Larry Read

Blue water sailer, glider pilot and first and foremost, a loving husband and father.

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

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[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

The IDF has released new footage showing drones striking IRGC checkpoints across Tehran, targeting posts set up to control the streets and prevent a potential uprising.

Multiple IRGC members, including senior officers, are reportedly among those eliminated.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic state media appears to be addressing the nation with an empty chair standing in for the Supreme Leader.

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

The IRGC has escalated, launching attacks on energy infrastructure in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, including the major LNG complex at Ras Laffan.

This marks a dangerous shift targeting regional economies and civilian systems, not just military sites.

Emergency meetings are now underway across the Persian Gulf.

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

Congratulations Tesla!
I imagine the opposition from legacy insurance companies and entrenched state regulators is fierce. Tesla is disrupting another big dollar industry.
Data showing lower claims per mile, based on accident reduction and actual accident responsibilry, from using FSD/video, will be hard to ignore in the long run.
As with most things Tesla, slowly at first, then all at once!

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

Great post👍
🤔 So why did I gained weight right along with my wife as we had kids?
At 70, we went back to eating primarily ���🥓🧈🥚 and both lost 50# of that midlife fat we carried for 20 years.
Eating nutrient dense, animal foods reset our biological clock by about 20 years😘

[Tinne Rasmussen @RasmussenT56381]

I often see posts like this on social media:

“Young woman says: I gained 20 pounds after my first child, but I’m happier now.”

I’m not saying this to shame anyone. I truly believe them when they say they’re happier—they have a child! The greatest gift of all!

But presenting weight gain as something that’s automatically excused or even normalized can be a slippery slope for society. It’s similar to a lot of the fat-positivity and “healthy at every size” messages that I don’t agree with.

I know weight isn’t everything when it comes to health, and I think we should focus more on the highly addictive foods that most people consider completely normal. These foods damage our metabolism, weight, and overall health and make it hard for women to stay fit after pregnancy.

People who know me might say: “Tinne, you lost weight between pregnancies while still eating those normal foods.”

Yes, that’s true—but my physical and mental health were declining at the time. Now, by eating truly nourishing foods, the weight stays off easily, and I feel the best I ever have in my life, without any of the old health issues hanging over me.

The video shows me before my first pregnancy, then during my three pregnancies, and finally me last summer (after one year on carnivore).

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@SusieWiles The real proof is in the performance!
Keep up the great work😍

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

💯 Well said!
The question isn’t, “Why don’t they license FSD?” Legacy automakers are trapped in a business structure that won’t allow them to thrive in the future.
They couldn’t implement FSD effectively even if they licensed it.

[phil beisel @pbeisel]

It is striking (though not surprising) how poorly legacy automakers have invested in their future. Technology is reshaping transportation at an accelerating pace, yet most incumbents are not playing to win. They are playing to delay.

Their first failure was cultural and structural: a broad rejection of the EV transition. By any rational measure, legacy OEMs could have simplified their product lines, collapsed complexity, lowered costs, and built more efficient vehicles. Instead, progress stalled because dealers (the real customers of legacy auto) resisted change. EVs threaten the service revenue that underpins the dealer model, and the OEMs remain captive to it.

Those that did pursue EVs made a second, more damaging mistake: they refused to start from a clean sheet. Rather than building modern, software-defined vehicles, they bolted electric powertrains into architectures designed for ICE cars. The result was predictable— bloated wiring, fragmented ECUs, vendor-owned software, and vehicles fundamentally incapable of rapid iteration, cost compression, or true OTA evolution. They built electric cars, not modern machines.

Autonomy exposed this weakness completely. Legacy highway-assist systems were never designed to win; they were designed to check a feature box. With no data flywheel, no vertically integrated stack, and no AI-first architecture, most OEMs outsourced the “brain” and accepted permanent dependency. Autonomy, for them, was a feature. For winners, it is the product.

The problem is not that legacy CEOs are blind. Most understand exactly what is happening. But they are trapped, by dealer economics, union constraints, internal incentives, stranded assets, and balance sheets that cannot survive a true reset. So they allocate capital defensively, mistaking spend for progress and compliance for strategy.

Where does this leave them? Not suddenly extinct, but structurally behind, with futures defined by dependence and protection rather than innovation and control. These are survival paths, not winning ones.

The auto industry is being rewritten in software, manufacturing systems, and AI. Legacy auto largely chose not to compete there. The consequences are now unavoidable.

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

You and your family remind me of our family 30 years ago. 👩‍❤️‍👨 have done some pretty crazy things. We’ve raised 3 girls and then leaned how to sail a 30’ boat to Tahiti, just the two of us.
Dreams are ment to be aspirational! They require planning and hard work to achieve, but it’s what sets you apart from most people that say “woulda, coulda, shoulda but it wasn’t easy”😘

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

Drivers in Arizona react to the dropping gas prices under @POTUS:

"It's really nice to be able to fill up my tank with like $30."

"Very happy, especially with the holidays coming up... low gas prices, especially — it helps a lot."

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@RasmussenT56381 @NordhougenD It sounds like a great plan😘

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@RasmussenT56381 @NordhougenD Congratulations on upgrading the “farm” to a “ranch”🎉
Trees are an upfront investment you will cherish years from now👍
Bees aren’t that hard especially with a neighbor for advice👍
Dream big and go with the flow😘

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

👩‍❤️‍👨 delivered Christmas gifts to our daughters last night. Set 3 different destinations and pushed the “activate FSD” button. Vehicle drove and parked at each destination with no input from me😄
Yes, the world is about to discover cars that drive themselves😘

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

Only 0.145% of the US population know what's coming...

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.

Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black.

Imagine them being honored as black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk to the President about issues facing the black community, being supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.

Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way.

Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them, carrying threatening signs and air horns to drown out any speakers with noise. Imagine them coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.

Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.

Now imagine the government supporting their demands.

That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used to be female-only spaces. Our oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them.

If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@wilsonhlthcoach 💯 agree
There’s nothing inexpensive about eating a Standard American Diet🫣
A SAD diet promotes hunger. It’s full of processed carbs, expensive snacks, sugary drinks and eat out/takeout. Eating 5 to 6 times a day costs about the same as eating quality 🥩🥓🥚🧈 twice a day😘

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@Gfilche @Tesla Congratulations 🎉
This is what adults look forward to on Christmas morning!
Enjoy☺️

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@wholemars My wife was commenting this morning how driving her m3 on FSD is like having a protective bubble around the car😘
FSD does see and react to situations faster than she can☺️

[Benjamin Bikman @BenBikmanPhD]

As others have noted, it's not a punishment, but it is a common consequence. Of course, not everyone who gains fat develops type 2 diabetes. It's a matter of fat cell size, not fat mass. Ironically, those with the greatest ability to make new fat cells have the ability to gain the most fat with the least degree of consequence (regarding type 2 diabetes). The fatter the individual fat cells, the greater the risk of type 2 diabetes. A person with the potential to make more fat cells will have more, but smaller, fat cells. Small fat cells are healthy fat cells.

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

It’s easy to take Tesla update improvements for granted.
Cybertruck windshield wiper used to rock the truck. Now it’s silent😘
V14.2.1 doesn’t block intersections and now turns left on yellow/red, just like a human😘
Follows hand jesters from other drivers to pull into traffic😘

[Larry Read @Larryread201]

@wilsonhlthcoach 💯
It’s hard to understand until you experience it😘