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Tuesday, September 24. 2024Tuesday morning linksThe Tesla Model Y is already the best-selling vehicle in the world While Your Family Members Died Alone, Lockdowners Had Sex Parties The scary truth about how far behind American kids have fallen. Students of all ages still haven’t made up the ground they lost during the pandemic. VDH: Our So-Called 'Experts' And Their Silly Group-Speak Letters Scientific American is making a mistake by endorsing Kamala Harris. There’s something a bit odd about a science magazine getting embroiled in the grubby world of politics University Cancels Panel Because Author Is a ‘Zionist.’ Plus. . . Ryan Routh’s confession letter shows how Democrats have stirred up violence against Trump Kamala Harris, American Courtesan Zelensky Stumps For Harris "Kamala Harris surely is wracking up some endorsements. Except they're the kind of endorsements that aren't exactly going to make more people vote for you, including Liz and Dick Cheney, as well as Vladimir Putin and the IRS Agents Union. " Even the dead are scared of Israel’s Drones Trackbacks
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I'm not a fan of Tesla Model Y for several reasons, but there is no denying its significance and impressive engineering. Tesla's production design and processes are innovative while the legacy auto manufacturers are failing to innovate and committing sunk cost fallacy errors. Their plants are missing the boat on quality and efficiency, while Chinese manufacturers and Tesla are rapidly advancing.
Model Y suspension needs work, the Model 3 rides much better. I dislike the Tesla user interfaces, they really need a few switches for commonly used functions rather than everything through the admittedly excellent touchscreen. And speedometer in front of the wheel, please! But Tesla software and electrical wiring looms are superior to the competition. Overall, the Model Y is truly an impressive engineering and production feat, making the best case for electric cars for most people's typical use pattern. Electrics are definitely not for everyone, and mandating them is madness, but probably more people would be well served with a Model Y than any other electric vehicle on the US market today. Just watch out for what the Chinese are doing in their market, huge leaps in quality and innovation with very efficient automated production facilities. The Tesla Model Y is not anywhere close to the best selling vehicle in America.
January through August 2024: Ford F-Series units sold 481,154 Chevrolet Silverado units sold 364,732 Honda CR-V units sold 268,948 Toyota RAV4 units sold 319,041 Tesla Model Y units sold 249,200 Surely, people realize that Putin's endorsement of Harris was tongue in cheek, even if Lucianne doesn't.
Some year ago I attended a talk given by Kurt Vonnegut at College of Wooster. He made the point that even then English no longer had "irony," and native speakers didn't understand it. Irony! That's what it is! Scientific American isn't really backing Harris it is all "irony".
Not only do I concur that Putin's comments were intended to be tongue in cheek, I'd go further and say that anyone who denies that is either delusional or dishonest.
That said, anyone who claims that Putin is not aware that being seen as his preferred candidate would be harmful to Trump's campaign is also either delusional or dishonest. Meaning Putin's comment still indicates that he prefers Harris as president to Trump. Which is so obvious even withstanding his comment that it is odd that anyone would even contest it. As others have mentioned, nice as a Tesla Y might be, it is not the best selling car model in the world. Get away from the coast in the USA and you will find very few Teslas. In my part of Northern California though, it certainly is the best seller.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a44600661/is-tesla-model-y-the-worlds-best-selling-car-nope-not-even-close/ “Get away from the coasts…”
Well Colorado is pretty far from the coasts, but we are Californicated. I see Teslas everywhere. One house in my neighborhood has three of them - one of them is the truck. The guy up the street from me has two. Hope they never spontaneously combust. There are only three houses separating us. VDH on 'experts'... they are first and foremost political experts.
But for content, not even close. Do remember the two Nobel Prize winners behind the Enron fiasco. But we do have experts that can spend money and produce debt like no other country can do. Politicians stirring up violence... We could scarcely pry the Nashville shooters manifesto out of government hands but the assassin letter was released post haste. I'm no fan of Diddy. I don't even know what he does, a singer, drug dealer, no clue. I couldn't care less. But something smells about this sudden legal issue. First it is the notorious Souther district of NY that has brought the charges. Notorious for phony charges and political coercion. My first thought is this is about his money. A gaggle of lawyers have sought out some clients who will testify to whatever just to sue Diddy and make everyone millionaires. I still tend to believe this is the whole basis for the charges. However as would be expected more and more information comes out about Diddy and many significant politicians, including Obama. It is almost like they are making sure Diddy cannot expose somethings he knows about. Kind of like the Epstein case. If Diddy commits "suicide" while in jail, then we will know that he knew too much and had to be shut up.
I also tend to view these "pile-on" cases with a skeptical eye.
If he's truly guilty, may God balance the scales, and may He do likewise if he isn't. Not completely off topic, since there is a Covid linked story. I hope people learn an important lesson from these lockdown freaks. But I doubt it. Uncontrolled fear makes you do irrational things. Anyway.
I heard an excellent podcast: What’s the Truth About Pfizer Pharmaceuticals? Link. Dr. Naomi Wolf has the goods on Pfizer. Pretty disturbing stuff. Especially the sterilization portions of the testing and the myocarditis cover up. Did you know that Pfizer vaccinated 95% of the control group that was given placebos? Given the fetish that these people have with over population, coupled with their irrational fear of the earth burning up due to CO2, is it really hard to believe that they would try and cull the heard? Look back at Margaret Sanger and even Justice Ginsburg quotes about the wrong people having babies. Look at the history of forced sterilization in this country. In our most recent past, the 1960’s and 70’s, 25% of indigenous women were sterilized. Yes, the linked article is Berkeley but it does contain some very uncomfortable truths. There are people in this world that are capable of truly unimaginable evil. These people still walk amongst us. Unfortunately, they populate themselves in seats of power and have the grandiose idea that they are right about everything and you better toe the line. Why do you suppose they despise free speech and the self defense? QUOTE: Genesis 6: 5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. Be more like Noah. I cancelled my Scientific American subscription in the 90s. The move from science reporting to political agendas was visible then.
The Tesla Model 5: "Gets better over time with over-the-air software updates."
No amount of software updates will counteract the deterioration of battery capacity over time. |