@ChrisMartzWX Our old Jeep Grand Cherokee use to give 22 mpg the cost of 17xxx miles a year was around 3k to 4k, plus 3 oil change another 5 hundreds a year, almost 5, everything else same (tires, windshield fluid, depreciation, insurance, tabs)
@TesLatina Cuando era niño imaginaba que cuando los dejaba de ver se detendrían o desaparecerían, y volteaba repentinamente para intentar atraparlos en mi teoría 😝😝😝
When they say: Please, for the love of God, regulate us. Give us licences, audits, and bans before our digital God destroys us all.
Here is what is actually being requested. Three things, in order.
A regulatory body that they control, to prevent competition from catching up. Written with their people, staffed by their alumni, and calibrated to what they can already afford. Compliance is a fixed cost, which means it is trivial for the incumbent and fatal for the challenger. Not technology, but paperwork becomes their moat.
Immunity from liability. This is the one nobody talks about and it is the most valuable of the three. Today, if your model causes harm, it is your fault. Once licensed, audited, and approved, it is the regulator’s fault – you followed the rules. The licence converts responsibility into a receipt.
Too big to fail status, which means taxpayer funded bailouts in case of problems. Declare it critical infrastructure and the state now has an interest in your survival. Which means, when something goes wrong, the losses are public and the gains stay private. We have watched this film. Banking, 2008, same argument, same vocabulary.
Note the pattern: every one of the three transfers something from them to the public – risk, competition, cost – while the language is entirely about protecting the public from them.
The sincerity of the fear is beside the point. Sincere people can still ask for exactly what an insincere person would ask for, and the request should be judged by what it does rather than by what motivates it.
The alternative is unglamorous and works: competition, adversarial testing between rivals who want to find each other’s flaws, and full liability after real harm. Nobody gets a licence. Nobody gets immunity. Nobody gets a bailout. You build, and you answer for what you built.
That is the arrangement that made the West rich. It has never needed anyone’s permission to work.
Ermilo Abreu, en el libro Canek, escribe palabras que pudo haber pronunciado Jacinto Canek, líder maya que se levantó contra la injusticia en 1761:
“Todos los seres, por el hecho mismo de serlo, tienen atributos, expresiones de su esencia, voces que revelan su origen y condición. El atributo de los seres no es un adorno ni una cualidad que viene de fuera, al acaso. Su atributo es como la emanación del agua que hierve; es agua y no es agua. Así, el atributo del mar es el orgullo; el atributo del sol, la autoridad; el atributo del hombre, la dignidad”.
¡Que viva la dignidad del pueblo de México!
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@BeardedTesla@theficouple Even more, I had a jeep grand Cherokee for the same period of time, 50k become 15k, plus maintenance, gas and repairs, Tesla model y in 3 years maybe less depreciation but just 500 on maintenance, energy and that’s it.
@palabrafilica Según la Real Academia Española, tanto coche como carro significan ‘automóvil’. No hay una que sea más “correcta” que la otra desde el punto de vista lingüístico. En otros lugares también se le llama auto. Just saying 😝.
@Starlink I just got mine, I will be traveling in this month to some remote locations outside of the USA, but I just realized my dish doesn’t have any SOS option or the app, some scenarios need that. Thank you.
Firmly rooted in the Word of Jesus, reading the Gospel every day, never stop dreaming of a land where there is peace and fraternity, nor stop looking at the world with wonder, nor stop facing the future with the light of hope. Do not let anything or anyone steal your hope.