Dirk Bester

456 posts

Dirk Bester

Dirk Bester

@Toadkiller

Computer Scientist, Technophile.

Boerne, TX शामिल हुए Haziran 2009
70 फ़ॉलोइंग49 फ़ॉलोवर्स
Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
You are a dumb ignorant dipshit spreading toxic nonsense. StarLink provides life saving communications in innumerable disasters all over the planet. Do you even know any FEMA personnel? Don’t take my word, take theirs. Can you name any of the hurricanes where StarLink provided aid? No. Did you know that Tesla makes their superchargers free during hurricane evacuations? No. You are probably an ignorant American or a Chinese sock puppet eh? Do you know that StarLink single handedly saved Ukraine? No. Why should Elon "give back" at all. We don’t need your communist mumbo jumbo and fake economics. What we need is for Elon to keep doing exactly what he is doing. Have you even read about the native tribes who are now on fast internet and connected instead of on nothing at all despite the billions in government fees and taxes wasted on not getting them connected. Shut up and let capitalism work.
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Mark Rea Baker
Mark Rea Baker@markreabaker·
Quick! Name a large charitable action by @elonmusk You probably got stumped! Now that he's the first trillionaire, I've got the perfect way he can give back. He's always talking about population decline, and studies show that the high cost of housing is causing smaller households and directly related to the declining birth rate. So Elon should create a grant or discount lending program for developers of housing, targeting the most expensive cities. It's a win-win-win and it'll help repair his aura too.
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@Biigmaaccee @SpaceX You appear to be a poor person in Africa. Nobody cares what you think about technology. Stick to soccer or something please.
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BIG MACE
BIG MACE@Biigmaaccee·
@SpaceX "Successful" but the test ended early due to a "ground side issue"? 🤔 Sounds like spin for another explosion waiting to happen. SpaceX fans celebrate failure like its a win. 🙄
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SpaceX
SpaceX@SpaceX·
Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: preparing the booster for a 33-engine static fire
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@BLKMDL3 @Brand0n Apparently timeless means 2014 to 2026. Timeless is exactly 12 years long!
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Zack
Zack@BLKMDL3·
Model S has such a timeless design
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
I have a model X. I was waiting for no side mirrors and or HW5 to ship later this year to upgrade. Now I can not, and in fact need to dump this now worthless vehicle with no future. I could buy a Cybertruck but let's be honest, it too is going to get cancelled. Now that Tesla is just Google and killing off products willy nilly there is no reliability. The truck has smaller sales than S and X. Worse, I have yet to see the FSD I paid for in 2018. Although at least it feels close ish. For models that are not mine, mine has no chance with obsolete hardware that will now never see updates because there will be no X to update from. Could I buy a 3 or Y? No, I am not downgrading. Even if I did, those will sell poorly compared to the upcoming Model 2 cheap and will be discontinued as well. It is one thing to end a model, it is an entire other thing to end all models in a category. Other car brands do not do that. Should anyone let Tesla keep their roadster bucks? Seems foolish. Why would Tesla build a roadster. It is just unsellable low volume vaporware. I am disappoint
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@BernieSanders Retarded communist says what? Go back to Russia and enjoy your dumb communist utopia Colonel Sanders.
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
The great economic crisis of our time is growing income and wealth inequality. While millions of Americans struggle to pay rent, buy food, or afford health care, 10 billionaires got $730 billion richer in 2025. This is immoral and unsustainable. We must defeat oligarchy.
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
I am delighted whenever law enforcement arrests criminals. I want so much of that that it drives crime to undetectable rates. I would pay extra taxes for rougher treatment of criminals. I wish we had laws that tacked on extra penalties for people like this criminal who are interfering with law enforcement. Threatening a law officer and their family's lives with doxxing needs a minimum 5 year sentence. Even if you are a senator or senator staffer or whatever. Engaging in schemes to help criminals avoid capture needs a lot more enforcement and penalties. Aiding and abetting is not OK. Let us make crimes criminal again.
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Simon Ateba
Simon Ateba@simonateba·
Be brutally honest: Are you okay with ICE officers breaking a car window and arresting an anti-ICE protester in Charlotte for allegedly doxxing federal agents and warning undocumented immigrants about upcoming raids — yes or no? WATCH WITHOUT YOUR KIDS
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
First, dipshit, fascism is politics, just like communism. You are confusing it with economics here. Capitalism is what built modern China. Famously they allowed limited capitalism and it enabled all this. Before they did that it was a horrendous backwater. Go actually visit China. People are very entrepreneurial and capitalist. Could they do even better? Yes, their communist governing system sucks. Their large state owned corporations suck. They build large empty cities because central planning is stupid. The real question is how do they fare once they run out of peasants to turn into modern workers. In the Soviet Union when they ran out they collapsed. China is doing better than that, but it will still be an issue. And then the AI and robots take over and they are sitting with the second most mouths to feed of any country.
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Kevin Castley 🇨🇦
Kevin Castley 🇨🇦@KevinCastley·
Riddle me this, fascist: If socialism only steals and can’t build, How did China build all of these skyscrapers?
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@realJeffBromley @SenFettermanPA If I start a new religion that lets anyone marry, then what are you going to do? Pretend your religion is better than the thousands of other religions? THIN K!
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Jeff Bromley
Jeff Bromley@realJeffBromley·
@SenFettermanPA Senator Fetterman, marriage is not about picking your partner. We already have civil unions, marriage is a religious institution. This is why the government should get out of religion, i.e. marriage. They should just record it for the legal aspects.
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U.S. Senator John Fetterman
U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA·
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Love is love—don’t fuck with it. Freedom to pick your partner is a fundamental part of the American Way of Life. 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈
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Tory Bruno
Tory Bruno@torybruno·
Thanks ⁦@blueorigin⁩ . We’ll put these BE4s to good use.
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
It looks like you are trying to make false claims with a sprinkling of truth. They are working on robots and will likely end up being a robot company primarily. Unless someone else outcompetes them. They do have EV sales. So far so good. False: They are working on autonomy and robotaxis. The Cybertruck exists, although sales seem mediocre. The semi is ramping up, there seems to be nothing wrong with it at all. They have Tesla insurance, I know, I use it. True: Roadster is MIA. Dojo did not work out and got canned. Battery swaps turn out to be unnecessary and stupid. Yes, Tesla is not doing Hyperloop, but then they specifically said they never will right from day 1. Yep, DOGE probably died real quick, killed by the establishment of graft and corruption and wasteful spending. Yes, the America Party has failed to launch. Good, I don't want Musk wasting time on dumb political crap. Turns out Trump is in the Epstein files. It got covered in the media. Only, not as a bad guy, just someone who had interactions with Epstein, including kicking him out of Maralago for inappropriate behavior and possibly a weird birthday card. Your picture is mostly false in its portrayal. I wonder why.
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The Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee·
The Future Is Finally Here: Elon Announces He Has Invented Those Glowy Power Cylinders With Handles At The Top That You Push Into A Slot And Then Turn The Handle To Lock Into Place buff.ly/kHCm0Lu
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Whole Mars Catalog
Whole Mars Catalog@wholemars·
Ordered my robot! Somewhat skeptical i’ll actually receive this thing next year, but will be fun to play with it if they can actually deliver it. Excited to show the indian call center guy my house.
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@pmarca I forget the swear word now but iOS mangled it, I accepted the mangling and then it flagged it as a typo. I laughed and made it bow down to my crude speech by adding my free speech to the dictionary instead.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
iPhone autocorrects “clanker” to “flanker” what the f###### f###
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@megynkelly I think people in the victim Olympics need to smell the coffee. Everyone has their cross to bear. Life does not dole out challenges based on skin color, sexual orientation or gender. It doles it out to everyone.
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@dr__dwayne @amy787 You sound like a communist with no actual Tesla shares and no understanding of capitalism. You can dispute one or two of these, but not all of them.
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Dr D
Dr D@dr__dwayne·
@amy787 Please vote against Elon's outrageous pay package as well as the investment in Xai.
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Amy
Amy@Amy787·
TESLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Shareholders must protect Tesla. The Tesla Board is critical to the company's success. Engaging with institutional investors prior to key votes is one of many vital, yet often unappreciated contributions. Those with overt political motivations want to stack the board & steal Tesla from Elon Musk. SHAREHOLDER ACTION REQUIRED Voting for the incentive plan is essential to safeguarding Tesla, but it is INSUFFICIENT on its own. Investors must ALSO vote this year—and EVERY YEAR thereafter—to REELECT the BOARD. 3 members go up for confirmation each year. Vigilance is imperative; allow NO vulnerability. Engrave this task onto your mind as crucial. Each board member matters. MANY WANT TO BE BOARD MEMBERS, FEW ARE CHOSEN Tesla selects the best of the best from the many that want to be board members. Shouldn’t the board and Elon Musk get to choose who they want? Don’t the results speak for themselves? This is one of the most successful boards ever at their primary job - maximizing shareholder value. Each board member is hand picked by the board for their skill set. They must understand rapidly growing disruptive companies that define industries - and get along well with other board members and Elon Musk. WAYWARD BOARDS HAVE OFTEN DISMISSED FOUNDERS TO THE COMPANY'S DETRIMENT: Examples include Steve Jobs at Apple, Jack Dorsey at Twitter, Elon Musk at PayPal, and Travis Kalanick at Uber. And many others. Don’t ever let Tesla be the next company on this list of worst board decisions ever. There is no danger of this with the present board, let’s keep it that way. Read on for Other key board member contributions.
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Ming@tslaming

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm and other board members are meeting this week with $TSLA's largest institutional investors which include Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street, to lobby for the plan ahead of a vote on November 6 🙏

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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@evafox True. The disgust and revulsion I feel for the smoker is palpable.
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Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion
Grok Imagine impresses with its detail and realism. Its videos are increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
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mr fundman
mr fundman@mrfundman·
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
So what? Reagan was wrong on illegal immigration. His economic policy was from an era of mostly western democracies trading with each other. Today we have China cheating the system, it calls for a response. America is no longer the sole superpower for life, endless cash handouts to the world is no longer viable. There is no need to change history. The history you are fixated on is just not relevant today or not what you think. You are displaying an ignorance of economic reality. Reality is we cannot trust China to be the sole producer of goods. We cannot trust anyone else to be producers of critical goods. The world is different today. Shipping all production to China turned out to not be good economics or even smart. Transferring intellectual property to China for free turns out to be dumb. Your post is not even wrong.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽@JoshEakle·
This morning, MAGA is trying to rewrite history—claiming Reagan was anti-immigrant and pro-protectionism. But the truth is, Reagan stood for almost everything Trump opposes. It’d be a real shame if this went viral.
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Dirk Bester
Dirk Bester@Toadkiller·
@FelixSchlang @DJSnM Switch to X. Problem permanent ly solved. What was the issue anyway? Refused to cater to people whining about clickbait headings or thumbnails and hurt their feelings?
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Scott Manley
Scott Manley@DJSnM·
Staging not Checked
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