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"Maybe life takes on meaning to the degree that our efforts and love are connected." -Bob Harris

@allie__voss You had to go through security but you didn’t need to have a ticket to be airside in the terminal. When I was very young, the gate attendants used to let me run down the jet bridge to hug my dad when he came home from business trips.

As someone who never experienced airports before 9/11...was there truly NO security? Like you could just walk wherever like a train station?

I used to be annoyed by having to replace ink cartridges in my pens until I realized that it means I’d been writing a lot.

@RepThomasMassie Tbf you vote against the Republicans a lot though

Families are hurting financially due to trillions of dollars of wasted and reckless spending that began 6 years ago today. On March 27, 2020, Congress passed Pelosi’s $2 trillion COVID bailout that funded mail-in elections. I was the ONLY Republican to stand up against it.

@fandompulse Of course he was. Force Awakens was a shot-for-shot remake of A New Hope. It could have been a good movie if it wasn’t a clone of a movie that already existed.

Bob Iger on George Lucas' disappointment after seeing The Force Awakens: "He didn’t hide his disappointment. ‘There’s nothing new,’ he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do." Was George right in his criticism?

@johnandrewwords Huge thumbs up for this movie👎 The family thoroughly enjoyed it

Watched Project Hail Mary with my wife tonight. The film knows what the heart of the book is and went all in on that aspect of the story. I think it was the right decision. I thought about taking off a half-star because there were a few things from the book I missed. I love the technical problem solving of an Andy Weir novel. However, if I’m being honest with myself, I’m not at all confident that adding more of the science stuff would have made it a better movie. Beautiful cinematography. This felt like a Film. And that means something these days. Grieg Fraser is a top three cinematographer. The movie had real charm, hope, and sincerity. My wife is absolutely not a sci-fi fan and loved it. That also means something. Loved it. 👎

@AOC Tragic and true

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

@paolini Very excited for this project!! Good luck! :D

Last time I was on the Fox lot, I was 22. Pretty surreal to be back. #Eragon

Someone should make an AI agent that monitors the situation. It browses Polymarket, browses X, drinks the white Monster energy drinks and packs Zyns. It could have a komodo dragon as the logo too because, you know, it being a monitor lizard.

@intelliot Hard to say for sure but I’d say yes overall

@lantisDan They feel about the same speed yeah ?

The Apple A18 Pro (debuted in the 2024 iPhone 16 Pro) is roughly equivalent in performance to the M2 chip.

@SCHDaccumulator It's a thousand dollars worth of points to get it so you'd have to really really want it for it to be worth it. And if you think that's crazy, wait till you see the solid gold card they have that's the equivalent of $8,500 in points!

Robinhood offers a 24K Gold card???

@escapefrommelos Bussin’ frfr

can you imagine having such an optimized Gоyslop Consumption Setup?

@QuoteSunTzu Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

You’re being watched. Act accordingly.

RIP to my favorite Presidents Day fun fact. John Tyler, our 10th president, had a grandson alive until last May. John had a son while in his 60s. That son had a kid while in his 70s. And that kid, Harrison Tyler, passed away last year at age 96. So… New fun fact: John was born during Washington administration. So 3 generations of Tylers span EVERY PRESIDENCY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” ~ St. Augustine

An under discussed use case for LLMs that it makes the barrier to entry for making very customized software for yourself (meaning software where you’re the only user and it’s optimized for something specific in your life particularly) a lot lower.

@latterdaylaura Just wait till your baby smiles at you for the first time, and then every time after that. 🤗

Tired of all the “just wait until they wake up screaming at 2 am” comments. Give me your best positive just waits. Like, just wait until they’re 9 and you get to show them some of your favourite movies and watch their reactions and laugh together at Nacho Libre squeezing his glutes

@Interior One of the most beautiful places on earth!

A peaceful morning in a quiet stretch of old-growth coast redwoods. Sometimes the best timeline cleanse is found beneath towering trees at Muir Woods National Monument. Photo by Jason Bosinoff / NPS

@StarWarsDaily_ Big fan for sure

What are your thoughts on the Bad Batch as a whole?