Well I guess this just proves something interesting about One Nation members and supporters, if you make great coffee, we’ll buy your coffee. We don’t care about your sexuality, your race, your ancestry or who you vote for. We care whether you’re a decent person and whether you’re good at what you do. Maybe Australia could use a little more of that; judge people by their character and merit, rather than constantly sorting everyone into groups based on colour, creed, race, religion or sexuality. Anyway, apparently the coffee is excellent.

Do you think Aboriginal Australians are the only people who can call Australia home based solely on their race, while everyone else is a visitor who needs to be welcomed? If so, you’d have to agree that the only race with the right to call Germany and Austria home is the indigenous Aryan race, which is exactly what the Nazis believed in the 1930s and 1940s. So you have a choice: A: The Welcome to Country is racist, or B: Your beliefs align with actual Nazis.

Here’s my first full Cybercab ride. This vehicle is a game changer.

You can recline the seats really far back in the Tesla Cybercab, enough to EASILY fall asleep. All seat controls can be adjusted on the screen or in the app. Here’s how far back they can go:

In the Marxist fantasy, you declare yourself a slave because you lack the legal authority to force someone else to serve you. Voluntarily working for someone who must pay you and whom you can leave: slavery. Using political power to seize someone else’s labor and property because you claim an entitlement to it: liberation. Quite the definition.

it's interesting that AI clusters in "libertarian left" the most incoherent and generally vacant quadrant of this analysis. you can have authoritarian left or right (communism and kings) and libertarian right (rights based free market) but there is really not a whole lot of capability to have left wing high regulation welfare states and libertarian sort of rights. it's the square you land in if you cannot manage second order thinking but want free stuff. the fact that AI is clustered there seems to show either a fundamental contradiction in AI worldview or a failure of the test structure. i suspect some of the latter (i took the test, the structure is poor/slanted and i think some of what it calls "libertarian" is kind of jacked), but mostly the former: AI learned from reddit where they think you can have a "right to healthcare" and fail to see that doing that must, of necessity, abridge someone else's right to property and agency.

The meme only “works” by quietly deleting the consumer from capitalism. If one seller dilutes his lemonade and another starts serving piss, customers don’t shrug and keep paying, they buy from someone else. Reputation collapses, competitors gain market share, and the fraudster can face liability if he misrepresented the product. The meme accidentally illustrates the point of competition: profit comes from convincing customers to choose you repeatedly, not merely from making something as cheaply and badly as possible. If consumers had no choice and producers faced no competition, that would resemble the system these people keep proposing.

If the modern Left continues much further in this direction, it will find itself in the same position as Hitler, who was a typical leftist --- a vegan drug addict who wants to be an artist.

HOLY SHIT WHAT Mamdani's "socialist" grocery stores are going to be run by private operators? And they receive the right to run the store from the government but then control the supply of discount cards themselves? And they have full discretion over purchasing and hiring decisions in a situation where they are guaranteed to make a profit irrespective of how inefficient the operation is because they're undercutting their competitors' prices by 30% via government subsidies? Buckle in, you suck fucks! Real corruption has never been tried!

The environmental case against capitalism sounds very sophisticated until you remember what planned economies actually did. The Aral Sea was once one of the world’s largest lakes. Soviet irrigation planning helped turn it into one of the world’s most famous environmental disasters. Maybe giving planners more power over nature is not the beautiful idea people think it is.

we are living in a future that our grandparents could only dream of absolutely insane footage

The first thing economics teaches you is humility.  You do not know enough to arrange everyone’s life from an office, and nobody does.  That is why free people making small decisions usually beat grand plans made far away.

I think people are sleeping on the idea of @SpaceX becoming the leader of mobile connectivity with Starlink Mobile Once scaled, Starlink Mobile will enable high-bandwidth 5G connectivity directly to your phone without any additional equipment. • No more dead zones • Works at sea • Works in rural environments • Works in buildings • Disaster-resilient coverage • Potential of seamless data roaming coverage, etc. This will literally change the game. SpaceX is already working with major chip manufacturers to embed native Starlink connectivity directly into phone chipsets. Elon Musk says this could be coming Mid-2027.

The amount of stuff we have is not fixed. If a farmer works hard, they can produce more food. If they are lazy, less food will be produced. In either case, the farmer probably makes more than enough to feed himself. But they work hard to maximize production because they know that if they feed others, the economy will reward them with the resources they need to improve their farm and produce even more. It will reward them with anything they want. That’s the problem with communism. “Everyone should get an equal share” sounds fair in a world where there is only a fixed amount of stuff, but it breaks down when you realize that the people who work hard ensure there is more for everyone. When they say “Everyone should get an equal share” what they really mean is “the guy who worked hard to feed everyone should get no reward for their outsized contribution”. When there is no incentive to work hard to produce more food, goods, and services for everyone… people don’t. Suddenly there is less food for everyone. The goal was to take from the rich, but you actually ended up starving the poor. That’s exactly what happened in the Great Chinese Famine. When the government took control of all the land, millions starved to death. Reject communism and socialism the way you would oppose someone proposing a famine that would kill millions of your friends and neighbors. Because that’s what it is.

I spent over 4 hours driving today on @Tesla FSD, and even though I’ve had so much experience with it, I’m constantly amazed by it. People will never understand how transformative it is until they experience it firsthand. It removes all anxiety and road rage. My car drove me over 115 miles today. It parked, navigated downtown with pedestrians and traffic everywhere, then drove me home without me ever touching the steering wheel or pedals, all with just a push of a button. This is the future. Those who experience FSD daily understand. You can never live without it. Your whole perception of what a car is will change completely. I grew up loving all types of cars and still do. But FSD has completely rewired my brain. This is what I enjoy now, it gives me freedom and allows me to relax because I know it’s safer than I could ever be. Only Tesla offers this experience.

On older versions of FSD, when the car did something that seemed weird, your first instinct was to disengage. On FSD V14.3.4, when the car does something that seems weird, your first instinct is to look around for what it is seeing before you see it yourself.

The empty driver's seat in this clip runs on more road experience than 740,000 years of human driving. Tesla's fleet crossed 10 billion FSD miles in May. Put that in human terms: the average American drives about 13,500 miles a year, so one person would need roughly 740,000 years behind the wheel to see what this system has already seen. And it keeps growing while you read. The fleet adds around 29 million miles a day, which works out to 1,000 miles of fresh driving data every three seconds. By the time you finish this sentence, the model steering that Cybercab got a few thousand miles smarter. Here's the part that gets you. Every one of those miles came from a real person. A Model 3 threading an unprotected left in California. A Model Y merging into Houston traffic. Each clean decision becomes a lesson. The car with no wheel in Austin learned to drive from millions of ordinary commutes it was never in. That curve is bending up too. Going from 8 billion to 10 billion miles took eight months. The next billion now lands in about thirty days. Every car sold adds another teacher to the pool. A human gets one lifetime of roads. This thing gets a new one every few weeks.

Building one of today's Waymo robotaxis costs around $150,000. Tesla is trying to build the Cybercab for about $18,000, which is roughly what Waymo pays for just the spinning laser sensors, called lidar, bolted to its roof. The whole bet is swapping forty thousand dollars of sensors for eight cameras and software. Eight cameras do all the seeing, with no lasers and no radar anywhere on the car. They feed one piece of AI software that turns the street into a live 3D model, guessing which blocks of space around the car are filled and which are empty. People drive with two eyes and a brain, so the wager is that a machine with sharper eyes and a big enough brain shouldn't need lasers to see. Tesla pulled radar from its cars in 2021 and stripped out the last backup sensors by 2023. What trains that software is almost 7 billion miles of real driving logged from its own fleet, every mile another example to learn from. A Model Y takes about 34 seconds to come off the assembly line. The Cybercab is designed to come off every 10. Tesla calls the method "unboxed": instead of inching one hollow car body down a single line, the factory builds five or six big sections at once, bolts them together near the end, and snaps the outer panels on last, so the car never touches the floor until final assembly. Tesla says that cuts factory floor space by about 40% and labor by 30%, on a vehicle carrying roughly half the parts of a normal car. Rain is the one thing that can blind the whole system. Heavy rain, fog, and low sun smear a camera lens the same way they blur your own eyes, which is why the Austin service still pauses in the rain and sat at around 20 driverless cars a year after launch. The Cybercab adds small washer jets to keep its lenses clear. Lasers struggle in heavy rain too, so whether cameras alone can carry the whole job is still a real open question. If the cameras win, the math turns brutal for everyone else. Analysts think the Cybercab could eventually run near 20 cents a mile to operate, against roughly 40 for a Waymo weighed down with sensors. What fills that clip is a car steering itself through traffic. The engineering that actually resets the price of a taxi is the roughly $130,000 of cost Tesla is trying to strip out of every robotaxi it builds.

Socialism is like your buddy’s startup idea. “It’s never worked before.” “Yeah, but this time it’ll be different.”