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I’m much better calling out $TSLA bottom but what the heck, this is my price target:
Touching $420.69 by the end of 2024
Touching $999.9 by the end of 2025
Touching $1999 by the end of 2027
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France is burning, and it's not just a bad weekend. To me it's a symbol of Europe's decline, and I don't see a turnaround.
France's government spends about 57% of GDP. Debt just hit 119% of GDP. The deficit is over 5%. Yet 410,000 marched on Friday (the authorities' count) demanding MORE.
The math is simple: if you don't make more things and raise productivity, you can't print prosperity. In my view, schools aren't short of money. Too much of it goes to unions, bloated non-teaching staff and ideology programs.
No party dares to cut spending. No party dares to tell people to work harder and build more. So it only gets worse. Fining American tech companies only gets Europe so far.
Meanwhile the hard-working middle class pays twice: once to the tax collector, once to the looters who torch the shops and bite the hand that feeds them. Some second- and third-generation residents still don't work, live on benefits and say it's not enough.
Europe used to be the center of culture, innovation and entrepreneurship. Now its streets look like this.
What many of these protesters really want is socialism on steroids. Radical activists hijack it and use it as an excuse for violence. Many are the same faces you see at the pro-Palestinian marches, and I rarely hear them condemn Hamas.
China has big problems, but at least it makes things. Europe's welfare is far more generous than China's, and Europe calls China communist. Go figure.
Can Europe still turn this around?
Data: INSEE, Eurostat.
SpringTesla retweeted
David Friedberg: France’s Crisis Is a Warning for America
“France is a bellwether for the West.
So take a look at this chart. This chart is a measure of public spending as a percent of GDP.
And you can see the comparison of France's public spending as a % of GDP to the peak public spending as a % of GDP of major communist nations.”
@Chamath:
“So do you think France is a communist state? They spend like it.”
@Jason:
“Well, it's certainly been a socialist state, right?”
Chamath:
“Is it working?”
@Friedberg:
“That's my point. And I think this is such a prescient lesson for the West to look at.
We all think that there's some political problem with Macron or whoever it was.
The more the government spends, the worse the conditions get for its people, not the opposite, and then the people riot and revolt.
Take a guess where the US is today. US public spending is roughly 36% of GDP. France today is operating its national government spending deficit is 5.4% of GDP. The US is actually 6.2% of GDP.
France is, I think, probably the first to go because they're only growing their economy at half a percent while the US is growing at 2.3%.
So we're still kind of hanging on because we have some degree of economic growth that's allowing us to kind of hold things together.
But I would argue that we are facing the same sort of fiscal cliff which leads to this extraordinary social unrest as France.
All the economic measures are aligned, we're at the same rate, we're at the same set of problems, and we're starting to see the cracks in the system.
There's probably a multi-year solution.”
They said it was impossible.
Rockets landing. Boosters caught by a tower. A car that drives me out of my garage with one touch. And now the new Roadster.
Late? Sometimes.
Impossible? Delivered.
10 years ago, Tesla promised self-driving. Today, it's here, in its first cities.
One touch of a button. That's the whole ride.
On October 19, 2016, Tesla announced that every car it built would have the hardware needed for full self-driving. Many people laughed.
Ten years later, Tesla drivers have logged nearly 16 billion miles on FSD (Supervised).
Now Cybercab, a car built only to drive itself with no steering wheel and no pedals, is the fastest-growing part of Tesla's Robotaxi fleet. Texas had 45 on the road in early September. It has 420 today, nearly half of Tesla's 927 registered robotaxis in the state.
Bold goals take time. Some deadlines slip. But the vision never changed, and it's driving down the street right now.
As Elon Musk put it: "Sometimes I'm not on time. But I get it done and the Tesla team gets it done."
@Tesla @elonmusk @wholemars @TeslaBoomerMama
I condemned Saudi Arabia beheading a young couple. The reply? 'What about Christians?'
Meanwhile, Christians are being slaughtered in Nigeria and gunned down at a church funeral in Jordan.
Whitewashing Islamist violence is anti-civilization and dangerous. Remember who excuses it in the voting booth.
@elonmusk save the civilization! Western countries don’t know how dangerous the situation is.
This is getting scary and I’m not kidding! On Oct 9 I submitted 16,500 feet Mountain of Color (the rainbow mountain) and that day again I saw recent high of $TSLA $387. Once is coincidence, but 4 times in a row, that’s barely a coincidence and I’m not really Superstitious. It seems like each time I summit a tall mountain Tesla sees a decent price hike in all my recent hiking.
With this token, do I have to summit the Everest Mountain someday? Hiking Whitney and Grand Canyon are considered extremely extraneous for me, Mountain Everest likely is out of my reach.
Maybe Mount Kilimanjaro next? 5,895 m (19,341 ft) in Tanzania, takes one week to summit.
Or it is a good excuse to abuse myself?
V14.3 lite definitely impressed me today, I didn’t expect the FSD take this narrow path and did it perfectly. One click of a button from start to finish in the driveway, HW3 still can perform.
I’m generally fine with V12.6 since for me it’s assisting driving and making it much safer. An update like this is quite satisfying, I don’t mind about the waiting.
SpringTesla retweeted
We are launching the Tesla Robotaxi safety report today.
Till date, Robotaxi has driven a total of 3.3 million miles autonomously, and has had zero injuries nor airbag deployments. If the same number of miles were to be manually driven, we should expect roughly 9 injuries to the occupants or other pedestrians and 4 airbag deployments on average.
We will continue to transparently share our progress with the public using this page.
tesla.com/robotaxi/safety
this is the ugly face in reality from far left supported and encouraged self victimization: they never feel the need to adapt and make effort.
Many people learn to speak Japanese, but few understand the splendid culture behind it.
Part of Japanese culture grew out of thousands of years of Chinese civilization. One example is the levels of politeness built into the language. China has largely lost that through the Cultural Revolution and the civil war. Some survives in Taiwan, but most of it is best preserved in Japan.
Now that elegance of language and manners is in danger. Many shops have foreign workers who speak Japanese but never learn to bow or use polite language, because it isn't convenient for them.
A language without its culture is just words. (AI image)
When you pass through a torii (鳥居) at a Japanese shrine, don't walk down the exact center. I see many many of them during my frequent Japan visit .
The torii marks the boundary between our everyday world and the sacred ground of the kami. The center line of the gate and the approach path (sandō 参道) is called seichū (正中), the path of the kami. Visitors step slightly to the left or right as a sign of respect and humility.
The simple etiquette:
- Pause before the torii and give a shallow bow
- Step through off-center (either side is fine)
- Walk along the side of the path to the shrine
- Bow again after you pass back out through the gate
- If you have to cross the center, a slight bow is polite
No one will fine you for it. It's a quiet custom many Japanese do naturally, while most visitors walk straight down the middle without knowing. This is Shinto shrine etiquette; Buddhist temples differ in some details.
Japanese is not easy to learn, but understanding the culture behind it matters even more.
Photo: Torii tunnel at Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kyoto (KimonBerlin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)
You think you’re safe? Read how this evil justifies and sugarcoating the evils’ actions.
Today’s Muslims are not compatible with civilization, west needs to wake up!
Many people have tagged me to this news. I have gotten a lot of questions in my mentions. I understand why the punishment feels too severe for you.
We live in a secular society where matters of the flesh are seen as private issues. It is normal to struggle with this news. I get where you are coming from.
First of all, I want you to separate a regular sin of fornication from the specific details of this event.
Think of it this way: Think about a highly classified military installation or a sovereign border zone. If you trespass into a regular private farm, you get a warning or a fine.
But if you bypass security warnings and trespass into a restricted military black site where the sign clearly says Lethal Force Authorized, the guards will shoot to kill.
You are not being shot because walking is a crime. You are facing lethal force because you intentionally breached the ultimate red line of the state. The integrity of that boundary is more important than your life.
This is the reality of what happened here. This is what the Haram of Mecca is. It is not just a city. It is the most sacred sanctuary on earth. It is a divine sanctuary with extreme boundaries. You can hunt an animal anywhere else in the world, but in the Haram, you cannot even point at a bird to scare it.
You can clear a forest in your country, but you cannot pluck a leaf or uproot a plant in the Haram. You cannot carry a weapon. You cannot pick up a lost item on the floor unless you are actively looking for the owner to return it.
There is also a deeper theological nuance to this. Mecca is a spiritual amplifier. We are taught that one prayer in the Haram is worth a hundred thousand prayers anywhere else. But that scale does not only weigh good deeds. When you bring a major sin into the very heart of the sanctuary, the weight of that sin is equally magnified.
If this exact act had happened in a private hotel room outside the Haram, or other non-sacred places in Saudi Arabia, the punishment would have been entirely different. Islam conceals sins done in private human weakness and standard laws of jurisprudence would apply.
But when these individuals, identified as Nazrul Islam Abdul Basir and Siti Akhtar, bypassed thousands of hotel rooms to bring a sexual act right into the public mosque, that is public defiance.
It is an intentional desecration of the sanctuary. It is an open rebellion against the boundaries set by the Creator. The law is built to protect the sacredness of our spaces.
If the ultimate sanctuary is not fiercely protected, the religion loses its core boundaries. The ruling is very severe, yes. But it is there to ensure nobody ever thinks of defiling the house of God again.
Allah knows best.
Some people are angry that I called it communism. But look at its core elements. Every one of them is rooted in the far left: destroy and take, not make and inspire.
France has one of the highest tax burdens in the world. The protests started over the cost of living and calls for better education. Now town halls are burning, shops are being looted and the streets are full of tear gas.
The sensational media headlines act like the violence could change things either way. I'm not optimistic. The cultural self-destruction has gone too far. China never recovered from the Cultural Revolution, and this is only the beginning for France and Europe. There's no turning back.
And yes, civil war is a real risk. People and the mainstream media just can't tolerate the truth being told.
This isn't about Muslims or Islam. It's about choosing to allow a cultural invasion, sympathizing with the destruction of your own culture for invaders disguised as asylum seekers, and telling them they're entitled to many things without contributing. It's the same as encouraging the have-nots to see themselves as victims instead of empowering them, like Milei is doing in Argentina.
You don't get things for doing nothing. Class war has been tested in many countries. Europe has learned nothing, and the younger generation doesn't even get the chance to learn real history before being brainwashed by modern propaganda machines.
