While we were asleep, Elon Musk launched a flying car, the new Tesla Roadster!
It doesn’t have wings like an airplane or rotor blades like a helicopter. It uses thrust from high pressure compressed air thrusters (SpaceX tech), just like a rocket or spaceship, to take off and maneuver.
It goes from 0 to 60 mph (0–97 km/h) in about 0.8 seconds.
Elon said the top speed should exceed 0.5 Mach (half the speed of sound, roughly 380+ mph/over 600 km/h).
Production is set to start in 2028.
Tesla invited a live audience to the unveiling so people wouldn’t dismiss the stunts as AI. The car performed wild moves: driving upside down on a ramp (using a suction system), flipping and hovering in the air, jumping over other Teslas, and landing cleanly….
At Kisumu State Lodge on 30 July 1998, Raila Odinga shares one of his characteristic parables, offering a glimpse of the storytelling tradition through which he often conveyed his thoughts
From GRACE to grass: The fall of a Mumias Empire.
In 2007, after I voted in my village, I boarded a vehicle through Mumias, and at around 3 PM on election day, chaos had already started.
Rowdy youths had barricaded the Mumias bus terminus, burning tyres and ballot boxes.
Then, ballot boxes were black in colour and concealed.
The boxes with ballot papers were strewn in the terminus.
The rowdy youths were chanting,
"Thiro must go!"
"Gathe must go!"
Mumias town, unbeknownst to many, was the first place that ignited the 2007 violence.
Thiro was a businessman in Mumias. He owned a popular Supermarket called "Jamii Yako", and Gathe owned a chain of wholesale shops, including shoe and soda depots.
Thiro and Gathe were tycoons with immense political and business influence in Mumias town.
So, when word went round that Kibaki's premarked ballot papers were hidden in Thiro's supermarket, the youths stormed the shop, looted it, carried away the ballot boxes and burned the supermarket, including Gathe's shops.
They didn't stop there.
They went to their palatial homes, which were sitting beside each other in Lukoye estate, just opposite Lukoye mosque, and burned them.
Next to these houses was a church affiliated with Thiro or Gathe. The church was also razed down.
This was happening on election day.
Then, when tension escalated, Thiro, Gathe, their families, friends and relatives fled to Bungoma, which was a PNU zone.
That is how Thiro found himself in Bungoma.
In Mumias, Thiro was a peacock who strutted in the town with so much pomposity, a cigarette between his fingers, money in his pocket and thriving businesses including lorries and PSV matatus.
The Wangas alleged that because of his promiscuous lifestyle, he was living with HIV and had infected a lot of women in Mumias town, Shibale and Mumias Sugar Estate.
His other problem was his disgruntled wife, who was always moody at the Supermarket's cashier desk.
She was a fat, tired woman, always angry with Thiro, customers and staff. It was also alleged that she was moving around with younger men from Mjini and Shibale, Mumias.
When Thiro arrived in Bungoma in 2008, he couldn't restart.
Newer, young and energetic Kikuyu men had taken the competition a notch higher. The ground was level in Bungoma, and therefore, Thiro had no choice but to compete.
He couldn't.
He lost hope.
He lost the fight.
He lost the glamour.
He sank into alcoholism, promiscuity, diabetes, hypertension and depression.
His social media antics were a camouflage to escape the pit he had dug for himself.
He lost his empire.
He fell.
From grace to grass.
What a tragedy!
Be hard on yourself.
Be rebellious.
Do not accept what the masses have normalised.
Mediocrity, feelings, incompetence, dishonesty, victimhood, lies and shortcuts are not your standard.
CHANGE or PERISH.
Do not drink alcohol.
Alcohol is bad.
It wastes money.
It ruins sleep.
It ruins discipline.
It brings the wrong friends.
If you drink, stop.
If your circle drinks, leave that circle.
CHANGE or PERISH.
#ManDay
🔥 LET'S GO! President Trump just brought MIKE TYSON up on stage at his rally in Syracuse, NY
"I'm just happy to be up here with my president, President Trump. There's NO WAY in the world I would ever be here if it wasn't for a president like Donald Trump. Thank you!"
Then Trump jumped in: "I don't want to fight him." 😆
.@POTUS: "This is Iron Mike Tyson. I won't be fighting him today, but I've been his fan for a long time. We've been friends for a long time. Iron Mike — there's nobody like him."