howardoark.bsky.social
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Sophie's Choice
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I was in a grocery store checkout line in the late afternoon. The checkout woman one line over was trying to explain to a clearly drunk Charles Nelson Riley ( 1931 - 2007) that her station was closed. Made me realize that fame w/o money sucked. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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1st major accident and it gets shutdown. Trump hasn’t forgotten
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My father’s family were from Northern Alabama (hillbillies). When Alabama succeeded the northern counties tried to succeed from the succession. The militia came north, hung the leaders and drafted the able-bodied men into the army (most of whom deserted at their 1st opportunity). So, he’s not wrong.
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Lots of injured on the ground
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That’s nothing. I have a boss I report to which makes me a …
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Learn something new every day
Rochambeau a game where two people would kick each other in the crotch until one of them would fall over or give-up, used to determine the winner of an argument. From South Park
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Long term, 4 million dead (mostly old folks) is good for business.
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Show us the Mac and cheese the kids got. Probably didn’t come with a toy.
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Does he feel bad at all about the 83 Samoans who died of measles because of his anti-vaccine views.
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Hopefully that doesn’t apply to the ones in Trump’s birthday parade.
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The shitbox I shared with 3 other grad students in the late 80s is $3MM (just over the town line in Palo Alto). They tore down the house next door and built a McMansion and it’s $4.35MM.
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I would think cutting short term rates would lead to a rise in long term rates where most US debt is because foreign holders of US debt would see that as inflationary.
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Adjusted for inflation I imagine. No anti-lock brakes, traction control, Apple car play, etc in those 95 used cars. Price of stuff has collapsed.
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I imagine there are two people in the chase car, one for the chase car and one for the taxi.
LIDAR is down to $140 retail, so probably $65 wholesale. Put 4 of them, along with 8 cameras, 3 radars a microphone and a $1000 computer in a $20k car and Tesla is dead
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Which part is difficult to believe? LIDAR -$100 at that scale cleantechnica.com/2025/03/20/l... cameras $10, radar $5, cheap ass boxy car with no amenities $20k. Computer $300. 1000 cars per million population times 100 biggest cities in western world?
Where does Tesla fit in?
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You assume the Democrats don’t want Trump to screw the economy up to the point where 50 Republican House seats flip but I think you are mistaken.
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Won’t be selling it. LIDAR cheap now. Won’t need any dials, steering wheel, pedals. Seats gotta be easy to clean. Will need 200,000 of them over next 5 years. So, less than $45k.
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Robotaxi running a red light and killing a pedestrian will have an effect on that.
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Troy not very optimistic
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Most places have psych exams to weed the worst ones out. Twenty years ago I watched a friend of mine scream at a CHiP that he was a moron and the cop just ignored him. When I was a kid my buddy would have been arrested and ended up with bruises from falling down the stairs at the jail.
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What did she do? Holding a baby doesn’t make you immune from obeying the law. If she was using the baby as a shield she belongs in prison. It’s not like that was ICE.
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How horny were her feet?
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I understand it’s really hard to be a cop. But they’re so much better than they were 40 years ago. It helps that you can make a decent living (many places) as a cop.
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He saw that being wildly rich ruins you (see Musk, Elon) and got out before the 7 figure bonus checks started raining on him. Or, perhaps, hear me out, he wants to stay out of prison.
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Bring a battery powered leaf blower
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Is there something abnormal about the metre - one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris, assuming an Earth flattening of 1/334?
They could have defined it as 1/32,800,000 of that distance but they wanted to mess with perfidious Albion.
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Me neither. But, they have to make money somehow.
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Start buying stuff from Bluesky advertisers. It’s not that hard.
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120 is 2 standard deviations above the mean - 2.28% of the population have an IQ =>120.
At 132 you would be limited to 0.07% of the population.
Kind of elitist.
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Don't tell @billsai.bsky.social , but I think they're probably cheaper than an MY equipped for remote operation, not even including the remote operator.
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The horses are probably out back.
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Someone will end up with the Brandenburg, Texas and Reno factories. I think Fremont will be a $500MM liability for the environmental cleanup. And, he did launch the EV age (the other car companies never would have). So, not for nothing.
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How d you explain the “Let the fires burn.“ at PayPal and “Feature complete.” at Tesla.
He’s always been a sociopath.
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On the State’s Rights thing.
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Please post your favorite replies.
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Back in the 1980s there was a ballot measure in Berkeley (companion to rent control) to limit house price appreciation to inflation. It lost 9 to 1. Berkeley is only liberal with OPM.
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Have you downloaded the app to summon your robotaxi yet? It's on the Tesla website I'm sure (couldn't find it myself, but it must be there by now).
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Never interfere with your enemy hen he's screwing up.
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If you look up charisma in the OED, there she is
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Amateurs
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Musk wants the feds to stop the robotaxi rollout. First fender bender or injured pedestrian and Musk’s loan covenants get triggered. The Feds are his only hope.