James Feazell

I am a ham radio operator, software developer, and a professional radio and TV voice actor. I am interested in homesteading, carpentry, and astronomy.

[James Feazell @jamesfeazell]

#FedExSucks really? It took you people from 9:30 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. to move an 8 oz package 17 miles down the road? This is why friends don't let friends ship with FedEx SmartPost. Actually, I almost forgot. There is one saving grace here. FedEx will hand this package over to the US post office when they finally get it to my city, probably sometime late this week. At least then the USPS mail carrier will deliver the package to the house, instead of leaving it 1,850 feet from the house, down at the street by the main gate where anyone driving by can steal it.

Personally, I wish companies would simply offer me the choice to pay for better quality shipping and choose a better carrier if I'm willing to pay the price difference. I would gladly pay the price difference for either UPS, or USPS flat rate.

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@pr0ud_americans So, if I understand you correctly, what you are basically saying is that some people are more equal than others? Hmm, interesting.

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@GraceGym_ I just wish they slowed this down a bit and showed more detail.

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@EastEndJoe This is probably not really Jordan Peterson. This is probably an AI fake, but regardless, I think the point being made is spot on.

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@DG196709 @KeriA1776again What is your story my friend?

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I hope this message resonates with people whose family is truly important. For me, family is a cold reminder that I was unwanted, and not respected. Not love by the people who are supposed to love you unconditionally. Unwanted by the ones who were supposed to want you the most. Yes, adulthood has scattered me in many ways from that family on different paths with different goals. And for me, the only thing that could be better is if I had had the family that God had meant for me to have instead of the one that I do have. One of my favorite quotes was by Robin Williams where he said, "I used to think that the worst thing in life was being alone. The worst thing in life is not being alone, but it is instead being surrounded by those who make you feel alone."

I never heard that quote of his until after he had died. I always thought that Robin Williams seemed like he would be a neat person to get to know. It was sad when he died. Even though I never knew him, when I heard of his death, some part of me felt like I understood a sense of loneliness that he might have felt. I wish that I could have been a friend to him. When I read that quote many years later, it was truly heartbreaking. I genuinely do wish to this day that Robin Williams was a man whom I could have called a friend. Yes, he was a hilarious comic and a talented actor, but those were not the reasons that I wished that I knew him. Some part of him came through his act and all of those things and very much reminded me of a peace of myself. A very good piece of myself that I value very much, but I feel like most of the rest of the world would simply throw away or merely just step over on the street. My family would certainly be among those people.

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Okay, so here's the deal: I'll offer $750 million for Cracker Barrel. I know just how to get this company back on track and back in the black. I won't even take a salary until we turn $2 billion in market cap. The offer is on the table for 24 hours. What do you say @elonmusk ? Want to help a fellow nerd #DOGE this place?

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@EndWokeness I'd love to see this fucking idiot debate @ByronDonalds

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@CheckersRallys from one software developer, some serious feedback... The fonts on your app are very scrunchy and hard to read. Also, links in the menu, like the link to X, respond with, "browser not found". Lastly, and I can't seem to find an answer to this anywhere on the internet, and lots of people are asking, what is the purpose of the "check-in" button? What is the countdown for? Bonus... You really need a "contact us" button or something to reach you with support issues or questions.

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@VivekGRamaswamy Let the cheating begin!

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@charliekirk11 Let the cheating begin!

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@CrowdStrike How's that working out for you this morning?

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@BarackObama Wow, I never thought I'd see the day you endorse Donald Trump!

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That's a pretty good pace. FYI, there is a really cool app that you can download for Android, it's generally used for auto racing, but it's actually really good for tracking bicycle riding performance. It's called the Ulysses Speedometer. One of the things that I like about it is that it will track your performance and, using GPS, it can tell when you're stopped, like for red lights. Then, when it calculates your average speed, it factors out the time that you spend stopped at red lights. This can help give you a more realistic view of your performance without it being so badly affected by things beyond your control like hitting a few more red lights one day than you do on another.

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@indygrl What do you mean? Of course I believe that. Why shouldn't I believe that ABC News reported that?

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My FSD caused a serious accident yesterday morning. Nearly totaled my vehicle. Thankfully, no one was injured. One of my observations is that FSD frequently makes very poor choices with regard to speed management on interstate exits and interchanges, particularly when sharp curves are involved. Yesterday, it threw me into an exit lane at highway speed. I was forced to hard break to avoid slamming head-on into a concrete partition. Unfortunately, although I was able to skid the car sideways to keep from hitting the wall head-on, it still hit it sideways at still probably close to 40 miles an hour, causing the driver's side curtain airbag to deploy. I am very thankful that I was not injured, and I'm frankly amazed that the vehicle wasn't damaged any more than it was. Probably thanks to my fast reaction and hard braking.

I am posting this response here because, despite my enthusiasm for Tesla in the overall quality of its products, I am very dissatisfied with the ability, or lack thereof, to communicate with them when there are serious issues. I have observed a number of very serious issues related to FSD and autopilot. I have also noticed while reading through various internet forums about these issues that my experience is here are not alone. As a software engineer, I'm actually quite tolerant of the realities involved in training a complex AI system like FSD. What is frustrating to me is that there seems to be no mechanism by which I can take an incident and give feedback to Tesla.

Frankly, there should be an on-screen shortcut when an FSD to be able to capture the last several minutes of camera footage, a screenshot, speed and other telemetry information, and allow me to package that up and send it with some commentary to Tesla. If some of the previous incidents I have observed an experience had been reviewed, there's a chance, a pretty good one frankly, that something like this could have been avoided.

well it should be obvious to anyone using FSD, I will underscore here that if nothing else, this demonstrates the importance of always maintaining constant attention and awareness on the road and you're surroundings. The AI can be a helpful co-pilot at best, but you certainly do not want, and should not, entrust it exclusively with your safety. No one is suggesting that you should, but I see a number of abuses. If this system is abused, the incident you see depicted here could have ended a lot worse.

This should not be interpreted as a negative critique of Tesla or FSD. Again, I am simply giving constructive advice here that this whole process could and should be handled better.

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It's honestly nice that a few more people are starting to notice this. I am amazed how many people say that they've never heard it, although in my experience when people have told me personally that they've never heard it, I usually end up getting a phone call from them a couple days later telling me that they've heard it three times already. I think it's one of those things that people don't notice until they know about it, and then suddenly they notice it all the time. Personally, I'm the kind of person who notices anything when there's a change, so it stood out as odd to me the very first time that I heard it. I honestly find it kind of creepy. It's not that it's impolite or even uninviting, but what's really creepy about it to me is the way that everybody seems to be doing it, and nobody knows where it started. I've even asked people in places, who taught you to say that? They don't even seem to know. It's just so unnatural. It's driving me crazy hearing people starting to use all of these colloquialisms, I guess that's what we could call them, but they don't seem to know where they come from. The other one that drives me absolutely batshit crazy is in a restaurant when the server asks me, "how is everything tasting?" Here again, it's just so unnatural. It's not the kind of thing you would ever say on your own unless someone told you to say it. I totally understand why it's being said. It's one of those questions that's meant to direct you toward a specific answer. But people are saying it without even knowing that they were told or trained to do so, and that is very scary.

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@clownworld What the fuck ever. You'll never get a job working for me.

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I don't disagree with you, but what is your endgame? Do you really want her for president????

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@JeremyDBoreing Hey, I'm the dean and hold the Lucasion Chair at UHK (University of Hard Knocks). I'd love to have you out for a talk. We can sip some whiskey and smoke a few cigars (I've got some really good shit, too). I'll even threaten your safe space. :) Bring it on!