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$TSLA OPTIMUS V3 HAND REVEALED IN NEW PATENT 👀 This looks insane !

@PolymarketMoney Moved 2000 Tesla shares to Wealthsimple recently, now very glad I did

JUST IN: X announces a new partnership with Wealthsimple so Canadian users can "trade seamlessly from X".

Next month is May. May you stop waiting for someone who's not coming back. From a computational perspective, what feels like “waiting for someone” can be reframed as a failure of dopamine-gated updating. The brain does not store experience passively. It routes information through a selective mechanism — a kind of cognitive gating system. Recent work on dopamine-gated agentic memory (D-MEM) formalizes this as a Reward Prediction Error (RPE) routing process Only inputs that generate sufficient surprise × long-term utility are allowed to pass through the gate and trigger deep memory evolution. Everything else is skipped. In this framework, your repeated checking behavior is not driven purely by emotion — but by a system still operating under an unchanged predictive model. No response does not necessarily produce a high enough prediction error signal. So the system does not update. It remains in a loop: expectation → check → no update → repeat A kind of failed RPE routing cycle. In D-MEM terms, this is a state where the input is continuously classified as low-utility, low-surprise → SKIP or shallow construct, never reaching the threshold for full evolution. Which means: your internal model still assigns non-zero probability to future reward. And as long as that probability exists, the loop persists. Moving on, then, is not simply emotional closure. It is a threshold-crossing event: the moment when accumulated evidence finally generates enough prediction error to pass the dopamine gate — and force a global update of the system. Until that moment, you are not waiting for a person. You are waiting for your dopamine-gated model to update. The prediction error loop is here.

@EdwardOMalley 😂

Here is Trump as a pilot.

@BestMovieMom Episode 1 is my favourite and I don't care who I offend saying that

George Lucas personally financed the $115M budget for Star Wars: Episode I (1999). This unprecedented financial move gave him total creative control and allowed him to keep the lion's share of the film’s massive $1.027B global gross.

@anishmoonka Super interesting

A bullet that can punch through a car engine dies in 3 feet of water. Three feet. The faster and more powerful the bullet, the quicker it stops. MythBusters tested this. They fired everything from handguns to a .50 cal (one of the most powerful rounds you can fire from a rifle) into a water tank. The big military rounds shattered on contact. Broke into fragments in less than the length of your forearm. Slower handgun bullets survived longer, about 8 feet, because they didn't crack apart when they hit the surface. Water is 800 times heavier than air, so the resistance a bullet feels multiplies by about 1,000 the second it enters the water. A machine gun round exits the barrel at 3,000 feet per second and stops cold before passing 2.5 feet. The faster you're going when you hit that wall, the harder it hits back. The Soviet military decided to fix this in the 1970s. They built a fully automatic underwater assault rifle. It fired steel darts, each about 5 inches long, from a smooth barrel with no spiral grooves inside. Normal guns use those grooves to spin the bullet and keep it flying straight. Underwater, spin does nothing. The dart stays on target because of how water pushes along its shape, like a tiny torpedo. At 16 feet deep, this weapon could hit someone 100 feet away. Dive to 130 feet and the range dropped to 30 feet, because deeper water pushes back even harder. Engineers eventually found a way to cheat the physics. If you shape the tip of a bullet a very specific way, it creates a tiny air bubble that wraps around the whole thing as it moves. The bullet flies through a pocket of gas instead of fighting through water. It sounds ridiculous but it works. A Norwegian company called DSG built rounds using this trick. Their bullets travel 200 feet underwater. A normal round dies in three. Same gun. Russia took the same concept and put it in a torpedo. The Shkval moves at 230 miles per hour, wrapped in its own gas bubble, roughly four times faster than any standard torpedo. The program was so secret that a retired US Navy officer named Edmond Pope got arrested in Moscow in 2000 for trying to obtain its blueprints. Putin pardoned him that December. You can hear some of this physics in the video too. Sound moves over 4 times faster in water than in air, roughly a mile every second. That expanding bubble cloud is a shockwave, and it moves way faster than anything you'd hear from a gunshot above the surface. Both the US Army and Navy now use a bullet called the "Swimmer" that works in air and underwater from the same standard rifle. No special weapon needed.

Elon Musk: "We should really accept no racism or sexism in any form, no matter what it’s called" If 'wokism' means judging people by race, gender, or identity - that's racism If DEI means giving advantages based on skin color - that's racism rebranded Racism against white people is still racism Racism against black people is still racism There are no exceptions We need a meritocracy - where people rise based on talent and hard work, not identity politics And free speech only means something when people you disagree with are allowed to speak

Starship Troopers (1997) was dismissed at release for playing it straight, but Verhoeven stages the whole thing like propaganda, exaggerated, glossy, and just off enough that the satire on militarism is the point.

"The case for sending astronauts into space is rapidly shrinking"

True currency is steadfast friendship

@elonmusk I love my @cybertruck much

Cybertruck is an APC from the future

@ArthurMacwaters 😂😂😂😂

capitalism is a system so good that even the socialists can become millionaires

Western Civilization

First, young Canadians don't have shit. They definitely don't have half a mil to pay the boomers in extortion fees so that they can leave the country. Second, how are they planning to enforce this? Charge $500k for a passport? What stops the US from just offering amnesty? Ottawa can't tell Washington what visas it can and cannot offer. Third, and what makes this malicious boomerfap especially piquant, young Canadian professionals don't leave because they especially want to. Wanderlust aside, most would prefer to remain close to family and friends. They leave because they don't have a choice. The Canadian state is set up to restrict opportunity to the point of nonexistence. Canada is a country that strangles ambition in the crib. As the old joke goes, if Musk had stayed in Canada he'd be a mid-level financial manager at CIBC (with any possibility of further promotion eliminated by the all-of-society DEI imperative). Canada invests an absurd amount into educating its youth. It then refuses to allow them to use their training. So they leave. The University of Waterloo is one of the best engineering schools on the planet; virtually all of its graduates end up in the Bay area. Because the alternative is sitting on their hands or trying to get a job in the Ministry. It would be a mistake to see Canadian investment in education as intended for the benefit of Canadian youth, by the way. Like everything else in Canada's political economy, this is a subsidy to a Liberal Party client group, in this case the academics and administrators staffing the universities. The primary purpose of the universities is providing sinecures to liberals; the secondary purpose is indoctrination of the youth with liberalism; the third, to launder liberal ideas through intellectual channels. Whether the kids learn anything, or whether they can use whatever useful knowledge they acquire to (lol) better themselves or (lmao) "build the country", is not a priority. If it were not for the Laurentian Elite running the country into the ground, if young Canadians were not sabotaged at every step of their lives, then there would be no brain drain problem. But as usual, boomerlibs would rather punish the youth to try and fix the problems the boomerlibs caused.

@elonmusk @DrBrianKeating @pmarca Better to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right

@DrBrianKeating @pmarca Nobody bats 1000 😂

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

Imagine having this view as you’re commuting home. The Artemis 2 crew is now falling to Earth, picking up speed every second as gravity relentlessly pulls them. When they plow into the upper atmosphere they’ll be the fastest humans in history - with nothing but air to slow them

“If the validity, even the constitutionality, of his government is being challenged, then a general election to clear the air may become not just desirable but necessary,” writes John Ivison. nationalpost.com/opinion/john-i…

Canadians have had the luxury of US security which has allowed us to call them vulgar, ignorant, violent and beneath us. All the while they have built Microsoft, Apple, sent men to the moon, gave us Hollywood which gobbled up our talent, built the strongest military in history, built a society that attracted the best and brightest from around the world, spent more on alliances and aid than the world combined and created Silicon Valley, Ivy League schools and the best hospitals in the world. This under different Presidents and parties. While Canada debates a rail project that will never exist and bemoans what the Avro arrow could have been the US is sending a rocket to the moon and rescued an airman in a Hollywood style operation all in the same week. Canada can't rest on Vimy ridge or Juno Beach any longer. We need to recapture what we once were. We can no longer afford our arrogance based on nothing tangible. Our superiority complex now comes off as insecurity and jealousy.