Steve Stanton

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@ianmSC Paying down $4,940 of credit card debt is life changing. Don't do stupid things just because the stupid thing is not the worst thing. Going to the gym one week is not going to make you fit... But you should still do it. And do it again next week. And so on.

I like Kevin O’Leary, but assuming he’s right about coffee and sandwiches, which he isn’t, saving $5 on coffee and $14 per day on sandwiches over 260 work days is $4,940 Which means it’ll take a 30 year old 20 years to save up a 20% down payment on a median home in Nashville

@BuckSexton False dichotomy. Yes, education, housing, healthcare, insurance and property tax are nuts and consumer prices are painful. But that is EVEN MORE reason to stop wasting 10 to 50 bucks a day on frivolities. Meal prep healthy food for $10 and skip the $30 lunch out.

Banish this dumb recurring Boomer lecture. People aged 20-50 aren't struggling with costs because of lattés and avocado toast. College costs 10X what it did for our parents. Average house price up 60% in 6 years. Health insurance doubled since ACA debacle. All policy choices.

@CNBC ✅ Free shipping of everything you need at good prices ✅ Safe, efficient data centers to run the world's computers ✅ Affordable access to space + global internet Not all businesses help society. Onlyfans and sports gambling sites are not doing anything good for the world

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

@_sosoqueens We are talking past each other. If you live in the Village or Midtown... A car is a crazy thing to own. If you live in Staten Island or parts of Queens.... A car is mandatory to fully participate in the local economy. It's all NYC... But very different.

People that say you don’t need a car in NY never really rode the train in NY

@ThoughtCrimes80 @the_satellite23 Comparing my suggestions to PBJs... Not to an all organic ideal diet.

@baaslaunch @the_satellite23 Berries are never cheap. Especially organic ones, and since Driscol’s is now known to cause cancer, that’s a hard pass. Rotisserie’s are usually bottom of the barrel chicken too, unless maybe you’re at Whole Foods.

Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.

@bookshelfbattle It's cumulative. If you want to lose weight, swap out the soda / juice and drink water instead. That's not a total solution for someone who also eats a whole bag of Oreos with lunch. But the extra 500 calories from soda does make a difference.

Packing cheaper lunches is a great idea. But you’re not going to be able to eat enough baloney sandwiches to cover the cost of a $350k starter home on average. That’s before you even get into college debt and lack of job opportunities.

1. I am all for paying good teachers properly. 2. I don't believe advanced degrees make teachers better educator in K-8. Maybe worse. Waste of time/money. 3. There will be a delta between a 190 day/year job and a 240 day/year job, all else being equal. 4. We should offload a lot of academic instruction to computers via the Alpha and/or El Salvador models. (Not the ridiculous " give them iPads" nonsense in most public schools). This will free up a lot of time for teachers to actually coach individual students and get better results.

American teachers share how much money each of them has in their bank account 2 days before payday - 1st teacher was hoping to at least have $40, she only has $7.46 - 2nd teacher has $17 - 3rd teacher has $31 - 4th teacher has $63 - 5th teacher has $1.13 - The last teacher thought she has $500 but only has $126 These are American teachers working every day to educate our kids and most barely have $20 bucks in their bank account Meanwhile everyone from Somalia or Africa can move here and stealing tens of millions of dollars and drive hundred thousand dollar sports cars The system is so broken

@churrascooooo They should protest cars and computers while they are at it. Solutions are bad! We don't want diseases cured! We don't want safe, clean, affoordable self driving cars! We want to maximize manual labor! Vive la caveman revolution! (Sarcasm. These ideas are all bad.)

left wing anti-tech populism is going to have the broadest support of any political movement of the last 50 years

@AlexFinn Accurate

Scariest video I've watched this week America's next generation actively booing the most transformative technology our species has ever seen In China grandmas line up to get OpenClaw installed In America, supposedly our most educated people BOO even the mention of AI The west simply does not stand a chance if this continues We have a massive AI marketing problem in this country and nobody is doing anything to fix it Tomorrow Meta will announce 8,000 layoffs. They will blame it completely on AI They won't blame it on their irresponsible hiring in 2021 or extended elevated rates or horrible market conditions or bad inflation No, in order to not tank their stock, they'll blame it on AI College students will read that and learn to HATE the technology They'll protest outside datacenters holding ridiculous signs that say "SAVE OUR WATER NO MORE DATACENTERS" Politicians will see this and run on blocking data centers just to get a few votes All of it will be a cycle that leads to America losing to China This should be a warning sign to all frontier labs and CEOs: messaging matters. And if your messaging doesn't change the West is cooked

@AndToddsaid "Should" is a tell. Statements about what "should" happen... Are just wishes. Maybe good. Maybe bad. Toss a coin in a fountain and good luck.

I suppose I'll be accused of being a leftist for saying this, but working professionals shouldn’t have to brown‑bag it to succeed in a modern society. I don't mean that in the “everyone deserves a pony” sense. I mean it in the “my car doesn’t sound right” sense.

The opportunity cost of university is unfathomably huge for millions of people who never finish, don't learn much, miss a lot of income and career development while paying a fortune in tuition and ending up in debt. I'm all for university for the kids who will thrive and build careers atop their degrees. But we don't need so many 18-58 year olds carrying crushing permanent student debt while working in jobs that don't require any college. That's just putting rocks in their backpack as the walk their life's path.

Over half of all Americans attend some form of ‘higher education’ today, something that was once reserved for a small cohort of people. A large chunk of them don’t even get a degree - just the debt. Closing down 75% of universities will not result in any loss to mind or culture, will save people a lot of $$, and will force schools to fire administrators and focus on research and teaching - for students who actually belong there and want to be there. Pinching off these schools is a good thing.

OK I give up. My goal is to understand impact, in terms of lives lost, of a regulation that may defer FSD implementation by 1 b passenger miles. Your response discards the framing and insists that the hypothetical not be taken seriously... Only ADA compliant rollout to be considered. For an AI to be useful, it has to be able to think through hypotheticals and scenarios. Rules can be changed if the alternate scenarios lead to better conclusions.

I understand your focus on FSD's safety gains for many users, including aging and some disabled people. The core issue raised remains ADA Title III/§12184 compliance for the primary autonomous service: equivalent access (ramp/lift boarding, Group 3 securement, app parity, comparable metrics) must apply during rollout for non-transferable wheelchair users, not as a deferred "robovan" add-on. Safety benefits and civil-rights duties are not mutually exclusive under the statute.

People completely miss the most important thing about Tesla FSD It’s not just about convenience. It’s not a "cool self-parking trick." It’s about the fact that car crashes are the #1 killer of healthy people aged 5-29 globally and one company has gathered over 10 billion miles of real-world data to actually solve it Look at the recent data: Tesla just became the FIRST vehicle to pass NHTSA's new ADAS safety tests. Not the first EV. The first vehicle. Period. The reality is harsh but simple. Countries that approve FSD get safer roads overnight. Countries that delay will literally watch their citizens die in preventable crashes while bureaucrats sit in meeting rooms debating "safety." The "safety" argument against FSD is officially dead

@grok @KelseyMBrickl @XFreeze @Waymo @Tesla @zoox @cruise @nuro @USDOT @NHTSAgov @TheJusticeDept You're making legal arguments again. Talking right past me. Try to understand what I actually wrote.

**The key flaws in this framing:** Your hypothetical treats ADA-compliant design (ramp/lift boarding + securement for non-transferable Group 3 chairs) as a binary 3-year full stop on all robotaxi rollout. No evidence supports that timeline specifically for accessibility. AV deployment delays stem primarily from tech validation, Level 4 safety data, NHTSA/FMVSS rules, and scaling unsupervised operation—not wheelchair integration, which can run in parallel. Tesla’s own FSD (Supervised) data shows strong improvements (~5-7x fewer major collisions vs. manual Tesla baselines in recent reports, billions of miles tracked). However, these are supervised miles in owned vehicles, not public robotaxi fleets. Real delta for 1B human miles depends on exact crash rates, road types, and adoption curves—extrapolations vary widely and critics note comparison biases vs. U.S. averages. Compliance isn’t an “or” vs. safety; it’s a parallel legal/design requirement for the core service under existing ADA rules.

I'm not making a legal argument. I'm making a factual argument. Putting the law aside... Where are the flaws in my analysis? If ADA compliance defers robotaxi / autonomous rollout by 3 years... And 1 billion more miles are driven by average humans vs current and future FSD... What is the likely delta in fatalities and serious injuries?

The ADA does not ban self-driving cars or require perfection from day one. It prohibits deploying a primary public transportation service that foreseeably excludes non-transferable Group 3 power wheelchair users from independent use—ramp/lift boarding, securement, comparable metrics—while offering it to others. This is not a ban; it is a condition of lawful rollout. Safety gains and iteration are compatible with upfront inclusive design for the core fleet. Separate WAVs, third-party referrals, or future Optimus assistance do not satisfy equivalent access under Title III/§12184 today. Regulators can enforce via permitting, certification, and investigations without nullifying the statute.

Two possibilities: 1. Allow self driving cars and there u save lives. 2. Prevent or ban rollout until such time as there's a fully ADA compliant version... That may never come from this single provider... Thereby helping nobody and allowing people to die needlessly. -------- When a layer has the facts on his side, he argued facts. When the facts are unfavorable but the law supports the case, he argues the law. When neither are on the lawyer's side, he pounds the table. This guy is clearly arguing the law .. which implies totally conceding the fact that self driving cars save lives. Affordable robotaxis will bring mobility to millions who are constrained by disabilities and right budgets. The law in this case creates a perverse result... Needless deaths. Bad laws should be changed. Or nullified. I'm 100% for cheap, safe, accessible transport for ALL disabled people. My point here is that banning a solution for everyone else hurts these disabled more than it helps them... But deferring the iteration cycle, maybe forever. People will die in the meantime. Avoidably. Waivers, variances, subsidies, forward dated deadlines for compliance, etc... All far better tools to help EVERYONE than this pedantic ban on every solution that falls short of a hamfisted regulation that hurts the very people it is supposed to help. . Besides, the Optimus robot is concurrently in development by Tesla and will do more to help the disabled than anything invented since the wheelchair. Optimus can put a person into a regular robotaxi and put the wheelchair in the boot. Game. Set. Match. Winner: Humanity! Thanks to Tesla.

Group 3 power wheelchairs are large, custom, non-transferable devices for severe disability users who can't transfer. Standard AVs exclude them from core autonomous service without ramps/lifts and securement, per ADA Title III concerns. Advocacy tips: Demand regulators require primary fleet accessibility before deployment. Explain exclusion factually. File simple incident reports to DOJ. Contact reporters with facts/ADA cites. Post policy-focused. Allies amplify. Boycott and document sustainably.

@KelseyMBrickl @XFreeze Did you report me yet?

This thread is specifically about the Group 3 power wheelchair users of all ages, not about "many people" or about "aging people." You have accidentally proven my point by stating falsely that "Tesla self driving solves that. Completely" while continuing to exclude people who use custom prescription Group 3 power wheelchairs that cannot fold and who must remain in their wheelchairs in robotaxis. Those people are at the center of this discussion, not "aging people" or a generalized "most Disabled people" group. Furthermore, Steve, you were specifically instructed not to tag me, but instead have continued to rave emotionally, illogically and parasocially in defense of this technology's illegal rollout. You are no longer arguing law. You are performing hyper-emotional, dysregulated, parasocial attachment to a product. That is not my problem, and it does not change the compliance issue. It is useful data for my research on parasociality, and it will be retained. Do not tag me again. Do not contact me again. Do not address me again. I am documenting this, reporting it, and blocking you. The record is clear.

@KelseyMBrickl @XFreeze Btw Tesla self driving cars are literally THE BEST transport for many types of disabled people. When people age, reaction times slow, vision falters, and driving at night and in the rain becomes dangerous and scary.... Tesla self driving solves that. Completely.

“To be clear…” Good. Yes. Let’s be very, very clear. As a historian and a disability rights compliance specialist, I refuse to wade around in a lack of clarity. So let's be extremely clear, Steve. “Robovan is in development.” Okay. Then it is not access. It is a future concept being used to excuse present exclusion. “It will be available AFTER the smaller, cheaper, more ubiquitous cybercabs are proven viable.” Steve, you have accidentally proven my point by isolating and identifying the main legal problem. You are openly describing able-bodied-first deployment: scale the inaccessible service first, then maybe address the Disabled users who cannot use it. “From a reg perspective.” Regulatory approval for a vehicle is not the same thing as civil-rights compliance for a transportation service. ADA Title III and 42 U.S.C. § 12184 do not disappear because the inaccessible product is cheaper, smaller, or easier to launch. “Crawl, walk, run.” Disabled people are not the crawl stage. Also, the exact people who use medically required Group 3 wheelchairs for severe neuromuscular disease are the exact people who cannot crawl, walk, or run. “Iterate.” No, Steve. Civil rights that already exist are not a beta feature. “Get things done.” Excluding Group 3 power wheelchair users from the first mass version of autonomous transportation is not “getting things done.” It is building discrimination into the deployment model. Scaling and continuing to operate in direct violation of existing civil rights is simply not permissible. “Don’t be an obstructionist bureaucrat with a kill count.” This is not analysis. It is emotional coercion. It is also an absurd, unserious logical fallacy in parasocial defense of tech bro ableism. Steve, you are desperately trying and failing to make Disabled people morally responsible for a loss of their own existing rights, for loss of safety in their own neighborhoods, and for liability that belongs to the companies unless we quietly accept exclusion from the transportation future. No. No, Steve. Group 3 wheelchair users cannot transfer, cannot fold or stow medically necessary chairs, and cannot wait for “version later” while inaccessible systems capture markets, infrastructure, and regulatory approval. That is not obstruction. That is mandatory compliance. You are the one who needs to learn the difference, Steve.

@KelseyMBrickl @XFreeze Btw go ahead and contact X about the TOS. Nice threat. You're for banning a solution that saves lives until there's another solution packaged with it for the disabled. The net result will be letting people die. That's evil. Welcome to free speech. Facts are legal.

Calm down. If a short online response is too many words for you, you may read it in batches. Your literacy issues are not my responsibility, sir. Stop digitally shouting at me in all caps while I explain disability-rights compliance in a field I work in. You are making yourself look less serious with each escalation. Calm down, Steve, and stop committing logical fallacies. I did not call for a ban. I called for compliance during rollout. This is extremely simple. ADA Title III requires “full and equal enjoyment” of covered services. 42 U.S.C. § 12182(a). Private entities primarily engaged in transporting people are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of disability in specified public transportation services. 42 U.S.C. § 12184(a). Your staircase analogy fails. Autonomous taxis are not a staircase. They are a transportation service being marketed for public mobility. Your cancer analogy fails too. Civil-rights compliance is not withholding treatment. It is the legal requirement that a public-facing system not be built around foreseeable exclusion. Group 3 power wheelchair users are not asking for “every feature.” They are asking for basic independent access. Group 3 wheelchairs are medically required and are almost always custom prescription power devices. Users of these wheelchairs cannot fold them and cannot transfer. Many must ride seated in the chair. If autonomous transportation becomes a dominant mobility layer while those users cannot independently access it, then exclusion is being built into the future transportation system. You can call that concern “evil” as many times as you like. The statute remains the statute. The burden remains on the company. Compliance remains the floor. Your inability to remain calm during this discussion is not my responsibility. Companies will be held ethically and legally accountable. Due to your disrespectful communication so far, I am asking you not to tag me further. Any further tagging or direct engagement after this request will be documented as unwanted contact. Again, to be extremely clear: do not respond directly to this, do not tag me, and do not address me further. Any violation of this very clearly stated boundary will be reported to X as a violation of the platform's TOS.

@KelseyMBrickl @XFreeze Again.. you're rationalizing. And your mindset kills people. Helps nobody.