The Short Shorts Historian

Happy New Year! My New Year's resolution is to finish writing my $TSLAQ book. I hope you like the latest version of the book cover! There's still a lot of work to do though😬 If you would like to support my book project, you can join my Patreon or subscribe on X. All supporters will be mentioned in the book. <3 I haven't been that active on X as I've had to focus my time on the book. But I'm very grateful for all the help I've received in here, and I'm hoping to include those that often send/tag me tslaq tweets in the book too, even if not subscribed. For now I'd like to thank all my Patrons who have supported my project so far: @bradsferguson @MattMillerCubed @SnoozeThroughF1 @jfhgamble @lomed77 Håvard Moen @aureliius @FrancBerna @rpajam @EmmetPeppers Cy Abrams Daniel D. Jeff Greenfield @TeslaLarry @stromfeldt Apologies if I used wrong name or username (patreon doesn't share enough details). When book is closer to finish, you can DM me how you want to be mentioned on the thank you page. See you at two zero two five!

THIS DAY IN $TSLAQ HISTORY: Meet the gullible person who always doubted Tesla but fell for every piece of vaporware the competitors 'unveiled'.🤡 @TESLAcharts 6 years ago:

Tesla killers on the news - 6 years ago: "Tesla who? Fisker Ocean electric SUV will demolish supercars - and it's confirmed for Australia!!" 😱 carsguide.com.au/car-news/tesla…

THIS DAY IN $TSLAQ HISTORY: Nope, this is not the recent news. It's from 2017.🤷‍♂️ From the 2017 article: "The two companies have been working together for about three years now, and their product is almost ready to hit the market. According to Mercedes-Benz' Sajjad Khan, its first NVIDIA AI-enabled vehicle should be ready within a year"

Happy 2-year anniversary to this prediction! 🥂

@slye Lost my dad 15 years ago. It was nice to see him in my dreams, but painful to wake up and realize it was only a dream. Nowadays, he doesn't visit my dreams anymore and it breaks my heart.

My dad died over 3 years ago, but I saw him last night. Here’s the true story: In my 20’s I discovered lucid dreaming which is the experience of becoming aware that you are dreaming while the dream is still happening. During that time I learned techniques to train my brain to lucid dream on demand in a way to control some aspects of the dream. One of the techniques is that every day when you’re awake, take a few seconds to look down at your hands. Notice the details, the wrinkles of your palms, and count your fingers carefully one by one. Doing this over time will train your mind, and eventually when you’re dreaming you might look down at your hands and something will seem off. If you cannot count your fingers or see the details of your hands, that means you’re dreaming. I’ll never forget the first time I successfully had control in a lucid dream. In the dream I was coming out of a house with my cousins, and we were looking at ants with a magnifying glass. While looking down at the glass, my eyes shifted to my hands. I tried to see the details. I tried to count my fingers. Nothing. My mind shifted from being in a passive dream to actually knowing I was dreaming. I immediately stopped what I was doing and did what every sane person would do: I took off flying. I flew through the woods for a while. Then I woke up. It was such a surreal feeling, and I continued to practice lucid dreaming. But over the next decade I forgot about it and stopped practicing. Fast forward to 2022, I’m holding my dad’s hand while he takes his last breath in a hospital bed. That day, and the months that followed, would change my whole perspective on life. The grief. The heartache. Losing my biggest fan. My hero. He was a new grandfather who only got to meet his granddaughter once. During his life, my dad struggled with depression, but he never gave up on living. Mainly for one reason: me. He told me time and again that I was his whole world. We were best friends during my childhood. The last time I spoke to him when he was alive was during our weekly phone call. A few days after my last call with him, a nurse called me and told me my dad was hospitalized. He passed away while on comfort care, and I never got a chance to properly say goodbye. Even though I spoke to him, he couldn’t talk back. Since then, I’ve felt extreme guilt for not trying to save him in some way. Whether it was something I could have done over the years or simply in that hospital room. And the hardest part is knowing I’ll never talk with him or see him again. Except there’s one place I still see him quite frequently: my dreams. So in one final attempt to keep my dad alive, I have begun to lucid dream again. Now whenever I become aware in a dream, I always take off searching for him. Because I know it’s fleeting, and I could wake up at any minute. It doesn’t work all the time, and not all the dreams are fun. In one dream, I found him in a manhole with an endless pit below him while he held on for dear life. I tried to reach and pull him up, but he fell, screaming into the darkness. But last night was the most vivid. I realized I was dreaming and jumped into my car. It was nighttime and I drove to The Scottish Inn, a cheap motel that my dad briefly stayed at in real life back when I was a kid. When I arrived, all the motel doors were closed. I drove slowly past each door that were all sequential odd numbers: 21, 23, 25, etc I thought he would be in room #31 because that was how old he was when I was born. But it was closed like the others. However, the next door #33 was propped open, and the light was on inside. I knew he was there because I was 33 years old when he died. I ran into the room, and there he was. I screamed “Dad, you’re alive!”. And all he said was “Yes. For now.” All I wanted to do was show him photos of his granddaughters and tell him how amazing they are and how proud he would be. But I knew we didn’t have much time. So I just wrapped my arms around him. I ran my fingers through his greasy hair. I pressed my cheek to his and felt the prickles of his beard. I felt his slightly damp shirt on his back. And then in a flash, it was all gone. I slowly opened my eyes to find myself in my bed at 4:48am. There was a wet spot on my pillow from when I apparently cried while dreaming. So I’m feeling tired from a short night of sleep. But I’m also feeling grateful to have seen my dad last night. At some point today I’ll look at my hands. I’ll notice the wrinkles. I’ll count my fingers. But for a new reason. To appreciate every moment I have that I’m alive. And to remind myself to try to be a good dad to my daughters. To be their hero. Like my dad was to me. I used to dislike going to sleep. Now every night I am eager to turn out the lights and say goodbye to the real world for a while. Because there’s always a chance that tonight might be the night I get to see my dad again. If only for a moment.

RIP Ford F-150 Lightning

So... the F-150 dug Cybertruck's grave but accidentally fell in there instead?🤔 @C_S_Skeptic

If you bought this 'so undervalued' stock 4 years ago, you'd be up a whopping 12%👍 "GM's CEO, Mary Barra, said the company is 'so undervalued'" fortune.com/2021/11/11/mar…

@ICannot_Enough @CryoGenitalLTD Too many! 😄

@CryoGenitalLTD @TeslaHistorian may have a bunch too.

BREAKING: The worst anonymous investor in the world, the professional auto analyst hiding behind the pseudonym @bradmunchen has apparently deleted his 𝕏 account! His many dumb $TSLAQ predictions now exist only in screenshots & videos like this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@ICannot_Enough No way! 😄

10 years ago, we were introduced to this Tesla Killer. Today, Grok is saying that they've delivered 16 vehicles in total🤭 wsj.com/articles/farad…

THIS DAY IN $TSLAQ HISTORY: But can they afford the burial at this point?🤔 @passthebeano 5 years ago:

I'm sorry I haven't been that active here. I've been focusing more on the $TSLAQ book project. Lots of work on that front.😅

That Lidar Technology that $TSLAQ hyped is about to delist Luminar from Nasdaq😬

It's been 4 years now:

@Ryan4Tesla7 @mwgjerde 😅

@mwgjerde @TeslaHistorian we got a live one!!

Never is going to happen!

@jamesmcpherson Early stage crypto project. Fastest blockchain, backed by Google's ex-CEO. Sort of Tesla of Crypto and giving me similar vibes😎 Available in Kraken and soon in Coinbase.

@TeslaHistorian I don't see KTA as a stock. Is it investable by normies?

My first 10x was $TSLA. My second 10x was $PLTR. My next 10x is Keeta $KTA.