For those of you wondering, here is a funny story:
When we moved to Canada, we didn't have a car for a couple of years. Once we finally got one, it was during the heart of winter.
My sister, eager for adventure, convinced us to try alpine skiing, even though it was her first time too. I was inclined towards cross-country skiing because I'm not a fan of high speeds. My husband @JesusVelde , on the other hand, wasn't thrilled about either option.
Against my better judgment, my sister managed to convice me, and we went for alpine skiing. My husband gave it a go, but with the enthusiasm of someone agreeing to a root canal. Surprisingly, we all enjoyed it, but I still leaned towards cross-country.
When it came time to buy equipment, we hit a snag. I wanted cross-country skis, he wanted alpine. We reached a compromise: "If we're doing cross-country, we're doing alpine." And so, we bought both.
Post-winter, I was on a mission to keep him active during summer. Knowing his disdain for jogging, I suggested biking to which he replied - "How can that be fun? Pedaling like mad, staring at asphalt, and a sore butt?" -. I then said jogging to which he replied rapidly, "I'll never jog. Let's go buy bikes."
Our first ride was a gentle 12km with a neighbor, which turned out to be the start of our cycling odyssey. Soon, he was hooked. We went from 20km to 60km to 120km within weeks, learning on-the-go about long-distance cycling's intricacies - the wind, the climbs, and, oh yes, the snacks. I had him lugging around 9-10kg of food, all for our 'natural' diet of fruits, nuts, and sandwiches while staying away from gels.
By the next year, 60km was our warm-up. The goal? To hit 200km. My husband became a master of Google Maps, plotting scenic routes like a cartographer. The joy of cycling from city to countryside, past rivers and mountains, was unmatched. Then came our big ride - 210km. It was an epic journey, packed with laughs, stunning landscapes, and more calories burnt than I care to count (for those interested in the stats, it was all about avoiding injuries, lacking energy, having to call 911, not just bragging rights). The lesson here? Pursue what truly excites you. Don't exercise just to burn calories; find an activity that ignites your passion for life.
Here the numbers that he got in our 1st epic 210km which I am sharing with his permission and only to give you an idea of what humans are capable to achieve.
@Tesla@Tesla should come up with its own child seat design. The current ones that you can buy don't necessarily integrate well with the car. For example, in the Model Y, when you want to put the rear seats down, the child seat can block its normal path and it will stop halfway.
ELON LORE JUST RESURFACED AND IT'S INCREDIBLE
Someone asked him how sexy they'd be on a scale of 1 to 10 if they bought a Tesla.
@elonmusk said 11 and promised you'd walk away with the girl over the guys with Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Aston Martins.
The man sold EVs by promising they were the ultimate rizz machine.
Apparently, women have been waiting for a man with scheduled charging and over-the-air updates this whole time.
🚨TESLA SET UP FOR MONSTER YEAR AS IVES FLAGS $3 TRILLION BULL CASE
Wedbush’s top analyst Dan Ives is doubling down on Tesla’s upside, calling 2026 a potential breakout year as the company’s AI, autonomy, and robotics efforts move closer to real commercialization.
Dan said Tesla could reach a $2 trillion market cap in 2026, with a bull case pushing as high as $3 trillion by the end of the year.
He described the coming period as a turning point, arguing that Tesla’s AI chapter is beginning to take hold in a way the market still underestimates.
Ives reiterated his Outperform rating on Tesla stock and kept his $600 per share price target.
He said Tesla’s autonomy and robotics ambitions are no longer abstract ideas but programs moving toward deployment, setting up what he called a “monster year” ahead.
Fueling that optimism are Tesla’s recent autonomous vehicle tests in Austin.
Over the weekend, multiple Model Y vehicles were spotted driving on public roads without safety monitors or other occupants.
Tesla has not disclosed how many vehicles are involved or whether remote monitoring is in place.
Musk said last week that safety monitors would be removed within three weeks, and the sightings suggest that timeline may already be playing out.
Tesla’s AI driven future is moving faster than many expected, and the valuation debate is just getting started.
Source: @Teslarati / @DivesTech / @Tesla
the thing about calling DEI 'economic genocide' is that it undersells it
yes, young White men were systematically excluded from careers during their peak marriage years, but that's just first-order effects.
second-order: marriage market collapse. women date across and up. men without careers become invisible to the women who would have married them and disappear. the "eligible bachelor" pool shrinks.
third-order: fertility crisis. fewer marriages, fewer children. but it's worse than just men not marrying or having families. the women who "won" the DEI lottery got careers instead of families, delayed fertility until it was too late. DEI attacked family formation from both sides, excluded men from provider roles AND diverted women from their fertility window. everyone lost.
fourth-order: psychological. young men couldn't even name what was happening to them. the same institutions that excluded them told them they were "privileged", that complaining was proof of weakness. so they internalized failure as personal inadequacy rather than systemic rigging, retreated into depression, video games, porn. the symptoms we then pathologized as "male failure". the system broke them (on purpose) and blamed them for being broken.
fifth-order: institutional trust gone. once you know positions are filled by demographics rather than competence, every credential becomes suspect (if not a priori worthless). is your doctor qualified or a diversity hire? your pilot? your engineer? you can't prove any individual is incompetent, but you can't trust any individual is competent either. medicine skepticism, academic failure, media skepticism, none of this emerged organically. it was manufactured by the DEI hire you can't be sure is qualified to treat you.
sixth-order: reality became unspeakable. noticing any of this was a fireable offense. pointing out the obvious got you called a bigot, deplatformed or fired. pure totalitarian censorship and the problem couldn't even be acknowledged (until now, finally)
men knew they were being cheated but couldn't say it. women sensed something was wrong with the men but couldn't identify it. relationships poisoned by a dynamic neither party could name.
seventh-order: the feedback loop. fewer eligible men means more women competing for a shrinking pool, more women losing the marriage market, more resentment, more "men are trash", more support for DEI, fewer eligible men and the system accelerates itself.
and the worst part is that DEI was just the economic arm. the same people and institutions pushed the complete package
"toxic masculinity" to pathologize male identity
"the future is female" as explicit zero-sum framing delusion
"believe all women" to weaponize trust against men
"men are trash" to normalize open contempt
a coordinated ideological assault on family formation.
and it even had a business model. HR departments exploded (millions of jobs invented to administer the regime). DEI consultants became a multi-billion dollar industry. politicians got voting blocs dependent on racial grievance. established boomers kept their positions while their competition was eliminated.
the architects knew what they were doing
you don't accidentally build a system that specifically targets men during peak marriage years, tells them they deserve it, makes it unspeakable to complain, attacks their identity as toxic, promotes women into career tracks that burn their fertility, then acts confused when society collapses
if you wanted to suppress the fertility of a specific demographic, engineer the breakdown of trust between the sexes, and make it illegal to notice, the playbook would look exactly like this.
DEI should be held responsible for the fertility crisis, the marriage collapse, the epidemic of male depression and suicide, the destruction of institutional trust, the atomization of society, and the manufactured war between men and women
but DEI was the weapon
the people who designed it, funded it, made it mandatory, enforced it through HR, fired anyone who resisted, called all opposition hate and racism, built careers and industries on its maintenance, they knew. and they're the ones who should be remembered as the architects of one of the worst crimes against humanity
@attilablenesi - The like button doesn't work. You have to tap on it multiple times until eventually it works.
- not related to the X app but, when Grok companions, specially kids, for Android? I need it urgently
Gas car owners are more concerned with charging times than EV owners because they struggle to understand the changes that come with an EV.
The empty-to-full mindset does not apply to EVs. Here’s an example of a 5-minute stop.
Leaving home fully charged, destination charging, or recharging upon returning home after a trip minimizes charging on the open road.