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a year ago
Throughout Asia, massage places are full service. That’s why you don’t find many strip clubs. You get a real massage followed by whatever you want.
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a year ago
Might be a combination of cameras and whatever set of rules the club has established, like “ don’t take his Dick out”.
In my favorite club, a lot of fun can be had as long as it’s hidden from the camera.
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a year ago
Incidentally, if this all plays out, with robotaxis replacing private car ownership, robots doing most physical work, and AI doing the mental work, the world will be very different 40 or 50 years from now.
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a year ago
Then, there’s the Optimus robot. Tesla has already built the robot hardware and is testing it. Now, it’s a matter of using artificial intelligence to train it to do specific tasks.
It can currently do simple, repetitive tasks, like screwing in bolts or carrying material. As such, it would already be useful in factories. As the AI improves, it will be able to perform more complicated tasks.
I expect Tesla to begin using these robots in its own factories soon. They will constantly improve them. At some point they will lease them on the open market. Beyond factory work, they could be used for construction or firefighting, as two examples.
The potential market, for replacing human workers in simple tasks, is a billion robots. If they lease them at $50,000 per year, that’s $50 trillion PER YEAR ! They won’t reach that level in my lifetime but it’s inevitable they will at some point.
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a year ago
If Tesla can make the Robotaxi, their stock price could hit $2,000 by 2027. Each robotaxi could generate a million dollars of revenue over a 10 year lifespan. It would cost $20,000 to build and very little to operate.
That’s science fiction type stuff, but the necessary technology already exists.
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a year ago
The latest Tesla news is they are purchasing a company that produces wireless charging for vehicles. They will modify their superchargers and home chargers so you just need to park over the plate. No more plugging in.
That’s the kind of innovation they are making almost monthly. No other company innovates at that pace.
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a year ago
“You must be thinking about taking some off the table.”
Nope. Over the next 18 months, Tesla should have a dozen triggers for rapid stock increases of 5% or much more. The next two are the reveal of the updated Model 3 and production of Cybertruck.
Within the next 12 months, we should see full self driving plus monster sales figures for large scale energy storage. Both these could become trillion dollar businesses. None of that is reflected in the current stock price.
I expect TSLA to reach $400 by early next year and at least $1,000 by 2026. That would work out to 60%/year for the next 3 years. I think that’s realistic.
I won’t be selling TSLA until 2027.
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a year ago
Despite the toughest gun laws in the US, Chicago streets are full of gun toting criminals.
The solution is simple. Allow police to stop and frisk suspicious looking people, like drug dealers standing on street corners at 2am. Then, put anyone caught with a gun in prison for 5 years. The murder rate in Chicago would plunge.
The people in power in Chicago say this would be racist.
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a year ago
Actresses do this in their real lives. How did Madonna develop an English accent after growing up in Detroit ?
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a year ago
The last few times I’ve seen it done, it was literally 10 dollars in singles. If it had been $100, my reaction would have been different.
You know the old joke about the guy who drops a dollar in the public toilet, then immediately throws another twenty in. When someone asks why he did that, he said “ I’m not putting my hand in the toilet for just a dollar”.
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a year ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Rickie Fowler’s wife is hot.
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a year ago
It isn’t a matter of half the guys never being to a strip club. It’s a matter of half the guys acting halfway decent in the club.
If your idea of a strip club is a place where you can let everyone know what hot shit you are by throwing ten dollars in singles, rather than handing it to dancers and having a quick conversation, well, that sounds like someone lacking confidence and social skills. To each their own.
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a year ago
“humiliated by big piles of cash on the stage”
I specified $10 or $20 in singles. Is that a big pile of cash in your world ?
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a year ago
I’d be interested in what dancers think about raining single dollar bills. It seems demeaning to me. Having to crawl around to sweep up ten or twenty dollars of ones.
It’s an asshole power move on the part of the loser customer.
Anyway, that’s my impression.
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a year ago
Blue State Hell
At least 20 people were shot, one fatally, during a Juneteenth celebration early Sunday morning in Willowbrook, Illinois
The gunfire erupted during an illegal street takeover attended by at least 300 people overnight outside of the Willowbrook shopping center
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a year ago
Of course he was trying to stay in power. Legally.
He wanted State legislatures to use their constitutional power to investigate, and rule, on fraud allegations. He needed Mike Pence to send the electoral college votes back to the States. All legal. Spelled out in the Constitution.
He wanted Secretaries of State to do their duty. Investigate allegations of fraud. Not only legal, but their duty.
The brilliance of what the Dems did in several cities was
- Add votes in the dead of night when the poll watchers weren’t present
- Use their friends in media to declare the election over
- Ridicule anyone who questioned what just happened
As we now see, uncovering the fraud, and proving it, would take months. In fact, with Secretaries of States refusing to comply, and covering up, it could take years. All the while, media ridiculing “ election deniers “.
The legal action taken by Kari Lake has revealed at least some of what a corrupt Maricopa County ( Phoenix ) did to steal the election in 2020. But, at this point, a court is unlikely to overturn it.
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a year ago
“He literally tried to overthrow the government”
Trump told the crowd to be peaceful, both before and during the episode. He offered Pelosi 10,000 national guard to protect the Capitol and she turned him down. The police opened the doors to the people. No weapons were found on anyone. Only two people died, both unarmed female Trump supporters killed by cops. The “ pipe bombs” had no explosive charge. It is almost certain that Ray Epps, who constantly urged people to enter the Capitol, was an FBI plant.
I am “literally” certain this was an FBI false flag operation.
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a year ago
I do want to thank Joe Biden for one thing. His IRA established hundreds of billions for subsidizing “ sustainable energy” ( whatever that means ). A big chunk of this money is now flowing to Tesla.
In late April, I put about 80% of my life’s savings into Tesla stock. It’s up 60% since then.
I think the IRA was horrible for the country but I decided to take advantage of it.
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a year ago
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rainbow-underground-railroad-helps-lgbt-americans-escape-red-states
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a year ago
How’s this for a headline ?
“ Rainbow Underground Railroad helps LGBT Americans escape Red States “
The horror !!!
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a year ago
Owners of 2 landmark SF hotels have chosen to close, turning the keys into the lender. Will the last business to leave SF please turn off the lights ?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/owner-of-these-iconic-san-francisco-hotels-to-stop-loan-payments/ar-AA1chCqK
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a year ago
Six months ago, Gavin Newsome projected a $97 Billion surplus for California. So, the Democrat legislature went on a spending spree, largely new environmental programs ( Did you know every electric vehicle sold in California gets a $7500 credit in addition to the $7,500 from Biden’s IRA program ? ).
Now, 6 months later, a huge budget deficit is projected ( currently $30 Billion and going higher ). They didn’t see that coming.
Blue State
https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/californias-budget-debacle
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a year ago
The point was, people prefer red state policies as a whole. Of course each individual component would vary. But, 47% is still significant.
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a year ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/june-harvard-caps-harris-poll-194200424.html
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a year ago
According to Democrats
Good stuff that happened from 2016-2020: the result of Obama brilliantly laying the groundwork
Bad stuff that happened from 2016-2020: Trump fucking things up