Justin Stewart

Geocaching in a Tesla in the PNW. Libertarian. Elon Musk fan boy. Go Cougs!

[Jon Elder @BlackLabelAdvsr]

The World Cup has transformed the United States into the world’s most overwhelming Discovery Channel special.

And the visitors are not coping.
In the absolute best way possible.

Here’s what they’re uncovering:

Public restrooms you can actually use without paying.

Water that shows up at the table for free.

Unlimited refills on coffee, soda, and sweet tea.

Chips and salsa arriving before you even ask.

Warm bread served with dinner, no extra charge.

Ice in every drink like it’s a basic human right.

Air conditioning that’s standard everywhere—not a climate crime.

Parking right next to the building you’re visiting.

Drive-thrus that deliver food straight to your car.

Ranch dressing available by the jug.

Tex-Mex that defies description and demands to be experienced.

Dentists who actually fix things.

And Buc-ee’s… which simply breaks language.

Then they discovered American grocery stores.
Five colossal ones within a single mile, each the size of an airplane hangar.
A single refrigerated aisle offering every cut of beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry known to humanity—at 10 a.m. on a random Tuesday.

The Germans stood motionless in the meat section for nearly an hour.

Silent.

Rebooting.

Suddenly, the lack of passenger trains makes perfect sense.

Why bother with trains when the roads are wide enough for the vehicles we actually drive, parking lots stretch like small nations, and decent airports dot every city worth going to?

The Germans are now smuggling ranch dressing home by the bottle.

The Dutch tasted queso and temporarily forgot how to form sentences.

The Japanese are documenting H-E-B like it’s the Sistine Chapel.

The Czechs have been spotted openly weeping with joy in West, Texas.

Welcome to America. 🇺🇸

The greatest country on Earth.

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

A Model Y driver started experiencing a medical emergency with chest pain mid-drive & called his son.

His son then remotely rerouted the car – which had FSD Supervised enabled – to the nearest hospital & let them know the vehicle was en route. ER staff were standing by on arrival.

Doctors later confirmed the quick reroute likely saved his life.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

The most important story coming out of the SpaceX IPO this morning is not the $1.77 trillion valuation but it is about Juan Hernandez (Save this).

Juan is a welder who got a phone call from a friend about a job at a company he had never heard of.

He said yes anyway, showed up, worked there for ten years, rose from the factory floor to supervisor, and held on to 6,500 shares the entire time.

When CBS asked him this morning how much he stands to make at opening, he said approximately $880,000.

Tom Mueller, Musk's very first SpaceX employee, tells a version of the same story.

He met Musk through an amateur rocket club, was convinced to do something exciting, and says it was one of the best decisions he ever made.

In those early days, he says, the team simply believed they were going to change the world and then went ahead and did it.

Juan and Tom are not alone.

SpaceX has approximately 13,000 employees who hold equity and analysts estimate today's IPO will create somewhere between 600 and 1,000 instant millionaires across the workforce from engineers and software developers to machinists, welders, and operations staff.

The engineers and executives at the top of the stack are looking at life changing numbers of a different order entirely.

Senior vice presidents and long tenured rocket engineers with large equity grants are expected to walk away with $10 million to $50 million or more depending on their vesting history.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's President and COO who has been building this company alongside Musk for over two decades, is expected to become a billionaire on her equity stake alone.

All of that wealth from Juan's $880,000 to Musk's trillion came from the same source.

A group of people who believed that if nobody built a truly reusable rocket, humanity would never leave Earth, and decided that was an unacceptable outcome.

Thank you, @elonmusk for building a company where a welder who didn't know your name in 2016 is worth nearly a million dollars this morning.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: SpaceX's IPO is expected to create 4,000 new millionaires, including some cafeteria workers whose compensation packages include employee stock options, per Bloomberg.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Happy SpaceX eve tho those who celebrate

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

The irony of the Europeans coming to America and through their eyes giving us the 250th birthday celebration we need and deserve.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

The best move we’ve made hosting the World Cup so far is sending a bunch of Europeans to the true gems of the American experience: College Towns

[Denzell @Denzell_Of_NSH]

Spain is experiencing Chattanooga, TN.

Argentina is in Auburn, Alabama.

Germans are eating Waffle House.

Brits are still complaining.

This World Cup has been amazing and it hasn’t even started yet.

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

Gotta signal boost this one guys!!!

[Go Cougs @gocougs123]

THE COUGS BEAT OREGON STATE.

Cougs heading to the winners bracket in Eugene!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Onboard views from Starship and Super Heavy V3, which are equipped with upgraded cameras capable of streaming 4K video through every phase of flight via @Starlink

[Justin Stewart @jstew509]

@Adams_Tech_AI It moves over and slows down. I've had it happen a few times. Pretty awesome.

[Edge Case @edgecase411]

FSD V14 is incredibly hyper-aware. The moment the blinker comes on, it recognizes this isn’t just a normal lane change, but a risky move to cut across for the exit. It starts braking in just 0.25 seconds. No human can match that.

[Mike P @mikepat711]

> Own a Tesla
> Wake up in a hotel in a city you’ve never been to before
> Google “coffee shop nearby” in bed on phone, select “directions,” tap “share,” tap “send to Tesla.”
> Get up, shower, pack suitcase.
> Get in Tesla, put on seatbelt, tap “start self driving,” sit there and check out the city while your robot drives you through sunrise rush hour/heavy construction.

One of the greatest consumer products ever made.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

my politics is whatever this is

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

We have reached an era where some people have not touched a steering wheel and have simply let their cars drive them around for a whole year, whereas others do not know this is possible at all.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

TOMORROW. 🚀🌑

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The mind of humanity

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

[Glenn Osterhout @GlennOsterhout]

Hey Cougs, High Point beat Wisconsin on 3/19 in the NCAA tournament and here is the result “Talked to a plugged - in HPU alumnus yesterday. She said within 24 hours of Wisconsin win, High Point had 19,000 requests for student tours” - 19,000!

Success in athletics is critical for WSU as it will increases enrollment, donations across the entire University, engages all generations and is a massive economic boost to the region and State!
The Great Ascension of WSU.