Snejana

In love with my Tesla MYLR

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@alex_avoigt Argh! I don’t want to see any buttons when I go into a car! That is so 1940!

[Snejana @balabanova]

Surely a classic tune.

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

Say no more.

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@GuntherEagleman This poll will allow all graduates of the Quality Learing Center to quickly self-identify.

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@AlexEdgerton Sterling BS. I just bought a second Tesla which I didn’t even need and don’t even have room in the garage for, and it’s because I’m so in love with them and they are such awesome cars to drive. Never going back to ICE, and never again driving anything other than a Tesla.

[Snejana @balabanova]

@M44_1RJ 0%? I don’t see any fat, anywhere.

[Tesla @Tesla]

World's first autonomous delivery of a car!

This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner

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@M44_1RJ I’m in the US and it says subscription is not available for my country, and that’s after updating yesterday to the latest version of X.

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@M44_1RJ Does Sweden’s largest pension fund have ideas on how other large tech companies should be run in the US, or just Tesla?

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@TaraBull808 Since when are straps “attire”?

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@M44_1RJ I can only hope I make the top loyal category 🤞

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@SawyerMerritt Ha, New Jersey is still a functioning state? Someone save it from itself. I propose a sane state step in and take it over.

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@WHLeavitt Yes and oh, what fun!

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@damonimani @elonmusk Wait, The Atlantic is still in business? I wonder who’s funding it….

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@BastianBraun121 Can’t wait to get my own Optimus to go with my Tesla. The future is here.

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@patrickbetdavid @M44_1RJ It was so good for America to see that the entire Democratic party has no manners. No empathy. It’s sad to think they represent people just like themselves.

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@toots_yo @patrickbetdavid I don’t know what this is, but it’s scary. It shouldn’t be shown to anyone under 12, or they won’t be able to sleep.

[Snejana @balabanova]

@DankerD @patrickbetdavid The holy month of Ramadan started on Saturday. She’s hungry and only thinking about dinner.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.