There's an entirely new auto market being opened up by FSD. My wife and I moved into a retirement community last year, and we were joined by my brother and his wife. Our homes are almost next door to each other. Being longtime Tesla owners, we joined the EV group that meets once a month and shares information. I offered to talk about my experience with FSD, and they were excited to hear about it. So I prepared some slides and videos, freely purloined from the great material on X. The results were pretty astounding. The average monthly meetup usually had, perhaps, a couple of dozen people. Instead, the meeting notice talking about FSD drew a packed house of perhaps a hundred people, and we had to turn people away as the room was full. Well, that was last quarter's meeting. This quarter's meeting was held last week, to a significantly expanded group. And what did we hear? We heard about a couple that had stopped driving, their car sitting parked because they felt too unsure of themselves to drive. After my presentation, they traded in their vehicle for a Tesla with FSD, and now they are at about 97.5% on FSD and feel that they have been liberated. When I asked "why only 97.5%," they explained that the car lost its way in their underground parking garage (they live in the apartment section of the community). I explained that they could drop a pin on their actual parking spot rather than the address, and that may solve their problem. What struck me even more than the people who bought new Teslas after the presentation was how many seniors talked about their own FSD experience, and how many of them were achieving mid- to high-90% FSD driving. There was uniform enthusiasm for the product and for what it meant for them in their senior years. That matters in what is rapidly becoming an aging population.

Wednesday checklist: Iran is winning, AI is a bubble, inflation is spiraling. Same three headlines, new date stamp. Ignore the noise. Have a nice day

🇳🇱🇫🇷A group of 16-year-old Dutch students went on a school trip to Paris to see the “City of Lights.” Instead, one sent this video to her parents of what the street outside their hotel looks like. This is the Europe being left to European children. (Source: @L_van_Barneveld)

"Students" in Belgium in action. Send them back.

BREAKING: Bitcoin falls nearly -$2,000 in 20 minutes as $400 million worth of levered longs are liquidated in under one hour.

Natural gas cost 8.6 times as much in Europe as in the US in September, and in 2005 the most expensive gas was in the US. The difference between two regional prices for the same fuel is the spread. It comes from each region's gas balance: what the region produces, what it consumes and what it imports by pipeline or by ship.

Syria is considering joining the war in Yemen, but no final decision has been made, according to sources cited by Asharq.

Iran has a new oil minister. Considering Iran has not loaded a single barrel of crude onto a vessel since August 25th, what is the oil minister managing?

Paris (Oct. 7) — Leftist rioters are continuing to shut down roads in their direct action to demand more taxpayer funding for public education. The extremists have been violent for over a week, causing hundreds to be injured and mass damage to property.

French students, future doctors and lawyers. A bright future for France.

This DEEPLY DISTURBING footage shows the Islamo-Marxists (MEK, among others) and the Islamic Republic, two years before their coup in Iran, which ruined the entire Middle East, and destabilized the entire world. They got together praying and planning together in Paris, the home of Ayatollah Khomeini. This is the Red and Black alliance the Shah warned the world about. Nobody listened, and here we are…

This video from yesterday clearly tells us who is creating chaos in France and Europe. Very, very clear. Let's hope many people see it.

“Peak doubt” appears at the same time as “Peak asymmetry”

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In the UAE HAMAS, Hezbollah and The Muslim Brotherhood are BANNED & Treated As terrorist groups. Be Smart. Do the Same!

The current mNAV of Bitcoin treasury companies:

Mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, protecting migrant rioters in France from Police

The town hall of the 11th arrondissement of Paris was vandalized by high school rioters today. They painted slogans on the walls: - “Free Congo” - “Free Palestine” - “Oct. 7th - The Al-Aqsa Flood”