Roland Lewis

IT Pro & Explorer

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

@SpaceX Vandenberg🚀🚀🚀1/24/24 @ 3 miles away 500mm lens. I was able to capture water deluge system & ignition. Someone in crowd says, "Holy shhh...cow!"😅Amazing how quickly it took off after ignition & how much it illuminated the area. A pretty breathtaking experience!

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

It's Tesla 420/69 day again! TxDMV fleet shows 420 Model Ys + 69 Cybercabs. 🤣🤣🤣 The rolling move is now +50 vehicles in 7 days (+11%) and +298 in 30 days (+156%).

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

Spotted this morning in San Jose, CA near Campbell. Steering wheel and screen are covered by a Tesla branded jacket. There's an Nvme SSD hard drive on the floor connected to the vehicle perhaps for data collection.

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@RapidResponse47 Amazing!

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Here's a summary of Grok result. Presented quickly and without hesitation.

Chapter Outline: DEI as a Virus Designed to Destroy Communities
1. Introduction
Institutional DEI prioritizes group identity over competence, shared values, and voluntary association. It acts like a pathogen attacking communities’ immune systems—trust, selection, and boundaries—causing fragmentation, higher costs, and dissolution. Organic communities form through selective association; DEI reframes selectivity as moral failure.
2. Nature of Community
A community is people who know one another, interact repeatedly, and have earned trust through reliability, reciprocity, and aligned interests. Humans form coalitions via kinship, proximity, norms, competence, and reputation. High-trust settings enable specialization, mutual aid, and low transaction costs. Healthy communities feature voluntary membership, clear expectations, internal dispute resolution, and power to exclude free-riders. Abstract aggregates dilute knowledge and accountability.
3. Selectiveness vs. Diversity
Sustainable communities require homogeneity in traits that produce trust—character, reliability, work ethic, norms, shared purpose—not demographic checkboxes. Vetting (reputation, contribution, fit) opposes enforced balancing that elevates identity over track record. Homogeneity of type is a feature: groups selecting for similar standards outperform forced mixtures. DEI treats selection as discrimination, weakening filters that preserve quality and cohesion.
4. Against Universal Equity
Members rationally prioritize their own known associates over distant outsiders. This particularism is normal. Equity-as-leveling demands equal outcomes across identity groups, transferring resources and status away from contribution rankings. Result: resentment, weakened incentives, and identity claims replacing earned hierarchy. Communities unable to prefer their own lose the basis for mutual investment. Universalist ethics rest on particularistic communities.
5. Against Compulsory Inclusion
Exclusion is the precondition of meaningful inclusion. Strong communities thrive by excluding the unknown and unvetted. Open membership destroys the scarcity that makes belonging valuable. Boundaries protect norms and mutual knowledge; without them free-riding rises. DEI treats exclusion as illegitimate and forces admission by identity, turning voluntary associations into audited zones. High-trust members exit or disengage.
6. Mechanisms of Destruction
Institutions embed DEI metrics that override competence. Speech controls discourage discussion of trade-offs. Resources are reallocated by identity and loyalty. Declining performance is blamed on insufficient DEI, prompting more intervention. Like a pathogen, DEI disables the ability to distinguish self from non-self, reframing self-preference and boundaries as the disease.
7. Empirical Patterns
Social-capital research, trust studies, assimilation patterns, and cultural-fit findings show costs of forced mixing without shared standards. Institutional trust and participation often decline after aggressive identity-first diversification. Resilient groups (religious communities, guilds, high-performing teams) maintained strong selection and boundaries. The critique targets compelled identity-first approaches, not voluntary competence-based association.
8. Restoration
Communities recover by reclaiming the right to know, vet, prefer their own, and exclude. Restore competence and character as primary filters, protect freedom of association, reject equity metrics that override contribution, and enforce clear boundaries. Flourishing depends on nested particularistic communities, not dissolving them into managed populations. Institutional DEI systematically attacks those operating principles.
This is one interpretive framework. Alternatives emphasize historical discrimination or market selection. Strength rests on evidence for the mechanisms, not the framing alone.

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

@CoachOrlando3 @FoxNews Huh?

[Jeff Lutz 🔋 @thejefflutz]

I thought “the market” said AI was over 🥴

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@MP550bomba @Polymarket There's a time and place for a calculator as well. Youngsters need to learn the material without AI first.

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@pbonn1989 @MAGAVoice Europe has made offensive moves, in the United States has been there for them.

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@bazaoldgit @MAGAVoice Who will they buy their weapons from? China? Russia? I don't think so

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@Dannyzem3 @MAGAVoice The point is they are each not paying their 3%. That's all that matters.

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@wholemars Looks like the voting rights convey immediately on these shares.

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@elonmusk @iam_smx 🤣

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@thejefflutz Looking good. What's your grill setup...pellets, propane, briquets?

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

@BrettHemry @IRanMediaco He said these were Iranian Navy ships?

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@DrJStrategy @thejefflutz This is very well written and summarizes the situation perfectly.

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@Gandalf_da_Grey @DrJStrategy Your reply is so devoid of intelligence.

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

@JOBhakdi Scary, but unfortunately likely true.

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@thejefflutz @Tesla Hmm... Maybe helps with HW3 upgrades. I always thought HW3 would likely get upgrade to AI5 (not 4).

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@JOBhakdi @elonmusk @nikitabier Great idea Jo. I saw one of those and tested interacting with it. It was clearly not you or anyone working with you.

[Roland Lewis @HeyRolandJ]

@JOBhakdi Congrats! I started following a few months ago...no announcement for me? 😉