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🚨 Pope Leo XIV has sent a WARNING to migrants, telling them how to behave when they arrive into new countries: 'Learn its language, to respect its laws, to get to know its customs, to participate in communal life and to offer your gifts with gratitude'

Was die meisten schon wieder vergessen haben: 2021 hat Elon Musk den Vereinten Nationen angeboten, für die Beendigung des Welthungers mit dem Verkauf eines Teils seiner Tesla-Aktien zu zahlen. Die einzige Bedingung: Die Vereinten Nationen legen transparent offen, wie genau dieser Betrag den Welthunger beenden würde und wie die Mittel eingesetzt werden. Natürlich haben die Vereinten Nationen das Angebot nicht angenommen. Sie hätten nämlich erklären müssen, wie es sein kann, dass seit den 1950er Jahren 2 BILLIONEN DOLLAR an „Entwicklungshilfen“ nach Afrika geflossen sind, sich aber in all den Jahren nichts zum Besseren entwickelt hat. Das Problem ist nicht Elon Musk. Das Problem sind korrupte Politiker, die dir sagen, dass Elon Musk das Problem wäre.

First Millionaire: John Astor (~early 1800s)
First Billionaire: John D. Rockefeller (1916)
First Trillionaire: Elon Musk (2026)

America is the greatest country in the world and it’s not even close 🇺🇸

Mission: @SpaceX. Objective: Make life multiplanetary. Exchange: @NasdaqExchange. Status: Initial Public Offering. $SPCX

Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”!

It’s OFFICIAL! SpaceX has filed for IPO and will go public under the symbol $SPCX 😎🚀

For a driver born without arms, FSD Supervised is life-changing accessibility “I was born without arms and have driven with my feet my entire life. I’m a fully licensed driver, and traditionally I drove with my left foot on the steering wheel and my right foot handling the gas and brake. My only legal restrictions are automatic transmission and power steering. Over the years, though, the strain from my congenital birth defects has led to significant arthritis in my hips. I drove a Model 3 for the past seven years, and it honestly helped extend my independence in a huge way. Recently upgrading to the Model Y – along with Full Self-Driving – has been a complete game changer for me. It dramatically reduces the physical pressure and fatigue of driving and has helped preserve a level of freedom and mobility that means a great deal to me. Most people understandably think of Tesla in terms of innovation or sustainability, but for some of us, this technology truly becomes life-changing accessibility.” – John F.

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🚨 Good news from Austria. 🇦🇹 The Austrian Ministry (BMK – Bundesministerium für Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur) has replied to a Tesla owner regarding Tesla FSD Supervised. Key takeaways from their official letter (April 2026): ✅ They fully recognize the Dutch RDW approval under Article 39 of EU Regulation 2018/858. ✅ They clearly explain the upcoming EU procedure (TCMV vote expected in May/June). ✅ They explicitly keep the door open for a quick national recognition of the Dutch approval, without having to wait for full EU-wide approval. ✅ No objections or safety concerns raised. The tone is professional, constructive and positive. This is one of the most open and helpful responses we’ve seen from any EU country so far. Austria could be among the early adopters via national recognition. 🇦🇹🔥🧿 #Tesla #FSD #Austria #AutonomousDriving

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

The thing is almost all EV owners were once ICE vehicle owners, and yet almost none want to go back. That should tell you everything. Take a test drive if you have not experienced it yourself, you wont regret it

In March 2026, 86% of Tesla Model Y registrations in 🇩🇪 Germany are expected to have gone to private customers. For the VW ID.4, only 12%! Approximately 66% of all car registrations in Germany go to corporate customers, and in this sector, the VW Group “sells” a large number of vehicles to dealers, where they are classified as sold even though they are sitting in a parking lot waiting for a customer. In this way, the German auto industry inflates the numbers and presents itself in a better selling than it actually is. Tesla, on the other hand, sells almost exclusively to private customers because the company does not offer 30%–50% discounts to fleet managers, who have therefore eliminated Tesla from their lineup because they can't make a profit without massive discounts. One can only describe this as lobbying by the German auto industry to create the impression that their vehicles are selling well and are good vehicles, which is de facto not the case in the BEV sector.

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This is exactly why legacy insurance companies are going to lose and why Tesla Insurance is built to dominate. Look at the new FSD UI from a real Tesla owner in the Santa Clara/Milpitas area that Tesla just released. • 95% of all miles driven on Full Self-Driving (Supervised) • 19,300 miles autonomous out of 20,420 total miles • 3-day streak heavy usage every single month (Apr–Sep) This is REAL data. Tesla Insurance doesn’t guess your risk with old proxies like zip code, age, credit score, or vague “driving history.” Tesla has perfect, real-time telemetry straight from your car like exact FSD usage percentage, interventions, safety events, hard braking - literally everything… The higher your autonomous FSD miles, the lower your true risk, and the bigger the discount on insurance premiums you can get. FSD miles are dramatically safer and Tesla’s own fleet stats show it repeatedly. The safest drivers on the road are now the heaviest FSD users… and only Tesla can price them accurately at scale. IMO, this is the endgame for old-school auto insurance.

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De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly!  Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways No other vehicle can do this.  We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon

NEWS: Dutch regulators (RDW), which just approved @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands, have just issued an official statement: "Due to the continuous strict monitoring of the driver in the vehicle, the system is safer than other driver assistance systems. We have thoroughly researched and checked this system, more than a year and a half. The RDW has issued a type approval for Tesla's driver's assistance system, FSD Supervised. This driver's assistance system has been extensively researched and tested on our test track and on public roads for more than a half years. Safety is paramount for the RDW. The proper use of this driver's system makes a positive contribution to road safety." This approval from the RDW clears the path for approval in other European countries. Tesla owners in the Netherlands will be receiving FSD (Supervised) on their cars shortly. Amazing day!