Paul Franklin

@truthandtesla I could be sold on FSD if it would maintain the speed limit on straight, open roads with no traffic or safety concerns, speed up to pass as needed, let you choose your lane in cruise control mode, and a couple of other simple things.

I am 62 and I have owned the following vehicles in my life: 1963 Volvo 122S 1962 karma ghia by Volkswagen 1975 toyota corolla 1963 Chevy station wagon 1986 Honda accord LXi 1992 Honda Accord LXi 1995 Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer 2000 Eddie Bauer Ford explorer 1999 econoline Ford V8 stretch van 2008 Chevy suburban 2008 Audi A6 station wagon 2011 convertible mini cooper 2016 Ford f150 2018 240i convertible m series bmw 2006 Honda Accord 2008 Ford F350 Latiet diesel 2023 Tesla model 3 performance 2024 Tesla cyber truck foundation series 2026 Tesla Rwd model Y Ask me anything. I am an entrepreneurial female who has owned many businesses and have raised three lovely young men. I have owned, as you can see, my share of cars throughout the years. I am dumbfounded how anyone can buy anything but a Tesla after all I have lived and what I know. Feelings about Elon aside, which I do not fathom either, Teslas by 100x are the most amazing vehicles especially for the price of anything I have ever owned. Everytime I get in the cybertruck, I re live my awe all over again, from the tight turns it takes, how low I can lower it while loading, how it powers my cabin when power goes out, I could go on and on and on - about all the features I love about it besides the basic Tesla features. It is the most amazing vehicle ever produced. I am shocked that anyone can ever buy an ice vehicle if they really researched and knew what they were choosing. Safety, lack of driving fatigue you don’t even realize you have until you don’t have it anymore, quiet, peaceful ride experience, charging clean in my garage for $1 a night, lack of maintenance concern ever, service (I have found to be so pleasant), buying experience (literally takes 5 mins), ease of having others drive with key share, there are just so many things…… it’s remarkable to me when my Tesla is driving down the road by itself, and I look around at that 99.9% of those around me all driving themselves-how dangerous they are compared to me. No shade on them but the fact is, they are a huge liability on the road and I am not. Every accident I have seen in the past three years is an accident that would not have happened in a Tesla world. And I have seen a lot - even fatal ones. It’s so sad to me how the entire global public is being gaslit about teslas - it’s clearly a designed slowdown of adoption - because adoption that would happen if the truth was revealed, would be catastrophic to the old paradigm, the old supply chain, the unions, the car dealerships, the gas stations as they sit a top tanks they would have to be pulled out of the ground (expensive), the insurance and medical industry that makes so much money off the accidents. The list goes on and on about the disruption it would cause if the truth really got out. So the powers that be, lie, to slow down the adoption they know is inevitable, to give themselves time to pivot out of the already obsolete. I am a 62 year old female who has seen and lived a lot in my life - this current state of affairs regarding the wool being pulled over the eyes of the masses, regarding the utter superiority of Tesla- is the most profound phenomenon I have ever lived. It’s truly uncanny.

@CLKCHRIS @Mr_Husky1 Humans use those--unless they're uneducated buffoons.

@Mr_Husky1 You almost fooled me, had to look a little closely for the ai, and yeah the story is fabricated, the double dash is always a dead give away. Humans don’t use those, and upon closer inspection so is the picture

"My 22-year-old son called me last week while walking home from the gym. At first, everything sounded normal—just small talk. Then he got quiet and said, “Mom… there’s a guy following me.” He had parked a couple blocks away. It was after 9, dark out, and this man was matching his pace, his turns… everything. My heart dropped. He stayed on the phone, trying to sound calm, but I could hear the fear creeping in. Then he passed a gas station. There was a man outside finishing his shift, and he must’ve noticed something wasn’t right. He looked at my son and said, “Hey, you waiting on someone? Come stand here with me.” Just like that. My son stopped and stood under the lights with this complete stranger. The man who had been following him kept walking—didn’t stop, didn’t look back. The worker stayed with my son for about fifteen minutes, just talking—about football, about nothing—keeping him there until it felt safe. Then he even offered to walk him to his car. My son said yes. I was still on the phone the whole time, barely able to speak, just listening as this man—whose name we don’t even know—treated my child like he mattered. Like protecting him was the most natural thing in the world. When my son finally got in his car and locked the door, he said, “Mom, I’m okay. Some guy just looked out for me.” Some guy. Some man who had every reason to go home after a long shift—but chose not to look away. Chose to step in. Chose to stay. If you work at the Shell station on Hillcroft in Houston, Texas… please know a young man got home safely because of you. Because you took a moment to care. I don’t know your name, but I will never forget what you did. A mom is beyond grateful. Her son is home." Wala nani

@TheRealLogosT @Kecky_Bing @Liz_Wheeler Then you have spoken wrongly of evangelicals.

@Kecky_Bing @Liz_Wheeler I was not talking about the government

The very young, very trad priest who celebrated Mass at our parish this morning began his homily with, “Today I will be preaching on the first reading, from the book of Acts, also known as the communism reading.” The whole congregation laughed. Father then proceeded to explain, per soon-to-be-Blessed Fulton Sheen, that communism is not the way. Giving of ourselves, personal generosity, sharing economic wealth voluntarily with our brothers in Christ, and detachment from material goods are what Jesus calls us to do as His followers. It was exactly the clarity the faithful needed. A refreshing and encouraging reminder that the newest generation of Catholic priests are ultra trad, conservative, theologically sound, and unafraid to preach what might be culturally unpopular.

@megbasham Stages of my response: 1) Yeah, nicknames are bad unless you want them. 2) Your Twitter handle is megbasham?? Ironic! 3) Oh, you're OK with it from friends. 4) If I knew you in person, you'd be a friend, but you'll always just be the wonderful Megan Basham to me. Carry on.

My absolute least favorite people on this site are those who use some diminutive of your name as some sort of dismissive sneer when they don't know you and you have no idea who they are. Megs, Meggie, Meggers--I think my new rule is, you don't know me and use any form of this, automatic block.

@cactus_flag @SlowToWrite He said, "If you are a Christian," not "If you identify as a Christian." So you're saying the same thing, just with more emphasis.

@SlowToWrite I meannn... you have to repent and follow Christ. You cant just identify as a Christian. Jesus tells people who call him lord that he never knew them.

Some people who had abortions have the righteousness of God. Some people who identified as trans have the righteousness of God. Some of the worst criminals in prison have the righteousness of God. If you're a Christian, you have the righteousness of God. Because of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Today, grieve his death, but rejoice over our life in him!

@erikkuna Beautiful. It's now the home screen on my phone.

Thanks to everyone for all the interest in the photos, even all you flat eathers! For those who expressed interest, here's a link to ordering Prints: erikkuna.smugmug.com/Artemis-II

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

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@ThomasNelson I noticed what seems to be an error in formatting in the MacArthur Study Bible LSB, 2nd ed. 2024. Ephesians 6:18 is the continuation of a sentence but formatted as the start of a new paragraph. HTH.

Watching the lead-up to the launch of Artemis II on @NASA's official feed, I found out that the propellants are stored at cryogenic temperatures--that is, thousands of degrees below Fahrenheit. I love learning new scientific facts.

@TrevorSheatz My wife and I had a saying: "Would you let your child marry someone who used to be a non-Christian?" Thank you for sharing about the power of God to make a new creation of anyone who repents and believes in Christ.

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

@ToddTownsend @webdevMason I had more than an hour. I hated it. It won't maintain steady speed (I'm not talking traffic-aware cruise control, it just slows down for no good reason); when I try just cruise control, it refuses to stay in the right lane, changing into the next lane ahead of faster cars.

Non-Tesla owners have no concept of how good FSD is now. And there's a lot of Tesla owners that have never used it. Truly game-changing. The two reliable pushbacks I get from people are: 1 - " But I like to drive." 2- " The car will never be a better driver than I am." If given an hour behind the wheel under various conditions with the latest version of FSD, both of those pushbacks tend to evaporate.

We just got a 7-seat model Y, and we're gonna make that itty bitty third row work for us by hook or by crook because **** I love this car Full self-driving is the first real life changing quality of life improvement I've gotten from a product in as long as I can remember

@megbasham . . . but a man looking with lust and not having sex outside marriage *is* committing adultery. Yeah, I'll stick with scripture rather than having my ears tickled by this false teacher.

I I I I….just. I don’t even know what to say to this level of biblical illiteracy that nonetheless confidently pronounces what’s in the Bible anymore. I’m speechless.

@PahlaviReza My father worked on the dam in Khuzestan named after your grandfather. It occurs to me that taking out power transmission pylons would cripple the regime but be easy to repair thereafter. I pray frequently for your people to be free both politically and spiritually.

ایران، جمهوری اسلامی نیست. زیرساخت‌های غیرنظامی ایران، متعلق به ملت ایران و سرمایه‌ی آینده‌ ایران آزاد است. زیرساخت‌های جمهوری اسلامی، ماشین سرکوب و تروری است که برای جلوگیری از تحقق آن آینده به کار گرفته شده است. ایران باید حفاظت شود؛ جمهوری اسلامی باید ریشه‌کن شود. از رئیس‌جمهور ترامپ و نخست‌وزیر نتانیاهو می‌خواهم که همچنان رژیم و دستگاه سرکوب آن را هدف قرار دهند، و در عین حال زیرساخت‌های غیرنظامی و حیاتی ایران را که مردم ما برای بازسازی کشور به آن نیاز دارند، حفظ کنند. با حمایت ایالات متحده آمریکا و اسرائیل، و بیش از همه با فداکاری ایرانیان میهن‌پرست، لحظه آزادی ایران نزدیک است. پاینده ایران.

@megbasham Not your feelings! We identify a wolf by measuring *his teachings* against Scripture.

The way you know when you’re looking at a wolf is not by measuring your feelings about America. It’s by measuring your feelings against scripture. That is the only way to identify a wolf. And that is how we know that yes, James Talarico is a wolf. And is to such a neon degree (we’re talking hot pink wolf here), that anyone who cannot see it is not just a blind guide, they have to have been blind for quite some time.

@BiblicalBeauty We'll see him again!

I had never seen this Keith Green performance before tonight. I was only 4 years old when he left this world, but seeing him feels like I’m looking at a close friend I’ve known my whole life. 😭 He was so fantastically gifted.

@golfnpreacher @JustinPetersMin @PastorMark It's not a vision but a narrative.

@JustinPetersMin @PastorMark Ezekiel’s vision in chapter 16. Why isn’t that pornographic? I can give others.

There is a reason why so many churches today are dying out. Learn how to defend against the evil spirits that divide and destroy churches wherever they go. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@MaryMargOlohan Ok, now I do!

@MaryMargOlohan Biden: "Don't!" Trump: "We have your backs." I see no difference.

NEW: President Donald Trump shares news of his hours-long meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who just departed the White House. "It was a very good meeting," the president says, "the tremendous relationship between our two Countries continues." "There was nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a Deal can be consummated," Trump continued. "If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be." "Last time Iran decided that they were better off not making a Deal, and they were hit with Midnight Hammer — That did not work well for them. Hopefully this time they will be more reasonable and responsible." On Gaza: "Additionally, we discussed the tremendous progress being made in Gaza, and the Region in general. There is truly PEACE in the Middle East. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

@megbasham Crummy FSD, probably. I have tried FSD, but I won't use it till @tesla figures out how to make it go the speed limit (consistently) in the right lane and change lanes and speed up to pass when the cars in front of it are below the speed limit. Should be simple.

Has anyone else noticed that people in Teslas tend to drive really slow? Like it feels like every time I’m behind one they’re crawling. Now I admittedly have a lead foot, but still, they’re worse than Subarus and you’d think it would be the opposite! Anyone else experience this phenomenon?

It could easily lead to a secular, immoral Iran. Pray hard that this will lead to freedom in Christ for millions of Iranians.

I'm cautiously optimistic for Iran. But times like this are perilous. It could easily be taken over by others who want to oppress the people. Think Russia after the fall of the USSR and the rise of Putin. Think Cuba--Batista==> Castro. Pray hard for political freedom.