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There are several points related to Tesla vis a vis the government(s) and Tesla. Firstly, let it be noted and dismissed as a mostly, not exclusively by any means, past evil that the government has been promoting BEVs by laws which have advantaged BEV makers - and the only highly profitable BEV maker is Tesla. (even the biggest Chinese BEV maker, BYD, doesn’t make all that much profit, and isn’t yet a factor in the US market - and likely won’t be until it starts producing in Mexico to evade laws designed against it). I write as someone who has...

8:27 is the start of the action on a very interesting 33 minute long youTube episode. Paul Allen has created a database which, using AI, documents all youtube video of public figures - at all levels of government - such that you can go to https://citizenportal.ai and ask whatever you want to know about the position of whatever politician you are interested in. The AI transcribes whatever is said at any political meeting which gets to the interned (I forget if it’s only youTube sourced, don’t think so) - and uses the transcription as an index of what is said....

BYD to build 30 GWh sodium battery plant On November 18, BYD’s subsidiary Findreams Battery and tricycle giant Huaihai Group signed an agreement to build a 10 billion yuan sodium-ion battery plant together . . . BYD Seagull was rumored to be the first mass-produced EV with a sodium-ion battery. However, when it was launched in April, it came with a standard LFP Blade battery from BYD . . . CATL announced in April the first automaker to use its Na-ion batteries will be Chery Auto’s iCar brand. However, no progress since then has been announced. . . . Thanks...

Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor! A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems. Grok is still a very early beta product – the best we could do...

Have batteries PEAKED? Of course not, but they’re awfully good. How much BETTER can BATTERIES get? Considering that they’re already pretty good. I have a youTube channel called “My Tesla Weekend” . . . I’m a tech analyst who happens to be on youTube. You may see me on shows like “Best in Tesla,” … Randy Kirk . . . a lot of them. Electric cars were made a hundred years ago, but the battery chemistry just wasn’t there yet. They cost three times too much. So then get to cars like the EV 1, where they just put car...

… [CATL] plans to start mass production of its sodium-ion batteries in 2023. CATL has setup a large supply chain for the batteries and has entered negotiations with some carmakers about their use. Sodium-ion batteries have already been commercialized in e-bikes and energy storage. Sodium ... is over 1000 times more abundant than lithium. CATL is the world’s largest battery company and is the major battery supplier to Tesla. CATL’s battery capacity is expected to reach more than 670 GWh by 2025 according to current estimates and has announced a target capacity of 1200 GWh per year perhaps as a...

What is Wright’s Law? Pioneered by Theodore Wright in 1936, Wright’s Law aims to provide a reliable framework for forecasting cost declines as a function of cumulative production. Specifically, it states that for every cumulative doubling of units produced, costs will fall by a constant percentage. Wright’s Law Formula Y = cumulative average time (or cost) per unit X = cumulative number of units produced a = time (or cost) required to produce 1st unit b = slope of the function What is the difference between Wright’s Law and Moore’s Law?Moore’s Law – named after Gordon Moore for his work...

We now know that Vitamin D supplementation provides substantial benefit in terms of reducing the risk of admission to intensive care during the Corona virus pandemic. 72% is the probable figure. Certainly substantial. And it probably provides a substantial protection against death. 51% is the probable figure.

Full title:Chatgpt explained by Jordan Peterson - what is chat GPT? How to use Chatgpt? AI Will take OverIn this video, JBP details his opinion of ChatGPT. He tried it, and it created a thirteenth “rule for life” good enough that if he hadn’t known better he could have believed that he himself had written it. Peterson foresees dramatic effects this year.

I’ve been haunting youTube quite a lot for a good while, and I first happened onto Suzanne Venker, and posted a thread How to Get Hitched (and Stay Hitched): A 12-Step Program for Marriage-Minded Women about her anti-feminist podcasts. The latest guru in that cause, tho, is someone Suzanne Venker interviewed - Alison Armstrong. She has a super positive message.

SUZANNE VENKER is the author of five books on the culture’s assault on marriage and the family (and how to circumvent it), as well as a marriage coach and podcast host of The Suzanne Venker Show. For over 15 years, Suzanne has taught women how to succeed with men in life and in love. She’s a leading voice for millions of women and men who know that a partnership with the opposite sex is superior to constant competition. Suzanne’s extensive research, combined with her sound and compelling arguments, dispel feminist myths that have infiltrated society and undermined women’s most important...

Something hit me yesterday about the Biden campaign, and today I saw it again - “Does Biden Ever Smile?” My point about Reagan and “the media” is that in the 1984 campaign, “the media” did a hit piece on Reagan, and after it was aired a journalist gloatingly nudged a Reagan guy (Ed Rollins, I think) bragging about the hit they had done on Reagan. Ed Rollins replied by thanking him for that piece! Rollins explained that people turn on a TV, and they don’t listen to the commentary nearly as much as they notice the imagery. And although...

It was after the institution of martial law in Poland that Reagan said that the Soviet Union was "the focus of evil in the modern world" and he. was. right. Reagan then said that "we will not defeat Communism, we will transcend it.”

According to Rush, President Trump quoted a claim that in the case of chaos in the Electoral College the Speaker of the House could become President. IMHO that cannot be the meaning of the Twelfth Amendment: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted...

Many of America’s great newspapers have moved away from even the pretense of political neutrality. That tradition dates to 1835, when a Scottish immigrant named James Gordon Bennett founded the New York Herald. . . . The Herald was something new under the journalistic sun. Newspapers had previously dealt either with narrow subjects, such as shipping or financial news, or were openly partisan, sometimes even subsidized by a political party. . . . Bennett was responsible for an enormous was responsible for an enormous number of journalistic innovations of journalistic innovations. The Herald was the first general interest newspaper to...

Conservatives Left Focus: Respect Empathy Why: Empathy is a bad “system” Humanity The audio is about an hour. and I found the whole thing of some interest. But for purposes of this post, if you wanted to listen to it (big if, I know) you would start the audio at 33:00 give or take.

From the Inside Flap The tide is turning. “In 2016, for the first time in nearly 60 years, a Republican candidate for president, Donald J. Trump, received more than 20% of the black vote in the key swing state of Pennsylvania . . . [and] in the key state of Michigan. In reality, it was black Americans who made the election of President Trump possible.” —Vernon Robinson and Bruce Eberle Once this reversal, underway for decades, is complete, it’s all over for the Democratic Party. In Coming Home, conservative activists Vernon Robinson and Bruce Eberle trace not only black American...

The massive propaganda campaign to the effect that [Only] Black Lives Matter is a “Hi-Tech lynching” of American society. It insinuates that anyone who thinks that “there is neither [no distinction between] jew nor greek” - anyone who thinks that “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” applies to “blacks” as well as “whites” - is evil.

U.S. Supreme Court Associated Press v. United States, 326 U.S. 1 (1945) Associated Press v. United States No. 57 Argued December 5, 6, 1944 Decided June 18, 1945* 326 U.S. 1 Syllabus By-laws of the Associated Press, a cooperative association engaged in gathering and distributing news in interstate and foreign commerce, prohibited service of AP news to nonmembers, prohibited members from furnishing spontaneous news to nonmembers, and empowered members to block membership applications of competitors. A contract between AP and a Canadian press association obligated both to furnish news exclusively to each other. Charging, inter alia, that the bylaws and...

Rush, I have a solution to the ventilator shortage. We need to invest in alternative breathing machines. Like one that you mentioned before was CPAP. But there’s one technology out there that’s better than the traditional ventilator. It’s called the Hemolung. The University of Maryland and the University of Pittsburgh already have developed this technology. It’s about the size of a fishing tackle box. The difference between using the Hemolung and the traditional ventilator is that the Hemolung is like an IV or a catheter that goes in the neck down into by the heart. (snip) think of it as...