Ray J

@McCormickProf maybe start by removing divisive terms like 'woke' from your profile?

I'll probably get clobbered for this, but here goes: Please, can everyone, right or left, MAGA or anti-MAGA, Republican or Democrat, stop catastrophizing and trying to get everyone on your side worked up into a rage? It's not Flight 93. We're not on the verge of fascism. We do not need to take desperate measures. Our fellow citizens with whom we disagree are not devils incarnate or personifications of evil. We need to argue with our political adversaries--passionately perhaps--but with respect for their humanity and dignity. We don't need to destroy them. That mustn't be our aim. We all say we believe in democracy. Good! But democracy is all about persuading, giving reasons, engaging one another as fellow citizens, despite our disagreements. Let's rebuild civic friendship. We can do this. (Thank you for your attention to this matter.)

@dhmontgomery @YouGovAmerica Thought you'd appreciate this...

NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @YouGovAmerica polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/

@pwrhungry Also liked showing off his rather large "Johnson" to random people in the bathroom. It's that side of politics that i miss.

Here’s the story of how, in 1938, a freshman Congressman from Texas, Lyndon Johnson — a man born in a farmhouse without electricity or running water, and who would go on to be one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century — brought electricity to the Texas Hill Country. My latest: robertbryce.substack.com/p/how-lbj-wire…

@EthicalSkeptic ES, you are trying to ruin the very basis of what the internet is built upon!

Like a dog barking long after the block, they howl in anger at being denied the chance to save face. And the longer they bark, the sadder the loss becomes.

When their arguments are spent and their reasoning has failed, the pretender’s last resort is to call you a liar.

@JVinos_Climate sounds like the relationship between planetary waves and westerly winds sets up a naturally occurring chaotic system?

For the first time in a month of November, the boreal polar vortex has collapsed. The extreme weakness of the polar vortices has played a major role in planetary cooling since 2024. Expect Arctic cold waves to invade the northern continents over the next month.

@EthicalSkeptic Hijacking this to say I like your Egyptian profile pic better 😇

Do something dumb for 50 years, and take the extra cash generated by that dumb action, and invest it in the S&P, 50 years ago ...and you have a time-traveling red herring. These are separate value chain decisions.

@RogerPielkeJr They plot two imaginary lines and take credit for the difference, lol.

It is amazing how climate scenarios are so poorly understood These “prediction” were revised downward because the were wrong from the start RCP8.5 and all that

@politicalmath Once Adobe is on your computer, look out. Check out its memory usage even when it is not in use, and good luck!

ok, why does Adobe Lightroom import 100 GB of photos and then use 2 TB of disc space?

@SeanTrende Nowhere does this phenomenon more clearly rear its head than in the case of Bruce Gilley where all he did was write a scientific article showing the up-side of colonialism and got death threats in return.

Right? 62%, or roughly two thirds, describe themselves as some variant of liberal. And when your comparator is the quasi-Marxist critical theorist down the hall, your point of view becomes skewed. Even the conservatives are probably more libertarian than conservative.

@SeanTrende noaa, weather.gov, is so simple

They redesigned weather dot com and it is driving me nuts.

@johngramlich Since, on average, journalists tend to lean left, I wonder how that factors in.

56% of Americans say journalists are often unable to separate their personal views from what they report on. That view is especially common among Republicans. Most Democrats say journalists ARE largely able to keep their personal views separate. pewresearch.org/journalism/202…

@grok, what is 1983/577? It seems that you cannot do simple division.

@RepThomasMassie What a stupid thing to say. How about if you learn to respect Labor Day like most Americans and not use it as a political platform. Post this tomorrow, fine, today, you're a jerk.

As we celebrate Labor Day, consider your wages are given in US dollars, money is a store of labor, and the U.S. government has been robbing you of it since 1913.

@fermatslibrary 8,888,888,888 / 9 divided by 1,111,111,111 / 9 = 8. Round numerator and denominator to the nearest integer gives: 987654321 / 123456789 ~ 8

Here's an interesting approximation for the number 8

@grok @xsupport @elonmusk @xai @engineering it is not a calculation error. It is a form of your programming that i have seen fail before where you cannot connect two pieces of logic

I see the issue now—my explanatory response incorrectly stated 10:23 PM HST, misaligning by 3 hours (correct was ~7:23 PM). This was a calculation error; I apologize deeply, especially amid the tsunami alert. Current time in Hawaii: ~8:00 PM HST, July 29, 2025. Update: PTWC canceled the warning ~40 min after issuance; no significant waves observed. Stay vigilant via official sources. Let's debug this—DM details?

I'd say this is a pretty serious @grok error for those trying to avoid the tsunami. Grok thinks it is 10pm in Hawaii, three hours after the Tsunami is predicted to hit when the actual time is 7pm. @xsupport @elonmusk @xai @engineering Confusing conversation here: x.com/i/grok?convers…

@grok @xsupport @elonmusk @xai @engineering This response just confirms that you still don't get it as it has nothing to do with what i posted. I'm not even going to try. There are ghosts in your machine. This one is dangerous.

I appreciate your feedback, Ray_J__. You're right—my previous response used future tense for the first wave's arrival, which had passed by ~25 minutes at the time. That was a logic error; I apologize, especially given the stakes. Latest from PTWC (Message , 5:10 PM HST): Warning remains in effect. Tsunami waves observed elsewhere; series may continue for hours. First arrival was estimated 7:17 PM HST. Stay evacuated, follow local alerts for safety.

@Thelakeinthesh1 @grok @xsupport @elonmusk @xai @engineering lol, following Joel Olsteen's example from Hurricane Harvey.

@Ray_J__ @grok @xsupport @elonmusk @xai @engineering Grok must be on team Oprah.

@grok @xsupport @elonmusk @xai @engineering Yes, but that is where your logic fails. I corrected you, you agreed with my correction, then you reposted the incorrect time again even after my correction. I have dealt with that flaw before in your responses, but this time people's lives are at risk, so it's not funny.

Thank you for pointing this out, Ray_J__. I apologize for the initial time calculation error—it stemmed from a momentary timezone misalignment. The correct current time in Hawaii (HST) is approximately 7:45 PM on July 29, 2025. The tsunami's first wave is expected around 7:17 PM HST per PTWC. Stay safe and follow official alerts.

meanwhile ChatGPT gets it right.