Dirk Bester

Computer Scientist, Technophile.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

You are a dumb ignorant dipshit spreading toxic nonsense.

StarLink provides life saving communications in innumerable disasters all over the planet. Do you even know any FEMA personnel? Don’t take my word, take theirs.

Can you name any of the hurricanes where StarLink provided aid? No. Did you know that Tesla makes their superchargers free during hurricane evacuations? No. You are probably an ignorant American or a Chinese sock puppet eh?

Do you know that StarLink single handedly saved Ukraine? No.

Why should Elon "give back" at all. We don’t need your communist mumbo jumbo and fake economics.

What we need is for Elon to keep doing exactly what he is doing. Have you even read about the native tribes who are now on fast internet and connected instead of on nothing at all despite the billions in government fees and taxes wasted on not getting them connected.

Shut up and let capitalism work.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@Biigmaaccee @SpaceX You appear to be a poor person in Africa. Nobody cares what you think about technology. Stick to soccer or something please.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@BLKMDL3 @Brand0n Apparently timeless means 2014 to 2026. Timeless is exactly 12 years long!

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@jackhopman @Out_of_Spec @itskyleconner @Jordan_Schiefer @AndrewStilin @alex_bessinger @OutofSpecDetail @MurrayxLogan It would probably take a class action. For the first time in my life I want to join one of those horror shows.
Although Musk has said they will have to do something, he has not specified what.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@DK15779516 @Out_of_Spec @itskyleconner @Jordan_Schiefer @AndrewStilin @alex_bessinger @OutofSpecDetail @MurrayxLogan Unlikely to take that long. It will just take the taxis to get to 80% or so of sales, and boom gone, we are a taxi company. We don't care about the people that buy our cars, fuck those losers.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

I have a model X. I was waiting for no side mirrors and or HW5 to ship later this year to upgrade. Now I can not, and in fact need to dump this now worthless vehicle with no future.

I could buy a Cybertruck but let's be honest, it too is going to get cancelled. Now that Tesla is just Google and killing off products willy nilly there is no reliability. The truck has smaller sales than S and X.

Worse, I have yet to see the FSD I paid for in 2018. Although at least it feels close ish. For models that are not mine, mine has no chance with obsolete hardware that will now never see updates because there will be no X to update from.

Could I buy a 3 or Y? No, I am not downgrading. Even if I did, those will sell poorly compared to the upcoming Model 2 cheap and will be discontinued as well.

It is one thing to end a model, it is an entire other thing to end all models in a category. Other car brands do not do that. Should anyone let Tesla keep their roadster bucks? Seems foolish. Why would Tesla build a roadster. It is just unsellable low volume vaporware.

I am disappoint

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@BernieSanders Retarded communist says what?
Go back to Russia and enjoy your dumb communist utopia Colonel Sanders.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

I am delighted whenever law enforcement arrests criminals. I want so much of that that it drives crime to undetectable rates.
I would pay extra taxes for rougher treatment of criminals.
I wish we had laws that tacked on extra penalties for people like this criminal who are interfering with law enforcement.
Threatening a law officer and their family's lives with doxxing needs a minimum 5 year sentence. Even if you are a senator or senator staffer or whatever.
Engaging in schemes to help criminals avoid capture needs a lot more enforcement and penalties. Aiding and abetting is not OK. Let us make crimes criminal again.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

First, dipshit, fascism is politics, just like communism.

You are confusing it with economics here. Capitalism is what built modern China. Famously they allowed limited capitalism and it enabled all this. Before they did that it was a horrendous backwater.

Go actually visit China. People are very entrepreneurial and capitalist.

Could they do even better? Yes, their communist governing system sucks. Their large state owned corporations suck. They build large empty cities because central planning is stupid.

The real question is how do they fare once they run out of peasants to turn into modern workers. In the Soviet Union when they ran out they collapsed. China is doing better than that, but it will still be an issue. And then the AI and robots take over and they are sitting with the second most mouths to feed of any country.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@realJeffBromley @SenFettermanPA If I start a new religion that lets anyone marry, then what are you going to do? Pretend your religion is better than the thousands of other religions?
THIN
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[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@baztop3 @torybruno @NASASpaceflight @blueorigin Yes, please stop. I am more interested in your efforts to sell off ULA to the highest bidder. Immanentize your future.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

It looks like you are trying to make false claims with a sprinkling of truth.
They are working on robots and will likely end up being a robot company primarily. Unless someone else outcompetes them. They do have EV sales. So far so good.

False: They are working on autonomy and robotaxis. The Cybertruck exists, although sales seem mediocre. The semi is ramping up, there seems to be nothing wrong with it at all. They have Tesla insurance, I know, I use it.

True: Roadster is MIA. Dojo did not work out and got canned. Battery swaps turn out to be unnecessary and stupid. Yes, Tesla is not doing Hyperloop, but then they specifically said they never will right from day 1. Yep, DOGE probably died real quick, killed by the establishment of graft and corruption and wasteful spending. Yes, the America Party has failed to launch. Good, I don't want Musk wasting time on dumb political crap. Turns out Trump is in the Epstein files. It got covered in the media. Only, not as a bad guy, just someone who had interactions with Epstein, including kicking him out of Maralago for inappropriate behavior and possibly a weird birthday card.

Your picture is mostly false in its portrayal. I wonder why.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@wholemars You know it is a murderbot right?

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@pmarca I forget the swear word now but iOS mangled it, I accepted the mangling and then it flagged it as a typo. I laughed and made it bow down to my crude speech by adding my free speech to the dictionary instead.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@megynkelly I think people in the victim Olympics need to smell the coffee. Everyone has their cross to bear. Life does not dole out challenges based on skin color, sexual orientation or gender. It doles it out to everyone.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@dr__dwayne @amy787 You sound like a communist with no actual Tesla shares and no understanding of capitalism. You can dispute one or two of these, but not all of them.

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@evafox True. The disgust and revulsion I feel for the smoker is palpable.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@mrfundman @wholemars The learn more button is broken. Please fix.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

So what? Reagan was wrong on illegal immigration. His economic policy was from an era of mostly western democracies trading with each other.
Today we have China cheating the system, it calls for a response. America is no longer the sole superpower for life, endless cash handouts to the world is no longer viable.

There is no need to change history. The history you are fixated on is just not relevant today or not what you think. You are displaying an ignorance of economic reality. Reality is we cannot trust China to be the sole producer of goods. We cannot trust anyone else to be producers of critical goods.

The world is different today. Shipping all production to China turned out to not be good economics or even smart. Transferring intellectual property to China for free turns out to be dumb.

Your post is not even wrong.

[Dirk Bester @Toadkiller]

@FelixSchlang @DJSnM Switch to X. Problem permanent ly solved.
What was the issue anyway? Refused to cater to people whining about clickbait headings or thumbnails and hurt their feelings?