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All Trump is doing is making the US the cootie zone. We won't make anything here and we won't buy anything. We'll have nice 2025 computers, phones, cars, medicine, lumber, energy, but all the shit we import will break and be used up and we won't be able to replace it. The rest of the world will wond...

Pet peeve: A podcast uses sound effects like sirens. It causes panic when driving, esp at high speed. The sound systems in cars these days are fairly realistic, and the ambulance or cop car sounds very close. This has happened a few times, this time I remembered to say something.

Check out my political preamble on Tesla, X and Musk. One more disclaimer: I love my Tesla Model Y. Best car ever. I've been driving a Tesla since late 2021, and I still feel privileged to drive the car every time I do. It's the Macintosh of cars. I don't generally use FSD, even though I paid for it...

Scripting News: On Tesla, Nazis, X and the Macintosh of cars.

I'm not sure I'd buy a Tesla today because of Musk's politics which he puts in our face, thus influencing other people to inflict their nightmares on us. I bet in the end Musk will be responsible for a lot of people dying. On the other hand, I love the car, and thus love the people who developed it,...

BTW, I hate that people are trying to conflate driving a Tesla with evil. They're just like other people who make reading books about black history a pitiful act. No difference in my mind. I drive a Tesla because it's a great car. No other reason. I have owned other great cars. I had an early 90s Mi...

I am celebrating the imminent arrival of Facebook's thing, whatever it is, by buying a domain. It's what I do. Some people collect shoes. Other people classic cars or vinyl records.

Musk may have screwed with Tesla's sensing devices, but he had the good sense not to screw with the driving experience, which still is like nothing else I've ever loved in a car, and I've had some good cars. Same with Twitter, so far. People who say he's stupid don't understand how this works. No on...

As part of a discussion about Teslas vs ICE cars, Povl Aage says: "New ICE cars are incredibly reliable, mature tech. Still lots of kinks to work out for the new EV platforms." I responded: "Not sure which kinks you're talking about, but my Tesla as a car works flawlessly. The computer system can be...

Wow I miss Summer Streets. On three Saturdays in August, in NYC, they close Park Avenue and 4th Avenue below it, all the way down to the Brooklyn Bridge -- and it's just for bikes and pedestrians. It's what NYC would be like if there were no cars.

My Model Y thinks I'm a 94. I got a 94 from my car, presumably out of 100. I lost points for "unsafe following," something I abhor, but I guess I must occasionally actually do, lesson learned, I'll try to do better. But I contest the hit for "hard braking." I know exactly when that I happened. I ha...

All of Musk's Trumpy bullshit comes at a time when a flood of competition is coming for Tesla and it looks like they're copying the basic design. This is giving them a chance to rip out a lot of old crap, and turn their cars into computers with big batteries and wheels. I think Tesla has a huge prob...

Tesla news. I'm trading my Model 3 for a Model Y this week. The Y's were hard to get when I decided it was time to get a Tesla. The way values have been going, I'm paying very little to make this switch for cars of comparable value. The mileage on the 3 is low. And the cars are still very much in de...

People get really pissy about Elon Musk. Why do they care so much? Such angst. His rockets work. I love the cars they make. Just ordered Skylink. There hasn't been a person since Steve Jobs who could get me to buy all their ideas. I respect that, even if you don't like him. ;-)

I had to do some driving today, I love driving the Tesla, I wanted to say that. I hope people who get other electric cars have a similar experience. It's just such a smooth ride, and so much power. I have also mostly got the getting in and out part down, just the right way to twist my body, thanks t...

What users want first and foremost is the UI of the cars to not change.

I imagined a car plowing into a crowd and killing twenty innocent people because some idiot at Apple decided to change the order of the params...

I imagined a car plowing into a crowd and killing twenty innocent people because some idiot at Apple decided to change the order of the params...

It's even worse than it appears.

In the early years of this blog I wrote a lot about the personal struggles of people who had attained financial independence only to find out that it revealed that money was not what was standing in the way of happiness. That's contrary to the message of our society, which is this:Until you're rich,...