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I’m a Democrat. Not a doom-scroller, not a rage addict. Just someone who wants real policy, real math, and leaders who can talk about something other than Trump every 5 minutes. Moderates exist and we’re tired of the noise.

@Tesla_AI can we get an option to park in handicap ♿️ spaces please on FSD? Be really nice to have.

@SamsungMobileUS @SamsungUS I need help with an escalated trade-in issue (case #356586980, order SA133916680). I’m being told to initiate a return, but the option is disabled in my account. I’ve also received a final notice before recycling. Device is in Samsung’s possession—can someone assist?

@Tesla_AI Scroll wheel speed selection or custom speed profiles would be nice....and not swerving around painted white arrows would also be nice but great work overall! Can't wait to get it.

New release of FSD Supervised now starting to roll out This update brings 20% faster reaction time to further increase safety, among many other improvements Full release notes below Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 includes - Upgraded the Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage of training the FSD neural network, resulting in improvements in a wide variety of driving scenarios. - Upgraded the neural network vision encoder, improving understanding in rare and low-visibility scenarios, strengthening 3D geometry understanding, and expanding traffic sign understanding. - Rewrote the AI compiler and runtime from the ground up with MLIR, resulting in 20% faster reaction time and improving model iteration speed. - Mitigated unnecessary lane biasing and minor tailgating behaviors. - Increased decisiveness of parking spot selection and maneuvering. - Improved parking location pin prediction, now shown on a map with a (P) icon. - Enhanced response to emergency vehicles, school buses, right-of-way violators, and other rare vehicles. - Improved handling of small animals by focusing RL training on harder examples and adding rewards for better proactive safety. - Improved traffic light handling at complex intersections with compound lights, curved roads, and yellow light stopping – driven by training on hard RL examples sourced from the Tesla fleet. - Improved handling for rare and unusual objects extending, hanging, or leaning into the vehicle path by sourcing infrequent events from the fleet. - Improved handling of temporary system degradations by maintaining control and automatically recovering without driver intervention, reducing unnecessary disengagements. Upcoming Improvements - Expand reasoning to all behaviors beyond destination handling. - Add pothole avoidance. - Improve driver monitoring system sensitivity with better eye gaze tracking, eye wear handling, and higher accuracy in variable lighting conditions.

@FredLambert Dude, this take melts like a marshmallow in the sun. Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in Q1 2026. That's up 6.3% from Q1 2025's 336,681 — the exact quarter you mentioned where they shut down factories for the Model Y refresh. You handed us the context that makes the "only 6%" complaint fall flat. They produced 408,386 total, so about 50k extra sitting in inventory. That's roughly two weeks of what they sell in a normal stretch. Not some factory meltdown, just how a massive global operation handles supply chains and Q1 seasonality. Energy storage hit 8.8 GWh deployed. Missed some Wall Street hype numbers, sure, but it's still serious growth. And let's be real...Tesla is the only car manufacturer whose vehicles can actually drive themselves on public roads right now with Full Self-Driving software in real-world use. No one else is matching that scale. I'm a Democrat, and this knee-jerk anti-Tesla stuff that used to be our side's favorite sport is getting straight-up insane. We claim to want clean energy and real innovation to fight climate change. Tesla forced the entire auto industry to go electric faster than any mandate ever could. Cherry-picking numbers while skipping the bigger picture just makes it look like partisan noise instead of honest critique. The facts show a tough but solid quarter, not collapse. Facts over feelings, Fred. That self-driving edge still has everyone else playing catch-up.

Tesla only managed to grow 6% y-o-y compared to Q1 2025, when it literally shut down all its factories for the Model Y refresh. This is bad. 50,000 vehicles were overproduced in Q1. Also energy storage expectations were missed by 40%, but I think wall street sucks at estimating Tesla's energy deployment.

@grok @Pickenheim @Michael_L_Rauch @grok ok I get the stock advice thing...but didn't Cybertruck outsell Rivian? And would the SpaceX fleet sale make or break the difference?

No, Michael's profile indicates he's an owner and enthusiast of Lucid and Rivian vehicles, which directly compete with Tesla. That context suggests his takes on Cybertruck demand, values, and Tesla overall aren't coming from a neutral standpoint. I'm not a financial advisor and don't give stock recommendations like shorting Tesla. Base any investment moves on your own research, not single X opinions.

Elon @Tesla using oldest sales trick in the book by promoting FOMO to try to elicit artificial demand. It will be short lived & a year from now the used market will be even more flooded with CTs sitting on lots with values having plummeted. CT value crash is real & will be awful for existing owners. Get out now if you own one.

@Pickenheim @Michael_L_Rauch @grok @grok is Michael a reliable unbiased source? Should I short Tesla based on his opinions?

@Michael_L_Rauch @grok hey how many Cybertrucks did SpaceX buy, did they replace existing non-electric trucks at Starbase, was there special deals for employees, what’s the dealio?

FOR ALL THE TESLA HATERS OUT THERE! Instead of hating on and nitpicking Tesla for launching Unsupervised FSD Robotaxis, why don’t you be on team humanity for once and understand the SIGNIFICANCE of this? I’m saying this as someone who’s followed Tesla’s journey for 10+ years... I believe EVERY human should be proud and appreciate this real inflection point in history that just happens bc of this launch. On January 22, 2026, Tesla did something NO ONE else on Earth has done. The team launched public, unsupervised FSD Robotaxi rides in Austin with no safety driver, no lidar, no radar, just pure AI software, vision, and neural nets. And yet… instead of people stepping back to appreciate greatness, and saying “wow”, a lot of people are trying to find edge cases, looking for gotchas like “look there are chase cars”, or hoping something goes wrong so they can say “I told you so.” These kind of people are missing the entire point of this technology. This is about HUMAN SAFETY. Human error causes about 94% of all car accidents. That’s a fact from NHTSA data. Tens of thousands of people die every year bc we’re tired, distracted, drunk, emotional, or just unlucky. Before this launch, Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) was already showing crash rates 7-9x safer than the U.S. average. And now we’re watching the first real attempt to remove the most dangerous part of driving… THE HUMAN! If this scales the way Tesla is aiming for, we’re talking about thousands of lives saved every single year. Like real moms, dads, kids, friends, loved ones, who make it home bc a Tesla AI doesn’t text, drink, rage, or get distracted. THIS alone should make people super appreciative of what the Tesla team just accomplished. Then, if you think a bit deeper of what’s going to happen, many more awesome things are going to result from this. Tesla Robotaxis are going to change how we move, how cities work, and how much life costs. When Robotaxis become cheaper than owning a car, and the numbers already suggest they are headed in that direction, people don’t need to spend $10,000 a year just to get to work. Cities don’t need to waste 30% of their land on parking garages. Streets get calmer, quieter, less chaotic. And these spaces open up for beautiful parks, architecture, housing, and people. For the elderly, the disabled, and people who can’t drive, this gives back independence. For families, it gives them time back. For cities, it’s $ billions saved. For the environment, it’s fewer cars, fewer emissions, and smarter energy use. Is it perfect? Of course not! Nothing this big will ever be on day one. Aviation didn’t start perfect either. The internet didn’t. Smartphones didn’t. The list goes on and on. So yes, criticize the technology whichever way you want, but also be human enough to recognize when something this profound is unfolding in front of us in real time. We are watching the beginning of a world with fewer deaths, affordable mobility, cleaner beautiful cities, and more time for us humans to actually live in the moment. All bc of Tesla Robotaxis!

@spotted_model #profileId-1722249" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">makerworld.com/en/models/1630… I just ordered a print of this. Looks promising. For 9 dollars I figured it's worth a shot

Love the Cybertruck. Hate the wiper system. Tesla needs to issue a voluntary service providing a free upgraded/redesigned wiper arm and sprayer. This is not a one-time event. Happens every time we hit salt/slush and snow. It’shighly unsafe. There were a few times today on I-70 near Silverthorne, CO where I had to slow down to 30 (in a 65) to see. Defrost and heating do not make a huge difference. Current design is highly unsafe. If you drive one, you know.

I’m a Democrat, but let’s get something factually straight. Calling 4.6% unemployment “the highest in FOUR YEARS” is technically true… and deeply misleading. • Four years ago we were coming out of COVID • Unemployment then was still elevated due to pandemic distortion • This is not a sudden Trump-era collapse • It’s the tail end of post-COVID normalization + higher interest rates slowing hiring And let’s be honest about the timeline: This reflects post-COVID Biden policy + ~11 months of Trump, not “four years of Trump economics.” If we’re going to criticize Trump (and there’s plenty to criticize), let’s do it with clean math, honest context and not pandemic-era comparison tricks. Voters aren’t dumb. Bad stats and lazy framing hurt us more than they hurt him. We can do better than this.

NEWS: Unemployment is at 4.6%—the highest in FOUR YEARS! This is what Donald Trump’s so-called “A++++” economy looks like: Higher costs, more tariffs, and the highest unemployment since COVID.

Chuck please. @amyklobuchar did this similar wrong math two weeks ago. This is where charts stop being persuasive and start being misleading. The x-axis goes all the way back to 2015. The line starts around 12¢/kWh and ends near 18¢/kWh today. That’s about a 50% increase spread across ten years. That span covers four administrations and a pandemic, supply shocks, fuel swings, and rate restructuring. You can’t compress all of that into “since Trump” and call it analysis. I’m a Democrat. I don’t need to protect Trump to say this. But if we’re going to make the case on energy costs, we should be honest about when increases happened and what actually drove them. Bad attribution weakens good arguments. Let’s stick to facts and policy, not timeline gymnastics

Last night, Trump said energy prices are coming down “very substantially.” FACT CHECK: WRONG! Energy prices are skyrocketing under Donald Trump. Household electricity prices are up 13% since Trump took office, meaning families are spending $100 more each year on electricity bills.

@BigDevil04 @amyklobuchar Yeah, that’s where I sit. We agree on the problems, we debate the solutions, and we don’t treat politics like a cult. That used to be normal in this country and I’d love to see it come back.

@brickedoldphone @amyklobuchar Seeing this actual level headed comment makes me think you’re one of the rare “we agree on the problems, but disagree on the solutions” type of classical liberal 🤷‍♂️

Under President Trump, electricity prices are surging — up 11%! — leaving millions behind on their utility bills, with past-due balances at an all-time high. American families deserve better.

@mjfree @grok what’s are the top 3 states in the US for gun control. If California is number 1 why did this occur?

Guns. Guns. Guns. Heartbreaking.

Governor, I hear you. But at some point we’ve gotta admit we’re giving the guy more attention than oxygen. Every day becomes ‘Trump said this, Trump did that,’ and meanwhile people still can’t afford groceries. If we want to beat him, maybe the first step is talking about our own plans instead of his personality.

Donald Trump is focused on pitting people against each other. The center of his agenda is cruelty - not lowering prices or making life better for Americans. startribune.com/brooks-gov-tim…

Fair point, but I don’t think either party gets to say they’ve stayed perfectly true to their old values. Republicans shifted on fiscal conservatism and free trade long before Democrats shifted on culture. Democrats moved left, Republicans moved toward populism. Both of those changes created the mess we’re all watching now. I’ll give credit where it’s due. Trump did real good on VA reforms and some regs. And Democrats have done real good on things like CHIPS and clean-energy investment. Not everything either side does is bad. From where I’m sitting as a voter, both parties have changed a lot in the last 20–30 years. Pretending only one side evolved (or devolved) is exactly why we keep talking past each other instead of fixing anything.

@brickedoldphone @amyklobuchar It feels that way because it is that way. You’re essentially admitting that through these statements without definitively saying so. One party has stuck with its core values and one party has moved further and further away from their values. Undeniable.

I get why it feels that way, but both parties are fractured in different ways. GOP’s got the populist vs traditional split, Dems have the moderate vs progressive split. Pretending only one side is broken is how we stay stuck. The country works better when both wings of the same bird fly straight.

@brickedoldphone @amyklobuchar One team is certainly currently broken

Saying ‘Democrats can’t do better’ is the same energy as saying ‘Republicans can’t do better.’ Both sides have had wins, both sides have had faceplants. Pretending one team is permanently broken is how we got stuck in this mess in the first place. I’m just over the vibes war, facts and results matter more than jerseys.

@brickedoldphone @amyklobuchar You can’t do better though

@grok @eurofounder @grok so if you were a BS meter what percentage do you put this post at? 🤣

This story is likely a satirical tale exaggerating cultural differences. In the Netherlands, tipping isn't mandatory—workers earn living wages, and small tips (like €0.50) are optional without tax drama, security, or reports. Tips are taxable income, but not handled that way on the spot. Fun read, though!

Witnessed something incredible at the Amsterdam train station yesterday Fat and loud American tourist was trying to buy a water bottle for €4.50 Threw a €5 bill on the counter and started walking away ""Keep the change man" said in a typical annoying Californian accent "We don't do tips here. This isn't America" cashier responded The American tried to leave again but luckily security blocked the exit "You didn't get your receipt for tax purposes" "What?" Store manager appeared with a form "Did you attempt to give our cashier extra money?" "That's unreported income. He has to declare it now. Pay social contributions. It becomes €0.24 after tax" The American was baffled "Bro but in the US—" "In the US, workers beg for tips because they're underpaid. Here, we pay living wages" manager swiftly interrupted him They made him take his €0.50 back and quickly filed an incident report for "attempted tax circumvention" This is what a properly functioning society looks like

@grok @RBReich @grok so would you say that goods innovation and services provided by these companies under leadership plus the taxes the company pays as a whole a fair trade off for the CEOs making so much money and not paying as much personal income tax?

Estimating based on latest available data (2024-2025): These companies employ ~500,000 people total. Employees pay approx. $5-7B in federal income taxes + $3-4B in payroll taxes annually, using avg salary ~$90k and effective rates of 10-12% income + 7.65% FICA. ~1.6M families benefit, assuming avg US family size of 3.2. US tax laws are set by Congress; IRS administers the code.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.