Brian Stowell

@mahkus If she won’t give up FSD (and neither would I) there is nothing to discuss at dinner other than who is going to place the order first. Just sayin’!

Tesla put that Model Y L pricing right into the "let me think about it" category vs the "immediate buy" category. Wife has always wanted captain's chairs and a little more space in the Y. We want a bigger vehicle but she won't give up FSD. Launch series comes with some special badging and a year of free connectivity ($100), free FSD ($1200), free year of supercharging (let's say $1500). About $3,000 in goodies. And then free paint (ultra red, $2,000) and free interior (zen grey, $1,000). The question is, where does the Model Y L land pricewise once the Launch Series goes away. I'd have to assume it'll be $55,990. With paint, interior, you're up to around $58,990. In that sense I think Launch Series makes sense. Any cheaper than $55,990 and it doesn't make as much sense. Specific for us, we'd also have to pay $100/month for FSD as we currently have it purchased on our older Y. FSD is totally worth the $100/month to us, I just loathe paying a subscription for it. I also think this knocks R2 out of the running for us. With it only having the five seats it's basically just paying the same price as the Y L but not getting too much else out of the deal. It does make me start to look at R1S/Gravity again though. Wife was an instant green light on the idea of the Y L. I think this might be an interesting dinner discussion tonight.

@TWlegion @NUCLRGOLF @SnobbyScheffler Actually, it is from the steering wheel of the golf cart. Creating rub marks on smooth fabric and sometimes "outlines" of things in the pocket that make contact with the lower part of the steering wheel. Tees, divot tools, golf balls.

@NUCLRGOLF @SnobbyScheffler Likely the items that are in your pockets- most notably your keys. It is not from your steering wheel.

Where the f**k do these black marks come from? Maybe the greatest scientific debate of our time… (H/t @SnobbyScheffler)

@chambleebrandel Any opinion on PGA China?

While there are many people celebrating the demise of LIV, for far too long there were far too many mute mouths about the cancer that LIV was and is. It tilted the game towards greed. It muddied the meritocratic aspects of golf. It’s likely that the philanthropic foundations of this game will, to some extent, be eaten into to fund the future equity of PGA Tour players. It stalled, or killed, the trajectory of hall of fame players. It divided the game. The only win, as I see it, is that LIV sought to launder the atrocities of the Saudis, but instead it further highlighted them. As LIV players sold their autonomy, the whole sport seemed to be in the throes of transition, from professionalism to authoritarianism. But the golf world knew that the Saudis were not interested in golf and that sport has norms that are worth preserving. Money, not for merit, but for the murky purposes of sportwashing crowds out those norms. It is in the striving to get better that one gets richer, that is the transformative influence of sport; both the athlete and audience benefit from the norms of competition. Sportswashing, what MBS/PIF were attempting to do with LIV by paying athletes for their celebrity to confer legitimacy on their murderous regime, reverses this process because it is only ostensibly about the competition, it is primarily about the obfuscation of the horrors of the regime. Both the athlete and the audience are robbed of the transformative influence of sport and what they are participating in and watching is merely a facade, a base amusement. So it is no surprise that almost nobody watched. Good riddance to the Saudi backed LIV.

@elonmusk I would but the 2026 X I bought a month ago still hasn’t updated from 13.2.9. Please update!

Try Tesla self-driving

@eagle3 @RogerSteeleJr @CallawayGolf Not seeing club head speed here. Be great to know that.

New @CallawayGolf Quantum just dropped and these are the biggest carry numbers I’ve ever seen.

@joshhart The water

A fish

@freewilllyyyy It showed me you swing a 9 iron at 90 mph. Impressive!

I took a sample of 80 of my 9 irons Among some statistical analysis of the full Trackman data, I found one relationship particularly striking... Based on these charts, between path and face, which do you think is more important to control? To me, this makes it clear as day 😜

@georgiaballgolf Not legal in competitions. The old Vaseline trick to reduce spin. It appears this young lady is getting paid to promote this product. The evidence is on the “birdie” putt. Notice the video is cut and she is re-putting from a different location.

This thing claims to fix your bad golf shots 👀 let’s see if it works…

@adamyounggolf Definitely a draw. Assuming the path isn't too far in-to-out, it will be back to center at about 150 yards. Give or take!

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@jqd5hctkry @FoxBusiness It is actually 45¢

@FoxBusiness 3% on 15$/hr is only .75 cents

Starbucks raising wages at least 3% starting Jan. 1 trib.al/0mRr50Z