ALF
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ALF
@GoodOldALFer
Making the universe self-conscious 🌌



Porsche is having a tough time selling cars right now. They just released their first-half 2026 delivery figures today. • 122,306 cars delivered, which is a 16% decline YoY. This is their weakest H1 in 6 years. • North America sales -13% YoY • China sales -32% YoY • Europe sales -14% YoY • Germany sales -6% YoY • Overseas & Emerging Markets sales -18% YoY By Model: • Taycan EV sales -25% YoY • Macan sales (EV and gas) -22% YoY • Cayenne sales (EV and gas) -9% YoY • 911 sales +19% YoY Yikes.








Amazon Medicine is incredible. You can go and request some medicine, tell a robot you have X, Y, and Z symptoms and no conflicting medical history, and then four hours later, they'll hand deliver whatever it is you asked for. And it costs basically nothing!





If you add up all the government funding Tesla and SpaceX have ever received, it is only about 1% of the combined value of the companies. In contrast, if you do that with US and European major aerospace companies, the government money they have received *exceeds* 100% of their value!


You have ‘taken’ over $38 billion from the US government over the last two decades.





There’s not a single legacy auto maker on this list. It’s Tesla and the Chinese. That’s it.







