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@teslaownersSV

Last night my cat was all riled up over a raccoon in the backyard. Her claws got stuck in the screen door, and when I tried to help, she clamped onto my hand and bit down full strength. There was blood, pain, swelling, and numbness. I was nearly in shock. I didn't even know where to get help at 11 pm.
I wrapped my now non-functioning hand in gauze and jumped into my Tesla Model Y that had just received FSD 14.3.6. I said, “Grok, take me to the nearest Sutter emergency room.” I put the car in hurry mode and was there in 15 minutes.
I was at the ER for 2 1/2 hours and got a tetanus shot and was started on Augmentin, after determining my tendons were okay. My Tesla then took me home while I kept my sore, swollen hand elevated. I took half a Norco for the pain and went to bed.
I love my Tesla.

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A letter from Churchill:

Nations go to war on purpose—or they go to ruin by impulse.

The confrontation with Iran bears none of the hallmarks of strategy, and all the signs of vanity. No clear objective. No defined endgame. No serious accounting for consequences. Instead, we are given bluster in place of doctrine, and spectacle in place of statecraft.

When difficulties arise—as they inevitably do—they are not owned, but deflected. The blame is scattered in all directions: Obama, Biden, Democrats, immigrants, even a virus. Anyone, it seems, but the man who holds the authority. This is not leadership. It is evasion dressed as defiance.

Yet observe the contrast—when fortune favors him, even briefly, the credit is seized with theatrical enthusiasm. Every development becomes a personal triumph, every headline a mirror. The presidency is treated not as a burden of duty, but as a platform for constant self-display.

Most jarring of all is the spectacle of a man who once avoided the obligations of service now sending others into danger, absent a coherent explanation of why the fight is necessary or how it is to be concluded. War, without purpose or plan, is not strength—it is recklessness with lives.

History is unsparing toward such moments. It does not indulge excuses. It does not applaud noise. It asks only whether a leader met the gravity of his office—or diminished it.

This course, marked by impulse, grievance, and self-regard, risks far more than political failure. It gambles with stability, with credibility, and with human lives. And these are stakes no serious nation should ever accept lightly.

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@WhiteHouse

A letter from Churchill:

Nations go to war on purpose—or they go to ruin by impulse.

The confrontation with Iran bears none of the hallmarks of strategy, and all the signs of vanity. No clear objective. No defined endgame. No serious accounting for consequences. Instead, we are given bluster in place of doctrine, and spectacle in place of statecraft.

When difficulties arise—as they inevitably do—they are not owned, but deflected. The blame is scattered in all directions: Obama, Biden, Democrats, immigrants, even a virus. Anyone, it seems, but the man who holds the authority. This is not leadership. It is evasion dressed as defiance.

Yet observe the contrast—when fortune favors him, even briefly, the credit is seized with theatrical enthusiasm. Every development becomes a personal triumph, every headline a mirror. The presidency is treated not as a burden of duty, but as a platform for constant self-display.

Most jarring of all is the spectacle of a man who once avoided the obligations of service now sending others into danger, absent a coherent explanation of why the fight is necessary or how it is to be concluded. War, without purpose or plan, is not strength—it is recklessness with lives.

History is unsparing toward such moments. It does not indulge excuses. It does not applaud noise. It asks only whether a leader met the gravity of his office—or diminished it.

This course, marked by impulse, grievance, and self-regard, risks far more than political failure. It gambles with stability, with credibility, and with human lives. And these are stakes no serious nation should ever accept lightly.

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@AlamedaMuniPwr Power out on Bay Farm Island since 7:45 AM, as well, in Normandy.

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Has fsd 14.3.5 gone out in wide release today?

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@elonmusk https://t.co/5p84CdyC6B

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Putin’s war in Ukraine and Trump���s war in Iran are mirror images of the same toxic playbook. Both men launched offensive campaigns assuming “weak” foes would fold fast. Instead, they created long, bloody quagmires with no clear exit strategy. They kept shifting goals and justifications, leaned on distorted “defensive” narratives, and tried to tightly control domestic messaging rather than admit miscalculation. Authoritarian hubris and personalist decision‑making—trusting their own instincts over expert warnings—are at the core. Ukraine and Iran have exposed the arrogance of power: the belief that military might can easily reshape complex societies, with minimal blowback. Reality has proved otherwise, and both leaders bear direct responsibility for the chaos they unleashed.

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In space there is almost no air, so the ISS cannot dump heat by conduction or convection to the surrounding environment and must rely almost entirely on radiation from its external radiators. Inside, electronics, life‑support systems, lighting, and the crew continuously generate heat, so without active cooling the interior would overheat even though the outside “ambient” is extremely cold.

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It’s ironic that the author’s name is “Karen”
Tesla’s FSD Streaks Are Gamifying FSD and Encouraging Risky Behavior [Opinion] https://t.co/gLNEiQ3I6O via @NotATeslaApp

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@OpenAI China is already running 24 MW underwater AI data centers powered by offshore wind and cooled by seawater, cutting energy use ~20–25% vs land sites. SpaceX wants solar-powered AI data centers in orbit, but launch costs, radiation, cooling in vacuum, latency and space debris make them a risky, likely uneconomic moonshot for now. For at least the next decade, advanced Earth-based sites (underwater, coastal, desert) look far more practical than orbital AI compute experiments.

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@elonmusk Ketamine is one of several drugs that can deeply perturb self‑modeling and perception, which might influence how some people think about future consciousness, transhumanism, or singularity narratives.

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@DonaldJTrumpJr Cocaine really messes with judgement and objective thinking. Sad.

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@elonmusk @Tesla_AI FSD amazed me today. As I approached an intersection, my Tesla detected a long bus attempting a right turn. My Tesla pulled over and stopped, leaving enough space for the bus to make the turn safely. Then we resumed the drive. This was perfect and better than I would have done.

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@Tesla_AI

FSD amazed me today. As I approached an intersection, my Tesla detected a long bus attempting a right turn. My Tesla pulled over and stopped, leaving enough space for the bus to make the turn safely. Then we resumed the drive. This was perfect and better than I would have done.

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@PressSec Pluribus’ hive mind mirrors the MAGA cult’s surrender of individual judgment to Trump’s “we” that promises safety and purpose. Dissenters become traitors, just like RINOs, as followers outsource thinking for comforting certainty—but at the cost of personal conscience.

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@PressSec Pluribus’ hive mind mirrors the MAGA cult’s surrender of individual judgment to Trump’s “we” that promises safety and purpose. Dissenters become traitors, just like RINOs, as followers outsource thinking for comforting certainty—but at the cost of personal conscience.

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@elonmuskmel7 42

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@elonmuskmel7 22

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If Republicans win the shutdown fight and block an extension of the enhanced Obamacare (ACA) subsidies, health insurance premiums will more than double for most people in 2026. Without Congressional action, new rates hit during open enrollment this November, and a typical person could pay over $1,800 a year more—some families could lose coverage entirely. Congress has days to fix this before millions are affected next year.

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If Republicans win the shutdown fight and block an extension of the enhanced Obamacare (ACA) subsidies, health insurance premiums will more than double for most people in 2026. Without Congressional action, new rates hit during open enrollment this November, and a typical person could pay over $1,800 a year more—some families could lose coverage entirely. Congress has days to fix this before millions are affected next year.