Charles Waters
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@tracegallagher Yes. I elevates the experience and exclude clientele that you generally don't want to be around.
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@_bcbread @SawyerMerritt Electric drive motors can handle everything from a crawl to high speed. I'm fairly certain that the drive wheels are direct driven by the motors - no transmission.
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@SawyerMerritt With no gears, how do these handle steep grades in adverse driving conditions??
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WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers.
"Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.”
Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach.
Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet.
King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles.
The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order.
“The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

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@MbarkCherguia I don't want to make fun of a fellow human being, but it looks terrible. I feel sorry for her.
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@LuizaJarovsky I certainly don't. I want the spark of humanity. Although I've read some reports generated by AI and they are damned good. I don't want AI try to be emotion or to capture Hemingway or anything.
I guarantee you that Amazon is absolutely FULL of AI generated garbage.
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@realMaalouf Do you think he will learn? They are incompatible with white, Christian, European nations.
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BREAKING: Soon after leaving the mosque where he had just been threatened, the Australian Prime Minister was heckled and called a dirty dog and a pig.
He wanted to show solidarity with the Muslim community and almost got lynched.
You can never appease these people.
Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf
BREAKING: Australian Prime Minister Albanese went to a Sydney mosque for Eid prayers to stand against Islamophobia, only to end up being threatened, with everyone screaming “Allahu Akbar” at him. He just sits there terrified, not knowing what to do.
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@jwolnizer @micheal_ws18 Define this. I'm doing 1:00 minute to 1:30 if it's something heavy. Is this too short?
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@jonatanpallesen We no longer read. IQ isn't just genetics, it's also education and nutrition. And we just don't read like we used to.
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The proportion of high-IQ people in the world is declining fast.

Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen
The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.
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@elonmusk I think it's common whenever a society reaches a certain level of wealth. In poor cultures, children are useful property and take a big burden off the families for daily ag work. They aren't 'needed' in rich cultures.
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@felicite34 Those are good. There is one other degree that I think could be valuable and that would be a business degree, like an MBA lite kind of thing. The future is for entrepreneurs and knowing how to run a business (accounting, marketing, etc) is a valuable skill.
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There is a demand for technicians who are willing to travel to job sites. Us citizen, can pass a drug test, and get a security clearance. Look for a BS-EET degree. Or an associates.
Charles Waters@RelaxedPop
@kevinxu Unless they want to be a doctor or electrical engineer or something that requires an intense scientific education, I'd say forget college and consider vocational stuff. There's nothing wrong with being an electrician.
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@ronsterd89 My wife loves it on slices of apple. It's good on celery also.
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@Matt_Pinner Because I'm exhausted and in bed at 9:00 PM. I get my 8 hours and my body is ready to go again.
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@dieworkwear @kevinxu I like this, but focus on a local community college to get a general degree that will help them to think and understand their world.
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@kevinxu Unless they want to be a doctor or electrical engineer or something that requires an intense scientific education, I'd say forget college and consider vocational stuff. There's nothing wrong with being an electrician.
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@DrBenTapper1 This is dumb. They will circulate water in a closed loop. Anything else is dumb and too expensive. Where do you people get your information?
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AI data centers can use up to five million gallons of water each day. Am I the only one concerned about how this could pose a serious threat to our farmers and our food supply? What happens when these centers seriously strain our aquifers and dry up irrigation systems? Is it really worth it?
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@kritikakodes "Did I implement security correctly so that I can take credit card payments?"
or... wait, wait...
"Is my legal disclaimer bullet proof enough to cover me for my own coding ignorance"?
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