Food-stamp rolls drop 5.7 million; a 150-square-foot "supermarket empire" collapses; Detroit fixes electric cars with gasoline while Tesla removes the steering wheel; and Germany voters are now Nazis.
Good morning, ALL. Jeff, thanks for posting, even on a Holiday. Haven't even begun to read today's Roundup. Just wanted to let you know how much I, and I know I speak for many, appreciate your efforts. Keep on keepin on! All God's Blessings to you and yours.
I see so much unused knowledge and power in the comments. This must be directed to a more efficient use. ATHERWISE, IS A STORM IN A GLASS OF WATER. From SOME topic presented so competent each day, or from our pet topics, we must create rapidly a correct consensus, each of us bringing evidence-based information to each meeting regarding every topic or statement.
When this happens, we must write down a 3–4-line statement and send it promptly to a target requesting/demanding immediate action.
The targets could be many, including the President, Vice President, Senators, Secretary Kennedy, Deputy Chief of staff Steven Miller, to name a few.
The statement must be signed by as many subscribers as possible advising, requesting, demanding, immediately, our proposed solution to be accomplished.
There is much power in numbers. Politicians ARE sensitive to numbers and to elections.
Jef will put always the final legal touch. He must develop a system where the 4-line statement shell be placed and a place for as many signatures online as possible in the document.
The document must be sent online or, if printed, by snail mail. It resembles the portal used when “our army donates” for a cause. Only this time no donations are made.
My first participation will be with this statement regarding COVID, as an example. Please add your additions, corrections and sign it. This is the text suggestion:
“The Covid years, are the most abysmal, catastrophic event, for anyone who survived it in hystory.
To ignore this, is criminal and an invitation to repeat THE CRIMES, in the future.
Professor RANCOURT unmasked the lies and revealed the truth. THIS IS THE REAL AND ONLY TRUTH OF WHAT COVID WAS:
--a broad, elaborate ,EVENT OF 5 YEARS of multilevel FRAUDES of SCIENCE FICTION, FAIRY TALES, aimed to blind us, as a “smog screen”
--A REAL, MULTILEVEL CONSPIRACY, of a Psychological Operation OF FEAR, military style,
--using A NON -EXISTENT PAMDEMIC, THEREFORE A NON -EXISTENT SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS ,
--TO FORCE AN UN-NECESSARY VACCINE AGAINST A NON-EXISTING VIRUS,
--WITH THE PURPOSE TO TRANSFER WELTH FROM GOVERMENTS TO BIG PHARMA AND CAPTURED ENTITIES, AND, TRANSFER OF POWER FROM GOVERNMENTS TO GLOBALIST ELITES.
This must be viewed as an “early marketing campaign”, WORLDWIDE, to prepare the public TO ACCEPT THE JAB.
Because the purpose of this operation is illegal TRANSFER OF WELTH, POWER AND CONTROL, this qualifies it as a RACKET. This type of EXPLOITATION “PROTECTION” RACKET OR SCAM is EXTORTION disguised in SECURITY.THIS DEMANDS ACCOUTABILITY, RECONING!
And now, without doubt, this is under jurisdiction of Vice-president Vance FRAUD TASK FORCE! And can be safe send to whitehouse.gov , click on upper left arrow> CONTACT.
Professor Dr D. Rancourt’, very early study, proved the lack of existence of PANDEMIC and SARS-CoV-2 “VIRUS”, using a “razor sharp” EXCESS ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY data:
June 2, 2020-“All-cause mortality during COVID-19-No plague and a likely signature of MASS HOMOCIDE BY GOVERNMENT RESPONSE” (denisrancourt.ca)
The most comprehensive studies are these:
Spatiotemporal variation of excess all-cause mortality in the world (125 countries) during the COVID period 2020-2023 regarding socio-economic factors and public-health and medical interventions- D.G. Rancourt, J Hickey, C. Linard (correlation-canada.org)
Constraints from geo-temporal evolution of all-cause mortality on the hypothesis of disease spread during COVID. - J. Hickey, D.G. Rancourt, C. Linard (correlation-canada.org).”
was not crazy about EV's, and even more skeptical of self-driving EV's until......
a friend's daughter is legally blind, (has no peripheral vision so can't get a license), has a great job in a nearby town making good money, but was spending around $100/day on Uber just to get back & forth to work, & depending on others to get to church, visit family, etc. Enter the self-driving EV. She got it last month, it drops her at her door at work, finds a parking place, & comes gets her at the door when she's ready to go home, then parks itself in the garage. All she does is plug it in. It is a huge win-win for her. Thanks, Elon, for the technology to help her be independent.
Jeff, thanks for an uplifting column to drown out all the filtered news at NYT, WaPo, and even WSJ. Beyond the death warrants for infants and children, the saddest news was the demise of Maria Bartiromo at Fox.
Plus Rick Santelli retiring too. Rick was the voice of sanity over the woke performer Steve Leisman (sp) Rick’s nemesis leftist winger (cnbc is full of that virus)
I had neck surgery 6 years ago, and rarely travel more than 30 minutes from home. We “attend” church in our living room because it’s 45 mins away, 90 mins service/fellowship, the 45 mins home. We live in Ohio, and have kids in MI & VA that my wife hitches rides to visit with other family members. My longest trips are physician related. It’d be great to recline and let my room be transported to see my grands while I watch the OSU Buckeyes defeat another opponent!
What state? If this was an autonomous vehicle, which it is not, then maybe that would be true.
The person behind the wheel is considered the driver. I cannot imagine ANY insurance company would insure a car without a licensed driver at the wheel. The first thing my insurance company asked me for when I bought my car is my active drivers license before they would insure me.
No wheel, Elaine. Only insurance requirement, I would guess, would be liability. Perhaps under a homeowner policy. No doubt this will open a new chapter in private mobility, insurance companies surely are sharpening their their pencils to figure how to stop the loss in revenue. I feel really bad for them 🙄
my understanding is that it is total self-driving mode, there’s no way for her to affect the driving, but they were told there had to be a person in the drivers seat. Believe me, they spent a long time researching it, & test driving it before they got it to make sure it would work for her. I know they said the ‘come get me’ or ‘go park feature’, only works if she is in sight of the car & only works for a couple of hundred feet of her.
If it is a Waymo or other fully autonomous vehicle, then yes. The vehicle has to be SAE level 4 or 5. At this time, Tesla does not sell any with this capability to the public for private driving. You can invest in the CyberTaxi, but not for personal use. Teslas with SAE level 2 ARE NOT autonomous. They require Fully Supervised Driving.
Some states do have provisions for level4/5 vehicles. The vehicles have to be certified autonomous.
What vehicle does she have and what state? I’ll move there. It’d be great to have that capability.
Number one in the cost per mile estimate of a cyber cab versus Uber/Lyft; does that cost include tip to the driver or not?…. And what an additional savings that will be(?) or will the cyber cab expect to be tipped or unleash a Kraken Terminator upon us if we do not tip the machine?
Number two if cyber cabs increase safety on the road, then - much like herd immunity - shouldn’t that decrease the likelihood of accidents for everyone and therefore; those of us who remain driving shouldn’t our insurance rates plummet? Or will the insurance companies then want to charge us more because of the cost of crashing into a technologically superior and much more expensive “cyber cab”…. One way or another the insurance agents gotta get paid right? Threatening the insurance industry would be unacceptable……
Awesome! Kudos to your friend’s daughter for working and maintaining her independence! As an aging Boomer, I’m glad to know that technology is available.
Yes, I think it takes word of mouth. I had no interest either until a respected friend (age 76) got one and started raving about it on Facebook. His enthusiasm is contagious and made me (age 66) realize a self-driving car will solve my hesitancy to drive at night and on unfamiliar routes due to a peripheral-vision issue. A Tesla Y is definitely in my future!
We have friends who have not one, but two children born with a rare disorder that took 98% of their vision. The boy is in college now- wickedly smart and funny and will probably be the next Elon. The daughter is still in High School and loves all things musical. Knowing they were born in an age that has the technology to give them a fair amount of independence is truly something to be thankful for.
Now THAT is pretty stinking cool! I say, Praise the LORD! My dear husband and I are getting old, and I could see this in my future. We live a few miles from town and I had to stop driving after dark years ago, due to night vision issues, especially where there are no streetlights. It would be nice to have the option to be able to go out in the evening, especially in winter.
I'm not in the EV universe, so this is an honest question. Do you need a drivers license to use an EV in self driving mode? Someone elsewhere said that the self driving mode in her Tesla requires her to keep her eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. So if someone is legally blind, how does that work?
no, she doesn't have a license, can't pass the vision portion. she can see well looking forward, but has no peripheral vision. someone must be sitting in the driver's seat, and be looking forward, as it has cameras inside that monitor her. The car will slow down, navigate to the shoulder and stop if the person in the drivers' seat is inattentive. Read a story, just last week, where a man had a self-driving Tesla, had a medical event, his son was able to log into the car, & change the navigation to the nearest hospital.
I'm confused. If because of her vision problem she needs someone else with a license sitting in the drivers seat, then what's the big advantage over just using an uber or having a dedicated chauffeur?
Cost... She's spending $100/day to get to and from work, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year = $25,000/year or $2,083/month... Car payment is $750, $200 insurance, savings of $1,133/month. Plus she can go wherever she wants on the weekend, in the evening, etc. Already been to visit her parents & her sister, & is perfect attendance at church, now.
Legally blind does not mean they can't see. They simply need corrective lenses, like glasses or contact lenses. Not having adequate peripheral vision would also be difficult for driving, as the driver would have difficulty seeing the side mirrors or the side windows.
I know several people who are legally blind without corrective lenses. The glasses, while helpful, cannot solve other issues and if a person lost their corrective lenses in the middle of a trip, they could be in trouble.
You do need to sort of look forward most of the time but you can look around and not at the road. You only need to occasionally touch the wheel if it’s very dark and the interior camera cannot see you.
The license question is likely a state by state law. You are still responsible for what happens even on self driving mode. There are modes where you can go 10+ miles per hour over the speed limit. If you’re pulled over you cannot blame the car, you’re the one who gets the ticket.
A friend recently told me that newer gas cars, certain packages, also have cameras monitoring you looking at the road but won’t even let you look up into the rear view mirror? Said you can only look straight ahead all the time? Is that true?
I’ve not heard that one. Tesla’s FSD is really forgiving. There are various speed settings with hurry being the one that drives the fastest. With hurry I’m reminded more often to watch the road but that really doesn’t happen with Standard or Chill.
If I’m running errands I always take my dog with me. I’m turned around plenty patting him while the car is driving and it’s fine.
With Tesla you will get a “strike” if you’re not paying attention too often. Three strikes and the car will not self drive for a period of time. I’m not sure beyond that, I’ve never even gotten a strike.
Agreed. Autonomous vehicles can provide independence for many who otherwise wouldn’t have it. I will say tho that for the aging population, learning how to set the autonomous vehicle up to drive you might require a PhD 🤪 83 yo smart, tech savvy, no mental decline friends recently got a self driving Tesla. Let’s just say, it was a much bigger learning curve than anticipated.
I also think as Jeff infers that traffic on highways will move faster when autonomous cars become the majority of vehicles. Humans make too many mistakes, too much rubbernecking too much left lane hogging at or below the speed limit!
My husband is suggesting I get a self driving car as I no longer drive on freeways. I miss out on many events because of this. I am absolutely terrified of a car that I could potentially be on the freeway and for some reason,need to take over the driving. Without a steering wheel,that option is gone. Now,I may need to rethink this. But,when I IMAGINE traveling in a self driving vehicle,I am riddled with anxiety,so,IDK.
Yes, but isn't this kinda like since braille helps the blind, we should all be using it? I find it creepy in the extreme and wonder about the overall effects and downstream problems nobody is talking about yet.
Why does NPR still exist? Is “Govt” news any more efficient than all the other “govt” activities? And further, what possible constitutional enumerated power is it exercising? Not only that, but all the MSM is doing such a great job already! :)
NPR no longer receives any federal funding. It must now fund-raise to keep on the air.
Surprise! While still overwhelming liberal, they have moderated themselves somewhat, especially when it comes to adding other voices and viewpoints. (Except for Steve Inskeep who just can't help himself.)
Turns out that when you need to support yourself you can't be quite as picky about who you ask for money and what donors are looking for in return.
I’ve noticed that moderation too, also more repeat stories, 2nd hour same as the first, or done again on weekends. They still are a snarky bunch though. Definitely do not consider ALL things.
I don't listen to NPR, but do see a few stories that pop into my FB feed, and did note that they are covering some local stories fairly, and actually did an interview with a R friend who is running for County Exec and did a nice job without any of the snarky references they used to use when covering anything right of center.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't listen. I'm not saying you should, but the hallmark of a progressive is to never let themselves be tainted by listening to other opinions. We are not them.
I used to tell my (now grown) grandsons to always keep an open mind and don't be afraid to listen to those who disagree with you. You probably won't change your mind, but you might find areas of common ground or understand better where they are coming from.
I admit that this advice is hard for me to keep right now because the progressives are bat-sh**-crazy.
But NPR has moderated and it does cover a lot of important stories.
"Thus the World Order finances Jewish groups; it then organizes and finances anti-Jewish groups; it organizes Communist groups; and then organizes and finances anti-Communist groups. It is not necessary for the World Order to throw these groups against each other. They seek each other out like heat-seeking missiles, and try to destroy each other. By controlling the size and resources of each group, the World Order can predetermine the outcome."
our society has fallen so far, first it was normalizing murdering babies in the womb, now it's normalizing murdering toddlers in the den. Where will it end? Come, Lord Jesus, come.
I was at church yesterday watching all the families with their children and thought how can a mother kill her children? There is a special bond between a mother and child that is biological. Cellular and neurological. How can you take that life when you gave them their life?
The woman heard a man’s voice telling her to kill her children then kill herself. I don’t know, but that sounds either like MK Ultra mind control or Satanic (if there’s any difference between the two.)
What everyone seems to be missing are the huge cocktail of drugs that the psychiatrists were giving her. Pharmakea is satanic...it is in the Bible. The man's voice directing her was demonic...psychiatry is itself demonic. The psychiatrist who were "treating" her should have been on trial for murder/homicide.
There is NO rational accounting for BSC (bat sh*t crazy)… and unless you’re unfortunate enough to have experienced life around BSC, there is no frame of reference that can prepare you for the incomprehensible behavior.
One of my favorite Psalms. The Holy Spirit used these words to change my view of children from one of children being burdens to God's view of children being blessings. Praise the Lord He renews our minds and conforms us into the image of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Instead of only one or two children, I was blessed with six along with four in heaven through miscarriage.
Tesla car becoming "A room that moves" I visualize the old Pullman rail cars, and wonder if there will end up being a Tesla system like that for longer trips, not quite an RV, but long haul comfortable things that can take multiple people across miles to a destination, without the nonsense of the train system, and the grubby discomfort of the Greyhound bus system. AI scheduling makes it easy to group people by destination, and the sheer flexibility would make transfers to other routes or to the city cars easy.
Buy stock in the idea now! Bet we will see it soon.
It’s very doable. After we bought our Tesla, I had three free months of FSD. It blew my mind how accurate and reliable it was, especially entering and exiting the expressway, and then getting me right to my driveway! Unfortunately I couldn’t fully enjoy it because it disengaged the minute the cameras sense your eyes aren’t on the road or hands aren’t on the steering wheel. You have to remain 100% watchful, which sort of messes with the idea of fully autonomous. But they had to start somewhere, and they of course are going to approach conservatively and cautiously. And there definitely were kinks they still had to work through between software updates. Some updates made something worse, the next one corrected it… two steps forward, one step back, but progressing.
I cannot afford $99/mo for FSD so I no longer have it, but if ever it became financially reasonable I would get it again in a heartbeat. I can see how priceless it will be to my freedom as I age and my eyesight or my reflexes decline.
I see how cybercabs are able to do what they do. I also can see how very soon in the future we won’t need to keep our eyes on the road, and we will be able to trust the skills and decision of the Tesla over a taxi/uber driver. We already can really, but they want a really low error rate so like I said they proceed cautiously. I have much more respect for Tesla’s approach to advancing this tech than I do other automakers.
My son has a Tesla, and the FSD is crazy. (He doesn’t pay for it monthly, but occasionally gets a free month when there’s a major software upgrade.) He said when he was on the country highway after dark, the screen showed deer in the brush off the side of the road that he couldn’t even see, and the car braked when the deer appeared to be heading into the road. Hitting a deer or wild hog at 75 mph is always a concern on the 7-hour drive from his home to mine.
Arriving at my sister’s house, the car pulled right into her front circle driveway. Returning to my house, it hesitated in front of the house, but seeing no driveway, it went on, turned at the corner, and came down the alley to the driveway and garage in back. Its one failure was when parking at the local coffee shop, it backed perfectly into a parking spot, but it was a handicapped spot. Oops!
It was Christmas so my son had turned on Santa Claus Mode: our own car was displayed on the screen as a sleigh, other cars showed up as reindeer prancing along beside us, and pedestrians appeared as elves. What a hoot! (If I had extra money, I’d get a Tesla just for that.)
Btw, we thought we needed extra money to buy a Tesla too. But if you buy used, only 2 years old, it’s half the price of new. We snagged ours with only 11,500 miles on it. Perfect brand new condition, and it cost less than half new but was two years old. We looked at 2023 or newer because that had a lot of the new tech.
2026 is even better, so if someone waits until the end of 2027 to buy that model they will pay half. The trick is patience and diligence to find one hit their website with low mileage and be quick with down payment
Tesla doesn’t do commission, or silly markups (oh you want certified? That’s another 8k… low mileage? Oh that will be 10k higher... Tesla doesn’t play that game.) They price vehicles evenly across the board based on year. Low mileage might be an $800-$1500 difference. ALL are certified when you buy from them.
It was cheaper to buy Tesla than any other car we looked at in the same condition and mileage. We were surprised.
Now if they made a Tesla pickup with 4 wheel drive and the ability to press a button and chains go on the tires automatically I’d be interested. But where I live there is only one charging station in town which is 10 miles away.
Each year is different. And it depends on miles driven and charging cycles.
Newer years last longer. The 2023 batteries were designed to last 10 to 20 years of typical driving, or between 300,000 and 500,000 miles. (So for our family that means 25 years minimum 🤣) Specs say 1,500 charging cycles with packs often retaining 85% capacity after 200,000 miles.
Ai states for the 2023: The battery is covered by an 8-year warranty with a mileage cap that depends on the specific trim:
Standard Range / Rear-Wheel Drive: Covered for 100,000 miles.
Long Range / Performance: Covered for 120,000 miles.
Throughout this warranty period, Tesla guarantees that the battery will retain at least 70% of its original capacity. While the warranty expires at the time or mileage limit, the battery typically remains functional and usable well beyond these thresholds.
I’m sure for the most heavy drivers who put hundreds of miles on it every week, they will be looking to replace the battery around the 10-15 year point? (If it were the older models) At that time they will have to weight the 8-10k cost of a new battery against a newer car cost at that time. But there are really no other maintenance costs to this vehicle. I believe my first tire change wouldn’t be until at least 50k has been driven, if then. That’s the only additional expense, but that’s no different than any car.
Anyway, it depends on what kind of driver you are and how fast you put 300k on your car.
Oh there are soooo many hidden Easter eggs. The one that had us on the floor with laughter was the fart button. We did it when our son went out to the garage fridge. And Tesla thoughtfully gave a cycle of at least 7 different farts that might play. 😂🤣 Our son died laughing it was so real sounding.
For fun I test drove one because my son was interested in them. I just wanted to see what the hoopla was about. Even if you’re not in the market right now, go test drive one for the fun of it. Eye-opener.
(I make no commission off any sales and this is not an official advertisement 🤣 in spite of sounding like it. Almost every Tesla owner sounds like me. Lolol )
I observed years ago that in most all of mankind's existence, and particularly his politics/governments that the extremes are far closer than the middle. The far right and far left both want to rule us in a manner that is nearly identical, just using different names for their actions.
Oh gosh - I am a huge skeptic and the thought of handing over control to a 'machine' is a big fat NOPE for me at this point. BUT the idea of the car 'seeing' a deer is huge. My SIL lives in a rural area and has totaled 3 cars in the last 25 years due to deer. We have had a deer collision (although my hubby saw it and slowed down - it stopped near the edge of the road, then changed its mind and ran right in front of the car as he got close) and an elk when on vacation in CO. Am sure the tech is not 100% - deer can change their minds like the one we hit - but the cost of deer-car collisions alone is close to a $1BN annually. Not to mention the human cost. A woman in our town died a couple of years ago in our suburban area due to a deer collision.
It used to be an additional $8,000 to purchase price, new or used today but the used ones used to transfer with it. Tesla only recently moved to a monthly subscription to help those who couldn’t come up with an extra 8k at time of purchase. I “think” they completely phased out the 8k bulk purchase???
Anyway, I hope the monthly sub lowers in cost, or that our economy beefs up our pocketbooks so much the $99 becomes easy.
Cost is a big factor. These are highly complex machines, using a wide variety of materials, some exotic. So a widespread application would have to meet that constraint. But seems like a step in the right direction, particularly for big cities.
That’s actually a really great idea. There are several cities that are close enough to drive and don’t have direct flights between them—nor a train. Some of them are destinations between the beach or the mountains. Those would also be good routes. College towns. They should consider all of these.
Even two days in a car in which you can lie down and sleep, practice yoga, catch up on work, watch TV, play cards and mahjong and eat non-stop would be preferable to a lot of flights I've been on.
Do you think the exposure to EMF is really a lot more in a Tesla than say my Ford Explorer that has a bunch of sensors, cameras, and is hooked into the internet? Honest question.
Maybe Tesla will start making EV Trains. Just bypass High Speed Trains like in Europe and Japan.
Train travel is better than airplanes in my opinion. You an get up and walk around and you can bring your own healthy food with you. They do have snack bars and restrooms.
My favorite feature is seeing the countryside pass by the large windows.
Musk is correct. At some point in the not terribly far future, there will be no reason to own a car except personal desire. You will be able to summon a car, have it take you where you want to go, then dismiss it. Then summon one again for the return trip (and each trip while at the destination). Cheaper, easier, and completely relaxed.
I would like to see a return to the completely analog manual transmission as an option. The driverless car is great for cities, long distance and handicaps, but sometimes I want my independence and to enjoy the experience of driving. And also as a backup in case of a tyrannical dystopian government . Or maybe a deterrent against it.
Bingo. For someone like me living out in the country whose driveway is a half-mile from the road, don't think I'll be able to "summon" a driverless car anytime soon!!
I live in a town of 8500 that is 15 miles from the nearest town of 30,000. The distances aren't going to be important as the technology improves. And there is nothing restricting the cars to the electric ones.
I guess I shouldn't be shocked that people think not owning their own vehicle is a great idea. Enjoy the next state ordered emergency lockdown. I see there is one for Hawaii - preemptive, before the storm has even hit.
Interesting how they're moving us out of oil and into electric now, when they had wonderful electric cars decades ago, and recalled them all and destroyed them.
Now we're being moved away from oil and into electric.
I don’t think this is an either-or. I believe there should be a multitude of options for all lifestyles and needs. I may own a Tesla myself, but I was furiously opposed to trying to force everyone into EV by a certain date, or any date for that matter. I hate it when people assume what works for them should work for everyone else and then go about trying to legislate it or regulate it to force others to comform. It’s self-absorbed and narcissistic to do.
Same with everything else in our lives, even in weight loss or the medical field, or education or parenting. We are all different with different combinations of circumstances in our personal homes and in each community. I have always hated a one-size-fits-all mentality.
There’s a lot of great reasons to own a gas powered vehicle and people should have the freedom AND ease to own one. But so should people whose lives fit an EV better, such as mine does.
And when someone touts how great something is for themselves, it should not be a threat to others and their preferences. We should just learn to be happy for each other, and content with ourselves.
I love having my car - despite maintenance! I don't want to summon a car! Sorry Y'all! I don't want a Tesla or any other self driving car! I grew up watching the Jetsons and thought it would be fun to have all the new space age gadgets... But even if we receive those tech upgrades - I see our freedoms being traded in exchange.
Again, I say:
"No thanks!"
I don't think we are a better society despite more tech!
Just went camping for the weekend, 10k trucks and rvs on the road. People like to explore forest service roads and parks. Hard to see hailing a tesla to do that on these dirt roads. But maybe someday
This won't be limited to Teslas. At least not in their present form. There is no reason not to have the same mix (or a better mix) that we have now. It's just a matter of time, and not even a whole lot of time.
Was replying to the idea of not owning your car and simply calling for a ride. I have crates and chairs and leashes and other dog stuff that lives in each vehicle. Too much work to make sure you have put everything you need along with the dogs and then take it out when you get there and then have to reload everything when you return.
People who could live happily not owning a vehicle and summoning one when they need it must live very boring lives. Don't they ever do anything they need some type of bulky gear for?
In theory that makes sense. But think of something like a big concert. We had a new venue open in our city this Spring and the first couple of shows it was headline news that people who took ubers were waiting up to an hour to get picked up as the venue had failed to provide a rideshare lane and drivers looked at the gridlock and canceled. Or people who work in a big high rise building and most arrive and leave work at the same time. The logistics of a high demand event where a large number of people want to go somewhere at the same time is going to be a challenge. I suppose not unlike the typical 'rush hour' where one is sitting in traffic, but at least then, I have control to pick an alternate route, or leave a little earlier or stay a little later too avoid the worst of it.
I heard a podcast weeks ago where the host said he bought one for his teenager son who was just starting the driving process. Because it required hands on the wheel and eyes on the road to operate, he felt much better turning his son out on the road. Said he felt that there was a lot less opportunity for irresponsible teenage shenanigans! Interesting!
A gas turbine engine (jet engine) running at peak efficiency could be used to charge batteries. It would only run, at peak efficiency, when charging was needed. Chrysler had a jet engine powered car "back in the day" but it failed because it was super inefficient at idle when stopped at a red light, and so forth.
A gas turbine engine that only ran to keep batteries topped up would be better than a V-6 running to charge batteries, probably by an order of magnitude (just guessing, here.)
Tinfoil hat: We have not seen this 60's era technology implemented simply because it helps the poors be less poor.
20 years ago when I worked at Chrysler we informally discussed the turbine cars for this very reason. Additionally, the turbine can accept a wide range of fuel. During a world tour demonstrating the technology, it ran in perfume in Paris. BTW the engineers from the program when cancelled, formed Williams International which makes the turbines for cruise missiles so today’s turbines would not need much development.
You can even call it to come from the parking lot and pick you up in front of a store. We tried getting it to come from my rear-entry garage to pick us up in front of the house, but that stumped it. It backed out of the garage okay, but then couldn’t figure out the alley. It wanted to come between the houses. Thankfully it didn’t!
I think what I'd like is elegance. First class used to mean something neat, now everything is coach, easy to power wash, has the soul of a gas station bathroom. I just wish if they are going to upgrade the tech, whether we want them to or not, it at least upgrades the parts we are all sick of. I don't want any more buildings of modern concrete and glass and with personality of a brick. I want buildings that are alive, and uplift you to look at, as well as function well. It CAN be done. And if Tesla is going to eat the world, with or without my being able to vote on it, I wish they'd at least upgrade more than just the tech.
Saw a meme this morning "Honestly, nobody wants a better phone. Everyone just wants their dog to live to be 60. Get your priorities straight, science." I think too much of the "progress" is only progress to the engineers, not the people who have to live with their creations. I'm glad Elon enjoys the futuristic tech look on his cars, how about making cars for those of us who think that look is just flat fugly? If these people are going to, without consulting the rest of us, remake the world, can't they make it better for actual humans? Most of us are not engineers that haven't outgrown being a 14 year old boy. Why does all the tech reflect their wants, not mine, or my neighbor's?
They really aren’t fugly. Only the cybertruck is. Lol This is the sleek look of the sedans: https://ibb.co/5h7m2pvw
I don’t understand why what one group of people like has to be such a threat to another group. Why don’t any of them design their own then? Why demand the other group fit their tastes? Do it yourself!
I don't demand anything, I just wish it was being done. If I had money I'd do something like that, not happening this month. I don't consider other people's taste a threat, I wish we had a lot more options though. I hope AI gets used for figuring out how to make other options available.
And sorry about my ruffles. Try to imagine enjoying something and then having people criticize it constantly from all sides. It’s really odd. I mean I don’t attack corvette owners for their choice. Or Ford 150ers. Etc. I don’t attack the styles and designs of other products that people choose. It’s just another option out there, but because it’s “Tesla” somehow it’s social acceptable to be a punching bag? So I snap back pretty quick these days. 🥴
Media demonizing the AfD with the standard formula: repeat the phrase "far right" over and over, preferably with a raise in the alarming voice tone. Never define the term properly. Repeat it 10 more times.
They have tried to define liberal and progressive as good for decades and no one is buying it. Pretty soon, "far right" will be a compliment for the rest of us.
It is extra strange to see Germany forbidding right wing politics while at the same time supporting swastika-tattooed Banderists in Ukraine.
CJ Hopkins, an American living in Germany, got arrested for pointing out that Germany is becoming more fascist every day. He used a swastika to make the point, and they threw him in jail. Meanwhile, they say that swastika flags flown in Ukraine are simply an expression of their heritage.
But it is a bit hypocritical for people who want to ban or kill "socialists" in the US from running for office, to point fingers at Germany's attempts to ban (or kill, remember a couple of years ago) "right wingers" from running for office.
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
Here’s a prayer I wrote in response to the heaviness of recent days, including the Clancy children, and remembering Charlie Kirk and 9/11:
Father God,
Deliver the lost ones from darkness. Bind the hands that would commit evil. Open blind eyes to see your truth. Silence the enemy who works insidiously to kill, steal, and destroy. Transform this culture of death into a vibrant one that honors you and values human life at all ages and stages. Bring justice even as you heal the broken ones, replacing their hearts of stone with hearts of flesh. Resurrect their dead souls and bring them to repentance that they may live in everlasting joy. Bring life where there is death, wholeness where there is brokenness, truth where there is deception, and hope where there is despair. And Lord, help those of us who bear your Spirit to shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven and lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever (from Daniel 12:3).
The Conspiracy Community has a good rule, wait 3-5 days after an event because it takes time for the videographers to go thru frame by frame and find the staging and screwups.
Charlie Kirk was easy because the blood in the squib should have been bright red, not burgandy. Ask any nurse.
Then the obvious signs of a staged event:
-No crime scene.
Where was the forensensic investigators, the bullet trajectory lazers? They had that set broken down and GONE within hours and the whole place CONCRETED OVER the next day!!!
-And what about all those people in the audience with their cell phones filming it, where are those videos???
hmmm...
-Then there's the blood. The blood in the squib should have been bright red, not burgundy. And we're being told he was shot from the front but we're being shown an EXIT WOUND! (Same thing with the 'exploding mic' theory, its still an EXIT wound!)
And of course, they certainly did make sure the whole world saw the video for a day or two, of him allegedly getting shot right in the neck, as gruesome as it was. What a great thing for our youth to see and believe.
You won't get that from any *official* source, a real investigation. You have a history of independent thinking here so you might get something out of the critical thinking done by a guy named Tai. He has a YT channel and an X account called We Are Not Going To Mars. I discovered him and what he points out is compelling. Interestingly the so called big investigators of the CK murder ( Candace Owens, Baron Coleman) are shunning him. He has sent his findings to them. This to me hints that the big names don't really want to find out the who, how and why of the murder OR they are deathly afraid. What Tai lays out kind of maps out why Charlie got it - CK got too independent for the club of donors and you know who they are. As long as CK with his enormous influence on young folks, went along with the "little country" agenda he was safe. But he bucked that narrative at the end. Important (IMO) is what the small, partial release of the medical exam said. It said a section of CK's spinal cord was gone, poof, missing. It then becomes a question of how could that happen? Candace last week said two times an "explosion" but she omitted saying IMO, instead she implied it a fact. And it simply is not fact but hypothesis. Explosion would not make the spinal cord vanish internally. Let's just say the company Elbit is what Tai indicates snd the products they make.. That foreign company employs Americans in Texas btw.
Thank you 🙏 I scrolled to find you this morning after reading about the Clancy children. I knew God would continue to bring the peace we need as we seek him and encourage one another in the faith. God bless you
The big reduction in SNAP is a start. When will we get fed gov completely out of the easily corruptible food stamp/ charity business which needs to be private, or at worst, local? And further, what possible constitutional power authorizes it?
Even the military - it should be reserves only. No standing armies except when congress declares a war. Then we wouldn’t have centuries of non-stop “military conflicts”
The car gas/electric thing is called 'Diesel Electric'. Every train, submarine, and a large number of boats have been powered that way for over a hundred years, and back during the first gas crisis quite a few people converted their cars over to that as well, as it was more efficient.
Secondly the NAZI's were LEFTISTS, they were SOCIALISTS. They were NOT 'right wing' (being 'right' of communism by a few millimeters is NOT 'right wing'.
The biggest lie ever taught in our schools, was that the NAZI's were 'right wing', but that was because the commies took over our schools.
Thank you for pointing that out about the NAZIs -- the National Socialist Party -- being leftists... This misattribution -- probably intentional -- of them being right-wing/ conservative has driven me nuts ever since I became politically literate.
Jeff during my caffeinated morning cup, I enjoyed your commentary. I appreciate your commentary on all things current. Your tongue-in-cheek style is amazing!
However, your take today on the gasoline powered electric car you caught the headline but forgot to connect the all dots.
A electric car that also has a gas motor (generator) it's not a new idea. There's been cars on the road since 2010 with his exact setup- Chevy Volt . Additionally, Currently 58% of electric cars rely on fossil fuels. Just not in the backyard (gas station or electrical generation) of the electric car owner.
Here's the reason why- I connected the dots…
Dot #1-
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the breakdown of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation by energy source is as follows:
Natural Gas: ~41%
Coal: ~17%
Nuclear Energy: ~18%
Wind: ~10.5%
Hydropower (Conventional):~5.6%
Solar: ~6.7%
Dot # 2- Natural gas is collected through underground drilling and extraction methods, and it is classified as a fossil fuel because it formed from the decomposed remains of ancient plants and animals.
Dot # 3 The idea is not new : General Motors manufactured the Chevrolet Volt from November 2010 to February 2019, the pioneering plug-in hybrid eliminated EV range anxiety by pairing an all-electric drivetrain with a backup gasoline-powered generator.
Therefore, the idea that electric cars are so much better for the environment is really in question. The question is whose backyard should be messy.
Again, I love your commentary. This one just didn't have enough of the dots connected to show the whole picture.
Have a great day.
P.S. I would buy the Chevy Volt if it was available again. Because where I live, not only are there no cyber taxis there are no taxis at all. EV plug-in stations are 15 to 25 miles away in opposite directions of each other. I believe there are one in each town… so electric cars in much of this nation are impractical… and we haven't even started to talk about what electric cars do when it's 30° below zero… how long does that battery hold a charge in those conditions?
Thank you for reminding us about diesel-electric locomotives. The diesel runs a generator which in turn powers electric motors at each wheelset. When the loco is braking downgrade, the electric motor "reverses current" and acts as a generator to replenish the batteries. That's technology proven over tens of millions of miles and seven decades of time.
I have been reading you for a year or two now and can’t fully describe how much I enjoy your wit, sarcasm, cleverness and insight. I swear you give Mark Twain a run for his money, and I agree with your politics to boot. If the other half of the country could read your exposés of the traditional media’s bias and deliberate omissions, I think it would hasten their demise or their return to fair-minded journalism.
Keep up the good work; you are a bright spot in each of the days you post.
"Here on Florida’s I-95, motorists treat the turn signal as a dangerous disclosure of strategic intent. Sunshine State “defensive driving” means assuming every nearby vehicle contains a pet iguana, a lit bottle rocket, and a heavily armed man with a face tattoo named Duane who has just received upsetting news from his stockbroker." JC
I believe that the entire general media is in the business of gaslighting and making common sense seem racist, homophobic, sexist, and just generally hateful.
I find that your approach validates common sense.
Finally, you comment Do not doubt me” made me smile and think of Rush Limbaugh, who pissed the liberal scammers off the absolute most my predicting their crazy moves and chuckling at them.
Any honest actor whom has read the AfD platform surely knows they are as centre-right as politics gets. Only their extreme leftist ideology prevents them from seeing and admitting their moderate opponents are not the fictional national socialists of their indoctrination from childhood.
Hard to resist this one: French Finance Minister Roland Lescure called AfD’s victory part of a worldwide “populist wave” and announced, “We must resist.”
So, these are the new Nazis and THIS time we are going to resist! New territory for the French!
Personally, I cannot fathom being closed up inside a movable room barreling down a highway. And with no steering wheel? How do you activate the thing to get you where you need to be? By Computer choices? I’m no expert. An app? No, please, God, no more apps. Voice commands? I’ve yet to find a computer, AI, etc, who clearly understands my natural version of Low Country English. I’d wind up in Never Never Land desperately trying to figure out how to open the door of this movable room thing in order to run like the wind far away.
Only the Good Lord knows how much I miss simple knobs.
It’s worth the time to go experience a test drive from a Tesla dealership just to understand. There’s a lot of fear and discomfort of the imagination when we can’t understand something.
I think TDawg and Low Country Lady might be referring to the Cyber Cabs mostly. The current Teslas we can buy have the ability for the "driver" or occupant in the car to have control, if desired. The Cyber Cabs are a bit scary as there would appear to be no occupant control whatsoever.
Oh I know. But my point was that it’s “doable” and to wrap your head around “how” - well you could experience FSD first hand. Not the same thing entirely, but you begin to see how the systems and cameras work and why, and from there you can start to imagine how these Cyber Cabs could and do work.
From Kim Komando's newsletter, The Current: No wheel, no problem? Tesla's Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, so what happens when one dies in the road? NBC's David Ingram found the answer in a manual. Preferred fix: a Tesla employee moves it remotely. Backup plan: push it, but only in Tow Mode or the motor can overheat with "potential risk of shock." Need to steer? Grab the front tires and turn them by hand. Two hundred years of automotive progress, and we're back to pushing the buggy.
You can take any technological invention and scare the hell out of people with its most worst stories and failures and “whataboutisms”. You’d never use a microwave again if you read about all the horrific malfunctions that actually HAVE occurred, not just imagined. And you’d never fly in a plane again either. You can take any of the downsides and paint them to be a reason to abstain from pursuing the tech or the product.
But the truth is that the percentage of emergencies in one of these cabs compared to the percentage of them in ones operated by a human beings is comical at best. You have to measure risk, and you’re not doing that proper.
the character of Jared (Zach Woods) end up getting trapped in a self-driving car as it shipped itself out to an under-construction island in the middle of the ocean. It was so completely out there and unrealistic, but simultaneously totally Mike Judge and totally funny
Good morning, ALL. Jeff, thanks for posting, even on a Holiday. Haven't even begun to read today's Roundup. Just wanted to let you know how much I, and I know I speak for many, appreciate your efforts. Keep on keepin on! All God's Blessings to you and yours.
Only way to get through the day! C&C a must read! Informative and MOST AMUSING! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
My feelings exactly!
I see so much unused knowledge and power in the comments. This must be directed to a more efficient use. ATHERWISE, IS A STORM IN A GLASS OF WATER. From SOME topic presented so competent each day, or from our pet topics, we must create rapidly a correct consensus, each of us bringing evidence-based information to each meeting regarding every topic or statement.
When this happens, we must write down a 3–4-line statement and send it promptly to a target requesting/demanding immediate action.
The targets could be many, including the President, Vice President, Senators, Secretary Kennedy, Deputy Chief of staff Steven Miller, to name a few.
The statement must be signed by as many subscribers as possible advising, requesting, demanding, immediately, our proposed solution to be accomplished.
There is much power in numbers. Politicians ARE sensitive to numbers and to elections.
Jef will put always the final legal touch. He must develop a system where the 4-line statement shell be placed and a place for as many signatures online as possible in the document.
The document must be sent online or, if printed, by snail mail. It resembles the portal used when “our army donates” for a cause. Only this time no donations are made.
My first participation will be with this statement regarding COVID, as an example. Please add your additions, corrections and sign it. This is the text suggestion:
“The Covid years, are the most abysmal, catastrophic event, for anyone who survived it in hystory.
To ignore this, is criminal and an invitation to repeat THE CRIMES, in the future.
Professor RANCOURT unmasked the lies and revealed the truth. THIS IS THE REAL AND ONLY TRUTH OF WHAT COVID WAS:
--a broad, elaborate ,EVENT OF 5 YEARS of multilevel FRAUDES of SCIENCE FICTION, FAIRY TALES, aimed to blind us, as a “smog screen”
--A REAL, MULTILEVEL CONSPIRACY, of a Psychological Operation OF FEAR, military style,
--using A NON -EXISTENT PAMDEMIC, THEREFORE A NON -EXISTENT SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS ,
--TO FORCE AN UN-NECESSARY VACCINE AGAINST A NON-EXISTING VIRUS,
--WITH THE PURPOSE TO TRANSFER WELTH FROM GOVERMENTS TO BIG PHARMA AND CAPTURED ENTITIES, AND, TRANSFER OF POWER FROM GOVERNMENTS TO GLOBALIST ELITES.
This must be viewed as an “early marketing campaign”, WORLDWIDE, to prepare the public TO ACCEPT THE JAB.
Because the purpose of this operation is illegal TRANSFER OF WELTH, POWER AND CONTROL, this qualifies it as a RACKET. This type of EXPLOITATION “PROTECTION” RACKET OR SCAM is EXTORTION disguised in SECURITY.THIS DEMANDS ACCOUTABILITY, RECONING!
And now, without doubt, this is under jurisdiction of Vice-president Vance FRAUD TASK FORCE! And can be safe send to whitehouse.gov , click on upper left arrow> CONTACT.
Professor Dr D. Rancourt’, very early study, proved the lack of existence of PANDEMIC and SARS-CoV-2 “VIRUS”, using a “razor sharp” EXCESS ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY data:
June 2, 2020-“All-cause mortality during COVID-19-No plague and a likely signature of MASS HOMOCIDE BY GOVERNMENT RESPONSE” (denisrancourt.ca)
The most comprehensive studies are these:
Spatiotemporal variation of excess all-cause mortality in the world (125 countries) during the COVID period 2020-2023 regarding socio-economic factors and public-health and medical interventions- D.G. Rancourt, J Hickey, C. Linard (correlation-canada.org)
Constraints from geo-temporal evolution of all-cause mortality on the hypothesis of disease spread during COVID. - J. Hickey, D.G. Rancourt, C. Linard (correlation-canada.org).”
Nick: Your comment is almost another newsletter. Most folks are looking for succinct comments.
Michelle's Tahoe needs (inflated) gasoline.
I didn’t think we’d get a post today, but it dawned on me that Jeff never said there wouldn’t be one. So here I am, and grateful for that.
was not crazy about EV's, and even more skeptical of self-driving EV's until......
a friend's daughter is legally blind, (has no peripheral vision so can't get a license), has a great job in a nearby town making good money, but was spending around $100/day on Uber just to get back & forth to work, & depending on others to get to church, visit family, etc. Enter the self-driving EV. She got it last month, it drops her at her door at work, finds a parking place, & comes gets her at the door when she's ready to go home, then parks itself in the garage. All she does is plug it in. It is a huge win-win for her. Thanks, Elon, for the technology to help her be independent.
Don’t forget all those boomers like me. With autonomous cars we will no longer be home bound
The world will be our oyster well into our nineties
Thanks Elon
exactly!
Jeff, thanks for an uplifting column to drown out all the filtered news at NYT, WaPo, and even WSJ. Beyond the death warrants for infants and children, the saddest news was the demise of Maria Bartiromo at Fox.
Plus Rick Santelli retiring too. Rick was the voice of sanity over the woke performer Steve Leisman (sp) Rick’s nemesis leftist winger (cnbc is full of that virus)
It’s pathetic that this administration would out Maria like that!
Clearly you have not been informed of the full story.
Dave, I agree. I
I had neck surgery 6 years ago, and rarely travel more than 30 minutes from home. We “attend” church in our living room because it’s 45 mins away, 90 mins service/fellowship, the 45 mins home. We live in Ohio, and have kids in MI & VA that my wife hitches rides to visit with other family members. My longest trips are physician related. It’d be great to recline and let my room be transported to see my grands while I watch the OSU Buckeyes defeat another opponent!
And, as an aging boomer, I am reassured that when I can no longer drive, there is a viable option for still being able to get around!
With the added benefit of not wondering who the Uber driver really is.
You will need an active license, unless you can get a cyber taxi or similar.
Elaine, before they bought the car, they checked with DPS, she doesn't need a dl. Other states may be different.
What state? If this was an autonomous vehicle, which it is not, then maybe that would be true.
The person behind the wheel is considered the driver. I cannot imagine ANY insurance company would insure a car without a licensed driver at the wheel. The first thing my insurance company asked me for when I bought my car is my active drivers license before they would insure me.
I say BS.
No wheel, Elaine. Only insurance requirement, I would guess, would be liability. Perhaps under a homeowner policy. No doubt this will open a new chapter in private mobility, insurance companies surely are sharpening their their pencils to figure how to stop the loss in revenue. I feel really bad for them 🙄
There is no privately-available autonomous car. There will be. I wonder about insurance, too.
my understanding is that it is total self-driving mode, there’s no way for her to affect the driving, but they were told there had to be a person in the drivers seat. Believe me, they spent a long time researching it, & test driving it before they got it to make sure it would work for her. I know they said the ‘come get me’ or ‘go park feature’, only works if she is in sight of the car & only works for a couple of hundred feet of her.
If it is a Waymo or other fully autonomous vehicle, then yes. The vehicle has to be SAE level 4 or 5. At this time, Tesla does not sell any with this capability to the public for private driving. You can invest in the CyberTaxi, but not for personal use. Teslas with SAE level 2 ARE NOT autonomous. They require Fully Supervised Driving.
Some states do have provisions for level4/5 vehicles. The vehicles have to be certified autonomous.
What vehicle does she have and what state? I’ll move there. It’d be great to have that capability.
So, two questions:
Number one in the cost per mile estimate of a cyber cab versus Uber/Lyft; does that cost include tip to the driver or not?…. And what an additional savings that will be(?) or will the cyber cab expect to be tipped or unleash a Kraken Terminator upon us if we do not tip the machine?
Number two if cyber cabs increase safety on the road, then - much like herd immunity - shouldn’t that decrease the likelihood of accidents for everyone and therefore; those of us who remain driving shouldn’t our insurance rates plummet? Or will the insurance companies then want to charge us more because of the cost of crashing into a technologically superior and much more expensive “cyber cab”…. One way or another the insurance agents gotta get paid right? Threatening the insurance industry would be unacceptable……
We shall see. Good questions.
Better believe it. Insurance companies have a finger in the Beltway Mafias pie.
My guess is they’ll charge autonomous ev owners less
Yes, a very good question. I’d love to see insurance companies eat crow!
@Joze- I would think since there's no driver in the CyberCab that there would be no tip.
Awesome! Kudos to your friend’s daughter for working and maintaining her independence! As an aging Boomer, I’m glad to know that technology is available.
Yes, I think it takes word of mouth. I had no interest either until a respected friend (age 76) got one and started raving about it on Facebook. His enthusiasm is contagious and made me (age 66) realize a self-driving car will solve my hesitancy to drive at night and on unfamiliar routes due to a peripheral-vision issue. A Tesla Y is definitely in my future!
We have friends who have not one, but two children born with a rare disorder that took 98% of their vision. The boy is in college now- wickedly smart and funny and will probably be the next Elon. The daughter is still in High School and loves all things musical. Knowing they were born in an age that has the technology to give them a fair amount of independence is truly something to be thankful for.
Now THAT is pretty stinking cool! I say, Praise the LORD! My dear husband and I are getting old, and I could see this in my future. We live a few miles from town and I had to stop driving after dark years ago, due to night vision issues, especially where there are no streetlights. It would be nice to have the option to be able to go out in the evening, especially in winter.
Winter! I didn't even think of snowy roads. I wonder if it automatic 4 wheel drive would be an option?
I'm not in the EV universe, so this is an honest question. Do you need a drivers license to use an EV in self driving mode? Someone elsewhere said that the self driving mode in her Tesla requires her to keep her eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. So if someone is legally blind, how does that work?
no, she doesn't have a license, can't pass the vision portion. she can see well looking forward, but has no peripheral vision. someone must be sitting in the driver's seat, and be looking forward, as it has cameras inside that monitor her. The car will slow down, navigate to the shoulder and stop if the person in the drivers' seat is inattentive. Read a story, just last week, where a man had a self-driving Tesla, had a medical event, his son was able to log into the car, & change the navigation to the nearest hospital.
I'm confused. If because of her vision problem she needs someone else with a license sitting in the drivers seat, then what's the big advantage over just using an uber or having a dedicated chauffeur?
She sits in the driver’s seat, is how I interpret it. There is no second person needed.
Cost... She's spending $100/day to get to and from work, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year = $25,000/year or $2,083/month... Car payment is $750, $200 insurance, savings of $1,133/month. Plus she can go wherever she wants on the weekend, in the evening, etc. Already been to visit her parents & her sister, & is perfect attendance at church, now.
Not sure what state you live in but I doubt this is correct.
Yes, but you may not need one in the future if the vehicle is truly autonomous.
Legally blind does not mean they can't see. They simply need corrective lenses, like glasses or contact lenses. Not having adequate peripheral vision would also be difficult for driving, as the driver would have difficulty seeing the side mirrors or the side windows.
I know several people who are legally blind without corrective lenses. The glasses, while helpful, cannot solve other issues and if a person lost their corrective lenses in the middle of a trip, they could be in trouble.
You do need to sort of look forward most of the time but you can look around and not at the road. You only need to occasionally touch the wheel if it’s very dark and the interior camera cannot see you.
The license question is likely a state by state law. You are still responsible for what happens even on self driving mode. There are modes where you can go 10+ miles per hour over the speed limit. If you’re pulled over you cannot blame the car, you’re the one who gets the ticket.
A friend recently told me that newer gas cars, certain packages, also have cameras monitoring you looking at the road but won’t even let you look up into the rear view mirror? Said you can only look straight ahead all the time? Is that true?
I’ve not heard that one. Tesla’s FSD is really forgiving. There are various speed settings with hurry being the one that drives the fastest. With hurry I’m reminded more often to watch the road but that really doesn’t happen with Standard or Chill.
If I’m running errands I always take my dog with me. I’m turned around plenty patting him while the car is driving and it’s fine.
With Tesla you will get a “strike” if you’re not paying attention too often. Three strikes and the car will not self drive for a period of time. I’m not sure beyond that, I’ve never even gotten a strike.
One can see what this will do for the uber elderly who don’t drive.
My family has had many members killed by cars, so my son is very careful of his son.
He likes the self-driving cars, because they go the speed limit, forcing all the a..hole drivers that want to speed, to also do the speed limit.
This means that his son is safer outside.
A few years ago, a 5 y.o. boy was killed here by a man doing 60 mph in a 25 mph zone.
That can't happen with self-driving cars.
Mrs. RW
Agreed. Autonomous vehicles can provide independence for many who otherwise wouldn’t have it. I will say tho that for the aging population, learning how to set the autonomous vehicle up to drive you might require a PhD 🤪 83 yo smart, tech savvy, no mental decline friends recently got a self driving Tesla. Let’s just say, it was a much bigger learning curve than anticipated.
Which somehow prompts me to realize that (as far as I can tell) there's no reason gas-powered cars couldn't be engineered to also be self-driving!
Automotive industry is rapidly moving in that direction, Connie.
Next question, just for fun. How many here are willing to board an aircraft with no pilot??
Zero.
I also think as Jeff infers that traffic on highways will move faster when autonomous cars become the majority of vehicles. Humans make too many mistakes, too much rubbernecking too much left lane hogging at or below the speed limit!
And will properly execute the zipper method.
I feels same way. Still skeptical but I can see so many positives if we can trust the technology.
My husband is suggesting I get a self driving car as I no longer drive on freeways. I miss out on many events because of this. I am absolutely terrified of a car that I could potentially be on the freeway and for some reason,need to take over the driving. Without a steering wheel,that option is gone. Now,I may need to rethink this. But,when I IMAGINE traveling in a self driving vehicle,I am riddled with anxiety,so,IDK.
Yes, but isn't this kinda like since braille helps the blind, we should all be using it? I find it creepy in the extreme and wonder about the overall effects and downstream problems nobody is talking about yet.
Why does NPR still exist? Is “Govt” news any more efficient than all the other “govt” activities? And further, what possible constitutional enumerated power is it exercising? Not only that, but all the MSM is doing such a great job already! :)
NPR no longer receives any federal funding. It must now fund-raise to keep on the air.
Surprise! While still overwhelming liberal, they have moderated themselves somewhat, especially when it comes to adding other voices and viewpoints. (Except for Steve Inskeep who just can't help himself.)
Turns out that when you need to support yourself you can't be quite as picky about who you ask for money and what donors are looking for in return.
I’ve noticed that moderation too, also more repeat stories, 2nd hour same as the first, or done again on weekends. They still are a snarky bunch though. Definitely do not consider ALL things.
Yeah, it sucks when you have a budget.
Definitely snarky. Definitely do not consider ALL things.
Do, however, consider more things. Not going to donate, but I'll listen critically.
I don't listen to NPR, but do see a few stories that pop into my FB feed, and did note that they are covering some local stories fairly, and actually did an interview with a R friend who is running for County Exec and did a nice job without any of the snarky references they used to use when covering anything right of center.
All funded by the same groups that fund MSM. At least no commercials by the Trotskyite drug trust.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't listen. I'm not saying you should, but the hallmark of a progressive is to never let themselves be tainted by listening to other opinions. We are not them.
I used to tell my (now grown) grandsons to always keep an open mind and don't be afraid to listen to those who disagree with you. You probably won't change your mind, but you might find areas of common ground or understand better where they are coming from.
I admit that this advice is hard for me to keep right now because the progressives are bat-sh**-crazy.
But NPR has moderated and it does cover a lot of important stories.
"Thus the World Order finances Jewish groups; it then organizes and finances anti-Jewish groups; it organizes Communist groups; and then organizes and finances anti-Communist groups. It is not necessary for the World Order to throw these groups against each other. They seek each other out like heat-seeking missiles, and try to destroy each other. By controlling the size and resources of each group, the World Order can predetermine the outcome."
The World Order
Eustace Mullins 1985
Tell me you know nothing about Leon Trotsky without telling me....
Good morning C&C. Happy Labor Day.
Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.
Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.
Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Psalm 127
our society has fallen so far, first it was normalizing murdering babies in the womb, now it's normalizing murdering toddlers in the den. Where will it end? Come, Lord Jesus, come.
And in the meantime? Lord give us the tools and courage to rise and defeat the evil.
Amen! Keep praying and believing!
We are more than conquerors in Him who loves us . 🙏✝️
Amen.
I was at church yesterday watching all the families with their children and thought how can a mother kill her children? There is a special bond between a mother and child that is biological. Cellular and neurological. How can you take that life when you gave them their life?
The woman heard a man’s voice telling her to kill her children then kill herself. I don’t know, but that sounds either like MK Ultra mind control or Satanic (if there’s any difference between the two.)
What everyone seems to be missing are the huge cocktail of drugs that the psychiatrists were giving her. Pharmakea is satanic...it is in the Bible. The man's voice directing her was demonic...psychiatry is itself demonic. The psychiatrist who were "treating" her should have been on trial for murder/homicide.
Plus being a nurse, was she jabbed too?
Yes I read that. My thought was a demon.
There is NO rational accounting for BSC (bat sh*t crazy)… and unless you’re unfortunate enough to have experienced life around BSC, there is no frame of reference that can prepare you for the incomprehensible behavior.
It can only happen if you give your soul to the devil.
Amen and amen!
"And behold at evening tide trouble and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us and the lot of them that rob us."
Isaiah 17:14
One of my favorite Psalms. The Holy Spirit used these words to change my view of children from one of children being burdens to God's view of children being blessings. Praise the Lord He renews our minds and conforms us into the image of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Instead of only one or two children, I was blessed with six along with four in heaven through miscarriage.
Hallelujah!
Tesla car becoming "A room that moves" I visualize the old Pullman rail cars, and wonder if there will end up being a Tesla system like that for longer trips, not quite an RV, but long haul comfortable things that can take multiple people across miles to a destination, without the nonsense of the train system, and the grubby discomfort of the Greyhound bus system. AI scheduling makes it easy to group people by destination, and the sheer flexibility would make transfers to other routes or to the city cars easy.
Buy stock in the idea now! Bet we will see it soon.
It’s very doable. After we bought our Tesla, I had three free months of FSD. It blew my mind how accurate and reliable it was, especially entering and exiting the expressway, and then getting me right to my driveway! Unfortunately I couldn’t fully enjoy it because it disengaged the minute the cameras sense your eyes aren’t on the road or hands aren’t on the steering wheel. You have to remain 100% watchful, which sort of messes with the idea of fully autonomous. But they had to start somewhere, and they of course are going to approach conservatively and cautiously. And there definitely were kinks they still had to work through between software updates. Some updates made something worse, the next one corrected it… two steps forward, one step back, but progressing.
I cannot afford $99/mo for FSD so I no longer have it, but if ever it became financially reasonable I would get it again in a heartbeat. I can see how priceless it will be to my freedom as I age and my eyesight or my reflexes decline.
I see how cybercabs are able to do what they do. I also can see how very soon in the future we won’t need to keep our eyes on the road, and we will be able to trust the skills and decision of the Tesla over a taxi/uber driver. We already can really, but they want a really low error rate so like I said they proceed cautiously. I have much more respect for Tesla’s approach to advancing this tech than I do other automakers.
My son has a Tesla, and the FSD is crazy. (He doesn’t pay for it monthly, but occasionally gets a free month when there’s a major software upgrade.) He said when he was on the country highway after dark, the screen showed deer in the brush off the side of the road that he couldn’t even see, and the car braked when the deer appeared to be heading into the road. Hitting a deer or wild hog at 75 mph is always a concern on the 7-hour drive from his home to mine.
Arriving at my sister’s house, the car pulled right into her front circle driveway. Returning to my house, it hesitated in front of the house, but seeing no driveway, it went on, turned at the corner, and came down the alley to the driveway and garage in back. Its one failure was when parking at the local coffee shop, it backed perfectly into a parking spot, but it was a handicapped spot. Oops!
It was Christmas so my son had turned on Santa Claus Mode: our own car was displayed on the screen as a sleigh, other cars showed up as reindeer prancing along beside us, and pedestrians appeared as elves. What a hoot! (If I had extra money, I’d get a Tesla just for that.)
Btw, we thought we needed extra money to buy a Tesla too. But if you buy used, only 2 years old, it’s half the price of new. We snagged ours with only 11,500 miles on it. Perfect brand new condition, and it cost less than half new but was two years old. We looked at 2023 or newer because that had a lot of the new tech.
2026 is even better, so if someone waits until the end of 2027 to buy that model they will pay half. The trick is patience and diligence to find one hit their website with low mileage and be quick with down payment
Tesla doesn’t do commission, or silly markups (oh you want certified? That’s another 8k… low mileage? Oh that will be 10k higher... Tesla doesn’t play that game.) They price vehicles evenly across the board based on year. Low mileage might be an $800-$1500 difference. ALL are certified when you buy from them.
It was cheaper to buy Tesla than any other car we looked at in the same condition and mileage. We were surprised.
Now if they made a Tesla pickup with 4 wheel drive and the ability to press a button and chains go on the tires automatically I’d be interested. But where I live there is only one charging station in town which is 10 miles away.
How many years do the batteries last on these now?
Each year is different. And it depends on miles driven and charging cycles.
Newer years last longer. The 2023 batteries were designed to last 10 to 20 years of typical driving, or between 300,000 and 500,000 miles. (So for our family that means 25 years minimum 🤣) Specs say 1,500 charging cycles with packs often retaining 85% capacity after 200,000 miles.
Ai states for the 2023: The battery is covered by an 8-year warranty with a mileage cap that depends on the specific trim:
Standard Range / Rear-Wheel Drive: Covered for 100,000 miles.
Long Range / Performance: Covered for 120,000 miles.
Throughout this warranty period, Tesla guarantees that the battery will retain at least 70% of its original capacity. While the warranty expires at the time or mileage limit, the battery typically remains functional and usable well beyond these thresholds.
I’m sure for the most heavy drivers who put hundreds of miles on it every week, they will be looking to replace the battery around the 10-15 year point? (If it were the older models) At that time they will have to weight the 8-10k cost of a new battery against a newer car cost at that time. But there are really no other maintenance costs to this vehicle. I believe my first tire change wouldn’t be until at least 50k has been driven, if then. That’s the only additional expense, but that’s no different than any car.
Anyway, it depends on what kind of driver you are and how fast you put 300k on your car.
Oh there are soooo many hidden Easter eggs. The one that had us on the floor with laughter was the fart button. We did it when our son went out to the garage fridge. And Tesla thoughtfully gave a cycle of at least 7 different farts that might play. 😂🤣 Our son died laughing it was so real sounding.
I visualize all the Tesla engineers as middle-school boys at heart.
The Great Resist, LOL - perhaps more than a few C&C commenters, as well.
Obviously!
FSD means “full self-driving”.
Thank you for answering the nagging question in my brain! 😅
My best friend in need is Grok. You’re welcome. 😊
Wow!! I had no idea about Teslas abilities.
For fun I test drove one because my son was interested in them. I just wanted to see what the hoopla was about. Even if you’re not in the market right now, go test drive one for the fun of it. Eye-opener.
(I make no commission off any sales and this is not an official advertisement 🤣 in spite of sounding like it. Almost every Tesla owner sounds like me. Lolol )
I had no idea about the fart button ...
I observed years ago that in most all of mankind's existence, and particularly his politics/governments that the extremes are far closer than the middle. The far right and far left both want to rule us in a manner that is nearly identical, just using different names for their actions.
Are you sure. The far left is communism…but the far right…?
Far right is anarchy.
Nope, extremes on both sides lead to anarchy. It's only a matter of how much suffering you want to go thru before getting there.
Oh gosh - I am a huge skeptic and the thought of handing over control to a 'machine' is a big fat NOPE for me at this point. BUT the idea of the car 'seeing' a deer is huge. My SIL lives in a rural area and has totaled 3 cars in the last 25 years due to deer. We have had a deer collision (although my hubby saw it and slowed down - it stopped near the edge of the road, then changed its mind and ran right in front of the car as he got close) and an elk when on vacation in CO. Am sure the tech is not 100% - deer can change their minds like the one we hit - but the cost of deer-car collisions alone is close to a $1BN annually. Not to mention the human cost. A woman in our town died a couple of years ago in our suburban area due to a deer collision.
If anybody is wondering, I had to look up FSD: full self driving
I didn't realize there would be a monthly fee for that, but it makes sense.
It used to be an additional $8,000 to purchase price, new or used today but the used ones used to transfer with it. Tesla only recently moved to a monthly subscription to help those who couldn’t come up with an extra 8k at time of purchase. I “think” they completely phased out the 8k bulk purchase???
Anyway, I hope the monthly sub lowers in cost, or that our economy beefs up our pocketbooks so much the $99 becomes easy.
"I can see how priceless it will be to my freedom as I age and my eyesight or my reflexes decline."
Juju, may your razor wit and faith in Jesus carry you through that day!
Cost is a big factor. These are highly complex machines, using a wide variety of materials, some exotic. So a widespread application would have to meet that constraint. But seems like a step in the right direction, particularly for big cities.
Juju what is FSD? I’m not familiar with that term.
Full self driving
Thank you! ❤️
And the increasing ill functioning and unpleasant air travel system.
That’s actually a really great idea. There are several cities that are close enough to drive and don’t have direct flights between them—nor a train. Some of them are destinations between the beach or the mountains. Those would also be good routes. College towns. They should consider all of these.
Even two days in a car in which you can lie down and sleep, practice yoga, catch up on work, watch TV, play cards and mahjong and eat non-stop would be preferable to a lot of flights I've been on.
As long as they also include a bathroom.
Haha, Lisa, that was my first thought!
And get a month's worth of EMFs into your body in just an hour to cancel out anything good you think you just did for your body.
Do you think the exposure to EMF is really a lot more in a Tesla than say my Ford Explorer that has a bunch of sensors, cameras, and is hooked into the internet? Honest question.
"A month's worth of EMF"
Which is one reason I don't like driving on a 1,000 pound lithium battery!
I guess you could walk!
But then I may avoid having chronic diseases and illness.
A riff on the old Pullman train car, but by Tesla . . .
Maybe Tesla will start making EV Trains. Just bypass High Speed Trains like in Europe and Japan.
Train travel is better than airplanes in my opinion. You an get up and walk around and you can bring your own healthy food with you. They do have snack bars and restrooms.
My favorite feature is seeing the countryside pass by the large windows.
I loathe the current air travel system.
Me too.. I hate it !! I fly as rarely as possible.
Musk is correct. At some point in the not terribly far future, there will be no reason to own a car except personal desire. You will be able to summon a car, have it take you where you want to go, then dismiss it. Then summon one again for the return trip (and each trip while at the destination). Cheaper, easier, and completely relaxed.
I would like to see a return to the completely analog manual transmission as an option. The driverless car is great for cities, long distance and handicaps, but sometimes I want my independence and to enjoy the experience of driving. And also as a backup in case of a tyrannical dystopian government . Or maybe a deterrent against it.
"where you want to go" as long as this does not conflict with "where they want you to be able to go."
Yuge!
Except not all us of live in cities…
Bingo. For someone like me living out in the country whose driveway is a half-mile from the road, don't think I'll be able to "summon" a driverless car anytime soon!!
Same here, but maybe in our lifetime it will be affordable to have one, or they will be more widespread.
Agreed. My trip to the main 2 lane highway is 2 1/2 miles down a forest service road then 30 more miles to the nearest town. Won't happen out here!
We are the ones who really need hovercraft!
Ha! Exactly 😂😎
I live in a town of 8500 that is 15 miles from the nearest town of 30,000. The distances aren't going to be important as the technology improves. And there is nothing restricting the cars to the electric ones.
Being locked into 15 minute cities.
Paging Elon to investigate SNAP?
I guess I shouldn't be shocked that people think not owning their own vehicle is a great idea. Enjoy the next state ordered emergency lockdown. I see there is one for Hawaii - preemptive, before the storm has even hit.
Interesting how they're moving us out of oil and into electric now, when they had wonderful electric cars decades ago, and recalled them all and destroyed them.
Now we're being moved away from oil and into electric.
hmmm...?
See my comment above.
Pulling your boat to a lake and launch it. Pulling your camper. Pulling your snowmobiles...what about those people.
I don’t think this is an either-or. I believe there should be a multitude of options for all lifestyles and needs. I may own a Tesla myself, but I was furiously opposed to trying to force everyone into EV by a certain date, or any date for that matter. I hate it when people assume what works for them should work for everyone else and then go about trying to legislate it or regulate it to force others to comform. It’s self-absorbed and narcissistic to do.
Same with everything else in our lives, even in weight loss or the medical field, or education or parenting. We are all different with different combinations of circumstances in our personal homes and in each community. I have always hated a one-size-fits-all mentality.
There’s a lot of great reasons to own a gas powered vehicle and people should have the freedom AND ease to own one. But so should people whose lives fit an EV better, such as mine does.
And when someone touts how great something is for themselves, it should not be a threat to others and their preferences. We should just learn to be happy for each other, and content with ourselves.
I'm a people whose vehicle is my base camp when hunting, fishing, camping. Sometimes it makes sense to sleep in it. Won't work for me.
Nothing wrong with owning your own. Just won't be as common.
I love having my car - despite maintenance! I don't want to summon a car! Sorry Y'all! I don't want a Tesla or any other self driving car! I grew up watching the Jetsons and thought it would be fun to have all the new space age gadgets... But even if we receive those tech upgrades - I see our freedoms being traded in exchange.
Again, I say:
"No thanks!"
I don't think we are a better society despite more tech!
Just went camping for the weekend, 10k trucks and rvs on the road. People like to explore forest service roads and parks. Hard to see hailing a tesla to do that on these dirt roads. But maybe someday
This won't be limited to Teslas. At least not in their present form. There is no reason not to have the same mix (or a better mix) that we have now. It's just a matter of time, and not even a whole lot of time.
But Perfect for your 15 minute cities!
Won't work for those of us who travel with and compete with our dogs.
Why?
Was replying to the idea of not owning your car and simply calling for a ride. I have crates and chairs and leashes and other dog stuff that lives in each vehicle. Too much work to make sure you have put everything you need along with the dogs and then take it out when you get there and then have to reload everything when you return.
People who could live happily not owning a vehicle and summoning one when they need it must live very boring lives. Don't they ever do anything they need some type of bulky gear for?
In theory that makes sense. But think of something like a big concert. We had a new venue open in our city this Spring and the first couple of shows it was headline news that people who took ubers were waiting up to an hour to get picked up as the venue had failed to provide a rideshare lane and drivers looked at the gridlock and canceled. Or people who work in a big high rise building and most arrive and leave work at the same time. The logistics of a high demand event where a large number of people want to go somewhere at the same time is going to be a challenge. I suppose not unlike the typical 'rush hour' where one is sitting in traffic, but at least then, I have control to pick an alternate route, or leave a little earlier or stay a little later too avoid the worst of it.
I heard a podcast weeks ago where the host said he bought one for his teenager son who was just starting the driving process. Because it required hands on the wheel and eyes on the road to operate, he felt much better turning his son out on the road. Said he felt that there was a lot less opportunity for irresponsible teenage shenanigans! Interesting!
Here's the missing piece:
A gas turbine engine (jet engine) running at peak efficiency could be used to charge batteries. It would only run, at peak efficiency, when charging was needed. Chrysler had a jet engine powered car "back in the day" but it failed because it was super inefficient at idle when stopped at a red light, and so forth.
A gas turbine engine that only ran to keep batteries topped up would be better than a V-6 running to charge batteries, probably by an order of magnitude (just guessing, here.)
Tinfoil hat: We have not seen this 60's era technology implemented simply because it helps the poors be less poor.
20 years ago when I worked at Chrysler we informally discussed the turbine cars for this very reason. Additionally, the turbine can accept a wide range of fuel. During a world tour demonstrating the technology, it ran in perfume in Paris. BTW the engineers from the program when cancelled, formed Williams International which makes the turbines for cruise missiles so today’s turbines would not need much development.
You can even call it to come from the parking lot and pick you up in front of a store. We tried getting it to come from my rear-entry garage to pick us up in front of the house, but that stumped it. It backed out of the garage okay, but then couldn’t figure out the alley. It wanted to come between the houses. Thankfully it didn’t!
As long as the bathrooms are very, VERY clean!!!😬
"clean" according to a robot that is not susceptible to disease.
How will you filter out the same ahem—“citizens”
Delightful— I like it!!! Beds and cooking facilities included.
I think what I'd like is elegance. First class used to mean something neat, now everything is coach, easy to power wash, has the soul of a gas station bathroom. I just wish if they are going to upgrade the tech, whether we want them to or not, it at least upgrades the parts we are all sick of. I don't want any more buildings of modern concrete and glass and with personality of a brick. I want buildings that are alive, and uplift you to look at, as well as function well. It CAN be done. And if Tesla is going to eat the world, with or without my being able to vote on it, I wish they'd at least upgrade more than just the tech.
Saw a meme this morning "Honestly, nobody wants a better phone. Everyone just wants their dog to live to be 60. Get your priorities straight, science." I think too much of the "progress" is only progress to the engineers, not the people who have to live with their creations. I'm glad Elon enjoys the futuristic tech look on his cars, how about making cars for those of us who think that look is just flat fugly? If these people are going to, without consulting the rest of us, remake the world, can't they make it better for actual humans? Most of us are not engineers that haven't outgrown being a 14 year old boy. Why does all the tech reflect their wants, not mine, or my neighbor's?
They really aren’t fugly. Only the cybertruck is. Lol This is the sleek look of the sedans: https://ibb.co/5h7m2pvw
I don’t understand why what one group of people like has to be such a threat to another group. Why don’t any of them design their own then? Why demand the other group fit their tastes? Do it yourself!
I didn't mean to ruffle you. :(
I don't demand anything, I just wish it was being done. If I had money I'd do something like that, not happening this month. I don't consider other people's taste a threat, I wish we had a lot more options though. I hope AI gets used for figuring out how to make other options available.
How about taxis that look like a 1932 touring car? :D https://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2010-07/16/8126153-5-1.JPG
It would be distinctive at least :D You'd KNOW it was a taxi!!
😂😜 I’d LOVE getting a ride in that!
And sorry about my ruffles. Try to imagine enjoying something and then having people criticize it constantly from all sides. It’s really odd. I mean I don’t attack corvette owners for their choice. Or Ford 150ers. Etc. I don’t attack the styles and designs of other products that people choose. It’s just another option out there, but because it’s “Tesla” somehow it’s social acceptable to be a punching bag? So I snap back pretty quick these days. 🥴
Strikes me as a driverless limo...
That is why I prefer Amtrak for long distance travel. You can't sleep while driving a car. At least, not for long.
Mrs. RW
Or forever…
Media demonizing the AfD with the standard formula: repeat the phrase "far right" over and over, preferably with a raise in the alarming voice tone. Never define the term properly. Repeat it 10 more times.
"Far right" just means "So far, right".
Right On!
Far Out!
wonder if the media will ever learn that NAZIs we’re socialist
Yep: the National Socialist Party.
This boggles my mind - and the antifa crowd being fascists themselves and projecting onto people who are nowhere close to fascists.
Read this phrase on another morning read: “Totally right and nothing left.”
Or, far right just means normal people
The team needs to be ripped from public conversation. Everyone knows it’s MSM short hand for Nazis.
They have tried to define liberal and progressive as good for decades and no one is buying it. Pretty soon, "far right" will be a compliment for the rest of us.
It is for me now, even the term ‘extremist’, I applaud.
It is extra strange to see Germany forbidding right wing politics while at the same time supporting swastika-tattooed Banderists in Ukraine.
CJ Hopkins, an American living in Germany, got arrested for pointing out that Germany is becoming more fascist every day. He used a swastika to make the point, and they threw him in jail. Meanwhile, they say that swastika flags flown in Ukraine are simply an expression of their heritage.
But it is a bit hypocritical for people who want to ban or kill "socialists" in the US from running for office, to point fingers at Germany's attempts to ban (or kill, remember a couple of years ago) "right wingers" from running for office.
Goose>gander.
Mrs. RW
I read that the far right party only got 24.7% of the mail in vote... Did they flip it?
I think they got around 44% in the state election
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And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
— Matthew 21:21-22 NAS95
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Here’s a prayer I wrote in response to the heaviness of recent days, including the Clancy children, and remembering Charlie Kirk and 9/11:
Father God,
Deliver the lost ones from darkness. Bind the hands that would commit evil. Open blind eyes to see your truth. Silence the enemy who works insidiously to kill, steal, and destroy. Transform this culture of death into a vibrant one that honors you and values human life at all ages and stages. Bring justice even as you heal the broken ones, replacing their hearts of stone with hearts of flesh. Resurrect their dead souls and bring them to repentance that they may live in everlasting joy. Bring life where there is death, wholeness where there is brokenness, truth where there is deception, and hope where there is despair. And Lord, help those of us who bear your Spirit to shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven and lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever (from Daniel 12:3).
In the mighty and holy name of Jesus,
Amen.
Light shines brighter the darker it gets. May we be both salt and light in these chaotic evil days.
Amen.
That is absolutely beautiful.
A real investigation into Kirk's alleged assassination would be a nice thing to see.
The Conspiracy Community has a good rule, wait 3-5 days after an event because it takes time for the videographers to go thru frame by frame and find the staging and screwups.
Charlie Kirk was easy because the blood in the squib should have been bright red, not burgandy. Ask any nurse.
Then the obvious signs of a staged event:
-No crime scene.
Where was the forensensic investigators, the bullet trajectory lazers? They had that set broken down and GONE within hours and the whole place CONCRETED OVER the next day!!!
-And what about all those people in the audience with their cell phones filming it, where are those videos???
hmmm...
-Then there's the blood. The blood in the squib should have been bright red, not burgundy. And we're being told he was shot from the front but we're being shown an EXIT WOUND! (Same thing with the 'exploding mic' theory, its still an EXIT wound!)
-And of course, the holovid:
https://rumble.com/v6zadbw-charlie-kirk-the-hologram.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=cce4ec45-f213-4aab-b01d-96cddb502a7b
No crime scene investigation, the whole site concreted over in 24hrs. The wrong color blood in the squib, and the EXIT wound!
And of course, the holovid!
The Kirk shooting was as fake and staged as the fake AF Trump shooting:
https://rumble.com/v6cb34a-trump-in-the-crosshairs.html?
And of course, they certainly did make sure the whole world saw the video for a day or two, of him allegedly getting shot right in the neck, as gruesome as it was. What a great thing for our youth to see and believe.
You won't get that from any *official* source, a real investigation. You have a history of independent thinking here so you might get something out of the critical thinking done by a guy named Tai. He has a YT channel and an X account called We Are Not Going To Mars. I discovered him and what he points out is compelling. Interestingly the so called big investigators of the CK murder ( Candace Owens, Baron Coleman) are shunning him. He has sent his findings to them. This to me hints that the big names don't really want to find out the who, how and why of the murder OR they are deathly afraid. What Tai lays out kind of maps out why Charlie got it - CK got too independent for the club of donors and you know who they are. As long as CK with his enormous influence on young folks, went along with the "little country" agenda he was safe. But he bucked that narrative at the end. Important (IMO) is what the small, partial release of the medical exam said. It said a section of CK's spinal cord was gone, poof, missing. It then becomes a question of how could that happen? Candace last week said two times an "explosion" but she omitted saying IMO, instead she implied it a fact. And it simply is not fact but hypothesis. Explosion would not make the spinal cord vanish internally. Let's just say the company Elbit is what Tai indicates snd the products they make.. That foreign company employs Americans in Texas btw.
Owens is CO and I could throw her further than I trust her. Thanks for the Tai reference. I don't do the X but can check out the boob tube.
Powerful
Of course.
Thank you 🙏 I scrolled to find you this morning after reading about the Clancy children. I knew God would continue to bring the peace we need as we seek him and encourage one another in the faith. God bless you
Hi Debi, there are some more words over on my page to go along with the prayer.
Amen!🙏
May many pray for God's truth to be known by all and for dormant Christians to wake up and pray for Christ's soon return.
Amen!
May I please pass this along to a group who ministers to women as they enter a Planned Parenthood (and are phenomenally used to save many lives!)?
I saved for regular use!
The big reduction in SNAP is a start. When will we get fed gov completely out of the easily corruptible food stamp/ charity business which needs to be private, or at worst, local? And further, what possible constitutional power authorizes it?
Everything the govt does besides military and foreign relations should be ended.
Even the military - it should be reserves only. No standing armies except when congress declares a war. Then we wouldn’t have centuries of non-stop “military conflicts”
That is how it is written in the Constitution. No standing armies.
Mrs. RW
We would be quickly destroyed.
The car gas/electric thing is called 'Diesel Electric'. Every train, submarine, and a large number of boats have been powered that way for over a hundred years, and back during the first gas crisis quite a few people converted their cars over to that as well, as it was more efficient.
Secondly the NAZI's were LEFTISTS, they were SOCIALISTS. They were NOT 'right wing' (being 'right' of communism by a few millimeters is NOT 'right wing'.
The biggest lie ever taught in our schools, was that the NAZI's were 'right wing', but that was because the commies took over our schools.
Thank you for pointing that out about the NAZIs -- the National Socialist Party -- being leftists... This misattribution -- probably intentional -- of them being right-wing/ conservative has driven me nuts ever since I became politically literate.
See Jonah Goldberg's 2008 book, "Liberal Fascism", for a fine and historically-accurate documentation of leftists called nazis.
That is actually one of my favorite books of all time -- he really nailed there before he went bonkers.
Jeff during my caffeinated morning cup, I enjoyed your commentary. I appreciate your commentary on all things current. Your tongue-in-cheek style is amazing!
However, your take today on the gasoline powered electric car you caught the headline but forgot to connect the all dots.
A electric car that also has a gas motor (generator) it's not a new idea. There's been cars on the road since 2010 with his exact setup- Chevy Volt . Additionally, Currently 58% of electric cars rely on fossil fuels. Just not in the backyard (gas station or electrical generation) of the electric car owner.
Here's the reason why- I connected the dots…
Dot #1-
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the breakdown of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation by energy source is as follows:
Natural Gas: ~41%
Coal: ~17%
Nuclear Energy: ~18%
Wind: ~10.5%
Hydropower (Conventional):~5.6%
Solar: ~6.7%
Dot # 2- Natural gas is collected through underground drilling and extraction methods, and it is classified as a fossil fuel because it formed from the decomposed remains of ancient plants and animals.
Dot # 3 The idea is not new : General Motors manufactured the Chevrolet Volt from November 2010 to February 2019, the pioneering plug-in hybrid eliminated EV range anxiety by pairing an all-electric drivetrain with a backup gasoline-powered generator.
Therefore, the idea that electric cars are so much better for the environment is really in question. The question is whose backyard should be messy.
Again, I love your commentary. This one just didn't have enough of the dots connected to show the whole picture.
Have a great day.
P.S. I would buy the Chevy Volt if it was available again. Because where I live, not only are there no cyber taxis there are no taxis at all. EV plug-in stations are 15 to 25 miles away in opposite directions of each other. I believe there are one in each town… so electric cars in much of this nation are impractical… and we haven't even started to talk about what electric cars do when it's 30° below zero… how long does that battery hold a charge in those conditions?
Thank you for reminding us about diesel-electric locomotives. The diesel runs a generator which in turn powers electric motors at each wheelset. When the loco is braking downgrade, the electric motor "reverses current" and acts as a generator to replenish the batteries. That's technology proven over tens of millions of miles and seven decades of time.
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Jeff
I have been reading you for a year or two now and can’t fully describe how much I enjoy your wit, sarcasm, cleverness and insight. I swear you give Mark Twain a run for his money, and I agree with your politics to boot. If the other half of the country could read your exposés of the traditional media’s bias and deliberate omissions, I think it would hasten their demise or their return to fair-minded journalism.
Keep up the good work; you are a bright spot in each of the days you post.
Larry Peterson
"Here on Florida’s I-95, motorists treat the turn signal as a dangerous disclosure of strategic intent. Sunshine State “defensive driving” means assuming every nearby vehicle contains a pet iguana, a lit bottle rocket, and a heavily armed man with a face tattoo named Duane who has just received upsetting news from his stockbroker." JC
I would support either fate for trad media, but lean toward the former.
Jeff,
Thank you for the work you do.
I believe that the entire general media is in the business of gaslighting and making common sense seem racist, homophobic, sexist, and just generally hateful.
I find that your approach validates common sense.
Finally, you comment Do not doubt me” made me smile and think of Rush Limbaugh, who pissed the liberal scammers off the absolute most my predicting their crazy moves and chuckling at them.
Thank you.
Any honest actor whom has read the AfD platform surely knows they are as centre-right as politics gets. Only their extreme leftist ideology prevents them from seeing and admitting their moderate opponents are not the fictional national socialists of their indoctrination from childhood.
Right! I read Grok's summary of the AfD platform and thought "makes sense to me"
"Food-stamp rolls drop 5.7 million"
Portlanders: "why can't we buy rolls with our food stamps any more?"
Sorry, in a Dad Joke mood this morning!
Hard to resist this one: French Finance Minister Roland Lescure called AfD’s victory part of a worldwide “populist wave” and announced, “We must resist.”
So, these are the new Nazis and THIS time we are going to resist! New territory for the French!
They'll resist until they fold like a cheap suit!
Hahahaha. In our house we just say “ the effing French” and go on with our day. In this case the eff may stand for feckless.
Personally, I cannot fathom being closed up inside a movable room barreling down a highway. And with no steering wheel? How do you activate the thing to get you where you need to be? By Computer choices? I’m no expert. An app? No, please, God, no more apps. Voice commands? I’ve yet to find a computer, AI, etc, who clearly understands my natural version of Low Country English. I’d wind up in Never Never Land desperately trying to figure out how to open the door of this movable room thing in order to run like the wind far away.
Only the Good Lord knows how much I miss simple knobs.
Not being in total control would make me feel crazy and claustrophobic. I’ll drive myself, thank you.
Did you forget God" Your total control is " pray, hope , and no worries"
It’s worth the time to go experience a test drive from a Tesla dealership just to understand. There’s a lot of fear and discomfort of the imagination when we can’t understand something.
I think TDawg and Low Country Lady might be referring to the Cyber Cabs mostly. The current Teslas we can buy have the ability for the "driver" or occupant in the car to have control, if desired. The Cyber Cabs are a bit scary as there would appear to be no occupant control whatsoever.
Oh I know. But my point was that it’s “doable” and to wrap your head around “how” - well you could experience FSD first hand. Not the same thing entirely, but you begin to see how the systems and cameras work and why, and from there you can start to imagine how these Cyber Cabs could and do work.
From Kim Komando's newsletter, The Current: No wheel, no problem? Tesla's Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, so what happens when one dies in the road? NBC's David Ingram found the answer in a manual. Preferred fix: a Tesla employee moves it remotely. Backup plan: push it, but only in Tow Mode or the motor can overheat with "potential risk of shock." Need to steer? Grab the front tires and turn them by hand. Two hundred years of automotive progress, and we're back to pushing the buggy.
You can take any technological invention and scare the hell out of people with its most worst stories and failures and “whataboutisms”. You’d never use a microwave again if you read about all the horrific malfunctions that actually HAVE occurred, not just imagined. And you’d never fly in a plane again either. You can take any of the downsides and paint them to be a reason to abstain from pursuing the tech or the product.
But the truth is that the percentage of emergencies in one of these cabs compared to the percentage of them in ones operated by a human beings is comical at best. You have to measure risk, and you’re not doing that proper.
Yes and what about all the remaining “dead zones” where there is no cell service.
Our horses always knew where the barn was.
Why? Smarm
Silicon Valley show, episode 6 -
the character of Jared (Zach Woods) end up getting trapped in a self-driving car as it shipped itself out to an under-construction island in the middle of the ocean. It was so completely out there and unrealistic, but simultaneously totally Mike Judge and totally funny
"about the size of Nebraska"
Or as we super-sophisticated Europeans would say it's the size of Wales. But without the dragons.