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Rio Tinto says that coal is now too expensive to power its Australian aluminium smelters.
It is instead turning to renewables.
reneweconomy.com.au/coal-pow…
Interesting offer by a 3rd party to take over manufacturing Cybertruck.
An open offer to Tesla: We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands.
We’d fund it with a consortium of investors and run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus. All of that goes to Cybercab. Cybercab gets first call on battery cells too. We’ll wait our turn.
Tesla gains incremental profit: a license fee, plus FSD and Robotaxi network revenues on every vehicle built.
We’d build the Cybertruck, a three-row CyberSUV, and an unmanned CyberCargo hauler. More autonomous miles, across every surface of this planet and beyond.
Worth a conversation?
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A fair question we’re hearing: can UP really run the Cybertruck vehicle line?
Not alone, and not overnight. Tesla expects to dismantle the line around mid-2027. Until then, we’re organizing interested investors, recruiting experienced manufacturing talent and partners, and choosing a location. We’d like to be near Giga Texas.
Production would need to ramp back up, and it may be cell constrained. Peak output may be lower and unit costs may be higher. A reset is hard, premature death is harder. We choose reset.
We believe this is highly fundable because one production platform serves three markets: existing demand for the pickup, pent-up demand for a seven-seat SUV, and Robotaxi network vehicles in useful all-terrain form factors (seven-seat people movers, cargo haulers, and pickups). Those markets have no feasible second best alternative with Tesla Autonomy.
We’re full believers in Optimus. When Tesla has units ready, we aim to build a line where humans and humanoids work coordinated shifts around the clock.
This depends on attracting people who believe in the mission: extending the joy of this cutting-edge technology platform onto roads not yet traveled. Tesla has set the bar themselves for what a qualified operator looks like, and we intend to meet it. There is perhaps no company as loyal or committed to Tesla as UP. We’ve built on Tesla platforms since 2013, and we’d be honored to carry the torch.
We’re grateful for the outpouring of support from Tesla owners and shareholders, and we look forward to continuing the discussion.
For those looking to contribute: [email protected]
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One for those who are into this sort of thing... Wednesday, November 18, 2026, at 9:16:07 pm AEDT Voyage 1 will be officially 1 light day away from us. What a journey. It launched on September 5, 1977, at 10:56:00 pm AEST.
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us, is located approximately 4.2465 light-years away from Earth. That equals roughly 40.2 trillion kilometres, or around 1,551 light-days.
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Vote Harvesting should be illegal. There are others beyond this list doing exactly the same as well. All I can suggest is do your research before voting and don't just pick a party that "sounds" right on the day.
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#BREAKING 🚨 One Nation has disendorsed Franco Guardiani – its candidate for Preston at the Victorian election – after social media posts circulated showing Guardiani calling Adolf Hitler "the GOAT", the ABC reports
He will still appear on the ballot as a One Nation candidate
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Don’t be like Monica or Avi & tell your friends about this duplicity in Political Party naming to redirect votes for upcoming elections🗳️ #Auspol
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Somebody tell the Democrats not to fuck this win up like @AustralianLabor & @AlboMP have
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BloombergNEF w 2019 roku pokazał prognozę produkcji baterii na świecie. Nikt inny nie prognozował tak agresywnego wzrostu. Dziś w Monachium Michael Liebreich wrócił do tej prognozy, pokazanej na poniższym slajdzie w formie słupków i porównał ją z rzeczywistością w formie wykresu liniowego... – at Raszyn, Polska
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How did @nswpolice go from community based law encorcement to this intimidating paramilitary force.
Not the same organisation I joined.
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It’s time for Australia’s big banks, among the most profitable in the world, to start paying interest on all deposits, cash management accounts. There are $billions sitting in these accounts not earning any % while our banks gouge mortgagees under cover of @RBAInfo’s counter inflation strategy.
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Two days out from the AUKUS Public Inquiry publishing its findings and we have this Bill tabled on 27 October with submissions due by tomorrow. Why the rush, Minister Marles?
Many of us have long suspected that the Americans will want to control the airspace and the sea space around their bases which raises serious issues about sovereignty and accountability.
If the Americans are carrying out nuclear armed missions on Australian soil we will be kept completely in the dark.
This Bill is alarming not only because of the inadequate timeframe provided to oppose it and because it will slip blithely through the bipartisan Defence Committee, but because we are handing sovereignty of important parts of our country to the most notorious rogue international law breaker in modern history.
We should be completely disassociating ourselves from the US war machine rather than handing it sole control of critical, strategic parts of Australia.
Note the changes proposed to the FOI Act: between that and the multifarious physical restrictions, the entire AUKUS project will be effectively blanketed from scrutiny by the Australian public.
Get your submissions in by tomorrow and see the must read piece by @JabriRita below.
defence.gov.au/about/governa…
Submissions - aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Bus…
#auspol #AUKUS #AUKUSPublicInquiry @DeclassifiedAus @IPAusNet #transparency #accountability
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Next time I need to dump some rubbish I'll just put all my assets into an offshore company and go bankrupt, save $660 a year.
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.