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I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.
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Follow-up on the Roadster vs F1 sim, after a lot of good replies:
• It's one-lap pace only: a single flying lap on a full tank of air
• It doesn't include tyre or brake temperatures
• You said braking was overestimated, and you were right. The previous lap was limited only by tyre grip. I've now capped braking at 2 MW peak (regen plus high-performance carbon brakes), which brings it closer to the 1:31.5 briefly hyped at launch
• And obviously an unregulated car has an advantage. F1 is banned from fans, all-wheel drive, thrusters and unlimited energy; the Roadster isn't racing under any rules, buts still F1 is a good reference
Other things to keep in mind:
• Mass, power, drag and tyres are estimates; Tesla hasn't published them
• The fan seal is assumed perfect, with no loss over kerbs
• No battery derating over the lap
New simulation: 1:29.1 vs Verstappen's 1:32.5, 3.4 s faster. F1 now wins every braking zone; the Roadster still wins on acceleration.
@Tesla @elonmusk
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Wow, wow, wow. I just left the National Press Club where Minister of Communications @AnikaWells spoke. She repeatedly and brazenly lied about the fake accounts, claiming they were only for enforcement, even though the legislation says in black and white that the eSafety Commissioner can use them in unlimited ways for "educational" and "promotional" purposes.
One big moment came when a Politico reporter got up and said something about how mean people like @PaulineHansonOz were to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant. Seriously. A supposed reporter was white-knighting for a government official during the official Q&A. The same reporter had come up to me before Wells' speech and asked if I had criticized Inman-Grant. Who needs government censors when you have Politico?
After he asked his question, Wells showed the most emotion, describing online criticism of Inman-Grant as "abuse." She also talked about her own staff's supposed suffering. I kid you not. The mask dropped, and you could see what really upset her: people — including a sitting Senator — criticizing government officials.
After gaslighting the audience about fake accounts, Wells repeatedly insisted the government wasn't trying to censor content. She said this after filling her speech with examples of content she claimed harmed people. You couldn't make it up.
This legislation is the culmination of decades of progressives equating words with physical violence. Wells cynically compared her legislation to prevent psychological "harm" to various laws that protect people from physical harm, like seat belt laws.
BTW, Wells never said what content it was that she thought caused eating disorders. Pictures of skinny women? Dietary advice? Who knows. Nobody asked.
Another important moment came when Wells explicitly said Australia would be pursuing censorship alongside other nations, including the UK, France, and Spain—all countries where governments risk losing power to populists.
I spoke with Julie Inman-Grant before the speech began and asked about the fake accounts. She insisted they were there just for enforcement, and when I asked why the law allowed them to be used for government propaganda, she said she might write an "enforcement memo," which, of course, would have no impact on the legislation.
After her speech, I went up to Wells and asked if she was seriously saying the legislation didn't allow the government to use fake accounts for government propaganda. She refused to answer. A man who said he was from the National Press Club stepped in front of me and said I could interview her afterward. But that wasn't possible because they rushed her out the back to avoid any difficult questions.
So there you have it. The pettiest people in Australia are seeking to silence citizens and their political opponents in the name of protecting children. These deeply intolerant and cynical people want to control what you can see and say online. And they're doing it with most of the media's support. Australia has reached a new low in its rapid descent into dogmatism, intolerance, and censorship.
The government today will introduce sweeping censorship that @AlboMP & @AnikaWells lie about. Below she claims the government wants to create a bot army of fake accounts for “research” when the bill clearly intends for them to be used in partisan warfare against fooled citizens.
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Fully agree, we have the same issue in Australia, we’ve been led by government that receive 34% of the primary vote therefore they believe that they’re hard left agenda will be well received by the majority which is a complete falsehood.
The Democrats aren’t going to like this one bit.
Bill Maher just rocked Chris Cuomo’s world with brutal reality check about the midterms.
It’s no secret that Maher thinks Republicans are going to lose badly, but the part that will piss off his own party is what he said next: the Democrats aren’t going to “win” either.
This is an important distinction and Maher nailed it here.
CUOMO: “Do you believe that if Trump takes a beating, the party takes a beating, is that the same thing saying that the Democrats made the case to the American people?”
Maher cracks up.
MAHER: “Absolutely not!”
“They have not renounced their crazy at all. In fact, they are going full steam ahead. That’s why I’m so worried about 2028.”
“And a lot of the far-left will take it, Trump’s loss, they will misinterpret as a recommendation for what they’re trying to do.”
Maher then called out the left’s embrace of communism, arguing that Trump’s use of the term doesn’t automatically make it wrong.
MAHER: “You know, the whole thing with to communism and it is communism. I know Trump says it, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. When you talk about taking over the means of production and taking over all the private industries, that’s communism, folks! You can look it up.”
This is exactly the point. The Democrats will try to parade any midterm victory as an endorsement of their radical policies.
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Great explanation of human nature when hands wander into your cookie jar …
Johnny Depp earned more than $650 million, by his own managers’ count. In 2015 they told him he had to raise $25 million fast. He fired them and sued. Their answer: he spent $2 million a month.
His lawsuit said the managers paid his taxes late for years. Penalties and interest cost him nearly $5.7 million.
It said they lent more than $10 million of his money to people around him without telling him. Most of it never came back.
It said they took 5% of everything he earned. About $28 million.
The managers were Joel and Robert Mandel. They ran his money for more than 16 years.
Then they filed their own list.
14 homes. $75 million.
A 150-foot yacht. $18 million.
A staff of 40. $300,000 a month.
Private planes. $200,000 a month.
Wine. $30,000 a month.
$3 million to fire the ashes of his friend Hunter S. Thompson out of a cannon.
“Depp, and Depp alone, is fully responsible,” they wrote.
Depp’s answer was not a denial. It was a correction.
“It’s insulting to say I spent $30,000 on wine,” he told Rolling Stone. “Because it was far more.”
And the cannon? “It was $5 million.”
In 2018 they settled. The terms were never made public.
In the video below, Depp is asked about Mandel under oath. He calls him “a very bitter man who ended up with a lot of money that I worked hard for over the years.”
Who was really to blame: the managers who ran the money, or the man who spent $2 million a month?
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This is scarier than most terrorist you’ll read about today
Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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#darwinawards strike again (no pun intended)
Adelaide driver Ashton Friend, 20, avoided jail after fatally hitting Pakistani student Samia Malik, 20.
CCTV showed her kneeling in the road for about four minutes in a prayer-like pose. Friend said he didn’t see her, thought he hit an animal, and left the scene.
Just thinking…of all places, choosing to pray in the middle of the road in the dark is probably not the smartest idea. This has to be Darwin Award material.
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MHarry retweeted
Hola, soy palestino. 🇵🇸
Y como la honestidad es poco común en mi política, permítanme confesar algunas cosas.
1947. La ONU me ofreció un estado. Junto a Israel. Fronteras, independencia, reconocimiento. Dije que no. Mis líderes prometieron que la guerra "arrojaría a los judíos al mar". En cambio, lo perdí todo y lo llamaron catástrofe. No porque no me ofrecieran un estado, sino porque lo rechacé.
1948–2025. Los estados árabes podrían haberme integrado, dado derechos, pasaportes, dignidad. En cambio, me encerraron en campos de refugiados durante generaciones, para que siguiera siendo un arma contra Israel. Construyeron palacios para ellos y cárceles para mí. Me usaron como propaganda, no como personas.
1967. Tras otra guerra perdida, podría haber construido un estado en Cisjordania y Gaza. En cambio, insistí en "ni paz, ni reconocimiento, ni negociaciones". Tres noes. Cincuenta años después, sigo sin Estado. Resulta que el rechazo no paga el alquiler.
Oslo, década de 1990. Israel dijo: «Intentémoslo». Me dio autonomía. Armas para la policía. Miles de millones en ayuda. ¿Qué hicieron mis líderes? Robaron el dinero, armaron milicias y lanzaron una intifada. Atentados suicidas en lugar de escuelas. Cohetes en lugar de fábricas.
Gaza, 2005. Israel se fue por completo. Sin colonos, sin soldados. Tuve la oportunidad de convertir Gaza en un Singapur mediterráneo. Voté por Hamás. La convirtieron en Mogadiscio junto al mar. ¿Miles de millones en ayuda? Túneles, cohetes y palacios para sus líderes, mientras mi gente come comida enlatada en la oscuridad.
¿Democracia? No he tenido elecciones en casi 20 años. Hamás mata a los disidentes en Gaza. Fatah los encarcela en Cisjordania. Mis líderes cancelan elecciones porque están demasiado ocupados luchando por el poder.
Religión. En lugar de construir un futuro, pongo a clérigos en televisión enseñando a los niños a odiar a los judíos. Glorifico a los "mártires" que hacen estallar autobuses. Crío a mis hijos con canciones de sangre y fuego en lugar de libros y ciencia. Cambio la esperanza por la guerra santa.
Mundo árabe. Los regímenes árabes me llaman "hermano". Pero pregúntenles cuántos palestinos pueden vivir libremente en Líbano, Siria, Egipto o Kuwait. Me excluyen, pero celebran mi muerte, porque mi muerte es su excusa.
Absurdo. Sigo diciendo que quiero "construir un estado". E irónicamente, justo al lado está Israel: el vecino que construyó una democracia próspera, una potencia tecnológica, granjas en el desierto, ciudades de polvo. Sin petróleo, sin riqueza infinita, solo coraje. Podría haber aprendido, copiado, colaborado. En cambio, elegí la envidia y la rabia.
Obsesión antijudía. Podría haber aceptado a los judíos como vecinos. Podría haber dicho: "Dos naciones, dos estados". En cambio, repito: "Del río al mar". En lugar de exhibir el honor, la hospitalidad y la rica cultura árabe, mostré solo la cultura de la espada: la ira, el extremismo y la sangre. En lugar de gritar salaam (paz) a los israelíes, grité muerte a los judíos. Y luego finjo sorprenderme cuando los israelíes no confían en mí, cuando están enojados, decepcionados y convencidos de que no quiero coexistencia en absoluto.
Responsabilidad. Culpo a Israel de todo. Siempre. ¿Mis líderes roban miles de millones? Culpa de Israel. ¿Hamás dispara cohetes desde hospitales? Culpa de Israel. ¿Glorifico la muerte más que la vida? Culpa de Israel. La responsabilidad no es mi fuerte.
Soy palestino.
Podría haber construido una nación, muchas veces. Elegí el rechazo, la corrupción y la guerra sin fin. Podría haber vivido en paz con Israel, pero elegí vivir a la sombra de su destrucción.
Así que sí, soy una víctima. Pero con demasiada frecuencia, soy víctima de mis propios líderes, de mis propias decisiones y de mi propia negativa a abandonar el odio.
Y esa, querido lector, es la tragedia que nadie quiere admitir.
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Cost of living crisis #FFS
So just eight #ALP lifers have 200 people @ avg 250K inc expenses = 50mill pa plus back bench plus opposition plus greens plus ex pm's plus plus plus fucking plus (PS doesn't count Super for life)
@DrewPavlou @PeteZogoulas @PaulineHansonOz @AlboMP
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1988 ~ 2026
Milsons Point / Kirribilli.
Renewal of the foreshore and fencing into the scenic view we have today across the wavelets to Kirribilli.
Images Tribune c/- SLNSW / K.Sundgren.
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Bill Maher presents Israeli history for dummies
For those who believe all that they have been told my mainstream media or the 'free Palestine' movement, this is important fact checked information to digest
Most of the people chanting 'from the river to the sea' have no idea what it means, perhaps it would be best to get just a little educated on what your are protesting x.com/DangerousThinkg/status…
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🔻 THEY HACKED THE WRONG MAN.
Friday night. Iran's cyber unit breached **FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email.** They published his photos. They thought they'd humiliate him.
They didn't.
They triggered a protocol.
⚡ Within **6 hours** of the breach, Patel activated **CROSSFIRE RETURN** — a counter-intelligence sequence buried inside the FBI's own architecture since January 2025. The hack didn't steal secrets. It **confirmed a location.** Every digital intrusion leaves a return path. Every return path leads to a server. Every server has an owner.
The owner isn't in Tehran.
The owner is on **K Street, Washington D.C.**
🔺 Now connect the dots from the last 72 hours:
**Thursday** — Senator Kennedy looks Patel in the eye at the Senate hearing and asks: **"Did somebody KILL him?"** The room goes silent. Patel doesn't blink. He says one word: *"Yes."*
**Friday** — Reuters publishes a bombshell: **millions in trades** placed BEFORE Trump's Iran announcement. Options. Futures. Prediction markets. Someone knew. Someone always knows. The same accounts. The same clearing house. The same building on **Constitution Avenue.**
**Saturday** — 8 million people flood the streets. "No Kings" they chant. But who organized it? Who funded the buses? Who printed 3 million identical signs in **48 hours?** That's not grassroots. That's a **$47 million operation.** And the money came from the same accounts Reuters just flagged.
**Sunday** — You're reading this.
⟁ Here's what they don't want you to see:
The hack on Patel wasn't Iranian. It was **routed through Iran** to trigger a diplomatic incident — to STOP the ground operation on **Kharg Island.** Because under Kharg Island aren't just oil reserves. There are **vaults.** And inside those vaults are the original ledgers of every transaction between **1979 and 2024** — every dollar that flowed from Washington to Tehran and back.
**$9.7 trillion.** That's the number.
The same number the Federal Reserve blocked Trump from auditing **two weeks ago.**
Patel now has the return path from the hack. It leads to a server farm in **Northern Virginia.** The same server farm that hosted the **Epstein scheduling database** — the one with 14,000 entries that was "accidentally" deleted in 2020.
It wasn't deleted. It was moved. And now they know where.
**⟁ CODE: CROSSFIRE-R / NODE-KP7 / VAULT-79 / APRIL-2**
The ground operation isn't about Iran.
It's about what's **under** Iran.
And the people who hacked Patel just showed him exactly where to look.
Forward this. Before they realize what they've done.
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Whereas today we watched @RBathurstLive and there was zero uncle uncles but we did have a chaplain to offer his best to all followed by the national anthem
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MHarry retweeted
There’s a group out there that built Western Civilization. Oh yeah, it’s the Catholic Church.
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