Tesla quality is notoriously low. Defects are high and service is slow and expensive. Perhaps the laziest brand working the least hard, the design hasn’t changed either, further erasing the value of used vehicles.
The average used car sells in 49 days, which is 6.1 percent faster than a year ago, but new cars have slowed by 25.7 percent
The Tesla Model S is the slowest-selling used vehicle, taking an average of 88.3 days to sell.
It’s not hard to understand why the data shows nobody wants to buy the tired old Tesla S.
You should expect their later models to soon slow down as well, not least of all because build quality has decreased over time as dangerous bugs (loads of technical debt) explode. Indeed, the Tesla Model X already is taking an average of 71.4 days.
Lazy yet rushed, inexperienced yet boastful… Tesla management is the definition of short sighted low value.
At best if someone buys into the dead Tesla brand they should part ways by parting out the few bits even worth anything.
As I’ve said for a long time, engaging on the toxic anti-Semitic, mysogynist Swastika (formerly known as Twitter) platform is like offering law enforcement a shortcut to identifying potential harms. It’s akin to saying, “Hey police, here’s your guide to spotting national security threats!”
Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield…
The initial question we must ask revolves around whether it constitutes entrapment for an individual to currently publish content on Swastika (formerly known as Twitter).
Instead of “tweets” people are starting to use the term “eXcrements” for hate speech exploding on “eXtwitter”
It’s akin to questioning whether someone participating in a KKK rally or, for that matter, displaying the unquestionably racist Betsy Ross flag at a Nazi march in Chicago should be held responsible for promoting domestic terrorism. The pressing issue arising from the initial query is how to handle active U.S. military personnel discovered in such a treasonous situation.
The second question is whether individuals are aware when they’ve unwittingly become conduits for Russian influence, as highlighted in this CNN article.
…Western voices that eventually became mouthpieces for Russian propaganda were almost certainly unaware of the role they were playing.
Reflect on the fact that America First was never going to openly associate itself with the KKK, even though it was the KKK that constructed and popularized the America First campaign. Does that make sense?
The KKK in 1916 adopted the racist anti-immigrant late-1800s nativist slogan “America First” and soon after began wearing the infamous white robes.Hitler used America First members (e.g. KKK) as “duped” foreign assets
The essence is that mules being entirely oblivious is the objective, and the more unaware a mule is, the more effective they become—whether for Wilson (KKK), Hitler (Nazi), or presently, Putin (X and Z), as illustrated in this Yahoo News article.
The real threat, [a former army intelligence officer] concluded, came from Russia, which was running what appeared to be a wide-ranging disinformation campaign aimed at destabilizing… democratically-elected governments…
Considering the above two inquiries, the Swastika-affiliated account @sentdefender (OSINTdefender) is recognized for disseminating perilous “poison” posts. Moreover, it has garnered attention for being actively endorsed by Elon Musk.
…”@sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on the platform formerly called Twitter…
…Emerson T. Brooking, a researcher at the Atlantic Council Digital Forensics Research Lab, posted that @sentdefender is an “absolutely poisonous account. regularly posting wrong and unverifiable things … inserting random editorialization and trying to juice its paid subscriber count.”
Pushing poison for profits sounds awful, as though Elon Musk has decided the American opioid crisis is a viable business model for him by platforming toxic content.
What happens when Elon Musk’s “poison pusher” accounts such as OSINTdefender are noticed and become worthy of investigation by U.S. military and law enforcement?
This particular Swastika (formerly known as Twitter) account has recently been revealed to be purportedly operated by an active-duty officer in the U.S. military.
The OSINT group Molfar has provided extensive identity data for the case, suggesting action.
2023 OSINTdefender brag that he served with Russians 2016 photo of Russian military exercise, posted by Simon Anderson (OSINTdefender) to his Facebook account 2016 photo posted by Simon Anderson (OSINTdefender) to his Facebook account
While the CEO of Swastika somehow manages to delay or evade personal accountability, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies may intensify their scrutiny of those associated with him. Elon Musk appears to be attempting a precarious blend of Bernie Madoff and John Kapoor. Yet, the scale of his “business of harm” is significantly larger and raises an increasingly pressing question of accountability for anyone associated with it.
The subsequent query might delve into whether Russian military intelligence has compensated Elon Musk for endorsing OSINTdefender and, if so, to what extent.
Even in an age of working from home, riding an electric bike (motorcycle) to the office makes more sense than ever.
…biking to work wasn’t just not unpleasant—it was downright enjoyable. It made me feel happier and healthier; I arrived to work a little more buoyant for having spent the morning in fresh air rather than traffic. Study after study shows that people with longer car commutes are more likely to experience poor health outcomes and lower personal well-being—and that cyclists are the happiest commuters.
This article is just saying what bicycle riders have known for many decades. The question is when will the people confined in false comfort of solitary cages figure out that happiness comes inherently from being outside.
In May, I asked Will Toor, the executive director of the Colorado Energy Office, to explain the state’s rationale for a newly passed incentive that offers residents $450 to get an e-bike. He dutifully ticked through the environmental benefits and potential cost savings for low-income people. Then he surprised me: The legislation, he added, was also about “putting more joy into the world.”
It’s hard to overstate how true this is. People on bikes riding next to each other have a literal opposite mood to the “road rage” felt in cars that share spaces.
An American sniper sits with a Ukrainian one to discuss ethics in targeting.
We conditioned ourselves that Talibs were targets and little else. Our time revolved around killing them as they killed us, and before they killed us more.
It would take years for me to realize how indoctrinated we all were. Raptor already understood — at least enough to articulate his findings to a stranger in a stairwell amid the thud of distant artillery strikes — that he was killing a human being, and trying to explain why.
“I don’t want to kill, but I have to — I’ve seen what they’ve done,”
Beneath the surface of the story is an American soldier warning about being trained to think not very deeply or independently about targets.
We found ourselves in the middle of some poorly thought-out counterinsurgency strategy, propping up a corrupt government that collapsed almost as soon as the United States left. We were protecting each other. That became a binding ideology, all the clarity we could summon in the puzzle our politicians in Washington handed us. We stumbled through exhausted, mouthing our lines, until our tours ended and we were discharged.
Protecting each other in a puzzle of politics is less dramatic than it sounds. Who goes inside the red circle depends on who gets defined as “each other”.
More to the point (of a spear) is the role of authorization in conflict. Is authority entirely controlled within a vacuum, as commonly found in dictatorship, or based on an inhereted set of laws and order (e.g. humanitarianism, war crimes)? And how easy is it for people to move between two opposed extremes where being on the wrong side means death?
American military orders have sometimes evolved far more on the side of “because I said so”, which lack very important “woke” (e.g. accountability) concepts that are essential to maintaining order beyond “each other”. Proper mindfulness, even liberalism if you will, is shunned and soldiers are left vulnerable to falling into line under bad authority.
The Vietnam War wasn’t enough of a lesson, obviously.
It reminds me of a Navy MARSOC who said he had a degree in sociology. “That must be useful in pulling the trigger” I said optimistically. “I call in what I see to get my orders, and I follow those orders” he replied with a curt and somewhat annoyed and condescending tone.
On the flip side a Navy SEAL related to me how he gave orders of full independent discretion to protect assets, yet one of his team immediately called in asking to verify authorization to kill a French soldier nearby making sloppy work that gave false appearances of being a threat instead of friendly.
It is no wonder the American soldier in this story is so surprised to hear Ukranian snipers carry into battle a more complete set of “woke” tools, better prepared for combat in heart and mind. Part of the problem for American military training is it doesn’t properly come to terms with its own past, such as creating the Taliban let alone being founded on principles of expanding slavery.
It’s not truly a hard problem to solve, fortunately. America needs more promotion of the learnings from Generals Grant and Sherman, more emphasis around soldiers John Brown and Silas Soule, with far less or even no more nonsense about the toxicity of Washington, Jackson, Polk and Wilson.
And don’t even get me started on how the immoral and oppressive Washington and Lee were allowed to become the name of a learning center in America (e.g. imagine naming a college in Ukraine for Stalin and Putin).
