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Nicholas Shanks

@nickshanks_

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Software engineer. Tesla owner and shareholder. I retweet UK/European EV news for my US followers.

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@ICannot_Enough Well it's never going to go down, is it!
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@elonmusk @rice_fry That’s a job offer.
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@DarrenDaughters @JamesMelville All sports come from war. This is about getting over a city’s wall.
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@cutievictoriaa @justpaden @NoContextHumans “I wrote a three, then I wrote a seven.”
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@aginnt @ShrimpTeslaLong “Wow” what? That speech said nothing.
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@Blue_Sauron You’d think the Russians would hear them coming with all that horrid loud music blaring.
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@NoContextBrits I am still looking for the chips…
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Ford’s dilemma:
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Legacy 🚗 is f**ked
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@tomgara Clear 👍🏻 human-centric 👍🏻 presents all three possible choices to proceed 👍🏻 Looks perfect to me.
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@BillSPACman At least he’s confident enough to be himself.
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@Number10cat @faisalislam You need to sort out the service delays, though.
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@Paplurv @higley_alex “More stronger” ? Either “stronger” or “more strong”.
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@mhdksafa There’s always a meme for any occasion:
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@ghostinthessnow @CoutureFX I give you another 74 years. I am sorry.
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@rizwancyrus1 @TeslaVisualized @elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog @SawyerMerritt Naming the company after him was a bigger acknowledgment.
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@OgI_Kidd @KingIrg_ I like that it mostly criticises the driver for his bad doughnut technique.
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@mycrankyboosez @twistedmic24 @PermianLandman It’s my father in law’s job to go and pick up the bits of people’s bodies when there’s been a suicide.
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@ajtourville @elonmusk Actually i hope we have more like that. Btw: those labels don’t show up for me.
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@NoContextBrits The similarity is uncanny!
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@BumphBean @JuddLegum Elon is fighting all of those things.
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@elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog Working remotely and pretending to work are VERY different things. You can pretend to work at the office, and you can slave into the night at a non-office location. Sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to one individual.
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@BBCArchive The second woman is brilliant! 😂
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@SawyerMerritt Is he the only analyst actually testing the software?
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@breakingryan1 Check this angle out
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@DimaZeniuk @elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog @1stMarsColonist @daelmor @GailAlfarATX @Kristennetten @Inelonwetrust__ @billhuang688 @teslaownersSV @EvaFoxU I studied Astrophysics for three years at university then skipped the exam because I went there to learn not to get tested.
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@ajtourville NASA claims the software is there, but when something goes wrong, it is configured to fall back to human control instead of falling back to a second automated system. They also claim it is non-trivial to flip that switch and will take two weeks to do.
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@MarketRebels Former billionaires.
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@TitterTakeover @elonmusk @paraga @Twitter Twitter employs about 100 times as many staff as is needed to operate it’s current levels of disservice. Layoffs are inevitable and progressive for the business.
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@nosilverv Things I know about Portugal: Flag is red and green Britain's longest ally Left of Spain Sounds like a Russian person trying to speak Spanish.
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@xkcd Literally
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@torybruno And the A10
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@Bond007theone @TSLAQQ Bribery is legal in the USA. In fact, it’s the normal way of doing politics/business.
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@ATX_fight_club @elonmusk I’ll never understand this point of view. In 2005-8 as SpaceX were testing the Falcon 1, I first saw a shy, nerdy, bad in public, engineering geek with an abstract sense of humour. I relate 100%, and to me he couldn’t be more genuine. A more extreme version of my personality.
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@TeaAndCopy We're finally at Z!
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@elonmusk And as soon as you capture one, it is no longer free.
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@HarrysBadTweets There needs to be a time limit. £30/week, or £30/day or whatever you can afford.
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@Tesla 3am is murder!
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@NoContextBrits Obviously he means “Kindly get rid of them.”
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@0xrhl @JessicaNutt96 Yes, is a post-apocalyptic nightmare…
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@Fearless200 @muddaub Those aren't photographs, they're made by AI. Oh also AI isn't real btw. It's a conspiracy to get you to buy a GPU server farm. Powered by electricity. Which also doesn't exist. Haven't you been keeping up?
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@RandyVegetables @BomsteinRick Just lift it up, wait 12 hours for the Earth to rotate underneath it, then put it down again.
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@APazyryk @AwaitsBeauty649 @gordon_friedma @_MaxFowler @Scobleizer @MLDataTorturer Relative to previous humanoid robot efforts, it is fluid. Relative to a human, it is still slightly robotic.
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@aminorjourney @elonmusk Defending yourself is not the same as being a bully.
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@battleaxeBrit1 I hope @RoyalFamily shows this to the queen.
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@RyanZohoury @elonmusk @TeslaCharging @Tesla The blue Model X seems to have been driving somewhere muddy with it’s rear doors raised open.
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@CallMePov @NoContextBrits If it’s chewy and stringy you haven’t cooked it. The one on the right is crunchy too.
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@MyLifeCoachMark Simple: 1. Petrol pumps require electricity too. 2. No grid is needed if you have solar panels. Therefore ICE vehicles are more susceptible to a grid outage than EVs.
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@TeslaPodcast @Tesla Like a proper racing car.
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@SophistUnpaid @Bb1Kehn This is literally the most bullish sign for Lucid. People who have been through the Tesla vetting process and worked for the mission, now getting presumably a higher up position in Lucid.
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@Lukeleisher Elon knows far more than most people give him credit for, in a large number of, usually technical, subjects. This unfortunately gives him unwarranted confidence in thinking he knows far more than he really does in other, usually social, subject matters.
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@MarkDomel @idrilynn @samgardiner29 @TerribleMaps No one added it. There was an error in an early US dictionary, that never got fixed.
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@StuartFrazer @ejnagouse @worhoose @northumbriapol "Wanted" posters have existed for thousands of years. The police have websites of wanted faces. There was a TV show called Crimewatch. I am sure one tweet is not going to harm anything.
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@CompaniesMarke1 @SawyerMerritt Lots of people are going to lose lots of money.
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@EzerRatchaga If you don’t even have your car keys, what are the odds you’re carrying two plungers and a roll of blue tape?
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@ObsoleteSony No-one sent their camera back, and the second-hand price doubled overnight.
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@DavidSacks No, but “doxxing” needs to be defined as publishing private data, not re-publishing public data.
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@fastworkers6 You’d think the invigilators would notice the camera crew in the exam room.
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@GameMistress A cheap rip-off of:
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@Benioff Stop ignoring Tesla, it’s absurd.
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@AlternateJones My mum bought her first TSLA shares last week at $553
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@teslaeconomist You call it lying, I would say it's unrestrained over-optimism. In my opinion, he doesn't deliberately say things he knows to be false. He says things he expects are going to come true, and is as disappointed as the rest of us when they do not come to fruition.
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@MrBitcoinMaxi @401k_daytrade @hazbluntz @unusual_whales The CEO of Twitter spoke to the CEO of Tesla and the companies have agreed upon a consultancy contract.
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@conehead2377 @LN1Casey @WhamBaamYT Stop trolling. You clearly know nothing about MPEG compression artefacts nor colourspace calibration.
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@Civixplorer @TerribleMaps Blindfolded and span around three times, right?
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@DJSnM @torybruno For the confused:
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@elonmusk is here and speaking in German @Giga_Berlin @Tesla
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@teslaeconomist Depressed TE is back :-( Tesla have said quad motor is first. I don’t expect that to change.
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@WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk @mrlevine @jimfarley98 I’ve always wanted a knob in the middle of my screen, blocking the view.
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The first six @GRIDSERVE_HQ @ElecHighway charging stations at Grantham North (Gonerby Moor) services should be going live THIS EVENING, according to site manager Chris from @ActemiumUK . Six more will follow. Gridserve had several staff on site test-charging their Genesis cars.
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@DJBurges @sc101_101 @FullyChargedDan Hahaha, brilliant. Hindenbus.
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@infosec_fox Seems sensible to me.
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@dtbon @AlecStapp He only included civilised countries in the original chart.
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@WillFealey @elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog Norway got FSD testers sent from Fremont. France, Germany and Italy had to hire local testers subsequently. Greece, Sweden, UK, Spain & Poland came in second wave of hiring.
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@TerrifyingNatur Deer is thinking, “You should see the other guy!” [yes, i know it’s velvet shedding]
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@lindsey_dacosta @engineers_feed “One hundred and one”
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Today I saw my first IONIQ5!
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@CzechArtGirl @neuralink But the article refers to him by name throughout?? What are you trying to criticise here?
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@SpaceX @NASA @NASAKennedy @NASA_LSP In Gattaca, they launch at 11am every day. You need to up your game.
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@eloffd At least make it a float!
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@SawyerMerritt “If Tesla workers unionised, would you fins some other way to exclude Tesla from the credit?” “Well, yes, we would have to look for other options in that case.”
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@stevelevine AM Batteries to be next Tesla acquisition?
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@WholeMarsBlog Seats already have a weight sensor. I guess they know if there's a full vs empty child seat installed
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@duncantrussell @michaelsayman How about just a “view this person’s timeline” button.
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@teslaeconomist @Goldfiinger77 But before the process was: wait for mexico, build pilot line, refine, build full line. It was all serial. Now it is: build pilot line whilst waiting for mexico, refine, build production line. Parallelisation!
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@Bergha2 @SpaceX Turns out YOU need to work out how tenses work! Well done on embarrassing yourself on the internet.
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@fastworkers6 That’s an industrial accident waiting to happen.
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@inspiration4x No-one mentioned Firefly!
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@VisarMato @wartranslated They just got out of prison. They have not had any military training. Do you really believe they know what "identification codes" are!?
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@betelbot Now at 207,665,910,704,860.4% of my usual brightness!
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@SkyNews
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"Freedom at last". Sky’s international correspondent @AlexRossiSKY reports from the central square of Kherson as crowds celebrate - with joy and tears - the liberation of the city. Live updates: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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@Teslaconomics Of course, why would that even be a question? That’s called “normal life”.
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