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@SawyerMerritt The average driver pays less than $100 per year via gas consumption tax. So why should an EV pay more? Why not just charge every car the same annual amount?

U.S. House lawmakers have proposed ​bipartisan legislation that ‌would require electric vehicles to pay ​a $130 fee ​to pay for road ⁠repairs annually ​and $35 for some ​plug-in hybrid models. The House is working on a ​five-year highway reauthorization bill expected to ‌cost ⁠more than $500 billion ahead of the current law ​expiration on ​Sept ⁠30, 2026. Most revenue for ​federally funded ​road ⁠repairs is collected through diesel and ⁠gasoline ​taxes, ​which EVs do not pay. I think $130 is fair since over time there will be fewer gas vehicles on the road generating tax revenue, They'll need to make up the difference somewhere so they can keep repairing roads, etc. Full bill text in thread below:

@MarioNawfal I like that pressing the mic button and saying, "save that, save dashcam, or record" saves the last 10 minutes to USB and won't be overwritten.

Every Tesla comes with 8 exterior cameras, observing your surroundings in 360°. Meanwhile, other brands still act like a backup camera deserves a standing ovation in 2026. Dashcam is built in too. No dangling GoPros. No weird windshield gadgets held together with optimism and suction cups. Hit-and-runs. Parking-lot mysteries. “That wasn’t my fault” performances. Tesla quietly logs the episode like security footage from the future. @Tesla

@dratsfoiled @elonmusk @BLKMDL3 My MY with v14.3.2 backs into my garage. It even slightly angles the parking to allow a little extra room to open the driver's door. I thought I would have to put down stripes, but nope.

@elonmusk @BLKMDL3 Please look into letting us set home as a charging destination. It only makes sense since otherwise we’re always taking over on that last approach. This would even be solved for many of us with just allowing us to give a preference for reverse parking in general.

FSD V14.3.3 is a banger

@980Viking @Rothmus Alabama was recently rated higher than CA and NY in math and English scores. You are right about the cost of living. I retired here after 30 years in the Army and zero regrets.

The Alabama one is particularly funny. It is cheap enough in Alabama that you can live nicely at the federal poverty level. Yes, the public schools suck, but they suck everywhere in the country! Alabama helps fix that by being one of the easiest states to homeschool your children in—a total hands-off approach that leads to success stories like the Harding family, who detailed their story in the book “The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family’s Method to College Ready by Age Twelve.”

“10 worst states to live in” and they’re some of the best states to live in if you have a family

@amuse @TexasTribune Very true and I think once the Tesla semi becomes more widely available that will open up opportunities for lots of folks that might not have ever considered truck driving as an occupation.

@TexasTribune The good news is that there are lots of Americans who would love those jobs and to the extent we don't have enough there are lots of self-driving trucks now.

Across the nation, as many as 200,000 immigrant drivers could be pushed out of the trucking industry by the crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses, according to the Department of Transportation — even as the U.S. faces a shortage of up to 80,000 truck drivers. bit.ly/4uEWqgr

@nickburt9391 @WarMonitor3 Actually, they were the Nazis.

Austrian airforce on Sunday scrambled jets and intercepted American airforce P-12 aircraft which had violated Austrian airspace and forced them to turnaround flying back to Munich. Thats insane...

@Mrgunsngear I'll bet he was carrying a Glock or other striker fired pistol. Nothing against strikers but I'd bet a lot of negligent discharge and suspect engagements are related to poorly trained cops with adrenaline flowing handling guns that go bang too easily.

They turned the comments off. Telling... #OSHA #safety #police #WTF #itasca

@Loinx23 @Alex_Oloyede2 Money, mainly. Recently saw a short documentary on this. Columbia trained a lot of soldiers over the years and many of them liked being soldiers but Columbia payed them next to nothing.

@Alex_Oloyede2 Why so many South Americans? Money? Or retardation?

🇷🇺⚡"Where are you from? Colombia, welcome to Russia. C'mon blyad" A captured Colombian mercenary on the border region with Russia. 24yo Andres Gallego is the last survivor of his 17 man unit, mostly made up of foreigners.

@MarioNawfal The Strait will become increasingly less vital as alternative routes are developed and improved. It may take years, but I think the effort will continue regardless even if there is a near-term positive outcome.

🇮🇶🇸🇾 Iraqi oil tankers loaded with crude are pouring into Syria right now through the AlYarubiyah crossing in AlHasakah countryside. Crossing just reopened after 13 years shut and yesterday Iraq sent the first official convoy of 70 tankers. This is Iraq’s workaround: using Syria as a land bridge to the Mediterranean to dodge the messy Strait of Hormuz chaos. Long convoys, real money for both sides, and a whole new route lighting up. Source: Anadolu

@NSTRIKE1231 More likely it's a signal that there simply aren't enough targets left to justify keeping three carriers on station. It's also crucial to overall readiness and OPTEMPO to rest those troops and service the equipment.

🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 According to The Washington Post, U.S. officials say the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is expected to leave the Middle East and head back to the United States in the coming days. If confirmed, this could signal that President Trump is stepping away from a potential second phase of military operations against Iran, instead relying on the naval blockade to achieve his objectives. Video is generated by grok AI

@elonmusk Same reason homelessness never gets solved.

Incentives explain outcomes. Actually eliminating hatred would end the existence of “anti-hate” groups, so groups like SPLC amplified hatred instead to get more donations.

@amuse How did they stop him without shooting him? Did he just trip or something? I haven't seen any videos of the actual takedown. I would have expected him to be full of holes running a gauntlet of SS.

POLITICAL VIOLENCE: There is a gag order on the Secret Service preventing them from talking about whether the agent was shot by friendly fire. It sure appears there were many potential ‘shooters’ who lack basic firearms training. Going through the pictures and videos many agents weren’t holding their firearms correctly and were (as seen in the image below) not even looking in the direction their muzzle was pointed. The entire agency needs to be tested and if necessary retrained in basic firearms handling and safety.

@MarioNawfal Slow, sloppy, and he let the guy get past him.

@ItsTheEnforcer Who cares? Nobody even knew who the SECNAV was a day ago. He serves at the pleasure of the President. No "circumstances" analysis needed. He is political appointee so he can just as easily be dismissed. Grow up and get over your TDS.

This is a major development — and the circumstances around him leaving need to be heard by the public.

@MagazineTesla You’re really going to love FSD once it’s available for Europe.

J'ai roulé 7 ans dans un Volkswagen Tiguan TDI. En janvier, j'ai pris livraison d'une Tesla Model Y. Voici ce que personne ne m'a dit avant — et ce que j'aurais voulu savoir. 🔇 Le silence change physiquement l'expérience. Je n'avais pas compris ça avant de le vivre. ⚡ Le couple instantané. 393 ch disponibles à 0 tr/min. Premier feu vert après un péage : sourire que j'avais oublié. 🔌 La recharge, c'est brancher son téléphone le soir. Je n'ai plus mis les pieds dans une station-service depuis 6 semaines. 💶 Les chiffres sur 4 ans : → Carburant/énergie : 9 616 € (Tiguan) vs 2 112 € (Tesla) → Entretien : 2 720 € vs 720 € → Économie totale sur l'usage : 7 744 € L'écart à l'achat (3 590 €) est absorbé dès la 2ᵉ année. Les trois questions qu'on me pose : "Tu tombes en panne ?" → Non. 5 alertes à ignorer pour y arriver. "Les longs trajets ?" → Paris-Bordeaux avec 22 min d'arrêt Superchargeur. Même temps qu'avant. "La revente ?" → Model Y = véhicule électrique le plus revendu de France. Tiguan diesel = décote ZFE. Je ne suis pas devenu militant. Je suis devenu quelqu'un qui comprend ce qu'il a manqué pendant 7 ans. L'article complet → tesla-mag.com/jai-conduit-un…

@visegrad24 Just like a blister showing up after the work is done.

BREAKING: Merz, Starmer, Macron and Meloni issue joint announcement in Paris saying they’re sending a naval mission to the Hormuz Strait to protect freedom of navigation 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇹

@EYakoby The only thing Iran has that may be hypersonic is a lofted trajectory ballistic missile in terminal phase and they’re not going to hit a moving target with that.

John Kiriakou at the start of Operation Epic Fury: “If Iran sinks an aircraft carrier, it would trigger World War III. There’s no defense against hypersonic missiles, and Iran possesses them.” Never before have people been so wrong so often.

@ItsTheEnforcer Because the Pope didn't resist or publicly denounce either them or the atrocities of Nazism and Fascism, including the Holocaust. Very mush like the current Pope has nothing to say about tens of thousands of Iranians being executed by their government.

You know what’s interesting? Not even Hitler or Mussolini so directly attacked the Pope like we have seen over the last week or so 🤷‍♂️

@oaxa @DoctorJack16 Just use ASS and have it come to you.

@DoctorJack16 Can you imagine 5 people all looking for their car at the same time?😂

I’m not sure what to make of 2 lots full of gray Tesla Model Ys in Raleigh, NC in a corner of a huge mall parking lot. It wasn’t until I was leaving that I noticed the other lot near it full of gray Ys also. That’s the picture taken with the trees in the foreground. I did not see any rear or side wiper fluid marks to indicate possible Robotaxi usage. It is odd that they are all one color. 🤔

@WUTangKids Anti-drone gun of some type.

Wtf is this thing that Trump’s secret service guy is holding?