@ChillinEffect @SawyerMerritt Rome wasn’t built in a day.
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danielmurraydc
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@SawyerMerritt Wasn’t the Tesla semi-truck announced almost a decade ago. I’m thinking 2016-2017.
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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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@ick_real Invest 15% of gross earnings into low fee, broad based index funds like VTSAX.
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@danielmurraydc sorry to hear that man...
dogs are literally the best
hang in there 👊👊👊
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Update: went back to therapy today...
Alone this time
My wife refused to go
Said I "ruined the safe space"
I didn't know therapy had a safe space
I thought that was the whole room
The therapist asked why I came back
I said "my wife gave me an ultimatum"
She asked how that made me feel
I said "motivated. Deadlines create urgency"
She wrote something down
It did not seem positive
She asked me to describe my marriage without using business terms
I sat there for 45 seconds
I said "it's a long-term... arrangement... between two parties who..."
She stopped me
I said "I was going to say love"
She said "were you?"
I was not
She asked what I would do if my wife left
I said "I ran the numbers"
She said "excuse me?"
I said I ran a sensitivity analysis
Best case: I keep the house
Base case: I lose 40-60% of net assets
Worst case: she gets the dog
She asked if I was serious
I was
The dog is a golden retriever
Non-negotiable
She asked if I ever tell my wife how I feel
I said "I tell her I appreciate her operational efficiency"
She asked what that means
I said "she manages the household with minimal supervision"
She asked if I hear how that sounds
I said "like a compliment?"
She closed her notebook
She asked if I've ever been vulnerable
I said "I cried once"
She asked when
I said "2019. Excel crashed during a model review. I lost four hours of work"
She asked if I've ever cried about a person
I thought about it
I said "does a managing director count?"
She said "in what context?"
I said "he killed our deal at the final IC vote"
She said "that's grief over a transaction"
I said "it was a $540 million transaction"
She didn't seem to think that mattered
It mattered
She asked me to say one thing to my wife
Purely emotional
No numbers. No frameworks. No ROI.
I sat there for a long time
I said "she makes the house feel like a place I want to come back to. And I would be less without her."
The therapist teared up
I said "was that sufficient?"
She said "that was beautiful"
I said "great. Can I get that in writing for the next session?"
$250/hr
Quarterly commitment
No cancellation clause
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Ethan Brooks@alt_w_v_g
Wife made me go to couples therapy last week Nice office Two couches Box of tissues The therapist asked what brings us in My wife said "he treats everything like a transaction" I said "that's not true" The therapist asked me to give an example of something I do that isn't transactional I thought about it for 11 seconds I could not think of an example The therapist asked how that made me feel I said "efficient" My wife looked at the therapist The therapist looked at my wife They had a moment I was not part of the moment My wife said "do you love me?" I said "I chose you. Every day I choose you. That's not emotion. That's a commitment with a compounding return and I don't see a better alternative in the market." The room went quiet My wife cried The therapist cried I didn't understand why That was the most romantic thing I've ever said The therapist said "I think we should meet weekly" I said "what's your hourly rate?" She said "$275" I said "for both of us or each?" My wife picked up her purse and walked out I stayed to negotiate the rate Got it down to $250 Small win Sent from my iPhone
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ELON MUSK: "My back still hurts a little bit. I'm like, Can AI please solve back pain? That would be a huge one. And I think it will. Back pain sucks. I think that's maybe why do people get grumpy when they get oldest? Because of back pain."
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JUST IN: Jim Cramer says he does not see a "path to de-escalation" between the US, Israel and Iran.
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I visited Cunningham Elementary in Austin to see firsthand how they serve real, scratch-cooked meals on a tight budget. Schools like this prove we can deliver high-quality food that fuels learning and builds lifelong health. We’re expanding programs like this to Make America Healthy Again.
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On the way to Arkansas.
I will be showing up in every state that the respective Senators have not made
a public statement in support of the SAVE America Act.
See you in South Dakota on March 21st & 22nd.
I’m not playing around — peacefully.
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Based Vietnamese grandma is asked about Donald Trump.
Grandma: "He is strong. He says he do it and he do it. You don't like him?"
Grandson: "No, I voted for Biden and then Kamala."
Grandma: "You crazy! Never vote for Democrats! They asshole!" 🤣🤣🤣
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From coast to coast: 'THANK YOU, President Trump, for decisive action against the Iranian regime.' 🇺🇸
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The TX establishment was wounded last night…. Not to the extent we would have liked, but significant progress was made. Congratulations to @SteveTothTX for the biggest upset of the primary!
I’m happy to report I won my Precinct Chair race by 49 votes - a very tiny chink in the mafia’s armor but an injury nonetheless.
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Texas, have you voted?
Get in line before 7 p.m. local time to make your voices heard.
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A guy with a YouTube channel just accidentally redesigned the most complex machine in human history.
Not an aerospace engineer. Not a SpaceX executive.
A guy with a camera who asked one obvious question.
Tim Dodd was walking around Starbase when Musk proudly explained how the Super Heavy booster eliminated its entire cold gas thruster system. Instead of a separate, heavy, complex mechanism, it just vents hot gas directly from the propellant tanks.
Elegant. Zero added mass. Zero extra failure points.
Dodd asked one question.
“But this is only for the booster, right?”
Musk stopped.
Not to defend. Not to explain. Not to reframe the question so it didn’t threaten what he had just said.
He stopped because something clicked.
Musk: “Yes. Although arguably, now you mention it… we might be wise to do this for the ship, too. Now that… we’re going to fix that.”
Mid-sentence. In real time. On camera.
No pause to protect his pride. No deflection. No “good point, let me circle back on that.” Just the immediate, unfiltered acknowledgment that a better path existed and they were going to take it.
Seven months later, Musk confirmed it was one of the biggest improvements ever made to the vehicle.
Think about what just happened.
To change a fundamental flight system at a legacy aerospace company requires years of environmental reviews, safety committees, and budget approvals.
Musk deprecated an entire subsystem in 15 seconds because a podcaster asked the obvious question that nobody inside had dared to ask.
In a traditional corporation, that cold gas system gets built anyway.
Because admitting the architecture is flawed is politically expensive.
The VP doesn’t want to lose the headcount.
The engineers don’t want to scrap the work.
The manager doesn’t want to explain the pivot to their director.
And so the mistake gets a budget. Gets a timeline. Gets a team assigned to it.
The machine gets heavier. The flaw becomes load-bearing. And eventually the flaw becomes so embedded in the structure that fixing it would require tearing down everything built around it.
So nobody fixes it.
Now think about the last time someone pointed out a flaw in something you built. Something you were proud of. Something you had already explained to twelve people without anyone questioning it.
Did you stop the way Musk stopped?
Or did you feel that heat in your chest. That reflexive need to explain why they were missing the point. Why the context was more complicated than they understood. Why the question, though interesting, didn’t really apply here.
That heat is the most expensive thing most organizations will ever pay for.
A failed launch at least tells you the truth.
A defended mistake just compounds.
This is the organizational architecture required to win the AI arms race.
The ultimate moat isn’t compute. It isn’t capital.
It is the velocity of error correction.
The geopolitical AI race will not be won by whoever starts with the best blueprint.
It will be won by whoever can feel that heat in their chest and choose the truth anyway.
A journalist asked a question. The best answer won.
The rocket got lighter.
Most egos don’t.
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WOW 🚨 Elica Le Bon just ended the Democrat party hypocrisy in 2 minutes!
"It's the first time these people have spoken up on Iran, the Mayor of NYC, Congress people, they spoke up not to defend the Iranian people, but to defend the terrorist massacring them"
"The mask has completely fallen off"
ABSOLUTELY!! @elicalebon
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AUSTIN, Texas - At the direction of Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Military Department (TMD) is activating Service Members for Operation Fury Shield - working alongside our state partners to protect our citizens and critical infrastructure from any potential threat of retaliation.
TMD will increase patrols at key locations like energy facilities, ports, and the southern border and enhance cybersecurity capabilities. Our steadfast commitment is to serve and protect the people of our great state.
For more information, contact the Texas Military Department Public Affairs Office at media@tmd.texas.gov or 512-782-5620
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