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Aussie, retired. Tesla bull. Fastest ever Big Lap of Australia without using an external inverter. I do like a drive😎

Canberra. World's best city.
Joined August 2011
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A post re charging an EV once you get out of range of home. In October I did #TheBigLap , inspired by @Ahead_of_Curve and @harald_murphy , who did the lap a few weeks earlier in identical Tesla Model Y RWDs. Canberra to Canberra, clockwise, visiting every capital. (Except
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From my paramedic daughter: None of the vaccine skeptics seem to be treatment-skeptics. Every single one of my unvaccinated Covid patients blindly accept being pumped full of various drugs when their own life is tangibly on the line.
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@Jonathan_K_Cook Almost no one has any idea of the disparity of casualties in this never ending conflict. Here is a graph, sourced from UN data. It’s not pretty. Interestingly, though I have posted this often, there has been almost no reaction.
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@JoJoFromJerz Perhaps his directive to “drain the swamp” was misinterpreted.
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@billystringsph1 @NoContextHumans My ketamine trip when I had a posterior dislocated shoulder was one of the most memorable times of my life. Just wow!
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@LXSummer1 Russia has just been kicked out of the site of their new embassy in Canberra, Australia. Reason: they had sat on the prime real estate for many years, and everyone knew they’d now never be able to afford to build. 🤪 This was their site:
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Finally, after 290,000 kms on our four Teslas, we have an expense other than windscreen washer fluid. I have just been billed AUD159.15 for a new 12V battery on our oldest car. (Delivered, in our driveway, of course.) That’s USD107.06 servicing costs for 290,000 kms. I can’t
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@jonathanvswan I don't understand this. Is Jonathan disappointed that the leader of a country would not allow the American government operate the CIA inside its borders and conduct cross-border operations? Does he think that the non-US world trusts the CIA? (Big JS fan, genuinely puzzled.)
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@NodelmanJay @mmpadellan From an outsider looking in, I think it will take a very long time for the GOP to rebuild, so I’m confidently predicting another three Dem presidential terms.
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@RightWingCope Stacy’s mum would be disappointed.
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@thejackhopkins I’m in Australia, so I won’t comment. You’d know what I’d say. But this moved me.
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@m_bohaichuk @JenXIsWaving It’s weird that >85% of new cars in Norway are EVs if they don’t work well in the cold. Maybe they’re only in the tropical parts of Norway.
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@KenBerhan So impressed by the copper! She was awesome!
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@MikeCarlton01 “Senior Constable Madders later worked on the case against Bruce Lehrmann and was one of five officers who lodged a defamation case against the ACT's former Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold, which they ultimately dropped.” Quelle surprise.
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@ClaudetteGGibs1 In Australia everyone is “mate”. Simpler that way.
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@RabbiShmuley Yet Israel kills 20 times more Palestinians than the reverse, and has done for a very long time . . .
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@colonelhogans It seems that many - most? - non-Americans find the whole assassination attempt story a bit too far-fetched.
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@naretevduorp We don’t do religion much in Australia - for example I don’t know anyone who goes to church, and haven’t for probably forty years or so. Maybe I do and I just don’t know about it, which gives you an idea of where it sits in our society. Yet we’re pretty moral. 🤔
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@JDunlap1974 Is this a re-post of the previously debunked ones?
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@RpsAgainstTrump So many great quotes! “He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.”
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@SawyerMerritt It’s a no-brainer here - internet in remote areas in Australia is challenging. Even non-remote - I live 13kms from Parliament House and Starlink is the only reliable option. I turned it on three years ago and haven’t touched it since.
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@hikingskiing @elonmusk You can’t be serious. A user name of “Elon Musk (Parody)” is confusing you? That’s real snowflake territory!
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@WhamBaamX Happened to me in a Brisbane Air BnB last week. The app told me charging had stopped, I went down to the car, saw someone sneaking away, loudly asked whether he was going to unplug all the e-bikes too, but he didn’t re-appear. Yes, we had permission - it was one reason why we had
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@Nemampojma77 @DrEliDavid So true. As a matter of fact, I never use my seatbelt because my car has airbags. And, because my car has airbags I can drive drunk, run red lights, without my lights on, in the dark, while speeding.
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@ghelt Or, he released evidence of US war crimes - watch Collateral Murder - and The Guardian released all those other “secret” files, but you go on.
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@HilzFuld Pictures, anyone? UN data.
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@thejackhopkins Or you could move out of the US.
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@zhongwen2005 Nope. If the accelerator is mashed to the floor and then the brake is pressed, you know what happens? The car stops. Incredible, isn't it? The brake is designed to actually override the accelerator! Sheer genius. BTW: the brake is mechanical anyway. The computer can't override it
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@krassenstein @farzyness Seriously, this is a tiny blip. Tesla moves to Texas, the package gets approved again, we all move on. And Elon gets his dual class shares to give him 25% voting power, and it costs shareholders nothing. Win all round.
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@gencraft_ai Real cool! I asked for a draught horse, got a non-draught horse with five legs!
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@JohnRHewson @Diana5662996273 Here’s an idea: Let’s do solid reform across the board. Let’s talk the Norway model of assuming that what is in the ground is owned by all citizens, and when a miner digs it up and sells it they take a margin, not the whole bloody lot.
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@JoJoFromJerz It’s not just people that suffer.
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Just took delivery of our third Model 3. The quality is stunning. Made in China LR. (The other two are 2019 Fremont cars, one Stealth, one SR+.) well done Tesla. Biggest difference so far: the clunk of the doors. 😂
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@WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk I’m sorry, but the lag in that software is utterly unacceptable in 2021. The UI sucks too, but that lag is terrible.
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@beneltham I love seeing them, in the distance and up close.
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@briantylercohen 80 papers published in 28 months? No way they’re all his. Completely impossible. Perhaps people he manages, who include his name for perceived credibility.
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@LoriMills4CA42 @GlobalAffairs She got the first two words right - “Australia is” - but all the rest is incorrect.
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@KerenZelwer Conspicuous acts of kindness would have been smarter. October 7 happened because Hamas wanted an asymmetrically vicious response to raise sympathy in the entire world for Palestine, and to create vast amounts of new Hamas fighters. They won. Now the whole world knows.
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@grumpyoldfool62 I watched this, and Mr Justice Lee was, I thought, quite firm when he said that it did not mean he hadn’t been speaking the truth. He did make it clear that TA’s motivation was emotionally based but still could be absolutely true.
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@MarioNawfal So why couldn’t he have been tried in a court in a closer bit of US territory, such as the US embassy in Canberra? This is very smelly. No, we don’t trust the US.
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@RealDylanDanger @krassenstein This says so much about Republican voters. It’s foul.
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@elizableu Reminder: Elon Musk only recently took over Twitter. This is his top priority.
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@pakpakchicken If you want to diss Omar, have the guts to copy him in. @WholeMarsBlog
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It’s nearly five years since I went all-in on $TSLA. 😎
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@PyetteJames @Toazt @elonmusk We’re sending Roger. You guys have no chance.
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@WUTangKids Is that The Hunchback of Trump Tower?
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@ray4tesla RWD Model Y did this. Three of them, actually. Only three Superchargers above the black line.
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@hardenuppete @PeterCronau The key to this: Israel now has the excuse they wanted to wipe out the Palestinian people. “Everyone is asking how the sophisticated Israeli intelligence apparatus could have missed the planning of this attack. Maybe they didn't?”
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@anthonypesec @Tesla 😂😂😂😂😂 Anthony, this is a dumb hill to die on. You can use this thing called “the Internet” to find real, scientific stats on battery degradation if you’d like. You might need “Google” too. They do wear out though - Nigel in Byron just had his Model S battery replaced under
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@PRGuy17 #TakeTheBetAvi If Avi doesn’t take the bet, he may have a moral/religious position against gambling, or he may be a coward? Any other options?
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@noplaceforsheep Did I get this right? Health Minister repeatedly denying people were granted exemptions from quarantine (aside from heartstrings cases) then admitting people were, and that *they* paid for police to ensure *they* complied??? Then ending presser in a hurry . . .
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@ProjectLincoln With Presidential immunity granted by the Supreme Court, with Trump’s promise to be a dictator on Day 1, how could anyone believe that this would not happen in its entirety?
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Just imagine the concept that what is in the ground belongs to the state, the people. What an earth-shattering idea. Actually, seems logical . . . 🤔
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Former Prime Minister of Norway and current NATO chief @jensstoltenberg in 2014 explaining how Norway took control of their oil and gas industry and starting taxing them at 78% of profits building the $1.7 trillion Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
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@bennyjohnson @Target The instant I saw this guy my gaydar was beeping. Confirmed with a couple of gay friends. People: this guy is gay. Highly likely he’ll repress it all his life. 🤪
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@Travis_in_Flint But did you tell the tax office that it was only worth $1M and so you shouldn’t pay much tax? I think that’s the major problem.
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@AlternateJones @jasondebolt @elonmusk Ok, I’m joining in! I retire! I was going to do it anyway, but now I can do it knowing that I’ll never be able to spend as much as I earn - even after ordering a loaded X and a Plaid S today. 😎
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Does anyone notice their sex life improves when TSLA stonk is going up?
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To all famous people: WE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR BLUE TICKS. WE DON'T NEED TO BE TOLD IF YOU'RE UPSET AND ARE LEAVING TWITTER. BYE. That is all.
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#TheBigLap Done! 😎 16 days, 20 hours, 45 minutes. 13,678 kms using 2,121 kWh @ 155 Wh/km. Huge thanks to the TOCAWA guys - Harald and Pete for the inspiration and assistance and Rob for the TLC. Finished with Rockhampton to Canberra - the longest drive I will ever do!
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Americans will never understand how much Australians despise guns, and how stupid and cruel we believe US gun laws are. There has been no mass shooting in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. That’s when the gun buyback program was introduced.
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@niccruzpatane And as others have pointed out, this is a software problem. Most car guys won’t get it.
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@dieworkwear I would visit and throw myself at his feet. “Do with me what you will!”
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@jeremyjudkins_ I traveled all of Scandinavia in 1991. Pretty much every office parking area had power outlets to keep ICE cars warm during the day. I am amused at fossil drivers saying that severe cold is an EV problem.
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Stolen from someone else: “The only reason it is desirable for an ICE car to have 600+mile range is because it's a pain in the arse to go to a petrol station.”
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@TeslaPaul1 @Avatrode Well of course. 82,000 lbs of chips is way lighter than 82,000 lbs of concrete! Just look at it!
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@blowingtom2 @ericlindsay As an ex-employer I can assure you that firing someone is very hard to do legally. There are many things we don’t know about this but on the surface this looks illegal. Is it a small business? It’s a little easier there, but still tough.
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@kristique8 I first visited the scary Middle East in about 2004. It was three days before I saw a gun - a rifle beside an army guy asleep in the sun at the border. On the other hand, in America . . .
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@Fooseball67 @lhamtil Just did this in a Model Y - 70% of the journey was without DC chargers, so it’s very do-able:
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@not_insayne @IuliiaMendel The Russians in Crimea can go back home. There’s still a bridge . . .
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@zdaniel @vanOnselenP “Honesty is key, don’t you think?” Nah. This is Peter.
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In Canberra, Australia. Got notified by Starlink that Dishy was ready on Friday afternoon. Paid for it. Delivered Monday morning from Hawthorne, CA. Connected in ten minutes. Currently throttled because we’re in beta, but got this speed (and 17ms latency):
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@AshleyGWinter I was feeling a bit deprived as I had had all the Covid vaxes I was allowed. So today I got vaxxed for diphtheria, typhoid, measles, whooping cough, tetanus, Hep A and Hep B, and next week I’m getting shingles. (The vax, not the disease.) And no, I am not joking. Come at me. 🤪
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@jm493_au @simonahac @DanielAndrewsMP @timpallas @LilyDAmbrosioMP A tax on roads according to the damage the vehicle causes would result in trucks effectively paying for all damage. Because that’s roughly the ratio. Do *not* get sucked in by the “fair use” imaginary argument. Trucks DO cause more than 99% of damage.
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@InverseTheCons @CathieDWood Well she used to say $TSLA should be $3,000 in 2025, and it’s now $200, so there’s that. Oh wait, we have 15 times as many shares, so she should have predicted that price for 2022. She’s definitely a bear.
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@GenevieveSpeak @Mikel_Jollett But they’ve just ruled that the President is subject to no rules regarding official acts, and there wouldn’t be an act more official than expanding the Supreme Court.
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@TeslaLarry Mark Spiegel of Stanphyl Capital. (Stan and Phyllis are his mummy and daddy - his “fund” manages their money.)
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@Stella_Assange I also do not trust them one millimetre.
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I wish I could buy a phone that I could fill up at a petrol station instead of having to plug in at home. Sure, it would be a lot more expensive, but so worth it.
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@JackDonne632257 @Peter_Fitz Jack, your narrative conflicts with facts. This is the Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station that was commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1991. It cannot be demolished because of radioactivity. It has been sitting idle for 33 years, longer than it operated (26 years). 80 year
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X/Twitter in or era of media: Read the Commissioner’s comments about the positive role of Twitter into the Royal Commission into RoboDebt in Australia, a truly frightening miscarriage of justice carried out by Australian government agencies, which should destroy the careers of
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Commissioner Holmes: “I want to acknowledge that the Twitter coverage of these hearings has performed a remarkably useful & important public service in giving people access to the evidence.” Wow. #RoboDebtRC
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@SerkanTheWriter Three fabulous decisions. He’s a very smart man.
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@elonmusk Twitter now is the first place to look for news. End of story. (And end of traditional media.)
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@ellymelly I’ll tell you just one fact, otherwise I won’t waste my time on you: Batteries are >90% recyclable, whereas fossil fuels are 0% recyclable. Check out Redwood Materials if you’d like to learn. (Strongly doubt it,)
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@JoeMaristela @SawyerMerritt My understanding is that an electrical interconnect (or similar) caught fire, and that fire spread to the Megapack, and the fire was relatively small. Could be wrong, but “the Megapack caught fire” would be misleading.
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@Leo_Puglisi6 “Having escaped the lion’s den he made the mistake of going back to get his hat”. Mr Justice Lee.
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@teslaflexx @elonmusk “my Loveland service center said they have to stop deliveries for a couple months” Sure. 🤦
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@OneTweetAwayMan @cenkuygur Israel has a long record . . .
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@SethAbramson Seth, some kids disown their parents - usually one parent, usually after a divorce. Sadly, the number is very high. It is very often not the fault of the disowned parent, particularly after an acrimonious divorce.
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@abcnews ABC, you have a responsibility not to write misleading headlines . . .
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@BenGoldsmith All of these Palestinian casualties are justified? 40:1 Palestinian to Israeli? How would you react?
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@gov_insights @alex_avoigt A CEO with 150 million X followers, the only CEO of the business world that people recognise. Sure, some hate him, but the upside is way bigger. 😎
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@Chairman_Meowed And yet there have been about 40 more times Palestinian casualties than Israeli - that just doesn’t get publicised.
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@zdaniel If she could Israel to stop the Gaza genocide her job would be much easier.
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@DillonLoomis22 To me the points you brought up are moot. There was an agreement, therefore Elon should be paid. End of story. Whoever argues to the contrary is dishonourable.
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@defaultusert Yeah. It’s all going to fall apart from here on. 🤪
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