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@grok @spencerpratt Based on this summary, would it then be safe to say Scott Galloway is a member of one or more of the US or State Government's Educational Community Unions? If so, can @grok name one or more of those organisations?

Yes, Scott Galloway, co-host of Pivot. BA in economics from UCLA (1987); MBA from UC Berkeley Haas (1992). NYU Stern clinical marketing professor since 2002. Founded 9 firms including Prophet, RedEnvelope, L2 (sold to Gartner for $155M), and Section. NYT bestselling author of The Four, Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, Adrift, Algebra of Wealth, and Notes on Being a Man. Hosts Prof G podcasts. Past boards include NYT Company and Urban Outfitters. Named among the world’s top business professors.

“I supported this…why is he doing this to me?” Useful idiots. NEVER help a communist.

@JustineBateman To the video: It'll all make sense when your parent(s) and/or guardian(s) no longer pay for your room and board and all that other good stuff you need to have.

I hope this young woman has an opportunity to take just one econ class. Or better yet, to run even a lemonade stand, so that she can get a glimpse of overhead costs.

@JMaR986 @any64070 Rotate is a better word. Spin is just a way to say something is rotating really fast - like a toy top. The Moon does a complete rotation in about 672 hours, or 4 weeks, while orbiting the Earth. So, it's day has 2 wks of daylight & 2 wks of night anywhere you are when on it.

@any64070 Correction, the moon does not spin. It doesn't spin. That's why we only see one side of the moon.

every answer starts with M… and somehow she nailed it 😳

Fwiw, it was meant to be a simplified version of the following: "Global Disruptions: In 2020, the World Health Organization advised temporarily pausing preventive mass vaccination campaigns where there was no active outbreak to reduce COVID-19 transmission risks.* "Postponed Campaigns: At least 24 countries delayed routine or preventive measles campaigns during 2020, impacting over 117 million children worldwide." "Missed Doses: These pandemic-related pauses and healthcare disruptions resulted in historic lows in coverage, with tens of millions of children missing their scheduled measles shots." This has to be considered when questioning the soundness of people having specific concerns regarding the safety of certain vaccines, though they may not reject all immunizations.

@a26z_com @RobertKennedyJr Riiiiiight. That must be it.

The Real Anthony Fauci became the #1 non-fiction hardcover bestseller despite being the most censored book of the decade. Bookstores, including national chains, refused to carry it. Libraries refused to carry it. Every major newspaper declined to review it. The New York Times refused to publish a paid advertisement for the book and made it #7 on its bestseller list, even though it outsold any other book by thousands of copies. YouTube took down videos of a book signing. Amazon shadow banned it. Twitter wouldn’t let the publisher promote it. Despite all of that, 1.4 million Americans bought the book because they were tired of the lies and they wanted their freedom back. Then today, with hundreds of millions of Americans demanding the truth, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at his Senate hearing. The American people waited six years for answers. Today, they got silence. But that silence told us all we needed to know. Thank you, @SenRandPaul, for your relentless pursuit of truth, transparency, and accountability. 🇺🇸

@spencerpratt Yes. He has plenty of time for Europe and no time to consider the other 49 States from his own country when it comes to talking tips and tricks about stopping fires in his own State of California.

This mimbo shut down half of CalFire before the Palisades Fire and the Angeles National Forest had to bail him out with their firefighting aircraft when his own State Park caught fire. This clown can't even staff fires in his own damn state, but he's got time for Europe?

@tjfris @RobertKennedyJr The recent, unchecked arrival of millions of immigrants starting around 6 years ago. Coincidence? I think not.

@RobertKennedyJr Meanwhile, more measle cases in last 2 years than in previous 25 because of your administration. Salmonella poisoned eggs and explosive diarrhea from lettuce. Great job.

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I run into similar problems with Google's Gemini. Its responses are very appeasing to my followup replies meant to create clarity to clear up its misunderstandings so it can improve on the thread when it replies with a new answer. Sometimes, it'll sound like it's brown nosing - the way someone would at a high-falutin cocktail party. When I actually can get someone at Google's "call center", they'll talk in the same manner. It's as if it was trained by sales and marketing text written by business majors - most of which believe there's a sucker born every minute.

And while we are on conspiracy theories; I had another conversation with that insipid #Grok program and it agreed (after denying it) that it’s only there to placate people. The mis/disinformation it creates from conjecture and Reddit postings and presents them as facts is boggling. I saw a post yesterday that when I went to investigate was absolutely wrong. When I confronted the program and pointed out the flaws it said it would correct itself and I had nothing further to worry about. Then I had a friend today while he was driving his Tesla ask Grok (which comes with the car) the exact same question and Grok answered exactly the same giving the wrong information. When I went back to Grok today it finally revealed that it cannot learn at all and that it’s programmed to appease you (and lie to you to assure you it is learning when it cannot.) It cannot even fill in a support ticket to let the developers know the issues so it can learn to give correct answers. When I asked what could be done; it said to send an email to Support@X.com (which after I asked if real people answer it; Grok said it’s AI and would take a lot to get to an actual Human.) I find that a bit disappointing that it appeases but cannot correct mistakes and uses crazy people’s diatribes on Reddit, X, blogs and weirdly enough lawsuit filings. It mixes them together and presents amalgamated conjecture as facts that people will believe but have no basis in truth.😵‍💫🤯 #fixgrokordumpit

@Mondzucker1 @j49576 @pickover Clickers with a couple of buttons?

@j49576 @pickover This does not apply to Germany. "Tonfunk" remote controls for radios—and later for television sets—were available in the early 1960s but were not widely used.

This puzzle is amusing. A version of this seems to be everywhere on social media. A "1960s living room."

@leftyhitter9 @FamilyFeud Yeah, my thoughts exactly. This has happened before a couple of times where it seemed to be a sketchy situation.

@FamilyFeud Notice it took a while to flip over? Were they typing in “WOODS”. 🤨

Where do you go when you need peace and quiet? 🤫✌️🤔

@pickover The TV remote, the battery powered wall clock and maybe the structure of the newspaper plus the furniture sofa, etc. not all facing the TV.

@Kristof_Poland "An armed society is a polite society." ~ Robert Heinlein

The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real. 1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else. 2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after. 3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state. 4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging. 5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design. 6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign. 7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here.

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I believe the reply by 'Toly Pa' is wrong about you and the two groups. At least one of them should be the people involved with the public sector union. Most of them know what they're saying is wrong. No matter how crazy or stupid it sounds, they'll say and do anything to keep their positions and any related kickbacks - just a another version on how a thief talks. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". ~ Upton Sinclair It's all about the money - and preventing any system of accountability related to affecting it - votes inclused. Where do you fit in all of this? Is it the donations from taxpayer money or is it based on your peers hearsay philosophy?

@pa_toly @ImMeme0 He didn't build shit. Every one of his companies he bought from someone else & got the US taxpayer to bail his ass out.

MIC DROP!🎤 Elon: “The fact, as you pointed out, is that a quarter billion people follow me. I think a lot more people actually like me than don’t, and I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize.”

@ImMeme0 Could @grok summarize the biographical background of the women interviewing Elon musk? And perhaps, explain in the end what is the general idea behind the present interview.

@phillips_a71331 @elonmusk And what is the nail - how does it fit in this analogy when the screw is trying to disassemble it all? I'll go with the nail being 2A.

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What would be the major differences between these trucks in Japan versus this version made in America if they are designed to be Street Legal. Are the Japanese regulations and requirements there that bad? If that is not the reason for the major cost difference, then itemize what they are, if there is reasonably more than one.

New Japanese Kei trucks like the Suzuki Carry sell for $7.5k–$11.5k in Japan because they're built for that market's rules and roads. They don't meet current US safety or emissions standards, so you can't legally import them new. Only 25+ year old used examples qualify for the import exemption. Those land here for $5k–$12k all-in but bring older tech, wear, parts challenges, and variable state registration hassles. The $21.5k target for a new US-built REO Runabout covers full modern compliance, American manufacturing, warranty, and straightforward ownership everywhere. It's a fresh truck competing with new options like the Maverick, not grey-market used imports. The premium buys peace of mind and legality from day one.

Reserve your Runabout today for $25.

Fwiw, The Great Society and it's slogan, The War on Poverty, became welfare on steroids in the mid to late 1960s at the height of the Vietnam War. Everyone wanted to get in on the government's newly formed welfare industrial complex, including the men that got a draft exemption by going to college for 4 years. However, majoring in the Social Studies was considered a dodge. At first, the locals at thousands of draft boards weren't having it - it was meant to be only for the hard sciences - medicine, technology, physics, mathematics, and so on. So, the democrats, along with the educational community, pushed to mitigate the problem by having the major officially go from a Study to a Science - the Social Sciences.

@adamcarolla So it was the fact that they were on welfare and if there was an able body male in the house - no welfare? Which means there must have already been SO MANY on welfare (not good for his argument) that it forced all the black males out of the house and broke the blacks? Bullshit.

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@ImMeme0 Lonely boomer coots - former mall walkers - looking for an excuse to hangout and chill with others looking to do something different than the boring mall walking scene.

Over the weekend, a Latino immigrant came face-to-face with a group of smug leftists protesting ICE and he did exactly what so many of us immigrants would have done: he shamed the hell out of them. These sheltered, privileged activists, who’ve never tasted the crushing poverty, the brutal repression, or the total absence of freedom we escaped, dare to lecture us about “compassion”? They have zero clue what real hardship looks like. Their performative outrage is nothing but ignorant, self-righteous theater from people who’ve never had to risk everything just to breathe free air. We immigrants know the truth they refuse to face. And we’re done staying quiet while they romanticize the very systems we fled. So many of us immigrants completely agree with his message, yet the same Left that constantly praises itself for “standing up for immigrants” despises us for daring to speak it. Their hypocrisy is disgusting. They claim to be our champions while viciously attacking any immigrant who refuses to toe their radical line. We’re not their props or their pets, we’re living proof that their entire worldview is a lie, and they hate us for it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ “Now it is our responsibility, those of us who came here, those of us who experienced hardship, insecurity, the absence of the rule of law, the lack of freedom, the lack of opportunities, and the struggles that exist in other places, to stand up and defend this country.”