The logo is for a toy brand, Britains, formerly W. Britains in the era of this advert.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britains

Lee, for his part, has vowed to return with a diluted version of the proposal, writing on X, "Yes, the Byrd Rule limits what can go in the reconciliation bill, but I'm doing everything I can to support President Trump and move this forward. Stay tuned. We're just getting started."

The fight isn't over though. It was just deemed to be too far outside of strictly budget related proposals. Another version of this will be added eventually. If not in this same bill, the next one.

Hey friend, mine is a gen 2 S, so the menus may vary, but when I'm in park, I can turn off the "full self driving" option. Then that lets me turn lane centering on and off. That will put you back to the one click for cruise, second click for lane keep.

I made a second driver profile, one with autopilot and one without. That lets me switch in and out quickly without needing to find a safe spot to stop the car. I hope that helps!

Very true, I wasted no time putting some stickers on to show I dessent. The dumpster trucks are really the only ones you can be sure are driven by assholes.

I posted this in the past and it continues to be true. Autopilot is getting worse overtime. Tesla is feeding autopilot driving data into its system to learn to drive better. The problem is, it's learning its worst habits. Phantom braking, hesitation in turns, unable to keep a steady speed. Every update I try it and rarely last more than a couple miles. It's not that I want to use it, I just want to see if it's getting better or worse.

The wild thing is, turning off autopilot and using lane keep and cruise is fine. They warn you that lane keep is old autopilot so it's not as reliable, trying to urge you into using full autopilot so they can harvest more data. But that "old" autopilot was built before all the updates that made the full autopilot system unusable to me

If you're wondering, I'd like to not be driving a Tesla. But it's paid off, worth basically nothing in resale, and I got it as a CPO with free charging and autopilot for life. It costs Tesla money to keep it.

I bet the venn diagram of cops wearing ski masks and cops who refused to wear covid masks is a circle

Not Tesla dealerships. They sell their cars online so the dealers really only exist as a pickup location and any final documentation from the buyer. These lots filling up with unsold cars means that production is exceeding sales to the point they are distributing cars to sit on lots waiting for buyers. It's inverse of how Tesla normally operates.

Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump's 79th birthday.

According to the article, the parade part is specifically for Trump

Congratulations! I love the retro-futuristic headlight style on those. Your DC fast charging speed must also wildly faster, im envious of new EVs in comparison to my 2016. They've come a long way

More like 50% can't be bothered because they "aren't political"

23% are GOP single issue voters who with vote their party till the day they die for that one thing (guns, god, babies, etc.)

27% have some assortment of center to left values and with flake easier than Tesla paint if any one of them is not met

Tesla stock went UP after announcing a huge drop in sales and profit with the only "good" news being Musk backing away from DOGE. How in the world did the promise of his return to the company help? Further evidence that Tesla stock value isn't based on anything tangible

Not manufacturers, dealers. A legally required middleman in most of the US. They'll take your $10k car for $7k and try to resell it for $12k. Even if it gets negotiated to a fair price, they still get the opportunity to upsell used car buyers into extended warranties and maintenance plans.

Tesla is a little different in that they do not have dealers, so they instead do no-negotiatiation sales on their used cars. It's good for them because they can do the same buy low sell high deal. But when the model is not selling, they'll have to buy it and sit on that asset for months or dump it at auction.

While the Texas Plate 'HAIT 88' seems like it's fake, I feel that is implied by driving a Cyber Truck. He didn't need to go through the trouble paying extra for that.

I studied this a bit in my MS and the answer is... probably not. "The grid will collapse" has been an anti-technology or pro fossil fuel talking point for a very long time, whether* its arguing against renewables or against personal computers or against AC units. The most recent was solar. Grid operators were adamant that solar would crash the grid if it accounted for more than 10%, then 20%, then 30% and so on and it never happened. Now it's onto EVs being the grid destroyer.

The reality is that production and use is not all that hard to predict. Ultrafast charging will eat some power, but that isn't going to be the norm for wide EV adoption. Public charging will cost more money and be less convenient than charging at home or work over a longer duration. Home chargers are capping around 30-35 amps, generally overnight when grid demand is low. Couple this with the combined low cost for residential solar to change at even lower rates depending on your state/nation's hostility to solar.

Now, if every car was replaced with an EV tomorrow, the grid would struggle. But that's not going to happen. Adoption will be a long slow process and energy producers will increase output on pace as demand forecasts increase. A good parallel to this is Air Conditioning adoption. That's another high demand appliance that went from rare to common. The grid has its challenges, but now the AC usage is forcastable and rarely challenges the grid.

Is it a challenge, especially with higher renewable mixtures, yes. Can utilities fumble? Of course. Will it be a widespread brownout every day during commute hours? Not likely.

I can do you one better:

The markets going down is good because the people selling are just dumb day traders. All the good investors like Elon and Buffett will scoop it up because they know how to handle it better long term

Like, I think they heard the bad scenario from a left of center person, that consolidation of wealth is bad, and went "well, if they hate it, then I love it!"

Remember, the longest shutdown in US history was in 2019, GOP held the Presidency, Senate, and House (by a much wider margin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_United_States_federal_government_shutdown

Trump restarted it last term too. They only managed to build 8 percent of it before Biden revoked the approval again. The company then abandoned the project officially. It's just a political football at this point. Why bother putting money into something that will stall again in 2-4 years. That's not even considering the 25% tariff on the oil it would carry, if it were ever finished.

Thanks friend

GOP reps "lol, no thanks, I only care to visit you in August -September every 4 years because your votes overwhelmingly prove that is literally all that is required of me"

I highly doubt this bill goes anywhere. Democrats have a Trifecta in MN. Slim, but still. They were able to narrowly get it out of committee, but getting it to pass on the floor, or even brought to a vote at all, is a heavy lift. Id bet it never makes it to a floor vote and the Rs can say they tried. Committee votes are a very easy and non-significant way to "vote for something" without actually doing anything. Mainly because the overwhelming majority of Americans have no idea how government works and will take it at face value.

Even if it did somehow pass, no way Gov Walz signs it into law. That sends it back for a 2/3rds vote to overcome the veto and that certainly won't happen.