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@FlightOfSeven

🇺🇸⛵️Husband, father, grandfather, American, Marine, pilot, retired Army. I enjoy life, time with my wife, dogs, cats, freedom, beaches, sunsets, & fresh fish

Daytona Beach, FL Katılım Ocak 2017
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Brian@FlightOfSeven·
As I child I remember being shocked and confused when learning people cheered the decision to crucify Jesus. I couldn’t understand who would celebrate such a thing. In present day I am reminded that evil exist. I don’t need to travel to far off lands to find it, it exists in the hearts of those near me.
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@marcus_gilbert @XFreeze I have to agree. I’m 61, I’ve owned a few cars in my life and none of them compare to the new Model Y I took delivery of 2 weeks ago. It’s the best I’ve owned, but I struggle to call it a car. It’s more like a robot that drives me around.
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marcus gilbert@marcus_gilbert·
@XFreeze The Tesla Model Y is probably the best car I have ever owned. (from an ex Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Vauxhall, Toyota, Mini, Bedford, Austin owner).
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X Freeze
X Freeze@XFreeze·
Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car for 3 consecutive years 2023: #1 2024: #1 2025: #1 Cumulative global sales: 4,000,000+ units Not best-selling EV. Best-selling car. Period. Beating every gas, hybrid, and electric vehicle on Earth
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@Joe685681192765 @XFreeze I took delivery of a new model Y two weeks ago. Parked it in my garage, opened the trunk, removed the cord that came with the car and plugged it in the electrical outlet. Go ahead and post again about something you know nothing about.
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Joe winkler
Joe winkler@Joe685681192765·
@XFreeze Even if someone gave me a tesla i couldnt afford to put charging station in my house put that in your dmt pipe and smoke it ptetty boy musk
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John Stossel
John Stossel@JohnStossel·
Remember the start of the pandemic? Cops chased people who paddled in the ocean, sat alone in cars, or played catch outdoors. Swimmers were ordered to wear masks in pools. It’s important we don’t forget how AUTHORITARIAN politicians are eager to be:
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Defiant L’s
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
I still think about this.
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Dustin
Dustin@r0ck3t23·
Kevin O’Leary worked directly for Steve Jobs. Sat across from him. Watched the process at point-blank range. Then told you there is only one person on Earth who exceeded him. O’Leary: “The only other person that I’ve seen that has a higher ratio than that is Elon Musk. He has no noise. He is 100% signal.” Jobs ran 80/20. Eighty percent signal. Twenty percent noise. That ratio built the most valuable consumer brand in history. Changed phones. Changed music. Changed computing. Eighty percent was enough to reshape entire industries. Musk runs at 100. Not low noise. Zero. Every waking second aimed at the objective. No detour. No drift. No performance. O’Leary has sat across from thousands of founders. The most driven people on the planet. He found one who operates at that frequency. One. But the comparison does not flatter Jobs the way you think it does. O’Leary: “Not a nice guy. Not a nice guy.” Jobs would walk into a room and make every voice in it irrelevant before he opened his mouth. O’Leary: “I don’t give a shit what the students want or the parents think or anybody thinks. It’s what I want. They don’t know what they want till I tell them what they want.” When O’Leary pushed back, Jobs had one response. O’Leary: “Then fucking shut up and do what I say.” Total control. My vision. Your obedience. It worked. Nobody alive disputes that. But it worked inside a ceiling. Consumer electronics. Software. Design. One company. One product line at a time. Musk operates at 100% signal across six companies in six different industries simultaneously. Jobs demanded obedience to his taste. Musk demands obedience to physics. Jobs told the room what to think. Musk listens to the engineer closest to the problem, because that person holds the variable that changes the equation. He does not walk in and silence the room. He walks in and interrogates it. A blown prototype at SpaceX is not failure. It is data. A missed deadline is not a lack of effort. It is proof the timeline was aggressive enough to force invention. Jobs demanded control and got beautiful products. Musk demands exploration and gets rockets that land themselves, cars that drive themselves, and chips that think for themselves. The difference is not temperament. It is scale. Jobs changed how people use technology. Musk is changing whether the species survives. Most people have not caught up to what that sentence means. AI is rewriting every industry on the planet. Truth itself is becoming negotiable. This is the window. Wrong hands at the controls and open society does not recover. Musk bought a platform and turned it into a public square. He is building the AI. The energy. The rockets. The satellites connecting the planet. The robots that will reshape labor. The media calls him reckless. Dangerous. Uncontrollable. They are right about one of those. He is uncontrollable. By them. He does not answer to editorial boards. Does not answer to regulators who want to slow the future to a pace they can manage. Does not answer to competitors who would rather he stopped building so they could catch up. He answers to physics. To timelines. To the math of a species that does not get a second attempt. The rarest combination on Earth is not intelligence and drive. It is intelligence, drive, and the willingness to let the mission burn through everything else. Jobs built a company people loved. Musk is building the floor beneath a civilization that has not noticed the ground is shifting. 100% signal. Zero noise. History is not going to produce this combination twice. It was not supposed to produce it once.
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@niccruzpatane More than once I have scratched my head and rolled my eyes at “experts” predictions for TSLA. 😂
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Nic Cruz Patane
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane·
According to whom? 😂 I’ve literally never been more bullish on Tesla as a company.
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Brian@FlightOfSeven·
Justin, I think Tesla will operate a large fleet of them. But the most compelling reasons I’ve heard is: 1. If Uber drivers can buy one or more of Cybercabs then that Uber competition dies out quicker. But personally the cost difference should take Uber out. 2. And IMO most important is regulatory. If Tesla keeps it all to themselves they have a target on their backs for being a monopoly and more. But if Cybercab owners are in all or nearly every congressional district then it is more difficult to target Tesla Cybertaxi program politically. That’s how Uber defeated the Taxicab Driver Lobbying Effort. Too many constituents were using and wanted to use their personal cars to make money. Same now. I want to be able to use my Model Y to make $ for me and own Cybercabs. There are no guarantees, but I think the odds of it working are high.
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Teslaconomics@Teslaconomics·
I plan on owning my own Tesla Robotaxi fleet one day. And the more I run the numbers, the more I realize this new business could become one of the most powerful income opportunities I've ever seen. This is how I'm thinking about it. Based on many analyst models and Tesla’s long-term vision, a reasonable base case assumption is about ~$30,000 per year in net profit per Robotaxi to the owner. This is after things like Tesla’s platform fee, charging, tires, maintenance, insurance, and cleaning. Of course, the network is still early and Tesla is just beginning to roll this out in pilot programs in a few cities, so there’s no official real-world owner earnings yet... but using reasonable assumptions around utilization, pricing per mile, and operating costs, the math starts to get really interesting. If one Robotaxi can earn around $30,000 per year, here’s what a fleet might look like: • $100,000 per year → about 4 Robotaxis • $500,000 per year → about 17 Robotaxis • $1,000,000 per year → about 34 Robotaxis It may sound a bit crazy at first, but when you break it down, it starts to make more sense. These vehicles could potentially drive 50,000 to 100,000+ miles per year in high demand areas. If the economics land somewhere around $0.25-$0.50 profit per mile after all costs, you end up right around that ~$30k per vehicle per year range. And remember, the Tesla’s Robotaxi network is going to work a lot like Airbnb for cars. You add your vehicle to the network, Tesla handles the software, routing, payments, and rider experience, and they take a platform fee (often modeled around 25-35%). The owner keeps the rest after operating costs. Another thing that makes this interesting is the expected cost of the vehicles themselves. Tesla has talked about the purpose-built Cybercabs costing roughly $25k-$30k and Elon told me production is starting in 1 month! If that’s even close to reality, a fleet capable of generating around $1 million per year could theoretically cost somewhere around $850k-$1M in vehicles. That ROI is pretty freakin good! Now to be clear, none of this is guaranteed. I'm just thinking out loud and sharing it with you... a lot still depends on regulations, how fast unsupervised FSD scales, demand in each city, insurance costs, and how Tesla structures the network. But if the system works the way Elon has described it for years, owning a Robotaxi fleet could become one of the most powerful forms of passive income I've ever seen. And I plan on sharing the numbers with everyone on 𝕏 when the day comes. Personally, that’s why I’m paying such close attention. Bc one day, owning a fleet of autonomous Teslas working for me 24/7 might be the modern version of owning a rental property, except instead of tenants, you’ve got robots driving people around all day while you sleep. This next book of Tesla is going to be so exciting!
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Brian@FlightOfSeven·
@JoaquinCastrotx They are Federal Agents authorized and with jurisdiction throughout the US. Illegal aliens aren’t authorized to be in the US.
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Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro@JoaquinCastrotx·
We cannot normalize ICE inserting itself into our daily lives. Here is a reminder: ICE agents do not belong at airports. ICE agents do not belong at polling stations. ICE agents do not belong undermining our rights and hurting our communities.
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@swd2 Why does it matter that she’s a mom, if she is in the US illegally & has a deportation order?
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Warren
Warren@swd2·
Now they’re arresting moms. Hope everyone feels safer now.
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Nic Cruz Patane
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane·
So many Tesla owners are still not aware that in the event of a collision, you can request telemetry data from the event, including video clips (when available from safety-critical incidents), accelerator/brake pedal position, steering angle and torque, and more. If you need to request the data, go to your Tesla app, then Menu > Account > Security & Privacy > Request Data. It’s something you hope never to need, but just in case, Tesla has your back.
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Brian@FlightOfSeven·
A driver’s license alone is acceptable IF it is a real ID M; because a real ID is issued only to citizens. But many states issue drivers licenses to illegal immigrates. So dems like this unscrupulous Senator is indicating they want folks to show a proof of ID that doesn’t prove you’re a citizen. DIRTY BIRDS
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Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth@SenDuckworth·
Under the SAVE Act, you cannot use your driver's license to register to vote. Republicans want you to buy a passport instead. If you can afford one. This is a modern-day poll tax.
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Brian@FlightOfSeven·
@SenDuckworth I just read the bill. You are lying Senator.
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Brian@FlightOfSeven·
@BasedMikeLee @kylenabecker Imagine what a revolving door Congress would be if they could be removed from office for lying.
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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
1. This is a lie 2. Read the damn bill 3. The text beginning on page 12, line 22 makes abundantly clear that what you’re saying isn’t true 4. Why can’t Senate Democrats argue against this bill without lying?
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JC Christopher
JC Christopher@JCChristopher·
Tesla FSD 14.2.2.5 Ubers a couple home from a local Kingwood, TX bar. It was their first time ever in a Tesla as well as their first time to experience autonomy. They asked some good questions and enjoyed the ride!
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The Adventurous Soul
The Adventurous Soul@TAdventurousoul·
That's one determined young lady.
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The🐰FOO
The🐰FOO@PolitiBunny·
For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out. Here's how it went: 1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14. 2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0. 3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5. It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops. Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID. I know you guys knew that already... lol
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Walk Away Sunshine Leigh
Walk Away Sunshine Leigh@ShayLeigh2013·
@ValerieAnne1970 @9NewsNancy Lost both parents did two funerals in 9 days. Admitted to hospital never to console nor hug again. Held a I love u sign at the window from the outside of hospital! Heartbreaking! ❤️‍🩹
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Valerie Anne Smith
Valerie Anne Smith@ValerieAnne1970·
Never Forget...The Funerals During Covid. Son moves closer to console his Mother at her Husband’s Funeral. Watch facility staff immediately interrupt them because of ‘Social Distancing’ rules & ‘The Science.’ Never ever forget what these people did to us.
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