@CalebChamberla6 This is actually the number one reason I'm nervous about the upcoming EV platform from Ford. They could end up making great vehicles and software, but I sure as shit don't want to deal with their dealers.
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Brandon Fish
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Brandon Fish
@BrandonFFish
Living in the Wasteland of the Free
Austin TX เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2013
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The Tesla buying experience was so good compared to car dealers. Car dealerships are filled with slimy sales staff, eager to earn a commission. They pull every manipulative tactic, lie, hide fees. Loathsome businesses.
Tesla was the opposite. The "sales" guy at the demo center didn't seem to care one way or another. He felt like a tech geek, excited to talk about the technology. Friendly, engaging, but completely ambivalent about making a sale.
Prices were completely transparent.
And of course, the tech and safety features in the Model 3 are unrivaled. Such a great experience end to end.
My one complaint is that the Tesla app - which is required for purchase - had network issues and kept timing out while I was trying to do the digital paperwork. Meanwhile, text communication with the Tesla reps was slow, around a two hour response time.
Room for improvement, but Tesla has reimagined everything about buying (and operating) a car. It's so much better.
Caleb (OSH Cut)@CalebChamberla6
Just experienced Tesla's FSD for the first time in a new Model 3, and... wow. Just, wow. I've never been so in awe of a piece of technology. I can't believe how well it works.
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@grochbegley Driving is not incredibly dangerous. Between 1.05 to 1.14 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. You are statistically 2.6x more likely to die from an accident in your home.
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None of my lefty friends like me for this but I am personally pro-Waymo. Driving is incredibly dangerous. We now have many studies that show Waymo’s are genuinely less dangerous. Ride share drivers’ jobs are not more important than saving lives.
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
Cool project: the DC Waymo delay dashboard tracks how many DC residents are dead because the mayor and city council keep demanding studies instead of allowing Waymo: tbhochman.github.io/dc-waymo-dashb…
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@robertgraham I think reasonable people can think that people traveling to the US for the sole purpose of giving birth feels wrong, but also think that the children of undocumented immigrants that have known no other home should be citizens.
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I'm a centrist, so I don't know the answer to this. Do Democrats actually want "birthright citizenship" as the actual policy? Or do they simply oppose Trump acting like a dictator toward his racist goals?
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
open.substack.com/pub/morethanju…
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You guys play once a week, we play "almost" everyday.
The pitchers run poles to endure longer outings. Nolan Ryan did them everyday. He played 20 years and was still throwing 95 at 40.
Position players run bases for conditioning in Spring Training. During the season, we don't do much conditioning as an everyday player. Why? Because we play almost EVERYDAY.
Just for myself, I caught 200+ pitches every time I caught. That means I did at least 200 squats every game. (not counting warm ups before game and at start of inning.) If I caught 120 games in a season, that's 24,000 squats I did over the course of the regular season. Plus all of ST, and then the warmups before and during the game.
We play 162 games. Plus Spring training, and then the playoffs if we get there. If you make the WS, you are talking 190+ games. NFL games are brutally violent, and I'm not understating that, but our game is more about endurance and longevity over a 7 month season of daily attrition.
It is a marathon, not a sprint.
Gerry DeFilippo@Challenger_ST
Jason & Travis Kelce talking about the ridiculousness of baseball conditioning… “It makes no sense.” “You should be running SPRINTS or doing base running. Not running foul pole to foul pole.” STOP treating baseball players like marathoners
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@SMB_Attorney Two real competitive advantages: Software (most automakers suck at software) and no dealers.
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@SMB_Attorney You may enjoy FSD, I personally don't have any desire for the feature, especially in a Tesla that is fun to drive. Only 12% of Tesla owners have adopted it, I don't think it's as big of a competitive advantage as you think it is.
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These guys don't get it. Can it drive itself? Until it can drive itself, it's not competing with Tesla. Every other automaker is about to discover they are a decade behind...
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
Ford CEO in new interview: “We'll have an all-electric, affordable vehicle to compete with Model Y and Model 3. I think there's nothing else like it on the market. We started a skunkworks team 4 years ago. They were basically Formula 1 and Tesla people. That vehicle is radically different. I'm really excited to show everyone maybe late this year or (early) next year. It will be coming out next year.” (via Spike's Car Radio)
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@MaybeaBearsFan @mdwojak94 @bears_insider So let's say they moved to Austin TX. Would you still be a fan?
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@mdwojak94 @bears_insider They were originally the Decatur Staleys. Halas moved them to Chicago for more exposure and fame.
He, himself made his mark as a player in Hammond. You all make shit decisions at the ballot box. I don’t give a shit where they reside. I will always be a Bear Fan!
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#Bears owner George McCaskey doesn't think at the end of the day that it will matter to fans if the team moves its stadium to Hammond. Cites the Giants moving to New Jersey.
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@SawyerMerritt I'm definitely interested in their upcoming EVs, but I'm really not interested in dealing with their dealers.
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Ford CEO in new interview:
“We'll have an all-electric, affordable vehicle to compete with Model Y and Model 3. I think there's nothing else like it on the market. We started a skunkworks team 4 years ago. They were basically Formula 1 and Tesla people. That vehicle is radically different. I'm really excited to show everyone maybe late this year or (early) next year. It will be coming out next year.”
(via Spike's Car Radio)
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What is the greatest sports card of all time ?
Not what’s worth the most. What is the coolest , most iconic one of all time ? (Send pic)
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@pxrobins @Men_4_Choice I think a better argument for the “middle” is that being pregnant is not without risk so you should have a choice to accept that risk or not. We don’t force people to donate a kidney either.
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@BrandonFFish @Men_4_Choice And I am aware that most of the people like this anti-choicer are a lost cause for any rational argument. But the argument still needs to be made as in this case to try to reach those in the so-called middle that might be persuadable when facts are presented.
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We need more men like this to call out the anti-choice BS from the right.
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@LloydLegalist Only about half of the impressions were any good, the other have were terrible. Better than I would do I'm sure.
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@ethereal_view @Buckie5886 @digijordan @Figure_robot There will NEVER be post-scarcity. It's a fantasy. Are we all getting yachts and beach-front homes? Do we get as much free compute as we want? Until there aren't enough humans remaining to compete for desirable things, there will always be scarcity.
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@BrandonFFish @Buckie5886 @digijordan @Figure_robot UBI is a tool, leveler to keep balance during the transition to post scarcity. UBI is temporary. After the transition, UBI (or money) won't have any value or meaning.
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The White House today had a @Figure_robot explain to the world that it will soon be replacing teachers…
And it will. It will also replace surgeons, lawyers, pilots, truck drivers, police officers, soldiers and basically every other job.
And believe it or not…this is good.
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@dexterwebn @iam__temmyyy Agree, it definitely depends on the training. For example TKD is a great sport and there are combat elements, but it's not training for a real fight. MMA is probably the closest but there are still rules (and objectives) that don't exist in the street.
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Having a black belt doesn't mean you're combat ready.
When I say women should be trained in self defense, I mean combat readiness.
Martial arts is absolutely great to learn, but it needs to be reinforced with sparring, combat simulations, even competitions and tournaments, otherwise it's just discipline and forms.
If a woman is properly trained, I would put money on her over any untrained man any way.
Trained over untrained 99% of the time is easy money.
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Social experiment:
Female black belt holder versus a regular untrained male.
Now, imagine an angry man in a fight. YWD!
Àshàké(not Ololade)❤️@Molayoo_
At my age, the only way I’m getting beaten by a man is if I’m outnumbered. One on one, as dem dey use ice packs to massage my eyes, dem go dey stitch your agbari. If God wan come catch you make you no sabi fight.
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@SaraHigdon I think it's telling that my feed is flooded with posts that are questioning the decision. Most of the posters have "content creator" in their bio.
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I would hope this gets overturned by an appeals court, (if it can even go to one). The idea that the social media company is to blame and not your parents is insane, and complete communist nonsense.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: A jury in Los Angeles finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial. apnews.com/article/social…
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@Buckie5886 @digijordan @Figure_robot 💯
If AI and robots can produce all of the work so that the owners of these systems can collect all of the scarce resources that they need, what do they need to keep the rest of us for? UBI will not solve the basic problem of scarcity.
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> humanity will eventually be enslaved to transhumanists who hate humanity and want you to live in a pod
> this is a good thing
My goodness some people vastly underestimate the pervasive evil that has taken over the world. These people think elites are doing all of this AI and robot shot to make life easy on Joe 2 Tallboy. Reality is the polar opposite. The humans who survive will live off the scraps of the Epstein Elite while being their slaves. They aren't going to expend more than the absolute minimum of resources on other humans. Wake the fuck up.
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@SarahIronside6 You think that enforcement will be the same in different counties?
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If the SAVE Act actually does pass, it will be insane to watch a bunch of red states turn blue because all the poor MAGAs in rural areas can't afford passports.
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