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  • HOAs are the most deranged thing about suburbia outside of lawns to me. These people are so pathologically devoted to control that they deputise themselves as pseudo-cops to sterilise any hint of dissent. If you so much as paint your house the wrong colour or use your garage for hobbies or plant things that the most ignorant and isolated boomer doesn't like, they will make you homeless. It's a reactionary red guard that allows the most abusive person in your neighbourhood to live out their power fantasies like a medieval lord.

    edit: At least in Nashville, TN the weather this week is around 85f/30c and that day looks sunny.

  • Iranian president 'missing' after helicopter crash
  • It's interesting to me that he was flying in a convoy of three helicopters and that was the one that went down. They're dangerous in general and the fog conditions look intense so probably an equal if not greater chance of it being a random accident, but that detail stands out to me.

  • [CW: Food addiction] Zionist gets addicted to cheese and spend $6k/week for rehab
  • “I stopped by either Morton Williams or by Whole Foods and I would just buy cheese, and I would literally just eat a block of cheese with my hands,” said Cojab, 27, often while sitting on the floor of her Midtown apartment alone in the dark.

    “It was the only thing that would make me feel somewhat whole.”

    --

    “I dabble, but not in the way that I used to before,” she said, adding the recent waves of anti-Israel encampments at Columbia and other universities prompted brief relapses.

    “When I’m really stressed, I’ll have a block of cheese, but it doesn’t happen that often.”

  • Wyoming sheriff recruits Colorado officers with controversial billboard
  • I fucking hate it here, and still simultaneously believe Colorado is the best fucking state.

    yea it'd be fun to be able to afford to live in Washington, but Colorado is nice until I remember it's next to Wyoming and contains Weld County.

  • Ukraine allows some convicts to join armed forces in manpower push
  • The new law offers parole to convicts who sign a contract to join the army, a move that some officials have said could generate a maximum of 20,000 soldiers for the Ukrainian war effort.

    I wonder if the net results of this, TCC kidnappings, and forced deportations will be enough to even patch the casualties of the summer offensive. Even if they conscript some wildly optimistic number of people- 50k, 100k, whatever- it's giving the most demoralised citizens a few days of training before permanently disabling whoever survives. There are videos of genuine WW1 shell shock just from being near a FAB and Russia is still flying like 100 sorties a day delivering those.

  • There is a hunger that can be met only by the cheapest and gaudiest of wraps
  • bird-screm-2 breadpill

    this one neat trick cybertruck owners DON'T want you to know about

  • Anyone have the link to that time we were namedropped in the "online violent rhetoric" study thing?
  • There's definitely a toxicity issue with hexbear tankies. One of them linked me a video saying it was the "funniest sh*t they've ever seen". It was of a cartoon grandpa turning himself into a pickle. Just simple commentary about the lengths men will go to avoid self-criticism, even absurdly becoming a pickle which isn't scientifically possible. I have seen funnier things and more intelligent cartoons WITHOUT needing to resort to profanity to share them. Rhetorical violence is all they know.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • They'll have to manually scrape it off using rubbing alcohol. It's such a perfect tactic to really shame them.

  • Beans
  • In addition to what Darth_Reagan said, it's for pest control as well. By keeping a plant in the field for more than one season, you provide a food source for pests whose parents went there to feed the previous one. Some diseases only impact certain crops and can stick around in the dead matter only to attack your vulnerable new plants.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • >buy $100k emotional support truck to get back at childhood bullies

    >soggy biscuit luddites attack truck

    >can't take it to a car wash without destroying it and voiding the warranty

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • *cyberbelt

    I wonder if it's the interface between crash sensors and cyberbelts/cybairbags. They've already innovated by making the passengers the crumple zone, so this would improve the efficiency.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • Imagine taking it camping with the shitty tent. The battery drains itself by morning to capture bad photos of wildlife. You're stranded but luckily you bought some super expensive generator that can get you to 10% if you breathe diesel fumes in the great outdoors for a few hours while sentry mode takes pictures of you being sad for Tesla employees to laugh at. Finally you get it charged, plot out the 100 miles to the nearest refueling point on your giant tablet computer, and it gets stuck trying to drive up a small hill exiting the campsite.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • I fucking love the one where a beepboop apartheid truck owner went into a climbing gym and came out to find that someone had spit precisely in the middle of all four windows. One of the comments was asking if sentry mode captured it and the owner reported that it had glitched out and recorded nothing.

    Even when you let it drain 7% of your battery to upload tens of gigabytes of data per day on your home connection and have to refuel 30% more often, who knows if that system will work. Unlimited bread on Teslas.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • Nominative Determinism Gang stay winning

    This gang brought to you by nominative determinism

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • In one recent post I've seen, the door handles were progressively failing and they'd stand there pressing the unlock button a dozen times: https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1cscmge/driver_side_door_intermittently_working_there_are/

    He then states that the safety restraint system is experiencing a fault and it didn't come with a spare tyre, but he hopes to get everything repaired in one (1) day.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • I appreciate that this reply comes from https://www.reddit.com/user/ActionFigureCollects , someone who seems to be fully cartoon brained.

    edit: Wait that's the Namaste guy, not this one. This guy is just a doctor.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • Apparently there are two of them locally with similarly harsh conditions for cars. 50% more UV radiation than sea level, constant road salt from September to May, deep snow that's heavily polluted near any major road, wildfires so massive that they blanket the entire area in ash for weeks.

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon
  • From their comments:

    I cant charge at home so if I use sentry I have to charge every two days instead of every three days. It was just a combination of laziness and complacency, I work 60-70 hours a week so not spending 40 minutes charging was appealing but you're right, its better to be prepared, especially with such a big investment.

    Investment?

    This is my first new vehicle, I usually buy 20+ y/o cars that only last me 4-5 years. This is the first time it's going to be me to put that first 100-200k miles on it, so I do consider it to be an investment. Maybe not as good as the S&P, but it gets me to work on time.

    Right, but an investment is an asset you acquire with the intention of making money.. is the value of the truck going up?

    In your opinion, to me, the money I'm saving on fuel, maintenance, repairs, and the rule of cool, I'm sitting pretty flat.


    Unfortunately, there will always be haters, trolls, or nay-sayers or whatever we wanna call them. Douchebags, dumpster monkeys, or negative nellies.

    The dangerous ones act out, and even follow-thru with their distorted reality or sick fantasies.

    The human population is no different, we all sit on the spectrum and bell curve.

    Live the life you want, Love the ones you're with.

    Namaste

    PS: by the way, how much battery life does sentry mode drain? Might be worthwhile to enable it in 'hostile environments?'

    PSS: I'd consider keeping a cyber-baseball bat in the truck or frunk for those exceptional moments of self-defense.

    It drains about 7% a day.

    It shouldn't need near that

    I agree, I feel like sentry mode is trying to mine crypto or something. Why is it trail cameras can run off batteries for days but sentry mode straight up uses kwh's a day to use basically the same technology recording to a usb ssd drive?

    It’s because the cameras are connected to a computer with high end GPUs. This is not a cheap trail cam, it’s a dedicated computer system with advanced image processing abilities and mobile network connectivity.

    [From what I've seen recently, the real-time monitoring is limited to one hour per day because it's uploading an obscene amount of data. Like 60gb I think?]

  • Mlorddddddddd, a rebellious peasant attacked my cyberwagon

    >Just got off work today and as I walking towards my truck I saw a bunch of crud on top of and the back of my truck. "What the hell is that?" Upon closer inspection I realized it was bread crumbs. I'm pretty sure somebody was trying to lure birds to shit on my truck.

    >In my experience in the last couple of months, most people love my truck, but if the internet has taught me anything is that there really are haters out there and I just ran into my first one. Luckily birds hadn't had time to find the crumbs yet and they all blew off by the time I got home, but that could have been bad.

    >I can't believe somebody took the time to do that, unfortunately I had sentry off because it drains so much battery and 99% of time it's just somebody staring or taking a picture, but I think I'll start leaving it on again.

    https://archive.is/wip/62Weg

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Stew_Pedaso

    !triangle-bottom-right !elmofire !border-middle-horizontal-square !filled-square !triangle-bottom-left

    !filled-circle !filled-square !filled-square !filled-square !filled-circle !breadpill !breadpill!breadpill !qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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    Israeli tank fire kills five IDF soldiers in north Gaza
  • Finally living up that nickname of most moral army in the world.

  • Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel
    www.bbc.com Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel

    The weapons transfer comes as Israeli tanks were spotted advancing deeper into residential areas of Rafah.

    Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel
    spoiler

    The White House has told Congress it wants to send more than $1bn (£800m) in new weapons to Israel.

    This comes despite the US being opposed to a full-scale invasion by the Israeli military on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

    It said last week it had paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns civilians would be killed if used in densely populated areas.

    The new package, confirmed by US media, must still be approved by lawmakers.

    It would include $700m in tank ammunition, $500m in tactical vehicles and $60m in mortar rounds, according to the Associated Press news agency.

    This is separate from a bill passed by Congress last month providing $95bn in aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.

    On Tuesday, Israeli tanks advanced deeper into residential areas in the south-east of Rafah and are thought to be about a mile from the centre.

    Meanwhile, medical services are dwindling. Aid agency Doctors Without Borders told the BBC they had stopped operating at one of the area's field hospitals because it was too dangerous to stay.

    It is not known when Congress would consider the new arms deal but it it likely to spark objections from some members.

    Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen was critical of the decision and told the Washington Post the US should not proceed with any additional arms transfers until the Netanyahu government had met President Biden's concerns about Rafah and the provision of humanitarian assistance.

    A US state department report last week found that some American-made weapons provided to Israel may have been used in breach of international law.

    While the report was a clear rebuke of some Israeli operations in Gaza, it stopped short of definitively saying that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) campaign had breached international law.

    It added that assurances it had received from Israel about adhering to the legal use of US weapons were "credible and reliable".

    The package being sent to Congress is the first since Mr Biden's administration paused arms transfers to Israel last week.

    He said he had delayed the shipment of 2,000lb (900kg) bombs to Israel because of how they might be used in such a ground operation.

    Asked by CNN about the delay, Mr Biden said: "Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs."

    Weapons transfers to Israel have become a political liability for Mr Biden ahead of this November's 2024 White House election.

    News of the latest arms package emerged soon after voting ended in a presidential primary election in Maryland, where activists had urged voters to register a protest ballot against what they see as Mr Biden's favouritism towards Israel over the Gaza war.

    Republican lawmakers in Congress have introduced legislation intended to prevent any further pauses in weapons shipments to the US ally.

    The House of Representatives this week will vote on a measure that requires the state department and defence department to ensure the "prompt delivery" of military equipment.

    The White House has vowed to veto the bill, if it manages to pass the Senate, which is unlikely.

    Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 252 others were taken hostage.

    More than 35,170 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 82 in the past 24 hours, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

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    [developing live feed] Slovak PM in hospital after being shot in assassination attempt
    www.bbc.com Slovakia PM shooting live: Robert Fico in hospital after being shot - BBC News

    Robert Fico was shot in front of a building in the central Slovak town of Handlova. His alleged assailant detained.

    Slovakia PM shooting live: Robert Fico in hospital after being shot - BBC News

    >We've just received reports that the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Rico has been taken to hospital after being shot. This is a developing news story, but here's everything we know so far:

    >Slovak PM Robert Fico was shot and taken to hospital after a cabinet meeting. The alleged assailant was detained by police, local media reports

    >It not known what condition the prime minister is currently in

    >The shooting took place in Handlova, about 180km north east of the capital of Bratislava

    >Local journalists reported hearing several shots fired

    >Stay with us as we continue to cover this breaking news story.

    edit: Initial information about the suspect has been released-

    >Police detained the suspect after Fico was shot in the central town of Handlova

    >The BBC's local correspondent, Rob Cameron, says we're hearing the attacker is 71 years old from a village in central Slovakia

    >The pistol the shots were fired from was reportedly legally held

    >The attacker's motive is not yet known

    > A video shows civilians and guards detaining the suspect outside the cultural centre in Handlova The man, wearing a pale blue shirt, was then seen sitting on the ground, hands tied behind his back

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    Malvina Reynolds - Faucets are Dripping [folk]
    spoiler

    The faucets are dripping in old New York City,

    The faucets are dripping and oh, what a pity,

    The reservoir's drying because it's supplying

    The faucets that drip in New York.

    /

    You can't ask the landlord to put in a washer,

    He'd rather you move than to put in a washer,

    The faucets are dripping, they sound in my ears,

    The tap in the bathroom's been running for years.

    (Chorus)

    There's a wild streak of green in the sink in the kitchen,

    It comes from the rill trickling out of the plumbing,

    The streams from the mountains, the pools from the lea,

    All run from my faucet and down to the sea.

    (Chorus)

    You can't ask the landlord to put in a washer,

    You can't ask the landlord to mend the old stairs,

    He takes in the rents and he lives in Miami,

    Where faucets don't drip and there's sun everywhere.

    (Chorus)

    The faucets are dripping, the landlord's content.

    With every new tenant he raises the rent,

    The buildings can crumble, the tenants can cry,

    There's a shortage of housing, you'll live there or die.

    (Chorus)

    They're building some buildings and fine city centers,

    It's sure working hard on the low-income renters,

    They're jammed into rooms with the rat and the fly

    Where the faucets all drip and the floor's never dry.

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    After firing the supercharger team, Elon's brilliant Plan B is... crowdsourcing from twitter.

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1788838767165415549

    It has 10 members there, as of 8 hours ago. Right now I see 55 members with 6.7M views. The replies seem to be a collection of grifters and MAGA hogs, with one of them posted 8 hours ago doing a crypto scam as Tesla. I saw one self-described engineer in the group but she seems to work for a corporate efficiency app thing.

    The supercharger network is the one thing of actual value that Tesla has.

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    M'lordddd, I've been waiting on my cyberwagon repair since 24 February
    spoiler

    I wanted to wait until the truck repair was complete, but am feeling a bit frustrated and needed to vent a little. Some background. We were in the first group to drive the Cybertruck off the Service Center lot out of Jacksonville, FL early this year. Upon our drive home, we noticed some minor issues. Notably, the tires wobbled at high speeds (70mph with 80mph+ being a bit scary to do) and a rather noisy glove box that sounded like my old 80's Toyota Corolla that sat in the sun too long. Squeaky from the vibration, exacerbated by an electric vehicle's quietness. But my 2018 Model 3 never had a noisy... well... anything really, so this was particularly noticable.

    A couple of days into owning the vehicle, it started throwing up an alert part way through drives. I don't recall the exact message, but it was something along the lines of "Air suspension unavailable. Function may be restored upon next drive". But the air suspension was fine. We could raise and lower it without issue, and the alert would indeed go away until it would randomly return again. Annoying, but not major. We enjoyed the truck for a week or so before finally giving in to the alert, wobbly wheels, and squeaky glove box, and opened up a formal service center ticket on 02/24/2024. They reviewed the alert message and scheduled a repair visit for 04/18/2024. That isn't a typo. The appointment was around 6 weeks after opening the ticket. But again, everything was functioning fine more or less and we were thoroughly enjoying the truck in the meantime.

    Fast forward to appointment day. Everything in the app said it was a same-day appointment, and that we could hang out in the lounge or enjoy a test drive in a new model. Note that it is a 3 hour round trip from where we live to the service center. We made the drive up to Jacksonville, parked the truck, and waited in line for about 20 minutes to speak to the tech. They asked us if we had a ride home which confused us until they explained it would be an overnight repair. We were a little annoyed at this, but figured there was nothing we could do. We took the truck out on a quick test drive with the tech to show them how the truck's tires were pretty clearly off balance, and so that they could hear the lovely sound of the glove box. With the issues confirmed, we returned to the service center where upon they struggled to find us a loaner. They ended up putting us with a 2020 Model 3 Standard+ that smelled a bit like smoke and body odor. It felt like a 10 year old rental car, but again, no big deal as we'd be driving back the next day to pick the truck up.

    So with our 3 hour round trip out of the way, we went to bed and woke up the next day with the repair estimate showing a completion of 05/03 and no explanation why. I thought it may be a typo so we waited for the service center to reach out and let us know it was ready for pickup. Which they did not do. So we waited another day. Then another. Then a week went by. I finally gave in and reached out via the app to ask what the delay was for and if the ETA really was 05/03. We got a response back saying the part they received was defective and they were waiting on another part.

    Great.

    So we waited more. Finally 05/03 rolls around, again with no updates, only the app saying it was estimated to be finished by 5:30pm. So I sent a message around 2pm asking if we should drive up there or not since it was a 3 hour round trip, and that we didn't want to waste our time if it wouldn't be ready. We got a call about 30 minutes later from a tech who said that the Jacksonville service center was short handed and they wouldn't have anyone who could work on the truck until 05/09.

    So here we are. 05/04, waiting on a fix for an issue reported on 02/24 with an estimated repair date of 05/09 if they can even stick to that. 10 weeks after reporting the issue, assuming we actually get to pick it up then.

    Not a great feeling for spending $100k+ on their vehicle, and especially not a great feeling after reading all the reports about Tesla laying off staff, including service techs, all over the country.

    With that off my back, I feel a little better. I'll provide an update if/when we do finally have this repair complete. I absolutely miss the truck. It's such an amazing vehicle which is why I would love to be driving it around right now. This is all exacerbated by Tesla not having a service center nearby. They have one under construction, but it's not slated to be finished until end of this year. Were it operational, we could just keep the truck while we wait for them to actually be ready to repair it. Oh well.

    Wish us luck please!

    >With that off my back, I feel a little better. I'll provide an update if/when we do finally have this repair complete. I absolutely miss the truck. It's such an amazing vehicle which is why I would love to be driving it around right now. This is all exacerbated by Tesla not having a service center nearby. They have one under construction, but it's not slated to be finished until end of this year. Were it operational, we could just keep the truck while we wait for them to actually be ready to repair it. Oh well.

    !you-are-a-serf

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    Oh M'lordddddd, the cyberwagon you sold me made it but 40 miles before a storm destroyed it. t'was awesome while it lasted 😂. @Mlord @SawyerMerritt @WholeMarsBlog

    >Just picked up my @cybertruck from Kansas City service center got 40miles down road headed home in rain and wiper quit working , now towing back to service center was awesome while it lasted 😂 @Tesla @SawyerMerritt @WholeMarsBlog

    >>Follow up Tesla made it right ordered parts made repair in 2 business days and I love the truck it’s unbelievably good!

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    M'lord, bless thee for restoring the pedal on my cyberwagon. But now it won't stop turning right.

    >Interestingly the invoice said that they both replaced the ideal AND installed a rivet. Unfortunately they forgot to realign the wheels or connect the tie rod or something else that caused the truck to pull to the right A LOT when I picked it up. So, it's back in the shop.

    [picture of a screw poorly installed on the accelerator pedal that keeps falling apart and getting stuck]

    >>I’m sorry but that looks terrible. They could have easily hidden the rivet below the rubber grip but instead they went with this cheap route. It looks like what a DIYer would come up with.

    >>>I'm glad that you know exactly what the pedal under the cover looks like and how to best resolve the issue. I'm sure that Tesla would appreciate your car engineering experience and your decades of working with regulatory agencies would be a great addition to thwm.

    >>You do realize that those Tesla engineers that you are carrying water for with this comment are the ones that designed the faulty pedal in the first place. Not sure I'd trust them to come up with the best overall fix. The point is that I can't believe at the price of the Cybertruck that this cheap and aesthetic nonsense fix is acceptable. If there is in fact a regulator reason for the rivet to be there they could have redesigned the pedal cap to have a way to hide the unsightly thing. Why is it only ever Tesla owners that play mental gymnastics to forgive their car company for fucking them over? You should be holding Tesla to the fire when these issues pop up.

    >>>I was not carrying water for anyone just laughing at your sour grapes and self-assurance in your own seemingly non-existent engineering and regulatory compliance expertise. Why is it only ever non-Tesla owners who feel the need to troll in an enthusiast subreddit dedicated to a car?

    I doth love the truck m'lord

    Then this followup post was removed from r/Cybertruck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/1clj1o2/called_ugly_at_a_stop_light/

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    Mozart Gabriel - Road Drum [folk]

    He's a member of the Navajo Nation whose music is heavily influenced by that culture.

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    Tom Waits - Just the Right Bullets [cabaret]

    I love the interludes where it's like cowboy samba surf rock. That's a very unique sound.

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    M'lorddddddddd, I respectfully request a refund for my cyberwagon @mlord @therealm @cyberwagon

    >Let’s take a moment to reassess the situation.

    >I took delivery of my Cybertruck nearly two months ago, yet I've only been able to drive it for about two weeks. It's been in service three times since then, and it’s still in service. Every time I drive the current one, something seems to break. I don’t want to live in constant fear that it will malfunction again after each visit to the Tesla Service Center.

    >Therefore, I respectfully request an expedited replacement Cybertruck to be delivered to the Raleigh service center as soon as possible. My patience can only go so far. Additionally, I currently have a wrap and custom license plate, and I can’t even put any of them on my Cybertruck. Under the NC Lemon Law, I have the option to choose between a buyback or a replacement, and a replacement is what I’m opting for.

    >My truck wasn’t just plagued by one issue; it has had all the major issues. It’s an early 2000 VIN Cybertruck, so hopefully, a newer one coming off the production line has made the necessary fixes to address all these issues. @elonmusk @Tesla @tesla_na @cybertruck @wmorrill3

    >I informed my service center that I want a replacement, so they’re aware and have forwarded my message regarding the Lemon Law replacement. However, it’s been in the shop for almost another week already. I wish I had contact with someone higher up at Tesla who handles this kind of stuff so they can get this resolved ASAP because service can only do so much! Based on the severity of this issue and the time it's taking, I was expecting a call from someone higher up who is in charge of sales/service, etc. @elonmusk

    >Yeah, I’m giving them until this weekend to figure this out.

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    First cybertruck hate experience last night..

    >Someone just spit on all four of my windows??? While parked at a climbing gym. Wish I took some pictures. But literally just one glob of spit right on the center of each window… so strange. Glad they didn’t do anything worse, but like huh??

    edit: And archived- https://archive.is/cAAyL

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    Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired
    www.bbc.com Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired

    The division responsible for the car-maker's huge fast-charging network is being axed to cut costs.

    Tesla staff say firm's entire Supercharger team fired
    spoiler

    Tesla has fired its entire Supercharger division, staff who worked in the team say.

    There are over 50,000 Superchargers globally, the company says, making it the world's largest fast-charging network for electric vehicles.

    Boss Elon Musk said the firm would cut one in ten jobs, as it faces strong competition from less expensive rivals.

    It needed to be "absolutely hard core" about cost reduction, he wrote in a memo first reported by The Information.

    The BBC has approached Tesla for comment,

    Multiple employees have confirmed their departures from the division, which had hundreds of employees.

    William Jameson, strategic charging programs lead at Tesla, posted on X that Mr Musk had "let our entire charging org go".

    "What a wild ride it has been", he wrote.

    Also writing on X, Mr Musk said the company still planned to grow the Supercharger network, "just at a slower pace for new locations".

    Andres Pinter, chief executive of Bullet EV Charging Solutions, a supplier to the charging network said that his team "woke up to a sharp kick in the pants this morning," Reuters reported.

    He speculated that Mr Musk could "reconstitute the EV charger team in bigger, badder, more Muskian way" in order to continue to benefit from US government funding to develop the network. 'Extremely perplexed'

    Tesla's network of chargers is widely seen as industry leading, and recently it cut deals with several rival car-makers in north America to adopt its "NACS" charging standard so that their vehicles could use the network.

    Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of electric vehicle news website Electrek, posted on social media he was "extremely perplexed" by the move.

    "If one thing was a clear success at Tesla, it's the Supercharger network. Even from a talent perspective. No other charging team in the world has been able to do what Tesla did," he wrote.

    The quality and reach of the Supercharger network has long been a huge advantage for Tesla, James Attwood, acting magazine editor of Autocar, told the BBC.

    It was "a key selling point for potential buyers" he added.

    "But with regulators in both Europe and the US pushing the firm to open the Supercharger network to owners of other electric vehicles, it will offer less of an advantage in the future."

    Last year, seven large car manufacturers including Mercedes, Honda, BMW and Hyundai-Kia set-up a joint venture to build a rival fast-charging network.

    As well as the cuts to the Supercharger department, the firm's entire public policy unit will also be cut the Financial Times reported.

    The layoffs come days after the firm reported its first quarterly revenue decline since 2021.

    It follows declining sales at the company, which is also having to deal with an investigation into the safety of its Autopilot assisted driving system, and a recall relating to its newest model, Cybertruck.

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    Happy valentine's day

    At least on android, the Messages texting app seems to be able to generate these for any name if you search for it under Gifs.

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    A 23 year-old seems to have written their own wikipedia article about going to every spacecamp and wanting to be an astronaut when they grow up.

    >Alyssa Carson (born March 10, 2001) is an American space enthusiast who has attended numerous space camps and has visited every NASA visitor center.[1] She has been profiled by a variety of news outlets, public interest publications, and interview shows as an unofficial astronaut-in-training.

    [...]

    >While frequently described by the media as an "astronaut in training",[20][10] Carson is not affiliated with any national space program.[21][22] NASA has publicly stated that the organization "has no official ties to Alyssa Carson",[22] and separately that "although Ms. Carson uses ‘NASA' in her website name and Twitter and Instagram handles, we’re not affiliated at all."[23] In 2019 Newsweek corrected a headline that had implied that Carson's training was affiliated with NASA.[9] Snopes.com also has dedicated a page to clarify such claims, which says: "Carson is not in training with—or being prepped by—NASA to become an astronaut, or to take part in the first human mission to Mars."[24]

    I need one of these for myself. I know hella rocks and will probably be the lead of the smithsonian or something if I become a geologist someday.

    edit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-carson-87b874152 Can someone with a Linkedin account confirm that she doesn't actually have any work experience whatsoever? I think that part might be hidden for me but I only see bullshit awards, her own org about wanting to be an astronaut when she grows up, volunteering one day per year at space camp, and inspirational articles from 2018 about how she wants to be an astronaut when she wants to grow up. There's no "internship at [legitimate company]" which is a required class for any BS degree at my university.

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    US campus protests: Rival Gaza protest groups clash at UCLA
    www.bbc.com US campus protests: Rival Gaza protest groups clash at UCLA

    Scuffles break out between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel activists, with no sign of student demos tailing off.

    US campus protests: Rival Gaza protest groups clash at UCLA
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    Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups have clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as demonstrations over the war in Gaza continue across US campuses.

    Nationwide rallies - during which there have been hundreds of arrests - showed no sign of stopping over the weekend.

    At UCLA "physical altercations broke out" after a barrier separating the two sides was breached, an official said.

    The White House has insisted that demonstrations must remain peaceful.

    National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told ABC that the US government respects the right of protesters demonstrating over the Israel-Gaza war.

    But he condemned antisemitic incidents that have been reported, as well as "all the hate speech and the threats of violence out there".

    At UCLA, a pro-Palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has a group of pro-Israeli counter-protesters.

    The Israeli American Council (IAC) organised the counter-protest. It recently said it had "profound concern" over the antisemitism reported elsewhere, including at Columbia University in New York City.

    Many pro-Palestinian protesters who spoke to the BBC there sought to distance themselves from antisemitic incidents. In some cases they have blamed outside agitators.

    A group of 21 Democratic members of Congress has called on Columbia to end what they call the "unauthorized and impermissible encampment of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activists on campus", in a letter obtained by Axios. Similar calls for action had largely come from the Republican side of the political divide.

    In a fresh statement on Monday, Columbia head Dr Minouche Shafik said "alternative internal options to end this crisis" were under discussion, after talks between protest organisers and the university failed to result in a deal.

    At least some of the protesters involved in the disturbances at UCLA appeared to have come from outside the university, the Reuters news agency reported.

    The two groups remained peaceful until Sunday, when campus police with batons separated them as they pushed and shoved each other, and traded punches.

    It was not immediately clear which group broke through the barrier between them.

    "We are heartbroken about the violence that broke out," the university said, adding that additional security measures had been introduced.

    Tensions flared at US universities after the 7 October Hamas attack, in which about 1,200 people were killed in Israel, and the retaliatory Israeli military assault that has killed more than 34,000 people in Gaza.

    In the last fortnight, a nationwide uprising has emerged which university officials and law enforcement have struggled to contain. They have blamed outside groups for infiltrating the demos.

    The movement seems to have been emboldened by the arrest of more than 100 protesters at Columbia after police were called to clear an encampment.

    Hundreds of people have since been arrested in locations across the US - many of whom had pitched their own tents on university grounds.

    The protests have also spread to Canada, with a pro-Palestinian camp of about 20 tents now installed in the grounds of Montreal's McGill University.

    Activists in both countries are demanding a ceasefire in the conflict, and that their universities - many with massive endowments - cut their financial ties, or divest, from Israel.

    They say that companies doing business in or with the nation of Israel are complicit in its ongoing war on Gaza - and so are institutions that invest in those companies.

    Officials in the US have also scrambled to tackle alleged incidents of antisemitism, with a number of Jewish students voicing fears for their safety.

    At several campuses, they have spoken of incidents ranging from chants and signs supporting Hamas - a proscribed terror group in the US - to physical altercations and perceived threats.

    Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, reported "virulent antisemitic slurs" in a statement on Saturday that accused "professional organisers with no affiliation to Northeastern" of infiltrating a student protest.

    More than 100 people were detained, it added.

    In other recent developments:

    -Among hundreds of other activists arrested over the weekend was Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who was detained with dozens of others at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. The university said they had been asked to leave "multiple times". Ms Stein told local media that the arrests were a "really bad look" for the institution

    -Protesters at Yale University set up a new encampment after a previous one was cleared by police, the student newspaper reported

    -California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, has become the latest institution to request that students switch to virtual classes

    -More than a dozen students were arrested at University of Georgia, Athens, on Monday morning

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