Cap'n Ken

Been here a long time

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@2024dion Questions of the Everglades aside, Florida really has done a great job with land conservation given the scale of its growth in the past 40-50 years. It's full of natural state parks and tons of public and private conservation areas. Should get more credit for that.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@FreddyLA7 And you were in maybe the 6th best stadium in the core SEC; maybe the 9th best in the abomination that is the current SEC.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@TCL Dude, you gave me yours 10 years ago.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

Eventually, I will possess everyone's copy of this book.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

Amazingly on-point reply to a moron.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@Gfilche @Tesla But I disengaged once because the car was about to hit a dead armadillo and reported it as "you were about to hit a dead armadillo." Some months later, the car swerved nicely to avoid a different dead armadillo - so clearly that system worked well!

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@Gfilche @Tesla Unless, of course, Tesla has invented a way to make this useful, which I suppose is possible...

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

Caught a scene just now of this Boomer woman coming back from setting stuff up for the beach trailed by a ridiculously typical weak Millennial Man (pudgy, stupid big beard, glasses, pale - just weak looking and dumpy). The woman was pulling the big beach cart with the man (son in law, I'd guess) just trailing behind, checking his phone at times.

Thought this was interesting and telling, so I grabbed a photo. But I didn't want to post pics of strangers just going about their business, so I asked Grok if it could sort of anonymize the people - same type of people, just not these specific people. This is what it produced.

Anyway, Millennial dudes tend to be really lame.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@Summersaltcloud @profplum99 Right. And in an airport where pains in our asses are already at every turn, no less.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@BjorkBrodern Wouldn't have this many great nature shots in this thread without the bait - so thanks!

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@JoeAnderson Really skating some state lines with that route. Nicely done. Some of it looks like how I can tell my kids they've been to Indiana 😂

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@MFlutterbye @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Good friend of mine - really bright guy - finally hit me up with a "so tell me the deal" message because he read FSD can be good for aging parents. Long reply I sent, summarized: "It's astonishing the car can do this. But it can. Go drive one."

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla And then I try to explain that, no, it literally drives the whole, entire way by itself - and just get a blank stare. Going to see if I can get him out for a demo drive this week.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla It's weird that we're still in a place where I have this tech driving every mile of a 2,000 mile trip over 4 days and most people don't seem to even understand what that means. Told a neighbor the trip was OK because my car drives itself and he said "Oh, like Super Cruise?"...

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@niccruzpatane Definitely a smooth teardrop

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

Cybercab - the new Houston tourist attraction. Cool to catch one on a short trip here.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

One great thing about road tripping in a Tesla is you are pretty much guaranteed to spend time at Superchargers with other Tesla owners - but none of them think this means there's some kind of "community" thing going on where you sit around chatting about being Tesla drivers.

[Cap'n Ken @capnken]

@niccruzpatane Mission Statement is a real banger: "Our mission is to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars."

Also the glossary of terms is 🔥