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Don’t have a link unit it knight have been  posted already, but from the new Atlantic story:

 

“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was shouting at Elon Musk in the halls of the West Wing last month, loud enough for Donald Trump to hear and in a language that he could certainly understand. Bessent and Musk were fighting over which of them should choose the next IRS leader—and, implicitly, over Musk’s bureaucracy-be-damned crusade. Without securing the Treasury chief’s sign-off, Musk had pushed through his own pick for the job. Bessent was, quite obviously, not having it.

The fight had started outside the Oval Office; it continued past the Roosevelt Room and toward the chief of staff’s office, and then barreled around the corner to the national security adviser’s warren. Musk accused Bessent of having run two failed hedge funds. “I can’t hear you,” he told Bessent as they argued, their faces just inches apart. “Say it louder.”

 

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On 5/21/2025 at 7:45 AM, South Austin said:

I was in New York last summer and the scooters there are terrible.

I think Denver might be even worse than Austin. 

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4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I think Denver might be even worse than Austin. 

Supposedly changes are coming!

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27 minutes ago, kevwun said:

The death penalty for anyone who abandons a scooter parked completely across a sidewalk?  I'd support it if I lived there.

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12 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

don't worry, coming to austin, fsd robo taxis, next month!

On the plus side, maybe they’ll take out some of the idiots on e-scooters.

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On 5/20/2025 at 2:58 PM, Guadaloopy said:

Poor Dave has never read his user manual.  There are no rear emergency door releases for Model 3 up through model year 2023.  The emergency egress from the vehicle is through the front doors, which have easy to locate and operate emergency releases.  

If I can’t find my HouseBeast KeyFob I have to crawl out of an upstairs window. But my neighbors are stuck with stupid and lame doorknobs inside and out, while I’ve ditched them for clean and futurist no-doorknob Cyberdoors. 
 

 

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On 5/19/2025 at 8:10 PM, speed817 said:

Guess we're doing the salute at high school graduations now....

 

 

"I would have excepted  . . . ."  Guess the class president isn't an academic distinction.

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Posted (edited)
7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

See, that fella just got upgraded to the LEEEEEROY JENKINS! package, at no extra charge.  A "thank you, Elon" is in order here.

Don’t associate me with that fuck. 

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10 hours ago, Chopper said:

The latest version of FSD is doing amazing things. Watch how it smoothly handles a tree that stupidly jumped right into its way! 

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1ksa79y/1328_fsd_accident/

 

That’s a very fishy post and video.  OP admits that this is 3 month old video and the version he claims is involved wasn’t even released then.   Looks way more like user error and attention seeking than an FSD failure.  
 

Once again, people are throwing random, unvetted shit from Reddit and BlueSky into this thread and treating it like facts.

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3 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

That’s a very fishy post and video.  OP admits that this is 3 month old video and the version he claims is involved wasn’t even released then.   Looks way more like user error and attention seeking than an FSD failure.  
 

Once again, people are throwing random, unvetted shit from Reddit and BlueSky into this thread and treating it like facts.

why do you do this?

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2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

why do you do this?

1) This smells like bullshit.  

2) I have a different bias than most on this thread, so I try to provide a counter to that majority bias.  (And don’t try and say “I have a bias towards facts”)

3) Echo chambers suck, especially when they bounce around bad information.  

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5 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

1) This smells like bullshit.  

2) I have a different bias than most on this thread, so I try to provide a counter to that majority bias.  (And don’t try and say “I have a bias towards facts”)

3) Echo chambers suck, especially when they bounce around bad information.  

I owr you a better answer 

I've been out to the gigafactory. It's a fucking joke. Everything this fucking guy has done over the last couple of years should lead you to believe he is full of fucking bullshit. But here you are carrying his water why? I get it. You bought a tesla. So what? You already paid him what you owed him for that. You owe him nothing. 

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26 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
 

Once again, people are throwing random, unvetted shit from Reddit and BlueSky into this thread and treating it like facts.

So basically like Elon on twitter.  

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Just now, hayden_horn said:

You owe him nothing.

No shit. 
 

I contribute to this thread because I have actual hands-on (or hands-off if you prefer) experience with FSD.   My daily experience has shaped my opinion that it is pretty impressive technology.  

I am an advocate for autonomous driving.  I want to see us get there as soon as possible and save millions of lives.

I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to completely dismiss the work that Tesla has done in this arena just because Elon is an asshole.

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I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to completely dismiss the work that Tesla has done in this arena just because Elon is an asshole.


I don’t. Anything that fuck is associated with deserves to burn.
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Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

 

I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to completely dismiss the work that Tesla has done in this arena just because Elon is an asshole.

I agree that it unfortunate that Elon has burned all of the goodwill and technology that Tesla has created. But the blame is not on the person hating Elon.

a better statement is that it was foolish and short sighted for Elon to force the dismissal of the great work Tesla previously accomplished.

Tesla is most toxic national brand in the US. And it’s not close. And it’s not changing.

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6 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

I am an advocate for autonomous driving.  I want to see us get there as soon as possible and save millions of lives.

Tell Tesla to put some lidar in their cars before you start saying shit about “saving millions of lives.” 

Using only cameras to drive vehicles is like only using your eyes to see without using your ears to also hear if something is coming towards you. If anything, Tesla is hindering the advancement forward for autonomous vehicles by shitting on LiDAR when clearly it is superior to the camera-only system Tesla uses. 

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8 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

That’s a very fishy post and video.  OP admits that this is 3 month old video and the version he claims is involved wasn’t even released then.   Looks way more like user error and attention seeking than an FSD failure.  
 

Once again, people are throwing random, unvetted shit from Reddit and BlueSky into this thread and treating it like facts.

You want it to be fake therefore it is. You're a gd magician! OP has an explanation for not posting it for almost 3 months - as if that matters about its reality. You're fishing.

edit - also unless you want to go interview people who post on reddit, stop complaining about "unvetted." What are you even talking about. This is surly. For all anyone knows you're an uber driver who often chauffeurs around recruits who give you inside info.

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10 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

No shit. 
 

I contribute to this thread because I have actual hands-on (or hands-off if you prefer) experience with FSD.   My daily experience has shaped my opinion that it is pretty impressive technology.  

I am an advocate for autonomous driving.  I want to see us get there as soon as possible and save millions of lives.

I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to completely dismiss the work that Tesla has done in this arena just because Elon is an asshole.

Calling Elon an asshole is underselling the evil by a smidge. You say you’re an advocate for autonomous driving while simultaneously advocating for inferior technology that puts lives at unnecessary risk.

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3 minutes ago, Parliament said:

More LOL at the bottom 3.

 

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The Trump Organization. You hate us, but not as much as you hate Spirit Airlines!

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Last month they started putting Tesla's FSD into cargo ships.

 

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* Totally unverified

** /s

*** seems plausible

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11 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

No shit. 
 

I contribute to this thread because I have actual hands-on (or hands-off if you prefer) experience with FSD.   My daily experience has shaped my opinion that it is pretty impressive technology.  

I am an advocate for autonomous driving.  I want to see us get there as soon as possible and save millions of lives.

I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to completely dismiss the work that Tesla has done in this arena just because Elon is an asshole.

Not a chance I'm getting in a self-driving Tesla until the tech is upgraded to lidar vs strictly relying on cameras.

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Posted (edited)
12 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

No shit. 
 

I contribute to this thread because I have actual hands-on (or hands-off if you prefer) experience with FSD.   My daily experience has shaped my opinion that it is pretty impressive technology.  

I am an advocate for autonomous driving.  I want to see us get there as soon as possible and save millions of lives.

I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to completely dismiss the work that Tesla has done in this arena just because Elon is an asshole.

 

The fact that most of us crap on FSD has very little to do with Elon's antics (though it makes it funnier). We will say it again, the approach to autonomy that Elon has forced Tesla down using cameras only is not going to succeed in short order. No one questions that it CAN one day, but those who know understand ML and AI understand that right now you can't just operate with these limits. You need to have more sensor data. It does well enough for L2 Autonomy, but to hope to reach L3 or beyond you need Lidar and spatial awareness. 

 

And for you to ignore that we have said this OVER AND OVER AND OVER is being willfully ignorant.

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2 hours ago, Chopper said:

In totally unrelated news, the 2025 version of the Harris poll on brand reputation is out. Tesla was 95th out of the 100 firms polled. United Health, British Petroleum and Temu ranked higher.

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https://electrek.co/2025/05/23/tesla-ranks-under-unitedhealth-temu-bp-in-brand-reputation-poll-due-to-musk/

 

Spirit ought to fucking sue.  I mean they have giant brawls at their airport counters and everything!

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9 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Spirit ought to fucking sue.  I mean they have giant brawls at their airport counters and everything!

I've said it before and I'll undoubtedly say it again - the bar right next to the Spirit gates at MSY is one of the best people-watching locations in the country. 

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