The new Tessla Phone, Pi, promises to be a game changer and to challenge all existing cell phones on the market. The tech will be exciting since it will use (at least in part) Starlink.
The phone does not have ports. It is a completely sealed and waterproof unit that can be charged inductively or through direct sunlight.
The price point being tossed about is US$900, significantly less than Apple or Android premium units cost. Since I don’t own a Tesla automobile, the linking features don’t have the appeal that they might if I drove one, but the phone will be a game changer, challenging Apple, Google, and so forth.
Pyramids – Everywhere
Silent Service
The CSS Hunley, also known as the H. L. Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. On February 17, 1864, it was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, the USS Housatonic, successfully.
Construction: Built in Mobile, Alabama, and launched in July 1863.
Design: The submarine was nearly 40 feet long and powered by a hand-cranked propeller.
Service: Despite its groundbreaking design, the Hunley had a tragic history, sinking three times and losing 21 crew members.Final Mission: On its final mission, the Hunley successfully deployed a spar torpedo to sink the USS Housatonic but was lost shortly after the attack.
What’s going on in Mexico?
If you’re smart, you’ll avoid the place. Eat the avocados and lemons shipped north, and leave it at that. Mexico’s newly elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum (Why did they elect a Jewish woman? – Because they could), is settling into her new digs. Despite her qualifications as a corrupt communist, will her leadership look all that different from that of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who was also a corrupt communist?
While AMLO may have been popular, his policies and ideological governance will make him one of Mexico’s worst leaders in a long line of horrible leaders. Since Sheinbaum and AMLO are closely aligned, I’m not sure we should expect anything different from the new president. The drug cartels still call the shots in Mexico.
Government Mandates on Automobiles
(Examiner) “Vice President Kamala Harris is in a statistical dead heat with former President Donald Trump in Michigan, which explains why she was in Flint last Saturday campaigning for votes.
The same polling shows Harris losing to Trump by 20 points among men, which explains why she took the time to tell the audience, “Michigan, let us be clear: Contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”
Unfortunately, telling people in the United States what kind of car they must drive is precisely what Harris has proposed to codify in law in the past.
It is also what President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has enacted through regulation, and it is what Harris will continue to pursue if she is elected to the White House.
When Harris was a junior senator from California, she introduced the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019 with Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
This bill would have amended the Clean Air Act to direct the EPA to dictate that half the new cars sold in 2030 would be “zero-emission vehicles,” i.e., electric cars.
The legislation ramped up the required percentage of electric cars sold by 5% yearly so that all cars sold by 2040 would be electric.
Therefore, as a senator, Harris supported telling you what car you would be allowed to drive in 2040.
She wanted to force people to buy electric cars or nothing else.
Despite failing to amend the Clean Air Act to give the EPA authority to ban gas-powered cars, the Biden administration proposed a more stringent regulation than Harris’s.
Biden’s Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards rule sought to control what cars people were allowed to drive by mandating that a certain percentage of all new cars sold must be electric.
However, Biden raised the initial mandate to 60% by 2030 and 67% by 2032.
Facing fierce resistance from auto worker unions, he lowered the initial 2030 mandate to 50% but kept the 2032 mandate at 67%. Harris fervently endorsed these policies.”
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Bullet Points:
** ** A new nautical term.
** Sometimes, women have a difficult time understanding men. Here’s something that we men can all agree with.
** Puff Daddy bought 1,000 bottles of baby oil for use in orgies that he hosted. Some people are upset with the orgies, I guess. How should his lawyer have handled the disclosure of 1,000 bottles of baby oil?
** Since the MLB playoffs are underway – maybe it applies.
** Under the Antarctic Ice Sheet with EdB. Do dinosaurs live in the frigid, deep, remote ocean water? Seeing used to be believing.
** Science with EdB. Most of you don’t wonder what EdB does all day. VM followed him for a week as he experimented with chickens. Now you know.
** The new Tesla Cyber Taxi – the vehicle costs $30K, and the operation costs $.20/mile. More here. If a drunk passenger barfs in the cyber taxi, will a robot wash it out?
Kamala is nothing more than an ovarian Obama.
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Identify the Feature Film
A
Hint: Please don’t mess with an armed spy who is licensed to kill while he’s trying to score with Domino on the beach. It’s an object lesson that is too often ignored.
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Pay the mortgage to the bank with the money you stole from the bank.
We’ve had this one before but it’s back by popular demand.
Identify the Aircraft
1
Two graphics to aid you.
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Identify the Vehicle
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4
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A is the first version of James Bond movie Thunderball
Yes
Identify the Feature Film:
A. Dr. No
B. Hell or High Water
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Saunders-Roe SR.53
2. Curtis SOC-3A Seagull
Identify the Vehicle:
3. Hispano Suiza MC-36 with T-26 tank turret
4. Haider MBT
Correction to A: Thunderball. I should have read the hint first.
Yes
“I think he got the point.”
Other than A, yes.
The media is too busy giving Lalala a tongue bath to be bothered with accurate reporting. The only way to get Donald Trump back into office: ignore the polls and vote like we’re 25 points behind. Vote like your life depends on it ….. because it does.
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Through a combination of the Payment In Kind (PIK) program and sky-high interest rates, I ended up in the oilfield in the early 80’s and lived thru the crash of that particular boom. There were many like it, but that one was mine. By some combination of luck, not skill, I retained a job while many others lost theirs and lots of folks were looking for work. The following story went thru our little community like wildfire, and keep in mind this was Texas and all that entails when they describe folks from Up North and Back East, nothing personal for them of you what are:
Some Yankee dude went into the office of one particular oilfield service company, walked right past the secretary into the boss’s office, plunked down in a chair and stated his intentions to not leave without a job. The boss patiently explained he had no work available, but the Yankee was persistent, indicating he would do ANYTHING for a job, because he was broke and his wife and kid were hungry. He pointed out the window to his car where his wife held up a screaming toddler and begged for work. The boss asked him if he’d done this kind of work before and the guy said no, but he’d do ANYTHING for a job and the boss said, son, this is dangerous work and I don’t want you on my conscience if you got hurt and think about your family if you did and the guy said but we’re desperate and I’ll do ANYTHING for a job.
This went on for some time before the phone range. The manager said, just a minute, and answered it. He listened a bit and said, I’m sorry, but I don’t have anybody I can send out tight now…..wait a minute. He looked at the Yankee and asked, would you be willing to go out tonight and sit by a pump and all you have to do is make sure the engine doesn’t run out of diesel fuel? I’ll give you a pickup to drive.
The Yankee asked, tonight?
Yes, said the manager, right now.
All night? asked the Yankee.
Yes, all night, said the boss.
EFF YOU, said the Yankee, I don’t work at night for anybody, and stomped out.
(name withheld) Oilfield Service, Bryan, Texas, summer of 1982, or thereabouts.
Under the Arctic Ice- Is that AI or are those creatures real? (more proof dinosaurs did exist but also proving humans did not crawl out of some pool of goo).
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Tesla Pi- Love Musk, doing it right while the corporate grifters fall all over themselves trying to figure out why their DEI business models are failing miserably.
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Pyramids- I swear – before coffee – read the upper right one as “It’s A Chicken”. (I’ll be here all day for more groaners)
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Sidebar- Shawn Ryan had Jonathan Howard and Charlie Keebaugh, members of Aerial Recovery. Been in NC helping out. At one point a NC National Guard squadron commander told them he was instructed to load a C17 with relief supplies just so Harris could take a photo op…then it flew off without delivering one bottle of water. ANYONE voting for that swamp creature needs to have their head examined…or…more likely…they are on the wrong side of God.
No, the creatures are somebody’s AI creation.
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Musk will roll out the two-seat Tesla Taxi in 2026 in production numbers at $30K each. At the same time, he’ll offer them for sale in the US as a lower-priced Tesla option. I don’t know what the range will be, but there will likely be options for larger batteries. At $30K for a new, fully functional car, Ford and GM will die. People will buy them up like VWs and get accustomed to using electric vehicles. They’ll be more bare bones but will be the Toyota Hi-Lux equivalent with a million-mile lifespan.
I can sleep better tonight knowing those were CGI.
I, too, saw “Chicken Nitza” before my eyes and brain focused correctly.
Not looking forward to the Lightbringer’s fourth term. Give the bastard credit; he knows who counts the votes will determine the winner and has proven adept at controlling the counters.
Another four years of Obamanation will be difficult to stomach. Once a condescending POS, always a condescending POS. He just happens to be a really RICH POS now. I doubt many black men will find his school marm scold routine convincing, “the brothers” can actually think for themselves, which is a BIG problem for the Dems.
Chicken Head Cam – IDK if that’s real, but either way, it’s hilarious!
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I want that armored car, even though it was undoubtedly awful.
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– Kle.
Money is the law in Mexico. If you have some, or can accumulate some, you are in charge. I think it has always been that way, but the politicians don’t want to admit their written laws don’t mean anything. Of course, there are those that think otherwise. They can be found in shallow graves, or the remains of large bonfires.
Money helps in Mexico. But the old rule holds that the best way to become a millionaire is to start out a billionaire. With the mafia, the fix is in. And if you’re on the outside you’re prey.
General Question – scenario – you’re sitting on a commercial aircraft next to a shrill, annoying Chinese lady who brought a cat with her in a carrier. It’s on her lap but she bumps you with it.
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Is it ok to ask her if she brought her lunch?
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Asking for a friend.
Should be mandatory, in my opinion.
It’s okay.
But it’s funnier if you take out a pair of chopsticks and a little container of soy sauce [1,2] and ask “Do you mind sharing with me?” Drooling a little from one side of your mouth gets bonus points for style.
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[1] Just like Hillary’s purse hotsauce.
[2] I bought a little “food grade” HDPE screwtop bottle from Daiso (the Oomomo variant to be pedantic) for exactly this scenario. The having soy sauce (for crappy supermarket sushi at lunch) scenario, not the eating cats scenario.
It’s your blog to do with what you wish but I sure wish I didn’t have to have a FB account to follow the links (I don’t and won’t as if it really matters). Usually I can guess from the comments.
Meanwhile … SMART (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, and Time-bound aka: Surveillance Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technology) phones. I don’t like the damn things in general but they’re getting to be a requirement in this version of life … but I’d rather have a Musk product than the other alternatives.
It’s interesting that when I’m at a customers on their guest wi-fi, when I click on mone of Larry’s Links, it goes nowhere.
Many ITs block social media.
Tom: When the big box that says “see more on Farcebook” pops up to block the video, click on the X in the upper right hand corner of the box and you should be able to watch the video.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll give that a try.