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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Tue 04 Nov 2025, 20:59:25

Tesla Robotics halts production, facing major setback

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')esla's Optimus humanoid robot, once highly anticipated by Elon Musk as the engine behind a $25 trillion valuation, is facing a severe challenge on the road to mass production. Midway through 2025, rumors of a production halt have remained unconfirmed, but the vast gap between actual production and target, the loss of key talent, and supply chain bottlenecks have all contributed to the unprecedented predicament faced by what was once considered the "next automotive revolution."

https://en.eeworld.com.cn/news/robot/eic709928.html

So it was all Bullshit, all along. Just another "Mars settlement", another "Hyperloop"
The US fanboi was gamed again :lol:

Let's see if I can't cook up a replacement dream... Nothing too SciFi, gotta make it seem plausible. How about

Tesla announces intercity flying taxi service
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')uilding on the mature technology of it's autonomous taxi fleet and the established flying concept vehicles already in operation around the World, Elon Musk has unveiled the next evolution in intercity transport. Gone are the days of unreliable rail and expensive commercial jet travel, the endless freeway miles and traffic snarls. His new flymo taxi service will pick you up right outside your door and whisk you off to that business meeting or shopping trip across town or across the state. Employing new battery technology, still a closely guarded secret at Tesla's Giga factory, ranges of up to 300 miles or greater will be achievable at speeds comparable to those of high performance light planes.

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The first intercity route under consideration is between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a 300 mile trip that is expected to take less than two hours regardless of weather conditions. Included will be a seamless pit-stop, taxi swap, at the halfway point into a fully charged cab for the remainder of the journey. Innovative features like regenerative descents will also add power in-flight. Occupants will be able to enjoy the amazing views, with an onboard assistant giving a detailed account of the sights below.


Naturally I have laced the story with suitable Lies, but no one will notice, no one ever does :P
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Tue 04 Nov 2025, 21:08:32

Bullshit Alert!
Bullshit Alert!

The Rise of Tesla’s Optimus: How AI Robots Could Reshape Manufacturing
https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/was-tesla ... s/91167677

Wake up call!
Wake up call!

Tesla temporarily halts mass production of Optimus robots citing design challenges
https://www.techspot.com/news/109781-te ... iting.html

Coming Soon
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 04 Nov 2025, 22:20:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'B')ullshit Alert!
Bullshit Alert!


DARN RIGHT! It wasn't AUSTRALIAN ROCKET SCIENTISTS who couldn't get vegemite off the launch pad, is has been revealed that they let one...just one....uneducated banana bender on location to swap out the porta johns for the workers, and he cast voodoo spells on the rocket before scampering away screaming something about wanting a cracker!

THAT is why the vegemite couldn't get any higher in the air than a strong woman like famous Australian Olympian Raygun could heave it!

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Wed 05 Nov 2025, 03:39:24

Tesla Halts Optimus Robot Production Amid Hand, Arm Design Problems

Speaking under conditions of anonymity, workers at the Fremont Facility stated that an Engineer on the testing floor had his testicles crushed when he requested a robot to "tickle his balls" while performing a routine handjob on him. Masturbation is common place among Musk's workforce but the outsourcing of this to the robots is a new practice it seems. Usually performed in closed rooms alone it is believed to be happening more and more in the open workspace now that the robots can make an open fist.

This incident raises serious health and safety concerns that Tesla needs to address before it moves forward, Experts claim. Having a qualified engineer castrated by a robot under controlled conditions has raised deep concerns about what might occur if these robots ever get placed in normal homes with teenage boys. Democrat lawmakers are taking another stance and are talking of legislation to prevent "Robot abuse".



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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Wed 05 Nov 2025, 21:01:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]Tesla Halts Optimus Robot Production Amid Hand, Arm Design Problems


Better safe than sorry.

Citizens from a country that can't build cars because, goodness gracious, it is so HARD, slapping a running engine onto 4 wheels and having it MOVE, aren't qualified to have an opinion on what American CAR companies are doing with their ROBOTS.

Can an Australian robot throw vegemite higher in the air than their rockets can launch it?
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Wed 05 Nov 2025, 21:24:03

Robots as sex aids for men?

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 06 Nov 2025, 13:44:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'R')obots as sex aids for men?

Who are we to judge? Enjoy yourself, by all means.

Unfortunate that you need aids but most of us around here are on the older side and might need help for all sorts of things. I've got a bum knee myself.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby careinke » Thu 06 Nov 2025, 21:22:35

TESLA held it's share holder meeting today. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGPlvmMjPtE

All of the proposals recommended by the current board of directors passed by wide margins. Especially noteworthy, was an over 75% approval rating of Elon's 1 Trillion dollar pay package!

All of the Proposals introduced by the Blue State, Socialist, Deathocrats, failed miserably. :-D

If you have ever gone to a Share Holder meeting for a regular stock, this is NOTHING like that. The meeting is relatively short, but with lots of good information. The fun part starts after the meeting is closed, and Elon takes over. I listen to him at a 1.5 speed comfortably. Once his presentation was over, he took a lot of questions from the invited share holders.

Some highlights included, NVIDIA is producing a chip specifically designed for TESLA robots, this includes vehicles (Robots On Wheels). TESLA has committed to buying every chip they make. Still, it will not be enough so TESLA will eventually make an order of magnitude more of the same type of chip as NVIDIA.

Elon showed their Lithium extraction processor in the U.S., the largest outside of China.

Showed how his large scale batteries can replace High Voltage substations easily, and expand quickly when needed.

Made a joke on how jails could be eliminated. If convicted, just give the criminal a robot to follow him/her around to prevent any criminal behavior. My own thoughts on this, is; When the criminal was not committing crimes, he/she would have their own servant, therapist, surgeon, financial advisor, gardener, and a genius in everything friend.

Lots of comments on AI and Solar power.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 11:30:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'T')ESLA held it's share holder meeting today. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGPlvmMjPtE

All of the proposals recommended by the current board of directors passed by wide margins. Especially noteworthy, was an over 75% approval rating of Elon's 1 Trillion dollar pay package!

All of the Proposals introduced by the Blue State, Socialist, Deathocrats, failed miserably. :-D



There were politicians, and representatives from US States introducing proposals at a publically held companies shareholder meeting? And socialists...like....Mamdani showed up? About the only admitted socialist of any note in the entire country right now.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby mousepad » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 13:27:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', 'A')bout the only admitted socialist

you don't have to be admitted to be
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 14:31:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', 'A')bout the only admitted socialist

you don't have to be admitted to be


True. But it strikes me that the difference between a socialist and capitalist can sometimes be quite... small. For example, it is not unreasonable for even normal, non-political folk to wonder why the Oligarches have such undue influence...and isn't it reasonable that when it comes to paying ones fair share (have you SEEN what the maimum tax rate is for wage earners?) they....do? Does that single, small, powerful idea make one a socialist for believing in its reasonableness? Could even a capitalist come to that conclusion perhaps?

Would even the THINKING of this thought make this hypothetical person a socialist? Or is socialism/capitalism just another one of those distinctions that can do closely resemble each other that we happily use it to create us versus them groups in order to have foks to villify? Divide and conquer has been around a long time, and doesn't apply to only geopolitical conflict.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby mousepad » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 15:56:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', ' ')Or is socialism/capitalism just another one of those distinctions that can do closely resemble each other that we happily use it to create us versus them groups


hard to say. Maybe it's just a necessary simplification to get a handle on complex reality? Reality is more than 50 shades of grey. Reality becomes unwieldly quickly without simplifications. I'm sure you know that as a scientist.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 17:08:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', ' ')Or is socialism/capitalism just another one of those distinctions that can do closely resemble each other that we happily use it to create us versus them groups


hard to say.


Once upon a time I might have agreed. But the world isn't like the one you and I grew up in Mousepad. First tax cutting in general, then particularly for rich folk on asset classes than normal folk didn't have, then corporations are people too!

How many decades of watching it happen do you think are necessary to make it easy to say?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '
')Maybe it's just a necessary simplification to get a handle on complex reality?

Well...1% owning 90% of everything would certainly be a simplification. And how might your opinion change when they "simplify" you into their 1% and leave you with, you know, scraps?

Can you honestly say you haven't seen this happening in the economy at large? Hell, the internet is a great example I think. I use google news to peruse odds and ends happening in the world, and I did a sample over the last week on news articles. 65% of the links I clicked on in google news wanted me to sign up to read what they had to say. Remember when the internet was free, just an extension of a media companies desire to get their product out and seen? As opposed to everything now being a profit center.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '
')Reality is more than 50 shades of grey. Reality becomes unwieldly quickly without simplifications. I'm sure you know that as a scientist.

Of course. And my greatest accomplishment as a scientist came in digging into something so complex I was told it couldn't be simplified. So I tore it apart to see! And it turns out the entire simplification was a lie....it was meaningless, it actually was as likely to give the wrong answer as the right one, and no one knew which it would be. The users didn't know that. Until I published WHY of course.

Simplify all you'd like....most do, I do as well. It usually works. I learned during those 11 months of making a name for myself that simplifying is what we do because it makes things EASY...not because the simplication accurately represents the underlying complexity. Simplification almost by definition has to give a little here and there, to reduce the complex to "so simple stupid people get it". Most people never even question the simplification, do they?

Look at some of the economic chucklehead nonsense we have around here related to economic/fiscal stuff.

Credit card debt is high! OMG! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!

Any understanding of the underlying complexity? Nope.

Oh...and the thing I made my name on...it wasn't peak oil. I did that a few years after the other one. Solving peak oil took $$, took longer, was easier.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby mousepad » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 17:42:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')Well...1% owning 90% of everything would certainly be a simplification.

yes. A problem. A solution will develop on its own. Probably cut throats in the street. As it always has. That doesn't mean that socialisms/communism is the solution you want to aspire to.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')entire simplification was a lie....it was meaningless,

yes. Simplification can be very hard or even impossible. In general you can only simplify along linear behaviors of systems. Once you get non-monotonic behavior, it's good night. Nevertheless it's the only tool we have to navigate our world. Imagine you have to describe a person down to his last atom. You can't. Hence you simplify.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Simplify all you'd like....most do, I do as well.

all do, all the time.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
') it makes things EASY...not because the simplication accurately represents the underlying complexity. Simplification almost by definition has to give a little here and there,

of course. The trick is to simplify such that you capture the characteristics of the systems you care about while able to neglect all else as second order effects.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')to reduce the complex to "so simple stupid people get it". Most people never even question the simplification, do they?

remember that half the population is dumber than average. And 10% (that's every 10th person) are so dumb that he's unfit to serve in the army even as infantry.
However, also keep in mind that arrogance of knowing it all and knowing it all better than every body else is also a thing.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 07 Nov 2025, 20:22:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')Well...1% owning 90% of everything would certainly be a simplification.

yes. A problem. A solution will develop on its own.

Possible. Will any small business still exist by the time it does?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '
')Probably cut throats in the street. As it always has. That doesn't mean that socialisms/communism is the solution you want to aspire to.

Or capitaliism. A century ago capatalism needed a major readjustment for similar reasons we are seeing today.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '
')Imagine you have to describe a person down to his last atom. You can't. Hence you simplify.
Good example.
Imagine living in a world where people don't know what an atom is. Is it possible that our current political divisions are as simple as those who, metaphorically speaking, do, and do not, know what an atom is?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')However, also keep in mind that arrogance of knowing it all and knowing it all better than every body else is also a thing.

YES! You are right! But here is the thing, some people come to being smarter than everyone else naturally, and I am certainly not one of them. Above average? Sure. But the trick is, what happens if you take some above average Joe, and drop them into an environment of nothing but PhD's? College professors without students? Engineering, geology, statistics, mathematicians and economists. A computer science PhD or two just for fun. Another layer below that of "underlings" who only have Masters degrees. Nationally and internationally known, renowned national speakers at all the usual professional conferences, some teach courses at local colleges for fun at night, international visiting scientists get visas to stay for 6 months at a time, to talk to renowned folks at their level on the nuances and particulars of their specialty.

Now drop some above average Joe who was happy drilling wells and running an oil company into this environment to do a specialty job related to my experience. You come across as a reasonably intelligent person....what would you do in that environment? Hide in your office and just do your job? I did that for a few years. But after that...? Hell, even when doing your job, what might you pick up through osmosis? What might it do to you if you decided....to learn? From all of them? Would that change your IQ points? Or would you have gained something perhaps of even more value?

The one thing that I know for sure? You KNOW until the day you die that you don't know everything, and never will. Because you have already met those folks, and you KNOW you ain't them.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby mousepad » Sat 08 Nov 2025, 12:27:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')Or capitaliism. A century ago capatalism needed a major readjustment for similar reasons we are seeing today.


Here's the wellfare spending per capita per nation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... e_spending

USA spends $15k per capita on welfare which puts it number 11 worldwide. By this measure USA is already a socialist state, more so than many european countries the left always points to for inspiration. If taken as part of GDP, you can find different numbers from 20 to 30%. That too, puts the US as one of the top dogs in welfare spending.

How much welfare spending do you think is enough to satisfy your inner feeling of justice? 100% of GDP?

The USA. Transition from proud, independent achievers to victims. Voting for kommunists to give 'em free stuff. Pathetic, quite frankly. And a highway to hell. But the ones voting won't be the ones paying the price. That's left for the next generations.
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sat 08 Nov 2025, 18:41:20

But just pretend. When everyone has a robot you won't need welfare, the robot can garden for you and hunt and provide all your needs. You could even send it out to work for you, earning you money!

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby theluckycountry » Sat 08 Nov 2025, 18:51:12

Have a look at the marketing, every time you see a robot doing a daily task it's an AI generated movie clip. There is nothing real about this, it's just a SciFi projection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfqnaqakD8
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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 18 Nov 2025, 11:56:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]Tesla Robotics halts production, facing major setback


I guess the guy who runs the joint will just launch more cars to Mars to make Australians look like retarded children when it comes to manufacturing, science, making money, and Aussies will just stick to making sure they are represented on the internet by uneducated parrots. And send their exceptional folks to represent them at the Olympics.

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Re: TESLA-More Than Just EVs

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Come on Elon
Get with the winners


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