🚨🚨🚨 MISSING PERSON ALERT!!!

PLEASE RETWEET!

My former brother in law, David Brown, has been missing for 10 days and I need help locating him if possible.

David is 5'9" and ~175 lbs, with brown hair and blue eyes.

He was last know to be in Florence, Oregon on July 13th. David is a 60 y/o Navy veteran and is driving a 29' Ford Escape RV.

He is accompanied by his white Shepard, Shasta, who is very protective.

I bumped into a Cybertruck yesterday and I wanted to share some thoughts and pictures with you.

A thread.🧵 First off, the ass end of this thing just looks like a boring and uninteresting wall of stainless steel.

There are no compelling design features here to break the monotony.

Just a blank panel of metal.

Plus the tonneau cover and black plastic trim collect dust like crazy.

Elon Musk is super duper angry at @Apple right now.

Why?

Because Apple and OpenAI agreed yesterday to use/integrate Open AI's ChapGPT AI product in their iOS ecosystem.

This has screwed over Elon's side hustle xAI, right after raising $6 billion in equity.

A thread. 🧵 And it comes right before xAI could even launch a product. 😆

AND on the heels of Elon diverting 1,000s of Nvidia's H100 chips from Tesla to xAI, for which he took tremendous heat because he violated his fiduciary responsibilities. 😬

So how does it screw xAI?

As some folks have seen recently, Musk is making it harder and harder to block and mute trolls.

Even now when you block someone, they can still see all your tweets, just not your profile, and they can't interact with them.

This is in preparation for something very specific. Elon is laying the groundwork for a massive disinformation campaign here at Twitter in order to influence the 2024 election in Donald Trump's favor.

There are many reasons why he's doing it, but the biggest one is this:

He doesn't want to go to prison.

SpaceX attempted to launch another Starship on a suborbital flight yesterday, and like the first one seven months earlier, it blew up again.

This would be a good time to talk about using rapid iterative development in the aerospace industry.

A thread. 🧵 The idea of rapidly developing prototypes, testing them to failure, and then developing a new one based on what was learned is not a new one.

Each time you iterate, things improve.

It's used in many industries and it's a very effective way of getting new products to market.

SpaceX is scheduled to attempt another Starship launch again tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 8am EDT from their facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Here are my thoughts and predictions.

A thread 🧵 The first launch attempt occured on 4/20 of this year, and resulted in massive damage to their launchpad, as well as the ultimate destruction of the rocket itself.

Here's my thread about it.

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1649443447164776450?t=A4GA_Eydf95MqjZEs7fNxQ&s=19

Anybody want to talk about this movie? Starring a young and perky pre "Sex and the City" Kim Cattrall.

My parents are both in the 80s, and I am only now just realizing this morning how they are being regularly victimized by low-level scams targeted at older folks.

There are entire industries solely designed to target seniors and extract small/medium amounts of money from them... ...in seemingly legitimate ways.

They go right up to the line of legality and often cross it quite frequently.

In the last year, my folks have been scammed by software providers, attorneys, garage door repair people, etc.

It's fucking endless.

They're slowly being...

To be clear, I did exactly to Luca what he claims I did.

Only he didn't know I was doing it for the hour or so it was happening.

Then, all of the hundreds of replies were revealed at the same time, and he had a complete meltdown.

I've done this before to other trolls. Nobody else knew either, since no notifications went out.

I haven't blocked @Luca_Napoletano, but he's locked his account and blocked me.

He's apparently wandering around and commenting in my tweets while whining about being bullied.

The dude needs to get over it and go away. This still totally confuses me.

BREAKING: The FAA has grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again.

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1650604412451323904?s=20

Somebody at Twitter decided to delete my tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program.

I didn't.

Most likely Elon. So, what's your plan?

BREAKING: The FAA had grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation.

This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again. cnbc.com/2023/04/24/spa…

I've now signed up on Mastodon in case Twitter goes kaput.

@Tazerface@mastodon.sdf.org

I expect to spend the next few days checking it out and getting my bearings.

P.S. Fuck Elon Musk and every one of his fanbois. Try following this link to sign up:

https://twitter.com/msierchio/status/1592884759998648320?s=20&t=KLpB5KA4m6L4H97t41cf2A

I'm noticing a shitload of former OEF/OIF combat vets who are signing up for the international Ukrainian defense force.

Some are even forming up their own 50 person platoons and coming over enmass so that they have some autonomy.

Wow! It's the world against Putin now

There's a 40-mile long column of Russian vehicles outside of Kyiv that haven't moved in 24 hours.

So far it's looking like the world's narrowest parking lot.

Best 2nd echelon ever! So far, no analyst has posited a good idea as to why, but it could just be logistical.

Shit breaking down and the ground around the road is wet and boggy.

Here's the sorta sad state of affairs in the Western United States with respect to COVID:

The high population centers in these states are predominantly liberal, and they are also where you can get the highest quality healthcare due to the density of well educated people. 1/ These high density population centers also have the highest vaccination rates, due to relative affluence and ease of access to healthcare, with respect to our rural areas.

The politics of these rural areas also play a role in the public acceptance of the COVID vaccine. 2/

Going to Japan had been a dream of mine since I was in the 4th grade.

A linguist came to class to talk about the languages of the world and he focused on Japan, for some reason.

I was hooked, then pretty much forgot about it as life took over.

Fast forward a few years... And I'm now in middle school taking French, (mostly because I had a crush on the French teacher).

I continued to take French in high school for the same reason.

No joke.

Six years of studying French with no real purpose other than my teenage libido.

That haircut is certainly...something.

Is there a name for this? So the style is called "Stank?"

Okay.

;-)

The Veterans Administration special counsel is coming after me for a Hatch Act violation.

Not unexpected.

The is the second time that the Trump administration has tried to retaliate against me. Considering the thousands of times that the Trump Administration has violated the Hatch Act, this act by the VA is especially appalling.

Just as another reminder:

The loonies are getting together with their guns on November 14th, to openly display their abject fear of going outside without a firearm.

Stay away from them.

They're loonies with shitty weapons management skills and poor impulse control. Please stay away.

Especially if they try to do a gathering in your local area, which is possible.

These white dudes, (because it's always white dudes), are trying to provoke a confrontation & gunfire.
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In no way is it a good idea to confront these guys.

That's what they want.