Off topic galore

[Ogre]

It's definitely not a shipping container. I would tend to agree that it does resemble a dumpster filled with water. Toss in a Babe Ruth bar and you've got a party!

It’s a shipping container

2024 Shipping Container Pool Guide - Definition, Costs, Benefits, Features, and more

Interested in your own shipping container pool? Check out our complete 2024 guide here, including the costs, benefits, features, and more!

www.containeraddict.com

 

[jabloomf1230]

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You do know that they are back with a new movie and a new series?

Mike Judge Shares New Details on Upcoming Beavis and Butt-Head Revival

Beavis and Butt-Head are back with an all-new series on Paramount+ in August, and Mike Judge has teased what fans can expect to see.

movieweb.com

 

[SmokyPeat]

It’s a shipping container

2024 Shipping Container Pool Guide - Definition, Costs, Benefits, Features, and more

Interested in your own shipping container pool? Check out our complete 2024 guide here, including the costs, benefits, features, and more!

www.containeraddict.com

Nope. It's a dumpster pool.

Astounding Dumpster to Pool Conversion

An innovative project for the budget-conscious homeowner transforms a lowly Dumpster into a gorgeous swimming pool.

www.hgtv.com

 

[2daMoon]

It's definitely not a shipping container. I would tend to agree that it does resemble a dumpster filled with water. Toss in a Babe Ruth bar and you've got a party!

Based upon earlier photos it seems they have both a pool and a pond.

Pond might be better for some.

 

[Buckminster]

Embarrassment of riches:

LOTR prequel
GOT prequel

Now this:

 

[mongo]

just searched my vanguard account and no proxy notice for Tesla shares i only have a small number of shares ~40 but very strange their is no notification

Interesting, what type of account? Were they held June 6th?

 

[mongo]

Thirdly, AI Day 2 is in 8 weeks.

Cheers!

Geeze that sounds like a long time away. I prefer to think if it as next month...

 

[mongo]

Hey that's not Techno.....

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1555951580339372032

 

[JRP3]

A look at the pre workout (garbage) being pushed on Elon in the Full Send podcast

 

[mongo]

The problem is that in a tight supply market, vendor prices will rise to balance out demand. Meaning consumers aren’t going to see any net price reduction when all is said and done. Tesla is not going to have two year wait times for its vehicles. They will keep raising prices until wait times get manageable. So, yeah, this is corporate welfare through and through to help GM and Ford. That it also helps Tesla is incidental. Ferragu is correct.

This is the same dynamic that we see in the college tuition market. Huge demand plus available loans have pushed tuition sky high.

My comment is regarding the "I appreciate the +ve for $TSLA - will help margins, but it isn’t it a waste of taxpayer money?" portion of his question, specifically waste.
A refundable credit would be using other's taxes to subsidize someone else's purchase. However, this non-refundable only impacts government intake. Could the government do something more useful with the money? Quite possibly, but that does not make it a waste.
It may be ineffective/ inefficient; however, on an individual taxpayer basis, getting up to $7.5k back is not a waste to those who get it (assuming <$7.5 in price increase, even then, more money for Tesla to grow faster).

 

[mongo]

At a first stab, the solar AND the battery (about which those of us who live off grid are absolutely giddy) incentives suggest a huge miss: unlike the treatment provided to the auto industry, it appears to me there is no comparable Domestic Content feature.
I’m very happy with my latest batteries, but they’re from a Dutch company, and manufactured in China. It oughtn’t have to be that way.

If your batteries only charge from solar, they already qualify under the solar credit (even if installed after the solar was). If you also use grid or a generator to charge, then they are not.

 

[AudubonB]

My points were that its extension is important, and that there was a big wiff on not differentiating between domestic and non-domestic sourcing.

 

[mongo]

My points were that its extension is important, and that there was a big wiff on not differentiating between domestic and non-domestic sourcing.

Gotcha, I was trying to interpret the 'absolutely giddy' part.

 

[mongo]

How about swapping the battery pack for a larger one with an upgrade.
Easier to do with new structural, 4680 battery pack architecture?

Sell < 55K config with smaller battery pack (< 200 miles ... still beats 7kWh PHEV ) .... after 3 mths provide an upgrade option to a larger battery pack with 300+ miles?
(+ rather than swap, remove the empty slots and add more cells as part of servicing)?

No way to upgrade a 4680 pack.

 

[betstarship]

JFC

Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen’s DMs. They Used Them To Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion.

A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.

www.forbes.com

 

[CLK350]

JFC

Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen’s DMs. They Used Them To Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion.

A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.

www.forbes.com

What do you expect from Zuckerberg .. right from the 2012 beginnings " Zuckerberg jokes in another exchange that 4,000 people have submitted emails, pictures and addresses to his budding Harvard social network. "People just submitted it ... I don't know why ... They 'trust me' ... dumb ****s."

Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg college messages reveal steely ambition

Instant messages sent to college friends in 2004 paint Facebook founder in unflattering light. By Josh Halliday

www.theguardian.com

Also selling private data to other orgs without much thoughts about protecting people's privacy.

I still keep a FB account strictly to keep up with contacts /retards w/o conscience who don't understand the trade off they are signing for.

 

[Christine69420]

In Norway a Deer fell down a cliff and landed on a Tesla driving by on this country road.

What are the odds?

Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1557290703771897857

 

[CLK350]

In Norway a Deer fell down a cliff and landed on a Tesla driving by on this country road.

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What are the odds?

Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1557290703771897857

Clearly a TSLAQ deer /s

Curious to know how any non Tesla would have fared. The Tesla Model 3 was famous for having BROKEN the NHTSA testing machine as it tried its standard car crush.

Edit: and did the autopilot see that deer falling, in other words, did the Tesla automatically started braking, BEFORE the driver did anything at all?

Sort of related -I recall seeing a YouTube video where a Tesla swerved to the right way before it became apparent that a car was driving in the wrong lane in his direction.

 

[JRP3]

Curious to know how any non Tesla would have fared. The Tesla Model 3 was famous for having BROKEN the NHTSA testing machine as it tried its standard car crush.

Looks as if it just hit the frunk cover which is thin aluminum. A steel hood would have crushed less.