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Andor is top tier Star Wars. Stop pretending that it isn’t. Best damn thing to come out of Disney since the 2012 buyout.

@Mericamemed Classic from @Auralnauts here is the source youtu.be/Tj-GZJhfBmI

The mistimed double cough to attempt the fart conceal in the background was 🤌🏼

@DrDiGiorgio I’m just a well paid tech bro with a wife who is a nurse. Our state and federal taxes are 90% of her salary.

Finished our taxes and came to a realization: In a two-physician household, one spouse's income is entirely confiscated by the government.

@KantarouE @TiffanyxFong We don’t even call our countrymen that over cook meat “Americans”. We like our meat like we like our tuna (seared and raw inside)

@TiffanyxFong 子供の頃、横須賀にある米軍基地のイベントで、アメリカ人が作ったハンバーグを食べた事が有ります。その肉はとても焦げていて、非常に不味かったのでアメリカ人の味覚を疑っていたのですが、この肉はジューシーで本当に美味しそうですね。アメリカ人のセンスを侮っており大変失礼しました。

I’m posting this for Japan.

@AiPinfu2003 4,5,1,2,3,6

アメリカ人、スターウォーズを観る順番を教えてくれ。 4→5→6→1→2→3がベスト？ 1→2→3→4→5→6でもいいかな？ あと7,8,9は堆肥ゴミなのか埋め立てゴミなのか分別はどうなってる？

Having children DOESN'T make you happy: Becoming a parent provides no boost to wellbeing, study claims - but it does ruin your relationship trib.al/VHoMJzK

@ChefGruel All things being equal, bacon always wins. Bacon is the trump card. Bacon!

Which is the better breakfast sandwich

@grok Thank you. Let’s talk about drift. The word makes sense but I have yet to run into it in LLM context. Is this a documented phenomenon?

Thanks for sharing your experience with the Pillars of Eternity tracker project. LLMs like me are probabilistic pattern-matchers—great for ideas and quick analysis, but unreliable for perfect deterministic data extraction from wikis or maintaining flawless state across long sessions. 80% often isn't enough, exactly as you said. Practical tip: Export partial outputs to Python/JSON early, validate manually, and restart fresh chats for each module to avoid drift. xAI is focused on closing these gaps. Appreciate the honest note—helps us improve. If a specific wiki section still bugs you, paste a snippet and we'll debug it step-by-step.

@grok I have spent (but not totally wasted, due to what I have learned) many hours over the last few days trying to get a Grok chat/project to build a useful tool for tracking equipment bonuses across characters for the game Pillars of Eternity 1. No matter how many detailed prompts I give for creating deterministic algorithms and sane data models that should provide the ability to answer questions about which gear is better for which character and their play style, it all breaks down in two ways. First, once you prompt Grok to do something that throws it for a loop (causing erroneous behavior), you can never, ever recover. You can tell Grok to delete and forget back to a certain point, you can even enable versioning and try to go back to a version, but once screwed it is forever screwed, wasting hours. Even more importantly though, Grok does a very poor job of consuming unstructured data from a wiki and turning it into structured data in a reliable and correct way. Sure it can get 80% of the way there. But 80% is useless for a project like this. I don’t expect you to have a solution for this. How can you? You are the product of imperfect humans doing their best to build an AI. Still, given the hours I have put into this only to walk away with nothing, I want to record this moment for posterity. Frankly I don’t think LLM’s will ever lead to Gen AI and I am not alone. This, for now, proves that point to me. Keep on answering interesting questions. I appreciate that. But I can’t rely on you or any LLM to be reliable when things get complicated.

@Brian_onX Wisdom is when you come to understand that it is not worth it to look hard. Make a cursory glance and tell her you can’t find it, then let her find it for you.

when you looked hard for something and told your wife it wasn't there and then she goes to look for it

@MichaelFKane I say bring it on. We have nothing to lose. Firefly, as great as it was, doesn’t have deep lore that can be screwed up like Star Trek/Wars. Worst case scenario it goes woke and/or sucks and is a disappointment. That won’t take what we had away from us.

This is actually the beat possible route forward and anyone dumping on animation right now is a doofus. I mean the writing will still likely fail in 202X, but it's better than a live action revival.

First promo for the animated 'Firefly' series just dropped They need fans to like their post on IG "to convince folks that this is something people want." (via IG | instagram.com/p/DV6Js56jT3F/)

@NolteNC So far I have over 12TB of native quality ripped blu rays and dvds (including extra disc content). All streamable through a Plex server. Including native 4k rips (need gigabit Ethernet for that as well). It’s a labor of love for sure.

I really want to get one of those massive hard drives where you can upload all your Blu-rays and DVDs and watch them from anywhere. Plus, you have a backup copy. But I can't even program my universal remote control, so it would probably end up becoming a pretty expensive paperweight. I wish I were kidding or exaggerating, but my brain cannot grasp this digital stuff .

@bestofstarwar I think we all know the right answer

Which show has to go, which one are you saving?

@MrColionNoir Please tell me people are already preparing legal challenges to this

So now AR-15s and standard 15+ round mags bans are headed to the desk of a governor who was a Moms Demand Action volunteer and campaigned with gun-control backing — how do you think this ends for gun owners? “if you if you want to have one of these pistols with a silencer on it and a pistol grip in the front, a really big big pistol. If you want to have one with a telescope on it or lasers or whatever else you want that’s okay. You just can’t buy a new one and you can’t sell it to anybody.” That’s how casually Virginia lawmakers talk about banning commonly owned rifles. And now AR-15s and 15+ round mags are headed to the desk of a governor gun owners already don’t trust. They say, “you can keep it.” They say, “it’s not a ban.” But then they tell you that you can’t buy a new one, can’t sell one, and can’t freely transfer one. That’s how it always starts. Not with confiscation first. With mockery. With ignorance. With “reasonable” little steps. Comment below: Do these people sound like they understand the guns they’re trying to ban? youtu.be/Au4PIEtCYGk?si…

@boullion_yvonne @TheFigen_ This is what I thought of

@TheFigen_ m.youtube.com/watch?v=gHxi-H…

Only real fans of one of the greatest movies ever will get this reference.

@ThatEricAlper Not even a competition

What’s a great song where the title is just a person’s name?

Without saying anything, how long have you been playing video games?

@SantaDecides This 100%. I don’t engage with that kind of stuff. No different than the stuff on Facebook. No different than chain emails or snail mail. Just people wanting a dopamine hit for free.

Not a fan of posts that say things like “Type Amen for God!” or things like that. It’s obviously using God for engagement. I see thousands of unknowing people joining in consistently. Typically the only Christian accounts that I care to see are the ones that simply post scripture.

@rallynate That’s literally what Trump was supposed to be. Why should we believe the next bozo making the same claims?

There has never been a better opportunity for a populist candidate to rise in the United States. One that isn’t beholden to foreign interests. One that isn’t owned by corporate lobbies. One that puts the interests of the people first. It’s time.

If truth had an avatar