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  1. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    What’s another group that stole aid from the most needy in their population and used it instead to fatten themselves to terrorize a peaceful music festival and coop farms that pose no threat to them, and videotape themselves raping and pillaging and take back innocents as hostages? In the...
  2. bhzmark

    Plaid 19 vs 21

    I have the old pads in both a plaid s and a plaid x and have stopped both from the very highest speeds multiple times and there was no problem. I never even triggered the brake warning light on the S after multiple stops and I did trigger the warning light on the Model x but in both cases never...
  3. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    No mention of returning hostages or bringing justice to the rape jihadists that are still at large, and demand “if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.” And they again deny that they targeted any civilians on October 7. Delusional barbaric jihadists are...
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Israel does comply. And no pimply keffiyeh wearer ever comprehends that it is Hamas and it followers that is violating International Humanitarian Law. For your education: What is Israel doing to respect International Humanitarian Law in Gaza? Under International Humanitarian Law, Israel is...
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    MYP tire rotation

    Not bothering. No significant benefit to tread life, possible harm to handling and identifying suspension problems. BMW and Volvo and Carguys recommend against it. Just leave it or just swap summer and winter tires.
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    plenty of precedent for this being done. List of deposed politicians - Wikipedia If the Gazans would put the energy and resources they currently commit to digging tunnels and planning for rape jihad, they could have easily replaced Hamas with a political leadership to develop their barren...
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Yes and shame on the Germans for not replacing Hitler, one way or another. They paid a steep price. And shame on the Gazans for supporting and participating in the Hamas led rape jihad. They will pay a similar price. If they were a decent people they would replace Hamas and educate their...
  8. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    During the long ceasefire and full withdrawal from Gaza, Israel gave jobs to Gazans but then the gazans and their leaders violate the ceasefire , violate the borders to commit rape jihad on music festivals and communal farms. They now suffer the consequences for their poor choices. Indeed...
  9. bhzmark

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Good thing Romania can just get to their own docks directly on the Black Sea without going through Turkish straits.
  10. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    More likely it just doesn’t fit into their world view of dividing up the world into oppressor / colonizer and oppressed / natives. The latter world view is really just another religion, another myth, that groups tell themselves to give themselves an identity and to help them process and simplify...
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    “ but a Vatican spokesman said the pope meant “cease-fire and negotiation.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/world/europe/pope-ukraine-white-flag.html
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    The better grenade pin analogy does have to get 80 year old history laughably wrong. The better grenade analogy is: When the rape jihadist violated the existing peacetime and killed and burned the civilian inhabitants on October 7, 2023 in the Music festivals and farms, that's the moment the...
  13. bhzmark

    Reporting on Tesla by Russ Mitchell (LA Times)

    Sadly I believe Fact Checking left this forum. Does anyone know if he is on Twitter or elsewhere? was he one of the ones who got disgusted, sold out, missed the stock gains? I vaguely recall it might have been him.
  14. bhzmark

    Wiki Model X Refresh Issues Thread

    It’s location specific. And the hardware changes all the time. keep trying. I recall, around late 2022, I was in the garage and FWDs wouldn’t open all the way. There was some combination of a message on the screen, with an option to change something, that fixed it. It gave me that option in low...
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    Wiki Model X Refresh Issues Thread

    There’s a setting to override and tell it to always fully open up in a location. Did you try that? It worked for me: sensor was detecting the garage door opener track and hardware and was too cautious but the override setting fixed it just fine
  16. bhzmark

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    an excellent summary of the state of affairs:
  17. bhzmark

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    I've been to Moscow multiple times, as well as some of the largest Russian cities outside Moscow/St. Petersburg -- there is a huge difference. Moscow is/was pretty darn nice (at least ~10 years ago). I remember good restaurants, good hotels, educated people, a surprisingly good vibe. It was...
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    I started listening to the Tucker Interview, but quickly skipped the history and looked for the part where Tucker asked Putin about the WSJ reporter. I thought it was a fair attempt to ask a hard question, while still insuring that he and his crew were likely to get out of Russia alive and that...
  19. bhzmark

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    What law obligates POTUS to tell the public what the consequences are or will be within 2 days of the death?
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    Who uses an alternative to Rennstand jack stands for rotating tires and other work on their Tesla?

    Is there a single QuickJack system that will work for a Model S/X, 3/Y and a Mazda Miata?
  21. bhzmark

    How to advocate for EVs?

    Here’s a better answer: Just say its like charging your phone: 99% of the time it is overnight I don’t think about it for more than a few seconds to plug it in, and I start the day with a neraly full tank that easily takes me through the full day. During road trips I might have to stop at a...
  22. bhzmark

    The 2 Best Days In a Plaid Owner’s Life

    Before Tesla, except for Saturn (no haggle pricing!), I didn’t think anyone, including the dealers, paid any attention to MSRP — it was all about how much above or below “invoice” you paid. Except that there were many OEM programs allowed dealers to say that they were selling “below invoice”...
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    SpaceX is prohibited from knowingly dealing with Russians in anyway, including indirectly. If Russians are really using Starlink it is likely without SpaceX knowing about it. And when they do learn of it they should be turning it off to be compliant. Although since Musk seems to listen to...
  24. bhzmark

    The 2 Best Days In a Plaid Owner’s Life

    It’s not unique to Tesla that their car prices dropped. When Tesla raised their prices on the refreshed S and X most car prices were going up, usually from dealer added pricing that was less noticeable in news. When Tesla was lowering their prices, those dealer added markups were disappearing...
  25. bhzmark

    The 2 Best Days In a Plaid Owner’s Life

    It’s the common economic concept of price discrimination. All popular high demand cars are subject to it. Other cars it happens at the dealer level where they add a surcharge. Tesla just has their version of it when releasing a high demand short supply (at first) car. It’s really basic...
  26. bhzmark

    2021+ Model S and Model S Plaid Refresh Issues Thread

    Satellite radio always seemed such crappy audio quality and now with the ease of streaming from the car and through your phone signal and phone storage I cant imagine why anyone would continue to use satellite radio. Wean yourself off cable tv and satellite radio — the alternatives are much better
  27. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Hamas and Gazans (and sadly it’s so ingrained in Middle East, Asian cultures, including Russia, to lie consistently) but that video is from a Lebanese movie —trace the comments on twitter. Hamas and Gazans lie, but that just isn’t one of them.
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    International law distinguishes between the legality of going to war, governed by "jus ad bellum," and the conduct within war, governed by "jus in bello" or international humanitarian law. **Jus ad Bellum:** - This set of rules determines under what conditions states may resort to war or use...
  29. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Seeing these arguments, and presumably by the more intelligent of those who don’t want Israel to defend itself, reminds me of the early days of 2017-2020 and seeing the TSLAQ crowd argue about Tesla going bankrupt any day — the weakness of the TSLAQ arguments convinced me that the TSLAQ bear...
  30. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    it will stop when Palestinians stop waging rape jihad on neighboring music festivals
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    I agree respect for education is a key ingredient. So many muslims disrespect education: they deny it to half their population and the education they do provide is largely religious voodoo nonsense at best, terrorist vocational school at worst. A fascinating theory to explain the success of...
  32. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Jews took the barren crappy territory of Israel and made it a thriving democracy contributing value to the world with innovative industry and business amongst neighbors of lingering shitholes with their lazy “inshallah” attitude and the worst of them committing rape jihad on music festivals...
  33. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    “I saw the videos… The most shocking thing was to see the DELIGHT Hamas had in killing innocent people; the DELIGHT in killing kids and defenseless women and men….There was no remorse. Quite the opposite. That requires a level of indoctrination that is extremely intense. So, I think to solve...
  34. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Bret Stephens is usually excellent. Key points: Gaza shares a border with Egypt. Gazans were often treated in Israeli hospitals for cancer and other life-threatening conditions. Israel provided Gaza with much of its electricity and other critical goods even after Hamas came to power in 2007...
  35. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Those deceiving themselves that Israel does anything like the scale of organized barbarity of Oct 7 are deluded. This time, October 7 time, Hamas and the Gazans who participated went too far. Israel left Gaza in 2005. Just after that dusty Chatham house ruling from 2004 you pretend is...
  36. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    That was precisely my view too — up to October 7. Now, after the most gruesome display of massive hand-to-hand torture and barbarism on civilians since ? the Vikings? the world will be a better place in the long run for Israel and the rest of civilization to take out all who lead and...
  37. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    I don't find antisemitism to be a useful charge anymore. And I suspect most younger, or otherwise immature, people who claim to want to help Palestinians by protesting Israel are motivated not by antisemitism, but rather are motivated by seeing and interpreting the world through a lense of...
  38. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    You asked for proof. I and many others provided it to you. And yet you are still taking the posture of “If it happened”? Are you a holocaust denier too? Where is the proof? But you believe Hamas when they say that IDF bombed a hospital and killed 500? Without asking for proof. And then it...
  39. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/04/middleeast/sexual-assault-october-7-israel-witness-int/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/middleeast/rape-sexual-violence-hamas-israel-what-we-know-intl/index.html Even the guardian admits it Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by...
  40. bhzmark

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    sorry -- donor advised fund. What is a donor-advised fund? Home | Vanguard Charitable A DAF is the easiest way to give to charity, especially for those with highly appreciated securities -- donate/transfer your TSLA to your DAF at Schwab or Fidelity or whatever, and you get the tax...
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    This doesn't look ideal for receiving contributions from our DAFs which we all should have funded with our highly appreciated TSLA shares. Safe Skies and United24 isn't a 501c3 itself, but it seems connected with a pretty new and small 501c3 called Ukraine House DC...
  42. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    There’s no fixing those who hide behind empty childish slogans oblivious to real facts and evidence (eg the NYT article just posted) and ignorant of international law. They simply take comfort in their slogans and scarves which is the extent of their thought process.
  43. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Yes war is messy and civilians die, even under the rules of international law. That’s is why a civilized people generally doesn’t start wars, and arranges their government to not have leaders that start wars, and generally doesn’t celebrate the one-on-one individualized terror that starts...
  44. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Gaza witnesses (via GoPro selfies!) staggering destruction beyond description, portraying an overwhelming magnitude of devastation: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/middleeast/rape-sexual-violence-hamas-israel-what-we-know-intl/index.html
  45. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Indeed. I expected much more appreciation of historic details from the otherwise very learned and instructive @wdolson That said, I think the history is completely irrelevant except to score rhetorical points. The borders and arrangements are what they are now, and the main injustice to be...
  46. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    But of course the “war” for them extends beyond their mere mortal existence. As for Israel playing into Hamas hands (which oddly, Palestinian supporters think is a good thing?!) — they had no choice. Hamas KNEW that by committing the single most concentrated reign of hand-to-hand terror...
  47. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Maybe now Gaza residents will think harder before they elect a government that will wage terrorist jihad against peaceful innocent neighboring civilians. Maybe the new Palestinian government will use the aid given to them to develop infrastructure to provide food and water to their residents...
  48. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    This seems to me to be worth posting alone as it is extremely educational and adds signal to the noise in this thread: From: Q&A on International Law of Armed Conflict and Gaza This Q&A summarises the international law of armed conflict on key issues relevant to the recent military action in...
  49. bhzmark

    Israel/Hamas conflict

    using obvious hyperbolic lies like "destruction of an entire population" appear simply emotional and not rational and it is not remotely persuasive. 24,000? Even the Hamas run Gaza ministry doesn't say 24,000. That is a simple lie. But even the Hamas reported 20,000 number is a lie too, as was...