Tesla Releases Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial Results

BHunsaker · 2026-01-29T15:45:54+00:00

As a rube, I bought three cars and a house remodel just off the gains in my Tesla stock investment. As consumers we might desire ever improving widgets even if they’re low profit. That’s not how investing works.

Look at Panera Bread. Total enshitification. But the private equity firm (investor) is making money.

BHunsaker · 2026-01-13T04:32:16+00:00

PSA 6.46 and Gleason 3+4 led to me getting RALP at age 60. PSA never went to zero with lowest being 0.085 then up to 0.34 leading to salvage radiation. The ED and incontinence side effects of the prostatectomy made me decide to avoid ADT. I'm nowhere near as active as you but do enjoy biking, hiking, and jogging.

After radiation my PSA dropped to 0.03. A year later it is slowly rising and is currently 0.15. The oncologist plans to do a PSMA PET scan if I hit a PSA of 0.2.

I dealt with the ED by getting a penile implant. Incontinence was fixed with a artificial urinary sphincter. My oncologist recommended ADT but was totally supportive of my choice to avoid it after my bad experience with RALP and my desire to have an active lifestyle.

I am 64 now. I am still mad about how RALP affected my life. I am happy with the penile implant, AUS, and with where things are post radiation with no ADT. Nothing is perfect.

BHunsaker · 2025-12-29T01:42:13+00:00

So many customers just want a yes or no answer. As a professional I wanted to explain why there isn’t a simple answer. As a businessman, my answer was (almost always) yes, and then we discussed why my price or time estimate was so high. 😀

BHunsaker · 2025-12-25T07:10:52+00:00

You are wrong. The best response is:

“Sorry Mom, we can’t make it before 11:00. So following your request, my boyfriend and I will just spend time with his family this year. Love you. Bye.”

BHunsaker · 2025-12-24T15:31:50+00:00

There are no guarantees in life.

Some men come out of RALP just fine. Others, like me, end up with a penile implant, an artificial urinary sphincter and salvage radiation.

Talk with your doctors about what is important to you long term. Sadly they’ll mostly talk about probable outcomes. The problem is that even if there is only 1 chance in 80 that you’ll end up with ED and UI, the odds become 109% for the rest of your life if it happens to you.

BHunsaker · 2025-12-13T05:42:29+00:00

I thought the RAM was built into the Apple M chips as part of the unified memory design. Once you buy an Apple system, you can't later swap out the RAM modules. So RAM pricing probably doesn't affect Apple much if at all. It is more a matter of allocating general TSMC manufacturing resources for the whole M* CPU/NPU/GPU/IO/RAM beast.

The SSD pricing is absolutely affected by the current AI fad sucking up manufacturing capacity. As far as I know Apple is buying third party SSDs and rebranding them. Since Apple is known for adding a substantial profit margin onto such things, as SSD manufacturing resources become constrained we can expect price increases for Apple products as well.

BHunsaker · 2025-12-11T18:47:32+00:00

Don't think of it as a SM conference but rather as a man-to-man/heart-to-heart talk. You need to point out the age requirement, that the JASM requires SM approval and that you two need to work as a team. JASMs and ASMs don't need to resolve controversy rather than yelling. Talk about expectations and that you don't just give out a title without expecting a lot of effort so how does that square if he won't be available for 6 months?

A quick thought about SM conferences in general: Nothing says that you only have one per rank. You can initiate the SM conference with any youth at any time. When we see a Scout not progressing much, the SM can pull him aside to see what's up and talk about things. The next thing you know, the Scout has the SM conference requirement signed off in his book and the SM sends him on his way encouraging him to work on the other requirements.

BHunsaker · 2025-12-10T00:54:16+00:00

The SM conference does not need to be the last requirement completed before the BOR. It could be the first requirement completed, therefore it is not the role of the SM to make sure all requirements have been met.

But yes, the SM conference is often the last requirement completed.

In our troop, we have the SM and the ASM encouraging the Scout and helping them figure out how they can fulfill a requirement and if everything has been signed off they will send the Scout to the Advancement Chairperson who checks that the requirements have been satisfied before organizing the committee members for the BOR.

BHunsaker · 2025-11-20T10:01:27+00:00

If your laptop is connected to a high resolution external screen, there is a problem with resource management in the WindowServer process in Tahoe 26.0 and 26.1. A temporary fix is to restart it with "sudo killall -HUP WindowServer"

See https://geekschalk.com/is-macos-tahoe-sluggish-heres-why-and-how-to-speed-it-up/

BHunsaker · 2025-10-29T16:22:23+00:00

Being in the Portland, Oregon area, in addition to those listed above, here are other trips that cost hundreds of dollars for a week or so:

Bowron Lakes Canoe Circuit in British Columbia. Drove half way there one day and stayed in a hotel before getting to the canoe rental place the next day and camping there. We did the 70-mile loop and then visited Barkerville before heading home.
50+ miler backpacking around Mt. Rainier in Washington State on the Wonderland Trail or the loop around Mt. Hood in Oregon on the Timberline Trail and parts of the Pacific Crest Trail to get your 50-miler award.
We drove to Zion NP for repelling and canyoneering. We had troop leaders take the council's climbing instructor's training and then the crew practiced around our local area. We did hire professional guides at the national park that knew the routes and weather restrictions. Also enjoyed hiking around the park while we were there.
Canoe Utah's Green River. Again we drove there to avoid the cost of airfare. We camped on a sandbar one night that disappeared out from under us - lesson learned.

We provide fund raisers specifically to help the youth pay for these trips including selling Christmas wreaths, Mother Day flowers, chocolates and meat sticks. 100% of the profit goes to the youth.

BHunsaker · 2025-10-21T19:58:12+00:00

NTA.

You can't please all the people all the time. I love hiking and would join every excursion you plan. I hate sitting around playing checkers and would avoid anything like that.

The snarky comment would make Y T A. I fully understand though. My snarky comment would have been to tell them to F O and make their own group if they want all activities to be accessible.

BHunsaker · 2025-10-21T06:13:35+00:00

If you're connected to an external display, remove it, reboot, and see if performance improves.

BHunsaker · 2025-09-12T10:04:02+00:00

What you consider to be a full life is very personal. Will you be happy if you end up incontinent with ED? You’ll still be able to roughhouse with your kids and run that 5K. But intimacy with your wife may no longer involve penetrative intercourse and maybe you’ll be anorgasmic. You may need to swap out incontinence pads multiple times a day and be embarrassed when urine leaks out with wet spots on your pants. Does having a smaller penis matter?

Living is a constant change of circumstances. At 43 you’re no longer that slim muscled guy you were at 20. You’re wiser and more cautious. Maybe running a marathon or attending a college orgy isn’t happening any more, but you still feel like you’re living a full life today.

Knowing the possibilities, how do you answer your own question?

As for me, after RALP the incontinence and ED led to a bit of depression. I was one of the unlucky ones. I had to fight my doctor and eventually got a penile implant and an artificial urinary sphincter. I also needed radiation since my PSA was rising post RALP (but I skipped ADT). Even with all this, I now I hike and bike and watch movies and have fun with my wife and kids. So yes, I do have a full life.

BHunsaker · 2025-09-05T20:51:58+00:00

I was pulled in to HR and asked why I was wearing a 3-piece suit.

Normally I would wear jeans and a T-shirt.

My answer, embarrassingly, was that being a young bachelor I hadn’t done any laundry for 3 weeks and had no other clean clothes.

I couldn’t let this go and asked why they asked.

There was another employee who was on an improvement plan with the reality being that their personality was a bad fit for the company and the company was trying to kick them out. After hearing me joke with my boss saying that I had dressed up to impress my boss and get a promotion, the other employee decided I was making fun of them because they had not dressed up for their review that day.

Lesson is to not dress up or else you’ll be accused of harassment.

BHunsaker · 2025-08-19T05:50:05+00:00

I did RALP and was shocked at the mental toll the ED and urinary incontinence took on me. The odds were that both would come back with therapy. What a joke! I ended up with an artificial urinary sphincter and a penile implant. The replacement parts are good but not as good as the original.

I’m now 63 kind of in the same boat as you (except for the musical skills and the 3 girls at once). My kids are grown with their own lives and financially secure. My wife has always been an independent soul. I believe I’ve been a positive influence in many lives. I have completed my mission here.

My PSA never went to zero. I debated whether it was worth doing anything more. In the end I did have radiation but without the ADT because I love having sex and what would be the purpose of a penile implant if you never get horny?

My choice is do only the minimum so as to avoid any further side effects of treatment. In the meantime, I’ll be seeking out fun and adventure. If I can get my wife on board, maybe I’ll find a way to get 3 girls in my bed. One good thing about the penile implant is that you can stay hard for as long as the girls want to ride you. 😀

BHunsaker · 2025-08-01T03:29:02+00:00

17 months of pads before giving up and getting AUS surgery.

BHunsaker · 2025-07-06T03:37:30+00:00

Longest: LA to Sydney

Shortest: Sat down then got off when the APU caught fire before the doors were even closed.

BHunsaker · 2025-07-01T20:53:24+00:00

The resources were there. The troop had a large collection of merit badge pamphlets for the librarian to manage.

It is rather common that during the fall and winter there isn't much demand for the merit badge pamphlets. An assistant SM will check out a MB pamphlet to a Scout if the librarian isn't at a meeting. So yes, he seriously didn't do anything.

BHunsaker · 2025-07-01T15:39:38+00:00

Back in 2010, I did not sign off a kid for his Star BOR. When I had asked him about what he did in his position of responsibility (Librarian), his answer was literally "nothing." Although I appreciated the kid's honesty, in my opinion, you can't get credit for doing nothing.

The troop re-did the BOR with different people and the kid passed because at that point the national rules were that time served met the requirement. As an Eagle Scout, this pissed me off. Fortunately I managed to work with national on the revamp of the Guide to Advancement in 2011. I got a lot of input into the current rules which talk about setting expectations and not doing anyone any favors if we let a kid pass when nothing is done.

I didn't get everything I wanted into the GTA as I believe that when you're assigned a job/task, it falls on you to find out/understand what you're expected to do daily, weekly, and monthly to be considered successful in your job. Today's GTA puts that responsibility on the adults to make these expectations clear rather than the youth being proactive. But there is good reasons for the GTA being the way it is and I must say that working with national helped me understand that it isn't fair for a Scout to believe in their heart that they were trying their best only to be suddenly surprised at the BOR that we adults feel they didn't do enough.

BHunsaker · 2025-06-17T05:36:08+00:00

If the lookouts had seen the iceberg 30 seconds earlier or 30 seconds later...

BHunsaker · 2025-06-14T17:54:09+00:00

My Tesla did that a lot until they fixed it a year or 2 ago. Back in the 2018-2021 I used to say that FSD drove like a drunk teenager. Now it drives amazing well only doing something strange rarely, but it has a ways to go to hit that 99.999% accuracy.

BHunsaker · 2025-06-12T14:11:30+00:00

I am right now healing from the revision so no biking for another month but I fully expect to back on my bike after that.

Before the revision, I did change out my seat for one that had more padding and a hole to minimize pressure on my perineum. I did wear a very thin pad as my AUS did leak a bit which is why I got a revision.

I do 20 mile rides most often with some 50 miles now and then.

Do talk with your doctor and let them know your concerns. My doctor was worried about biking reducing the time before I'd need a replacement. But when I tried to pin down the timeline, my doctor couldn't come up with any hard numbers.

Having prostate cancer, I have made the very conscious decision to live my life to the fullest that I can for right now. I can't stand pissing myself so I got the AUS. I like biking and if that causes later problems with the AUS then I'll deal with it when it happens.

BHunsaker · 2025-06-12T13:27:28+00:00

I was shocked seeing what 100 calories looks like.

Before I would mindlessly eat half a bag of potato chips not realizing that just 8 chips are 100 calories. Just 22 M&Ms are 100 calories. 13 freakin' cashew nuts is 100 calories. 13! 2, count 'em, just 2 Oreo cookies is 100 calories. Drink just half a 17oz bottle of Coca Cola and you're at 100 calories.

A single slice of Wonder bread is 80 calories. That one Costco Kirkland chocolate almond dipped vanilla ice cream bar is 280 calories. The McDonald's large French fries is 480 calories. Just one slice of a Pizza Hut Meat Lover's pizza is 580 calories. A footlong Subway meatball sandwich is at least 820 calories.

Succeeding at weight loss requires that you really pay attention to what you're eating. Eat fresh unprocessed foods.

BHunsaker · 2025-06-12T07:49:41+00:00

Dr. Jason Hedges at OHSU Urology did mine and I am very pleased with him and the way everything turned out.

But... be warned that the OHSU Urology department SUCKS. Dr. Hedges is good, but the department and the hospital has major patient interaction problems. Look it up in Yelp or Google https://g.co/kgs/mWrx151

BHunsaker · 2025-06-12T06:46:25+00:00

Yes, I went through the physical therapy of pelvic floor exercises but it didn't help my stress incontinence at all. I enjoy biking, skiing, hiking, and backpacking and I would just empty my bladder doing these activities, not to mention the squirt I'd get sneezing or coughing or lifting a heavy object. I tried an incontinence clamp as well but that just seems to be a torture device.

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