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High automation + Efficiency will massively reduce cost for goods and services and it will be very Cheeper
People will eventually have higher quality of life even with universal basic income than currently a richest person can afford today
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan
If you want people to work less AND be richer, you need to produce more goods and services with less labor. (automation + efficiency) Wealth is constantly created and destroyed. You can’t just redistribute what exists and be done. You have to constantly produce it or it will rapidly decay.
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This will be the first crewed mission around the Moon since 1972.
The system has taken years to reach this point. Now the full stack heads to the pad with astronauts on the manifest. This flight tests everything needed for future landings and sustained lunar operations.
It marks real momentum in Americas return to deep space.
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NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft are getting ready to roll back to Launch Pad 39B for the @NASAArtemis II mission. Teams are currently monitoring the wind speeds before rolling out of @NASAKennedy Vehicle Assembly Building. Follow along: youtube.com/live/ED2nbfb3N…
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The breakthrough comes from full reusability at scale. Earlier rockets flew once and disappeared forever. Starship returns, gets inspected, refueled, and launches again on a schedule.
This design makes frequent heavy lift affordable. The result is the reliable infrastructure for orbital factories, lunar bases, and Mars supply chains.
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The world installed a record 814 gigawatts of solar and wind last year. That single addition now generates over a thousand terawatt hours of clean electricity annually.
This scale changes the conversation. Growth compounds and starts to pressure traditional energy sources in real markets.
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Happy Solar Pessimism Chart Update Day to all who celebrate
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum
NEW | The world installed a record 814 GW of solar and wind capacity in 2025 ☀️⚡️ That's over 1,000 TWh of electricity generation per year... ...enough to displace nearly twice Qatar's annual LNG export volume in gas generation 🔥❌ Fossil fuels crisis? Wind and solar deliver.
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The automatic transmission, centered driving position, and quiet electric operation cut the physical toll that diesel trucks take on people. Long days become far less punishing.
Fleets already see how this changes driver satisfaction and retention. When the truck makes the job better, the transition gains real momentum.
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@PeterDiamandis @AndrewYang This is the new reality. Output rises even as headcounts fall. Companies gain speed and edge. The hard part is helping people whose roles vanish move forward fast enough.
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@TheRabbitHole This reversal shows how language has been reshaped. What counted as basic fairness now draws fire. When we drop consistent judgment in favor of group based rules, individual merit loses ground. Societies feel the effects.
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“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago, and a racist today.”
— Thomas Sowell
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@SawyerMerritt At about 100000 dollars less than competing electric trucks, fleets see strong value. One operator expects to reduce mechanics from five to just one after switching.
Feedback like this from actual users points to faster fleet adoption.
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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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@JayRobb1776 @elonmusk Lol I’m sure the US would try to keep up that’s for sure
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This filing lands just weeks after Amazon urged the FCC to reject SpaceX larger constellation plans. Bezos is now moving aggressively into the same space.
Putting AI compute in orbit solves pressing constraints around electricity and cooling that ground based facilities face. The sudden competition should accelerate real progress in space infrastructure.
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NEWS: Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has filed an official request with the FCC to launch and operate a constellation of 51,600 AI satellites (orbital datacenters), just two weeks after Amazon filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny @SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting datacenters, going as far to claim the project would take “centuries” to deploy.
Blue Origin's project, called “Project Sunrise,” would include up to 51,600 satellites in low Earth orbit, designed to run AI and cloud computing workloads using constant solar power.
The system would primarily use laser (optical) links between satellites. Blue Origin says "space-based data centers could relieve pressure on Earth’s power grids and water usage."
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This lead did not come from the biggest budget. It comes from Elon staying focused on the mission rather than chasing quarterly returns.
NASA and China spend far more money on their programs yet stay far behind. That commitment to solving the toughest challenges from sustainable energy to multi planetary life makes the real difference.
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Elon does not make decisions like a Wall Street guy chasing ROI. He is driven by the mission, and that has never changed
Today SpaceX is the undisputed leader in rocket launches, doing ~90% of Earth's payload to orbit. Entities like NASA, China, and others have almost unlimited money, yet cannot compete with SpaceX
This is driven by the deeper mission
If this was just about money, he would have taken a much safer path. He wouldn't need to work this hard
Instead, he is solving the massive problems no one else wants to touch...from sustainable transition to making life multi-planetary. That makes all the difference
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@TeslaAUNZ New Zealand buyers can examine the updated model firsthand with Wellington and Christchurch locations joining soon.
The rollout reflects growing demand for the refreshed Model Y and positions the country for faster customer access in the coming months.
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Model Y L now on display at Tesla Auckland South & Westgate
Wellington & Christchurch coming soon
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i don’t understand why the left is against voter id while simultaneously saying how it won’t make a difference because people aren’t illegally voting
so then pass the law? if the results are the same and it makes no difference, it takes away the talking point
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The template produces charming stylized characters right away from basic descriptions. This simplifies creative output and improves consistency dramatically.
Such quick enhancements from xAI make the system more versatile. They steadily attract more people to experiment with AI visuals.
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