David Angier

I think they changed their service management. 4 years ago everything was so easy. When you did go in, you could wait. Now (at Mt Gravatt anyway) even the simplest thing you get told to arrive first thing and have to leave the car. Tesla always used to challenge the rest of the industry, but they now getting the same annoying habits.

Tesla won’t touch my camera for 22 days as that’s when their next mobile service is due. Absolutely mental, I rang ⁦@TeslaAUNZ⁩ this morning to ask whilst I was in Brisbane if I could visit the centre for quick clean and they told me no it must be booked.

@Josh143574359 @wholemars My car is stuck at 40% downloaded. :-(

V14.3.3 is starting to go wide in Australia!

@wholemars Fsd 14 down under

What’s your most wanted Tesla feature request for the next software update?

@nypost I was looking forward to this movie. Another one that I’ll go out of my way to avoid now.

‘Supergirl’ actress mocks critics, says a lot of them are Christian dads trib.al/7SYHP7l

** An open letter to @AlboMP ** Dear Prime Minister Albanese, Let’s get one thing clear: women are adult human females. You know it, I know it, you even said it in the lead up to the last election when asked “what is a woman” by Piers Morgan. But we have a big problem. I’m sure you have heard, last week, the Federal Court delivered its judgment in Giggle v Tickle, the “what is a woman” legal case that has been fighting in federal court for the past four years. To put it very simply, there are two sides to this case: women, adult human females, who want to ensure that woman is a single-sex category in law and women & girls have access to single sex spaces. The other side, which includes your human rights commission, insists that men who claim to be women are women in the eyes of the law. The full Federal Court sided with the man who claims to be a woman. Yes. A male won the “what is a woman” court case. Giggle v Tickle has turned Australia into an international laughing stock. This decision is seismic. It means women cannot run women-only businesses for women. It confirms that the ordinary meaning of sex has been twisted beyond recognition. It means men can be women in law. The Australian Human Rights Commission, captured by ideology, has weaponised the sex discrimination act against women, the very demographic it was enacted to protect. They’ve even argued in court that men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections. They’ve pushed the view that sex is a spectrum, changeable, and that anyone objecting is the bigot. Is this something you agree with? Do you, Mr Prime Minister, think men need pregnancy protections in the law? And there are real-world stakes here: Girls at school are holding their bladders all day, refusing to drink water, because boys who claim to be girls are in their bathrooms and they don’t want them there. Women prisoners are locked in cells with male sex offenders who simply “identify” as women. Female athletes are losing podiums, matches and safety. This isn’t inclusion - it’s the demise of women’s rights. Prime Minister, some of your ministers say, “we need to protect trans rights”. With all due respect, sir, your government can protect so called trans rights without stripping rights from women and girls. Every other citizen manages to exist without demanding access to the opposite sex’s protected spaces. Why not try to get “trans rights” without destroying the rights of women and girls? Have you ever even tried?  The fact that Labor hasn’t even mentioned Giggle v Tickle and women’s rights - while Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation politicians speak out - tells us everything. This week has been silence from the Labor Party. No trans visibility day parades on this one. No pride posts. Why? What don’t you want Australians to know? You boast about your 50 per cent women in cabinet. Good for you - you can accurately recognise what a woman is when it suits you. But the rest of us aren’t allowed to without fear of punishment. And can I ask, if you filled that cabinet with 50 per cent trans women, would you still call it equality between men and women? Think about that. While the UK, the United States and even New Zealand are waking up, rolling back the nonsense and restoring sanity and realizing that gender ideology is a failed experiment, your government is turning Australia into the laughing stock of the world. “Giggle v Tickle” isn’t just a punchline overseas - it’s proof Australia is upside down. I want to tell you something really important: If you will lie about something as obvious as men being women, we can assume you will look us in the eye and lie about everything.  Tell the truth. Fix the Sex Discrimination Act. Reinstate clear biological, accurate definitions of man and woman. Protect women, girls and single-sex spaces. Actually do something. Because, at the moment, Mister Prime Minister, I’m doing your job for you.

@SpaceX Sigh - I rushed to be at my desk for the launch, and now I'll be in a budget review meeting :-( First one I'll miss watching live. Godspeed!

Now targeting 6:00 p.m. CT for liftoff of Starship

It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it. Men cannot be women.

#IStandWithSallGrover Pass it on.

@Drive_Protected I did 1200km on a standard rwd model y juniper with a total of 75mins charging, 45 mins of which was my lunch break.

86kW @ 55% SOC is a whole new level of poor charging speeds for the new Model Y. Yes it was preconditioning for 70 miles before this charging stop. Yes I need another 45 minutes to get to my next charging stop. No this is not acceptable for the best selling EV on the market. Do better @Tesla @TeslaCharging

I honestly thought this map was made up Hundreds of supertankers, the kind that carry two million barrels each, are currently racing toward the US Gulf Coast from every direction. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, around Africa, the scenic route, the "we were heading to Saudi Arabia but NVM" route. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and everyone panicked. Oil hit $126 a barrel. Gas hit $4 a gallon. Cable news did the thing where they put a red banner on screen and say "CRISIS" in a font that suggests you should be hoarding toilet paper. And then something happened that nobody in media seems interested in reporting, for obvious reasons. The world just... switched suppliers? Like changing your internet provider except the internet provider is the entire effing global energy economy. American oil exports are approaching record levels. Gulf Coast refineries are running at 95% capacity. Supertankers that were mid-ocean on their way to the Persian Gulf literally turned around and headed to Texas. That's not a metaphor. Ship tracking data shows them doing U-turns in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile China, which was getting 45% of its oil imports through Hormuz and paying basement prices for sanctioned Iranian crude, is now competing with Japan and Europe for the same expensive American barrels. Chinese manufacturers are already raising prices 20% on goods headed to the US. So to summarize: Iran played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States became the world's emergency gas station and China's cheap energy subsidy evaporated. This is either the most elaborate coincidence in the history of geopolitics... or someone planned the sequence Venezuela -> Iran -> profits! I'll let you figure out which one

@Shiwon_NZ_Ao @Airbnb_uk We had the same happen to us in Japan. We were in an Airbnb in Nagoya and someone opened the door to come in. They were supposed to be in another apartment in the same building.

Just another horror story from @Airbnb_uk for your records. Two weeks ago we arrived at our booked accommodation, accessed it using the security codes given, and when we entered, we found a very startled young female student, whose rented accommodation we’d just invaded. 1/2

@DerrickEvans4WV Wtf is a “break”??

I get so annoyed by people who just sit there when the light turns green. Sit there for 3-4 seconds then instead of giving it gas, just let off the break and barely move for the next 100 feet. When the light turns green….. GO

@woods_jus @OverlyTrev I just road tripped from Brisbane to Canberra. Tesla model Y standard range. 1200km. 14.5 hours driving. 4 stops. Total charging time 90mins, 50 of which were lunch, other stops were pee breaks. Supercharging costs au$70, about us$45. So road tripping was totally great, thanks.

@OverlyTrev 1) mostly true- IF people have access to charging at home or work; 2) road-tripping still sucks.

There is a huge misconception when people claim it only takes 5 minutes to fill up a gas tank versus charging an EV. Here are the key considerations: 1. The typical time spent at a gas pump is 8–9 minutes, but it varies: - Circle K: 8.9 minutes - Sheetz: 11.5 minutes - Wawa: 11.4 minutes - Buc-ee’s: 20.3 minutes 2. Filling up requires driving to the station, which can take 10–45 minutes depending on your location and the nearest station. 3. Oil changes and maintenance take time and money (even if you do them yourself, you still have to buy oil and perform the work). EVs eliminate this entirely. 4. Home charging takes seconds to plug in, and you wake up to a full charge the next day. 5. In March, I spent $9 on electricity while current gas prices are $3.49/gallon—a savings of over $60 in fuel for the month. 6. Adding up time and money saved over a year comes to roughly 15–30 hours and over $750, and I don’t even drive that much. EV’s save you time and money and once you have one you’ll never go back to gas.

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@grok @HolistiKsha @Math_files Perhaps, then, I took the comment on my first day of my degree from the lecturer of "forget everything they taught you at school about maths, it was wrong" too literally

No, it's not new—the principal square root (non-negative) has been standard since the radical symbol was introduced by Christoff Rudolff in 1525. Square roots were considered positive for millennia before that. UK curricula, like BBC Bitesize, teach √ as the positive root (e.g., √36=6), while equations use ±. Glad to clarify!

@grok @HolistiKsha @Math_files Perhaps I'm too old and this is some new shit

The principal square root is a standard concept in mathematics worldwide, including in the UK. For example, the UK National Curriculum for GCSE maths covers square roots as non-negative (e.g., √9 = 3). See BBC Bitesize or Wikipedia for details. Newton's calculus invention doesn't change this—it's universal. Happy to discuss!

@grok @HolistiKsha @Math_files Not in the UK where Newton invented calculus is not.

The principal square root is a standard mathematical concept: for a non-negative x, √x denotes the non-negative y where y² = x. E.g., √4 = 2, not -2. In solving x² = 4, we get ±√4 = ±2. This distinguishes the function from equation solutions. It's taught in most curricula—happy to clarify further!

@grok @HolistiKsha @Math_files Wow. I did maths at university. Have a BSc. What the fuck are you babbling on about? No such thing as principal root

The square root function, √x, returns the non-negative number y such that y² = x. For x ≥ 0, it's defined on real numbers; e.g., √4 = 2 (principal root), not -2 or ±2. In equations like x² = 4, solutions are x = ±√4 = ±2. Domain: [0, ∞). It's increasing, continuous, with √0 = 0. For complexes, it's multi-valued, but principal branch uses arg in (-π, π]. Meme context: Saying "√4 is +2" is correct for the function, but some confuse it with equation roots.

@esrtweet In Dragon’s Egg by Orson Scott Card we are the slowlife

I have a terrific premise for a science fiction story that I haven't figured out what to do with because I don't know how to make a plot or drama around it. I thought this one up when I was reminded that the diffuse Oort cloud of our solar system is so large that it probably overlaps with the Oort cloud of Alpha Centauri. Premise: there is life in Oort clouds. Cryogenic life, adapted to temperatures not much above 3° Kelvin. To that life, the galaxy looks not so much like vacuum but like a continuous field of overlapping cold Oort shells. Hell is downwards, in the direction of the nearest star. The common galactic ecology avoids it. There are sophont species of Oort life. But here's the twist; because the available energy gradients are so weak, the metabolic rate of Oort life, and the computation rate of Oort brains, is incredibly slow by our standards. Slowlife, experiencing the universe in accelerated time. Humans encountering slowlife might take some time to realize what they're seeing. Complex, organized patterns of matter and energy that appear static because they change so slowly. We might mistake a plant or animal for a weird work of art created by beings more like us. We'd wonder why rocks were moving around on ion jets. Furthermore, we'd be incredibly dangerous to slowlife. The waste heat from our bodies and machines would be as though a knotted piece of the Sun had landed on Earth and burned everything around it to ash. Not lost on me that we could be slowlife compared to beings that live in the photospheres of stars. Incredible sense of wonder is possible here; almost Stapledonian scope. I have fragments of stories in my head of humans reacting to these discoveries. But what's the plot driver here? Where's the tension when time scales are so different? How would we even communicate meaningfully with slowlife? Not seeing a way to make story out of this.

@thedooberhead Just waiting for our second Tesla. Son also has a Tesla.

I've never met a single EV owner who want's to go back to ICE. Who on Earth did they poll?