Eddie Torrez

Five surgeons are discussing whose patients make the best surgical candidates: The first surgeon says , “I like to see accountants on my operating table. When you open them up, everything inside is numbered.” The second responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour-coded.” The third surgeon says, “No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order.” The fourth surgeon chimes in, “You know, I like construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end. And if the job takes longer than you said it would, no big deal.” But the fifth surgeon topped them all. “You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine. And on top of that, the head and the ass are interchangeable.

@niccruzpatane 500 mile battery? Tesla Catheter sold separately! We had a diesel Jetta that did about 1000 Kms/tank, but we always had to stop for one reason or another.

Even if a Tesla had 500 miles of range, it wouldn’t change the trip much from LA to Yosemite, which is ~310 miles one way. There’s no way someone isn’t stopping at least once during the 5.5 hour journey. The Tesla with the longest range is the Model S AWD with 410 miles. During that one stop you are already taking during the 5.5 hour trip, the car charges, so you aren’t losing as much time as you think, if any. Plus, Yosemite offers many destination charging options, so your car can top off while you’re there, eliminating even more charging time. The biggest thing, @WilliamShatner, is that Tesla vehicles drive themselves. I’ve gone from Toronto to Austin, TX, without ever needing to touch the steering wheel. Over 3,500 miles total. Tesla Self-Driving handles charging and navigation, so you can just relax. The pros of road tripping in a Tesla far outweigh the cons. When you reach Yosemite, you’ll feel way more refreshed since you didn’t have to drive the whole way.

**In Alberta, the equivalent EV road-use charge (officially called the electric vehicle tax) is a flat $200 per year.**0 This applies specifically to **battery electric vehicles (BEVs)** and is collected by registry agents (or online via eService) when you register or renew your vehicle registration. It started on **February 13, 2025** (announced to begin as early as January 2025) and is added on top of your regular registration fees.18 ### Key details: - **Who it applies to**: Only fully electric (battery) vehicles. It does **not** apply to hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric motorcycles, or electric off-highway vehicles. - **Exemptions**: Government vehicles, diplomats, certain First Nations on-reserve vehicles, and a few other specific cases (refunds/claims are available via the province). - **Purpose**: To offset lost provincial fuel tax revenue, just like Saskatchewan's fee. Alberta's gas tax is currently ~13¢/L, so a typical gas vehicle (e.g., 8 L/100 km over 15,000 km/year) pays roughly $156 in annual fuel tax—making the $200 EV fee roughly comparable (or slightly higher). - **No changes for 2026**: It's still $200 with no inflation indexing or increases announced. This is lower than Saskatchewan's new $300 annual charge (doubled from $150). Alberta went with a simple flat fee rather than Saskatchewan's per-km road-use charge model.19 If you're registering soon or have a specific vehicle type, double-check at an Alberta registry office or on alberta.ca, as that's where it's officially collected and any rare refunds are handled.

Saskatchewan raised the EV road tax from $150/ yr to $300 a year fixed rate, and starting in 2027 it will also rise with inflation. On avg a car getting 8L/100km would pay roughly $189 a year in road taxes over 15,000km. An EV would have to travel more than 25,000km to pay less

@TesLatino Kith me!

Trying to figure out a caption for this.

@DriveTeslaca Prediction: there will always be significantly more superchargers than Stellantis BEVs.

Stellantis EVs Gain Access to Tesla Supercharger Network Across North America driveteslacanada.ca/news/stellanti….

@MouthfulofTBO @theteapartyband @my96fm @jeffmartin777 Did AM 106 become the Mix 1060?

@theteapartyband Much Music and then Mix1060 in Calgary . Then saw you guys at Crabby Mikes in Med Hat early 2000’s when I was working at @my96fm and may have stayed a few hours past close having beers with Mr. Jeff Martin🍻🤘🏻🤘🏻@jeffmartin777

When did you first get introduced to The Tea Party? Was it Much? Was it a friend? We'd love to know...

@MouthfulofTBO @theteapartyband @my96fm @jeffmartin777 Awesome!

@thejefflutz Wally! Soon to be Ultra micro!

What the 🤯

@YahooNews Par for the course… any reminiscence on Hiroshima and Saganashkee?

President Trump on Thursday startled Japan's prime minister by mentioning the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

@danWpriestley Congratulations to you and your Team Dan!

Drivers love the Tesla Semi wsj.com/business/logis…

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Do you have enough capacity to launch these for Jeff @elonmusk ? 🤣

NEWS: Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has filed an official request with the FCC to launch and operate a constellation of 51,600 AI satellites (orbital datacenters), just two weeks after Amazon filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny @SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting datacenters, going as far to claim the project would take “centuries” to deploy. Blue Origin's project, called “Project Sunrise,” would include up to 51,600 satellites in low Earth orbit, designed to run AI and cloud computing workloads using constant solar power. The system would primarily use laser (optical) links between satellites. Blue Origin says "space-based data centers could relieve pressure on Earth’s power grids and water usage."

@JessePeltan @AukeHoekstra My Friend was a solar research engineer from the 1980s, in Alberta, Canada… he has some very interesting stories of resistance and pessimism!

Happy Solar Pessimism Chart Update Day to all who celebrate

@PierrePoilievre Great podcast Peter, but claiming that you have never heard of Round Up and glyphosate? grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

A tariff-free 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 partnership. For security and affordability on both sides of the border.

@elonmusk @jonstewart I would like to propose a Propagandist Cage Match!

@jonstewart Not as good as you! Stop being so humble.

Elon Musk is an extremely skilled propagandist.

@elonmusk @jonstewart 🤣

@jonstewart 🤣

@jonstewart You two need to talk @jonstewart @elonmusk

He is also a businessman.

@JessePeltan Just like a drug dealer who doesn’t get high on his own supply. Imagine if Walter White got involved with his own product, it would have been a much different story.

Selling oil to countries dependent on oil makes you strong. Being dependent on oil makes you weak.

Wow. It would be really great right now if in addition to being the world’s largest oil producer, we weren’t also the world’s largest oil consumer.

@Teslarati Speed limit adherence.

What is your biggest hope for Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3?

@DirtyTesLa 🤣

@DirtyTesLa Yes, it should have banish soon…

Maybe 14.3 will have banish