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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If we waited to deal with poverty in Europe before we came to America, there would be no United States and we would still be working on it. A Mars colony is a spec of dust compared to US military spending, and space has always brought technological benefits back to the people.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

You automatically lose the argument when you start making fun of me as a person instead of sticking to the topic at hand. I’d die before voting for Trump. And like my profile clearly states - I can be a fan of the tech without being a fan of the CEO. And I’m not your buddy, guy!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dude. Literally all Tesla talks about with the cars is safety safety safety. It almost gets annoying how much they do about it and talk about it. They release endless videos talking about the specific things they do to go above and beyond. Their safetly scores are some of the best PLANET wide.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Okay? I'm still never going to say that him posting this/pushing back against Trump is a bad thing, sorry.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

What you are missing is - if the hours vary because of seasons, holidays, or just are frequently changed, now there is a way to easily communicate that instead of having signs that someone forgets to change out showing the wrong times. If your menu changes you don't have to reprint, etc.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I don’t dispute it. But it’s possible for there to be truths about him as well. We are all complex beings - a bad person can do good things and vice versa. To say he hasn’t done well with Tesla and SpaceX in the past because he is a shithead now isn’t right. And is a dangerous way to think in life

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

And I do NOT love him or even like him.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

He is listed on multiple patents. I’d imagine you found those though. And no, not footage of him saying great things about himself - footage of him talking about the details of what they are working on or videos of him giving a tour of SpaceX spending way too much time going into details of stuff.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Your evidence? I have hours and hours of footage of him talking about details of projects and employees talking about that he does the above. Maybe no longer today, but to blindly say he never did any good work isn’t going to pass muster, sorry.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

He started SpaceX from scratch and he bought into Tesla when it had like 4 employees. Considering they make billions in profit I’m not sure that counts as sinking. You can be mad at him and still recognize that he has done some impressive things in the past. I hate who he has become, myself.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I know very well. They had to redesign nearly every single aspect of it and regretted using the shells. I don’t think all he does is amazing, or even a good idea. But to say he isn’t a deep thinker or contributed in meaningful ways undercuts him too much. And hiring good people is a talent too.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Don’t forget that SpaceX doesn’t really patent much because those who would steal the designs don’t care about patent law and would use them to copy them more easily(e.g. China). But okay, so him having these patents you listed makes him NOT an inventor? How many must one have to qualify?

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I’ve followed him closely for over a decade. For the most part he does the work and gets into the weeds. My understanding is he is a clever engineer who thinks because he is good at that he is good at everything now. He lost being humble and got a big head. I’m not happy about this outcome.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Unfortunately this is not true - he is deeply involved with engineering/design/production of most things at his companies. At least, used to be.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Not always just looking at the road/snow to know. I also know when I slip a little earlier in the drive. I don't think FSD has that kind of context window, so can't imagine it will know ice unless it sees it. But still! Very impressed with snow!!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I DO think it was a little fast IF there was ice, but there wasn't and I could tell... but either it can too, or it just got lucky! See, I have the context of knowing the snow is fresh and generally understanding the weather in the area.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Did about as good as we do at guessing where the lanes are when you can't see them, went below the speed limit, seemed to slow early for upcoming stops, gave plenty of room to other cars.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Tesla FSD 13.2.2 drove me home in the snow last night. I didn't know that it would actually change behavior based on weather already! But It was as good as a human!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Let it speed - it judges the road/vehicles better than I do and reacts faster. Let it roll stop signs. Let it treat red lights like stop signs in low traffic situations! Why not? If it can see all directions, why not?

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Tesla Robotaxi/CyberCab/FSD is going to save lives day one. The threshold they need to cross to deploy it is: does it save more lives than are harmed - not is it perfect. I don't even think we should care if it breaks the law, as long as it does it safely.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

There may be some applications of hydrogen vehicles, but short-range in-town garbage trucks were never going to be it.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

…not b/c of restrictive measures, but b/c these companies will find it cheaper to clean the space up than to avoid items.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

…you’ll be okay. But my real point is this: Extremely cheap and capable launch vehicles(both launching this week) will make cleanup of this stuff trivial. We are at peak “uncontrolled mess” today…

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

We can track all of these objects and simply avoid them. Space is HUGE, and yes they are moving fast… but so is anything we send to space next to it, and mostly in the same direction so relative to each other it’s like trying to dodge a car coming at you at 70 miles per hour… 5000 miles away…

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Forgot to mention that they also actively burn themselves up asap if they are functioning still at end of life/failure.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Starlinks are designed that even once they spend months getting to full height they will burn up after only a few years, but if they fail on launch will be weeks. Plus unlike the requirement to burn up 90% of the way - they are 100%. Nothing from the biggest mega constellation is the threat here.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Literally in your link: “Therefore, he added, their elevated accident rates likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions.” This report has been out for months and we’ve talked about it here endlessly - the car is safe, but it attracts people who drive extra recklessly.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Don't put off for 2025 what you can start today. I'm gonna go work out lol

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I’ve read that both of them have spoken on Lives together before and that the account just uses a filter to talk Ike Elon to confuse people/get attention. That not true? Where was that shown?

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Tesla FSD needs a mode to tap the car in front of you and follow it. Visiting family in an unfamiliar city and V13 has done all of the driving… until I had to follow them.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

'Tesla's SpaceX'? What does that mean? they are two different companies.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My first 3 was #5469! It was actually great for the couple months I had it. Got crashed into :/

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

‪Finished the next leg - Trinidad Colorado to Clayton New Mexico. Perfect drive on V13! Only interesting thing was it changed lanes without blinker “suddenly”(was perfectly smooth about it) seemingly because it thought this road patch was a puddle maybe?‬

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Finished the first leg. Car took me from my garage in Colorado Springs to the parking spot NEXT to the supercharger in Trinidad without any other input. Obviously had to re-park but otherwise didn’t need to touch the wheel or pedals. Amazing!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just got FSD v13.2.1 before heading on a 14 hour trip to Texas this morning. The timing is perfection! Not only for having a better system for the trip but to test out just all kinds of unique situations that only occur once a year for me!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This is not true. Not sure what your source is but this image isn’t even teslas. And Tesla will often fill a shipyard with cars preparing for loading… which could be seen from space. They report number of cars produced and delivered monthly. Hate him for the facts, no need to make any up!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Teslas catch fire over 60x less often than gas cars. Gas car fires happen over 5000 times per day in the US.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Well, but wasn’t his point with the stories based on these that even the most perfect set of three laws won’t work? That’s why you end up with the Zeroth law and so forth.

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Science-wow @dr-jennifer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I'll bet it can't even do pre-programmed parkour yet either! 🙄

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tesla did this forever ago and so few people used it they never opened more than one, and redesigned the Model 3 and others to not be able to do it anymore. Imagine buying a new $50k car and having a 200k mile battery with no warranty swapped into it... yuck.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

500 miles is silly. It takes a few min to top off. MOST ppl who buy with the range like that will use that what 1-2 times a year? Drive around with hundreds of pounds of extra battery that could have helped build a second car for that trip? Give em extender trailers to rent or something.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I felt the same way in Gravity haha. Entertaining, sure. But always loved Apollo 13. That and October Sky had strong impacts on me as a kid.

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Wow! Very cool! And I appreciate and respect NASA and am a huge fan. Musk would be nowhere without what NASA did. I just think NASA is held back by congressional oversight/budget and all of those politics. My favorite show is For All Mankind which show an alt reality where NASA wasn't held back!

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Eh, they get cheaper every year and amortized over even 5 years makes them a couple percent extra over the monthly cost. And the DoD keeps tabs on what he is or isn't doing with them. I don't think his politics plays in as much as everyone is worried(specifically meaning the sats here only! 😬)

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Chris Priddy @priddysharp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

... there SHOULD be someone to oversee him but now anything is possible. But of all of our problems with this new government his sats are the least of my worries. But you aren't wrong and it's something to keep an eye on.

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