Tax Credit Loss increased the effective price by $7,500 overnight. Lightning cancellation signals to the market that the current tech was "dead-end." High Interest Rates Made 72-month loans on $60k+ EVs unaffordable for most. Inventory Glut Dealers have thousands of 2025 models sitting on lots, requiring the $9,000 incentives. I don't get it. Why would our leadership prefer to cause the Strait of Hormuz oil supply problems moving forward? We could all be energy independent for a few hundred dollars, 21kw of solar, and the right EV in our garage. Now that solar cells have dropped in price 95%+, we should all take advantage like this hacker! https://m.youtube.com/shorts/m...

The fossil fuel industry wields huge political influence, lobbying for continued taxpayer subsidies, land access, and reduced environmental regulation, calling the industry a "vital source of jobs". About $150 million was spent on lobbying last year. https://www.opensecrets.org/fe... The U.S. has historically invested in renewable energy. Today it influences the expansion of both domestic production and foreign markets for fossil fuels, in contrast to all the nations pursuing aggressive divestment strategies. Meanwhile, the "Big Beautiful Bill" passed in July 2025 doubled down on fossil fuel subsidies while stripping support for renewables. $39.7 billion in new subsidies for Oil and Gas. https://www.wired.com/story/us... Uh...Yeah. So what do we do? Solar cell price per watt has dropped by about 95% over the past ten years, so each of us can choose to be energy-independent nowadays. This hacker did it with used panels for less than the cost of one monthly energy bill. This is a form of leadership! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Who's the Genius? Who's the Real Genius? In 2022, following throat cancer treatment that left him unable to speak, Kilmer partnered with Sonantic, a London-based tech company, to create an AI-powered voice model for his role as Tom "Iceman" Kazansky. The AI was trained on hours of archival audio recordings of Kilmer to accurately mimic his speaking voice. This is an AI-generated performance by a major star—the SAME major star in fact. https://fortune.com/2022/05/27...

This problem has been solved for years. Mazda's i-stop, for example, is an intelligent idling stop system designed to improve fuel economy by about 10% and reduce emissions by automatically shutting down the engine when the vehicle comes to a complete stop. It uses combustion energy, rather than the starter motor, to restart the engine in approximately 0.35 seconds for a smoother, faster, and quieter restart. https://patents.google.com/pat... Without regulation, all cars wouldn't have ABS or SRS Airbags and we know these save thousands of lives per year. The Chinese continue their incentives for EV sales. Without good leadership and regulatory controls, we will languish rather than advance.

Oh HELL NO... I dropped a zero while typing; that's a profit of $2,330 per EV

Net Profit per Vehicle: Based on 2025's total GAAP net income of $3.8 billion and 1.63 million deliveries, Tesla’s average net profit per electric vehicle is approximately $2,33 while shifting focus, moving away from a "hardware-centric" car business toward "physical AI," including FSD subscriptions, Robotaxis, and Optimus robots, to offset slowing automotive growth. The legacy "Detroit Three" have collectively vaporized over $50 billion in 2025-2026 to unwind EV bets that failed to meet demand. https://share.google/aimode/Rb...

Trump needs to look at the growth of zero-carbon energy generation in the US versus China and wake up https://x.com/JessePeltan/stat... https://www.reddit.com/r/Econo...

Conservative Trump supporters generally view this as a necessary part of a broader effort to reform a "deep state" bureaucracy and improve government efficiency. While critics call it a "brain drain," supporters often frame it as a long-overdue cleaning of agencies they believe have been overstaffed or ideologically biased. http://tiny.cc/MAGAPhDStuff

Next time Apple should collab with The Red Hot Chili Peppers for their insanely great innovations in sock function AND fashion https://www.angryyoungandpoor....

Tesla plans to expand its robotaxi service to 8 to 10 major U.S. cities by the end of 2025, targeting areas like Florida, Nevada, and Arizona for the initial rollout. The service will go driverless in Austin by the end of the year, and the company is seeking approval to serve California airports. Tesla is also seeking local job candidates for its vehicle data collection team in cities like Aurora, Colorado. https://www.google.com/search?...

I participated in the TED AI Hackathon in SF, and it seems like the conference has become pay-to-play rather than being powered by the visions of the future, tech, design, and ideas that we all fell in love with. WELCOME ABOARD, Sal Khan!

"AI is Not Killing Jobs, Finds New US Study" https://slashdot.org/story/25/...

The most wealth, particularly among the super-wealthy, comes from business ownership and related investments in industries like Finance & Investments, Technology, and Manufacturing. For America's richest, wealth is primarily tied to their company's stock, representing an expected future income stream rather than physical assets. https://economics.princeton.ed... https://www.heritage.org/taxes....

Civic.com can help solve this problem. https://verify.civic.com/ and even the US post office has figured out how to verify identities https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Apparently so, 72f year-round at 10ft depth https://www.onehourheatandair.....