Conservative libertarian. America First. Senior Engineer at a 'major cloud provider.' Opinions are my own.

Virginia, USA
Joined December 2008
My Tesla is the best and lowest maintenance car I've ever owned. A few of the highlights, in no particular order: ⭐ Wake up every morning with a "full tank of gas" ⭐ Fastest acceleration of virtually any production vehicle. You press down on the pedal and it just immediately gets there. No lag. ⭐ Memory everything. Memory seat positions, air vent positions, mirror positions, settings, etc. ⭐ Ability to program keys (keycards, phones, etc.) self-service on the touchscreen. Non-Tesla vehicles require dealer visits and $100+ of fees. ⭐ Full self driving available for $99/mo. And smart summon can pick you up at the front of the parking lot ⭐ Sentry mode records from all cameras while you're away, helping to deter vandalism. Also has a dashcam when you're driving. ⭐ Watch Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc. on the screen when parked. (e.g. supercharger or waiting for your food order at somewhere like Sonic) ⭐ No concept of "idling" (like in a conventional car) means you can tell the car to maintain the temperature while you're away. e.g. When I'm hiking on a hot day, I tell the car to maintain the 70°F interior temp while I'm gone so I don't come back to a hot car. ⭐ There's a "dog mode" that maintains the interior temperature and puts a message on the screen that says "My driver will be back soon. Don't worry! The A/C is on and it's 70°F" in case you need to make a quick stop while you have your dog with you. ⭐ One-pedal driving. Press down to accelerate, let up to brake. Kindof like a go-kart. It's weird at first but far superior once you get used to it. ⭐ Light show. You can play music from the car's exterior speakers, synchronized to the lights and motorized parts of the car (trunk, windows, mirrors, etc.). They recently pushed an update allowing you to trigger it from your phone, which is cool because you can do that when you're looking for your car in a big parking lot at night. ⭐ All the typical premium features you'd expect like heated seats, self-dimming mirrors, heated wipers, wiper fluid that comes directly out of the wiper, projection headlights, etc. Double-pane frameless windows. ⭐ Whole-car defrost mode. Press a button in the app, wait 30-ish minutes, and it melts the snow/ice off all windows and roof. ⭐ Premium sound system. They designed it custom with a bunch of former Bang and Olufsen engineers. ⭐ No concept of "On". You get in, put it in gear, and start driving. ⭐ Everything is super low latency and streamlined. My wife's Chevy takes like 6 - 10 seconds before the touchscreen lets you start pressing buttons. My Tesla always reacts immediately, within milliseconds. When I open the door, the music is *already playing.* The music volume lowers automatically when I open the door and raises back up afterwards. ⭐ Calendar integration. If I have an event on my phone calendar, it automatically queues that up in the car's navigation ahead of the event time. ⭐ Entire roof is glass. Makes for an awesome sunroof and makes it very easy to clean. (Just need some Windex) ⭐ Extremely low maintenance. No oil changes. No transmission fluid changes. And the brakes don't wear down as fast because most of the "braking" is done with regenerative braking that doesn't actually use the car's brakes. And I'm definitely forgetting tons of other features. And the OTA updates allow them to keep pushing out more and more features. In addition to regular updates throughout the year, they have a Christmas update every December with a bunch of nice "big" features.
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i just want you all to have kids and more of them
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The anti-Elon bots are back in full force. I guess they found a post-USAID funding source.
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Even the left doesn't actually think that inclusiveness is a virtue. They don't include people they disagree with. In fact they've started cheering on the murder of those they disagree with.
Replying to @NoelSmith
Agree about leaving the Mormons alone, but the idea that "inclusiveness" is automatically a virtue is absurd.
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Looks like someone got a C&D from McCormick & Co.
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Replying to @rwlesq
The suction and thrusters are for supercar performance on the track. And since those thrusters are there anyway, they leveraged them for a cool inspiring demo of aerobatics. The aerobatics aren't meant to be part of the product. So tired of the feigned ignorance from Elon haters.
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
₿uy the Flying Car.
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Holy smokes
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The shooting was only stopped because an armed citizen broke the law you bragged about passing. Shut up forever and go away.
Police have shared that three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and one teacher were fatally shot at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. A 7-year-old was also injured. America's gun violence crisis is killing our babies. Enough is enough.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Police reports confirm the victim details but also that a community member pursued the 16-year-old shooter into the school and fatally shot him shortly after entry, ending the attack before officers arrived. cnn.com/2026/10/15/us/… bendbulletin.com/2026/10/15/rep… opb.org/article/2026/1… youtube.com/watch?v=s0S2UZ…
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Bam....
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Embarrassing that Ben Affleck is smarter than the people at Anthropic.
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling “Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word." "That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person." "But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
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No offense to Ben Affleck.
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Drive fast and take chances.
“Raise hell. Praise Dale” is not an appropriate response when we ask you why you were speeding.
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Canada “oh by the way, we just assassinated your child, sorry we didn’t give you a heads up”
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If Claude is conscious, then Anthropic is a plantation owner
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Constantly lying to your customers is abusive, actually.
Anthropic announced it will ban users from "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards its AI. What your thoughts on that?
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Chesterton, what a line
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Actually, controlling how people speak and think is a bad thing.
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btw, whatever you **think** has been happening, you are wrong, by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
lol wait until you find out what it has been doing domestically.
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Replying to @CJfromVA @VT4L_Joe
IMO the movers spinning in circles during Sandman were tacky and distracting. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. The rest was pretty good. Also, continuing the "just because we can doesn't mean we should" theme, we don't need to be rapidly flipping the full set of lights on and off at full speed randomly throughout the game for no reason. A slow gradual fade would be better (and less jarring/tacky) pretty much every time.
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