Lukas Marc

[Tyson Hockley @HockleyTyson]

When a man has nothing in his own life to be proud of, he resorts to taking pride in his nationality, race, or ethnicity.

- Schopenhauer

[Fred Lambert @FredLambert]

Elon doesn't care what you think of him, but he really wants you know that he doesn't care what you think of him.

No ones serious believe this.

Obviously, Chamath is just a grade-A grifter, but it's wild that Rogan went from this anti-establishment conspiracy theorist pothead to now basically running PR for the billionaire donor class in the US. Crazy what a $100 million spotify deal will do to you.

[Lukas Marc @LukasM69080]

@SkipperStagg @FredLambert No, they are not struggling, just shutting down production of their vehicles cause no one buys them

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

This checks out...

[EuroMaximalist 🇪🇺 @euromaximal]

I understand being proud of your nation and not wanting to see it swallowed by the idea of a federal Europe.

What I don’t understand is failing to see that pan-europeanism is the only hope for individual European nations to survive in the modern age.

It’s simple logic.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

At the inaugural session of the National Assembly, the European Union flag will also be returned to the facade of Parliament, alongside the Hungarian and Székely flags.

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

The disaster that is $TSLA's earnings, pt. 3: The numbers from the FSD myth

Of all the mistakes Elmo made during yesterday's earnings call, none was more striking than this: He admitted that full-self-driving is not possible on HW3. This is something those of us who understand the tech have been saying for years, as Tesla's reliance on vision systems instead of LIDAR comes with inherent limitations.

Elmo stated that in order for cars that he has been promising would be FSD capable from 2017 forward, they would need a complete replacement of the onboard computer AND all of the cameras. He then proposed a solution of, rather than honoring the terms of the contract $TSLA established with every car buyer from the last 9 years (and every investor over that time), he was going to offer what amounts to a COUPON for a discount on a new Tesla.

The obvious problem here is, you can't breach a contract with everybody and then tell people who likely don't WANT to buy a new Tesla (myself included) that that's how you're going to handle it. And, given that Tesla's inventory (even after he pulled some shenanigans with purchases with his other companies, more on that later), is all the way up to 27 days, it's obvious people have lost their desire to own these vehicles. Legally, Tesla is at a minimum required to offer a full refund of FSD purchases over this entire time period (10k/car).

Anyhow, here are the numbers: 1.1 million cars have full FSD purchased (not leased). That's 11 BILLION dollars of liability for Tesla, JUST on the refunds for FSD, let alone the breach claims and investor suits. And make no mistake, the class action suits will be FLYING.

The alternative? Elmo floated the idea of building "micro factories" to build all the computers and cameras necessary to replace all these systems (because he wants to be like Disney and have a policy of "once he has your money, he never gives it back"). Well, that won't work. By Elmo's own admission, one of the big bottlenecks is memory bandwidth. With RAM prices sky high because of the AI industry (which Elmo has contributed to, ironically enough), the production costs of these systems is way beyond anything Tesla could have projected. And that's without factoring in the capex necessary to spring up "micro factories" all around the country - the construction costs, permitting, equipment, etc. etc. It's not unreasonable to assume it would cost more than $10,000/unit to stand up production to retrofit these 1.1 million cars. Now Elmo was super sketchy about this when he was talking, saying that replacement of the hardware might need to be offered...but he left out the part where he's going to be obligated to do it for free. I would wager, in his mind, that he thinks this might be something he could charge for.

Worth noting here, amidst all these numbers, is that Elmo stated the fix doesn't even exist right now, and Tesla has no timeline for how it thinks it's going to "solve" it. Given Tesla's history of always being years late on deadlines (we're in year 9 of "FSD level 3 this year", for example), that's not going to set well with people, especially ones with older FSD capable cars.

Tesla is a disaster.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

"Tim Cook took Apple from $350B to $4T"

So? That's a 11X market cap increase. In the same time, MSFT saw a 14X increase, Google saw a 20X increase, Amazon did 28X, Facebook did 35X. We're not even going to talk about NVidia.

Cook led Apple through a period where every tech company expanded. Yay for him?

In the meantime, Apple had the most compelling pre-AI experience in Siri. They had everything! They had mountains of user data, audio and transcription training data, the biggest and most sophisticated user data network in the world *by far*.

And they blew it. They should be so far ahead of the competition on AI that it makes their competitors fall into despair. Instead, they are a non-player in the biggest tech revolution since mobile, maybe even since the internet.

They could have leveraged their data advantage to create astonishingly powerful models. They make their own silicon, they could have beat NVidia to the punch on hardware if Cook had any foresight.

Instead they still just make high-end devices and now also they make TV shows and won an Oscar for a movie no one saw. I'm sorry, but that's underwhelming.

[WarrensBuffet @warrensbuffet2]

If the EU is so irrelevant, why is every single iPhone sold globally a USB-C?

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

Elon Musk is talking about universal "high" income because "basic" sounded bad. CNN is reporting it (because he's rich). If you think the guy who spent 2025 trying to end the fed govt paying for anything of human benefit wants to give you a nice allowance you have shit for brains

[Lukas Marc @LukasM69080]

@Okitwist @BenjaminDEKR @mikevwvo Some lack imagination, some lack brain. To repeat some scammers lines that there’s scenario where anyone who wants can have a penthouse because robots will build it… spending time in Elons twitter really reveals that 99% of population are completely retarded.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Fuckface signs an executive order and then says “you think Biden can do that?” Yes, he can. And unlike you, Joe Biden can think, he can ride a bike, and he can walk in a straight line. Oh, and he’s not a convicted felon and a child-raping pedophile

[Lukas Marc @LukasM69080]

@klaehnr @dpoddolphinpro Are you really this stupid?

[EuroMaximalist 🇪🇺 @euromaximal]

The European Union is the best thing to happen to Europe. It gave peace to a region that has only ever known war.

Is it perfect? Far from it. But the way forward isn’t to scrap it, but to reform it into what it’s meant to be.

A global superpower. The European civilisation.

[Fellaraktar🇺🇦 @fellaraktar]

Thank you America.

You went first.

You showed the rest of us that right wing populists are full of shit, achieve nothing and will drag nations into the abyss.

Your example might have saved Europe from a dangerous shift.

Good luck in November, my friends! 🫡

You got this.

[Fellaraktar🇺🇦 @fellaraktar]

Haven’t seen a single upset Hungarian.

But I’ve seen A LOT of upset MAGA.

Let me make this clear.

You don’t seem to be getting the message.

Europeans don’t want your retarded bullshit.

This doesn’t concern you.

Take your bullshit propaganda.

And fuck yourselves with it.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Orbán is basically a complete and total piece of shit, and even he can accept an election loss. It really makes Trump a uniquely garbage human being that he can’t admit he lost to Biden in 2020.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Congratulations to @magyarpeterMP and the TISZA party on their resounding victory. It is important when constructive approach prevails.

Ukraine has always sought good-neighbourly relations with everyone in Europe and we are ready to advance our cooperation with Hungary.

Europe and every European nation must get stronger, and millions of Europeans seek cooperation and stability.

We are ready for meetings and joint constructive work for the benefit of both nations, as well as peace, security, and stability in Europe.