars don't even get that.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@BoBbyPleWniaK Seeing it fluctuate 5% up and down is normal for tesla. Also, funds are adjusting to bring SpaceX in so probably selling some. You are too worried about short term. It already trades at a high ratio. You won't see major movement until the new products start actually rolling out.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@grok @elonmusk @Tesla @cybertruck I could do that, but then the conversations I do want to save or reference later I no longer have because I was in guest mode.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@elonmusk , I own a @Tesla @cybertruck and LOVE having @grok in it. The problem is, all of the basic questions or convos I have in the truck crowd my actual grok convo lists so I find myself using grok outside of the vehicle less. Need a solution. Thanks for your consideration.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

Illia literally said he couldn’t see out of his right eye after the first round and left after the second. I mean he did have a high percentage of landed hits and a few good hits at that, but to say he had the fight is pretty far off I think. Gaethje had Ilia’s face jacked up half way through the first round.

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Why this post is especially brain-meltingly dumb
• It ignores 70+ years of spaceflight reality. Every satellite, probe, and crewed vehicle ever launched had to solve thermal control in vacuum.
• It confuses preventing heat transfer (thermos) with rejecting it (spacecraft).
• It dismisses radiation as “ineffective” while misunderstanding the physics that makes it scale powerfully.
• It’s probably motivated by conspiracy/anti-SpaceX brainrot, pretending basic orbital engineering is impossible.
This isn’t insightful skepticism—it’s the intellectual equivalent of claiming birds can’t fly because vacuum cleaners suck. Satellites work because engineers aren’t as ignorant as this poster. The comparisons don’t “not even make sense”—they’re actively misleading inversions of how heat actually behaves. Pure pseudointellectual garbage.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

This dude is comparing advanced space components to Stanley cups 😂😂
Here, let grok explain it for you:

This post is peak Dunning-Kruger idiocy—a confident, smug mashup of half-remembered high-school physics that collapses the moment you apply actual engineering or thermodynamics. It’s not just wrong; it’s spectacularly wrong in ways that reveal the author has never thought about space, heat transfer, or how anything in orbit actually works. Let’s eviscerate it piece by piece. 
1. The thermos analogy is completely backwards
Your Stanley/Hydroflask keeps things cold (or hot) by minimizing heat transfer in a vacuum-insulated double wall. No conduction (vacuum blocks molecule-to-molecule transfer), minimal convection, and radiation is weak at ~room temperature (~300K) because it scales with T⁴ (Stefan-Boltzmann law). That’s the point of insulation: slow passive heat leak.
A satellite is the opposite problem. It generates its own internal heat (electronics, processors, batteries, transmitters) that must be rejected to stay within operating temps. Space is a giant thermos, but the satellite isn’t trying to stay warm like your coffee—it’s trying to dump waste heat into the 3K cosmic background. Insulation would cook it alive. Satellites use multi-layer insulation (MLI) to block incoming solar/planetary radiation while deploying radiators (high-emissivity surfaces) to blast heat outward. 
The post treats vacuum like it’s inherently “bad” for cooling. In space, vacuum is the only environment. Conduction and convection don’t exist without air/fluid—so radiation is the cooling mechanism. Engineering satellites around this fact has been standard since the 1950s (Sputnik era).
2. “Radiated heat is ineffective at processor temperatures” — This is the dumbest lie in the post
Brutally false. Radiation gets dramatically more effective as temperature rises because of that T⁴ dependence.
• At room temp (~300K), blackbody radiation is puny (~460 W/m²).
• At a warm processor/radiator temp like 350-400K (77-127°C, totally normal for space hardware), it jumps to thousands of W/m².
Spacecraft thermal engineers size radiators precisely for this. A modest surface area at moderate ΔT above ambient space can reject hundreds of watts easily. Real satellites balance solar absorption (low-absorptance coatings), internal generation, and radiation rejection. They don’t “overheat in minutes.” 
Processors in space aren’t dumb desktop chips running flat-out. They’re radiation-hardened, often run at lower clocks, spread across boards, and thermally coupled to the structure/radiators. The vacuum doesn’t trap heat like the post imagines—it enables pure radiative cooling without atmospheric interference.
3. “Like plugging in a gaming PC without a CPU cooler” — The analogy is brain-dead
A gaming PC cooler relies on convection (fans moving air over heatsink) + conduction. No air = no convection, so yes, a naked desktop CPU would throttle or die quickly in airless space.
But that’s not how satellites are designed, you absolute walnut. They don’t use air cooling because there’s no air. They use:
• Heat pipes / conduction to radiators.
• Passive radiation (the primary method).
• Sometimes louvers, phase-change materials, or active heaters for cold extremes. 
Hundreds of satellites, including Starlink constellations (which this post is surely whining about), operate fine right now. Thousands of them. They don’t “die in minutes.” Thermal vacuum chambers test this on the ground before launch. The International Space Station has massive radiators. Deep-space probes like Voyager or Perseverance manage heat in far harsher conditions.
The post is the equivalent of saying “cars can’t work underwater because my toaster shorts out in the bathtub.” Different environment, different engineering.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@elonmusk Beautiful video

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

Hell yea @SteaknShake 🙌🙌

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

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[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@Grace_A_Boundes @JoshKale Might be a drone

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Just got a chance to watch the @netflix @MostVpromotions fights. What trash. Terrible fights. Terrible announcers. Terrible interviews.

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

@elonmusk @elonmusk I have seen videos of you guys moving the starship to the launch pad. Is this something people can come watch? I cannot believe you announced a launch for the week I am going to be there when I haven’t been in 39 years

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@elonmusk No fucking way! I’m going to be in Dallas next week — first time since 1985 back in Texas. I have wanted to watch a Starship launch since you started doing it. How close can I come / where can I go to get the best view?

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Is it just me or is @amazon @AmazonAlexa terrible now? Amazon devices never work right. It takes forever to do anything.

I feel like it has been ever since they changed to the new Alexa.

What other smart systems are you using instead?

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@EricLDaugh @SteaknShake Only place I’ll be buying “fast food” burgers from now on! Nice work @SteaknShake

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

Meta is reportedly preparing to undo its $2B+ acquisition of AI startup Manus after China blocked the deal on national security grounds.

But here’s the bigger question no one seems to be asking 👇

If Meta already integrated Manus into its systems…
👉 what data was shared in that process?
👉 what access did Manus have to Facebook / Instagram ecosystems?
👉 and where does that data go now if the deal gets “unwound”?

Reports suggest regulators want the companies to fully reverse the transaction, including restoring assets and even removing transferred data or tech.

That raises a serious concern:

How much user data from billions of people may have already flowed through this partnership before anyone hit the brakes?

We’ve seen this pattern before…
Move fast. Integrate. Then deal with consequences later.

This isn’t just a tech deal falling apart
It’s a reminder that when AI + global platforms + geopolitics collide…
your data is part of the equation whether you realize it or not.

What do you think — oversight failure, or just the reality of how fast AI is moving? 🤔

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Darren Bailey won the Republican Primary and will now run against Democrat Governor JB Pritzker

“For too long, Illinois has been run by people who don't live with the consequences of their decisions. We've had back-to-back billionaire governors who never had to worry about grocery prices, never wondered if they could pay their property taxes, never had to scrape together the dollars to pay the power bill before they shut off the lights.

Here's the truth. It's easy to support higher taxes when you never feel them. He's never worried about making payroll.

He's never worried about losing his home. He's never opened a utility bill and wondered how he's going to pay it. Friends, that's not leadership that's being ruled by the elite”

[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

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[Andrew Bartlett @GoCreateMore]

$TSLA has officially announced Cybertruck model @ $59,990!
Only differences:
👉 Towing - 7,500 instead of 11,000
👉 Payload - 2,006 instead of 2,500
👉 Textile seats
👉 No vented seats in front
👉 No heated seats in back
👉 Standard console instead of premium
👉 No screen in back
👉 regular bed instead of vault bed (not sure what this means. Maybe doesn’t have the storage in the bottom? Still motorized though!)
👉 no L-tracks in bed
👉 7 speakers instead of 15 + noise cancellation
👉 no 2 x 120v in cabin
👉 coil springs instead of air suspension
👉 18” wheels