@herbertong If robotaxi is already safer than humans it makes no sense to delay rollout until it is even more safe. By delaying you are actually causing more casualties by withholding the safer technology from passengers!! Tesla knows this. It’s an excuse to suppress the stock for a merger
A close friend's oldest brother went into cardiac arrest and passed away a couple months ago.
Here is what I learned that morning about the real cost of neglecting yourself (every man needs to hear this):
He was in his early forties, looked physically capable and had a job that kept him moving.
But he'd been drinking heavily for years, eating garbage and abusing substances.
His doctors had already diagnosed a heart condition and ordered him to wear a medical device to prevent exactly what happened.
He refused.
There is a version of masculinity that mistakes self-destruction for strength – the "I don't need doctors" posture, the "I'll power through it" posture, the "nothing's gonna stop me" posture.
It feels like independence and reads like toughness but it is neither.
When you accelerate your own breakdown through what you eat, what you drink and what you refuse to address, you are not exercising freedom but rather you are hurting the people who love you.
Your kids lose their father early, your brother drops everything to come home and grieve, and your aging parents watch the person who was supposed to hold the family together disappear before his time.
The tragedy doesn't belong to you alone.
My mother was an alcoholic who told us for 25 years that she could quit drinking whenever she wanted.
We intervened more times than I can count and she always agreed with everything we said, only to go straight back to drinking.
One day she just stopped and I still don't fully understand what shifted, but the damage was done by then and she died about seven years after that.
I'm not judging anyone because addiction is complex and the line between a habit and a dependency is blurry.
But if you sit with yourself honestly you already know the things you need to stop doing and the things you've been putting off that you need to start, because that information is in you and you don't need a podcast to surface it.
Just sit quietly alone with yourself and ask: where am I losing myself in life?
You will be astounded at the answers that reveal themselves to you.
After that, you must put those answers into action.
The thing you know you need to do that you're not doing, go do it.
And the thing you keep doing that you know you shouldn't, stop doing it.
It's simple, but it won't be easy.
By taking care of yourself, you are best able to take care of your loved ones.
You cannot pour from an empty cup.
And you sure as hell can't pour if you're dead.
So take care of yourself like you would someone you love.
@elonmusk@wholemars Elon understands that the Austrian economists had it right. Most of our problems stem from expansive fiat currencies and government intervention