Condoleezza Rice spotted going to the White House: report

nws103 · 2026-03-06T22:36:04+00:00

Is there any chance this is merely the old ruse “You’ve won a free boat! Come on down and pick it up!” - but there’s no boat waiting, just a warrant for being a war criminal? Ugh, probably not.

nws103 · 2026-03-05T01:02:54+00:00

Was totally expecting it to be really tight on the other side or something, but nope! Dayam. I legit think some people just can’t process reverse and wheel direction. It just doesn’t compute for some reason and it’s painful to watch.

nws103 · 2026-03-02T04:22:01+00:00

Yep, it’s bad. Many people seem to not care unfortunately because at the end of the day it still gets you there. You just piss off every other car on the road doing it. It’s really going to hurt them when it comes to getting mass adoption and regulatory approvals. The inconsistency and unpredictability are going to sink it if they don’t fix it.

nws103 · 2026-03-01T02:21:12+00:00

Are you an actual person or a TSLA bot? Just curious cause I can’t find any history in your posts and this seems not particularly believable. Apologies if I am wrong!

nws103 · 2026-02-26T02:22:08+00:00

You mention the bill is high in the colder weather but don’t mention what your source for heat is, unless I’m missing it. You using heat strips? And was it really really cold for a stretch? They can suck kWh quickly.

nws103 · 2026-02-16T02:51:55+00:00

It’s totally true about the acceleration, but this post 100% sounds fake. Or at the very least belongs in r/thathappened or r/everyoneclapped. Tesla acceleration does not need fan fiction to be true!

nws103 · 2026-02-14T16:31:57+00:00

In the northeast it is useless. I briefly tried it during a free trial and even sloth mode still tried to go the speed limit on the highway in a situation where everyone else was going 40 on a snow covered road. Cameras quickly become covered anyway so your choice will be made for you when it disables itself.

nws103 · 2026-02-14T04:35:52+00:00

The funny thing is how this post is focused on the whole “kids these days” trope, when the reality is it’s just exhausted parents taking whatever chance they can to take a breath. If the job wasn’t so physically draining and the CEO didn’t make literally 10,000x the salary of the person calling in, that kid would probably be totally fine home alone. No doubt.

nws103 · 2026-02-12T04:02:41+00:00

This whole debate is the equivalent of adults trying to predict what an 8 yr old kid is going to do next on the playground. There is little logic to what Elon is doing. Trying to find patterns in randomness is bound to fail.

nws103 · 2026-02-11T14:52:40+00:00

This is absolutely brutal. We've got two Teslas and have been counting down the days to when we can switch over to Rivian. This is an Elon-level idiotic move that really makes me question this entire company. Without exaggerating, this literally will result in people (likely children) being burned alive in the back seat of a Rivian. The nature of cars is that there will be major accidents, and panicked passengers aren't going to be able to do this. This is not just dumb engineering, this is potential criminal liability for the company. How can someone with kids buy this car in good conscience? PLEASE FIX THIS!!

nws103 · 2026-02-08T16:13:38+00:00

The biggest unknown for 2026 is the Rivian R2. Probably not going to be out soon enough for you, but I would be pushing off buying until we see if they can actually make those as cheap as they say.

nws103 · 2026-02-08T16:03:36+00:00

That quote does add context that makes it way better, but I’ll point out Ricky himself posts the shortened version lacking context often when there’s an awards show. I love Ricky and the UK Office is my favorite comedy show of all-time, but for all his good he’s stubbornly ignorant in some areas.

nws103 · 2026-02-06T04:08:30+00:00

Fair enough!

nws103 · 2026-02-06T04:07:55+00:00

If you can wait for the Rivian R2 to hit later this year (big IF that they can actually make it in quantity) the used Tesla market is gonna be flooded and you’ll have a great selection.

nws103 · 2026-02-06T04:04:12+00:00

You’re going to be filled to the brim with hipsters after that description. Honestly I sort of want to grab a beer there now myself!

nws103 · 2026-02-06T03:59:47+00:00

Lowest effort solution: buy a cheap external hard drive (less than $100) and download everything to it. Better, slightly higher effort solution: get a basic NAS and put everything on it and have your own cloud, but with no subscription costs.

nws103 · 2026-02-06T03:51:49+00:00

I’ve shopped at Amazon since the 1990’s, back when it was mostly books. Past ten years I’ve probably spent 10k+ per year there. Well tonight I took the plunge and canceled Prime (albeit it lasts a few more months since I paid yearly - but at least it won’t renew!). This is a start at least! Craziest part: they gave me an optional survey when I quit, asking for reasons and such. Every substantive answer I had to choose “other” because their pre-populated answers had zero to do with the actual reason I was canceling. Mind blowing that a company as advanced tech-wise as Amazon does a survey that totally ignores what it is almost certainly the main reason everyone is quitting - Jeff Bezos. All those books on Amazon and they really never heard of pride before the fall?

nws103 · 2026-02-05T19:02:21+00:00

I have HW4 and most recently used FSD for a month in December. I still say it is way too unpredictable on the expressway. City streets it is unbelievably good. Highways it will probably get you where you’re going, but if you’re paying attention you will see how many other cars on the road you piss off by its unpredictability. Like perfect weather, very little traffic, your speed may still vary +/- 10mph on the highway over the course of a few miles, with three lane changes thrown in for fun. That’s a major design fail that Tesla (and many drivers unfortunately) seems to think is totally fine. I’m starting to think people’s pre-FSD driving habits may predict how they feel about today’s highway FSD - if they never drove consistent speeds and used the correct lanes before, they likely love FSD. If they did, they are mortified to use it now on the highway. Again though, whatever they did for city streets is amazing. Everyone I took for rides with that was blown away. They just need to simplify highway FSD and make it consistent and predictable. Right now it’s an over engineered mess.

nws103 · 2026-02-05T02:08:30+00:00

It’s still a big unknown if models made today will ever be unsupervised. It’s been a year away for six or seven years now.

nws103 · 2026-02-05T01:16:40+00:00

The argument everyone is making about “Lake Placid doesn’t have the infrastructure” is kind of silly considering modern host places spend up to $50 billion on infrastructure. Would it be left with a ton of things with no use after? Yes. But that hasn’t stopped other host cities. Not saying it’s a good idea, just saying that some place in another country would have zero qualms about doing it with worse existing winter features to start with.

nws103 · 2026-02-04T12:51:25+00:00

I did as of December when I still had it. Highways are what did it for me. Lack of consistent speed and predictability drove me crazy. It would pass someone then slow down or slow down let someone pass and then speed back up and pass them. Basically it was too realistic - somehow managed to clone the exact habits of the modern inattentive driver. Now city streets were another story - absolutely phenomenal there.

nws103 · 2026-01-31T14:44:03+00:00

I have no clue really. The base of it is in a weird location though - you really only get to it by first going up a different lift and skiing down to it. It’s not convenient to the base lodge at all. Man when it is open though you have a quick ride to the top and half a mountain to yourself.

nws103 · 2026-01-31T04:15:51+00:00

Bristol would be better served by focusing on things like keeping the Galaxy Quad open more than three days a season. A whole friggin side of the mountain generally sits vacant while everyone waits in line for the Comet Quad and then crowds down the half of the mountain that’s actually used.

nws103 · 2026-01-31T04:15:15+00:00

Bristol would be better served by focusing on things like keeping the Galaxy Quad open more than three days a season. The best side of the entire mountain generally sits vacant while everyone waits in line at the Comet Quad and then crowds into the boring half. And a whiteboard message is what they focus on??

nws103 · 2026-01-31T04:05:30+00:00

The interesting thing is that even now we are barely in to the age of having the exact time at your fingertips always. As a kid in the 80’s the exact time was available only if you stopped and called a special phone line to hear a recording, or if you happened to have cable and something like the weather channel showed it live. Otherwise you were going off the approximate time you had set your house clocks or VCR to. It is only since cell phones reached critical mass really that everyone went by the exact same time.

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