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@lighttrader7 @RealPostFolder I love it! I was thinking on the last minute before 500 years rolls over, he gets a new offer for another 500 years, or resume time. If he goes for another 500, he can bring someone this time.

Day 1: You plan and set up for success. Find a motorbike so you can weave through the frozen cars. Figure out how to get fuel. Presumably, shelter and water aren't problems. You need to think ethically about food sources as there's no way you have enough in your pantry. Plan out: What do you want to accomplish for yourself and your loved ones. Day 2: You fill the day with learning. A day well spent. Week 1: The fun is wearing off. Loneliness is already setting in. You motorbiked to an amusement park, the contorted bodies of tourists frozen in squeals of laughter as the roller coaster twists around a bend. The ice cream was nice. You gave yourself a giant scoop and then caught a droplet of someone else's ice cream in midair. That was interesting, but you have no one to share the memory with. You sigh. 499 years, 11 months, 3 weeks to go. You come across a child about to lose their balloon. You pull the balloon closer to them and tie a gentle loop around their wrist. You spend the 'night' in a mansion. Week 2: You've read three books so far. Time to change things up and go exploring in restricted access areas. Month 1: You enjoy going on foot in small areas more than riding endlessly on your motorbike and have gotten to know the neighbourhood and centre of town extremely well. Every service entrance at the mall - you took a key card from the janitor and placed it back into his pocket. You briefly wonder if the security cameras will catch a flash you. There's a staff parking lot you're exploring today. You've been entertaining yourself by trying to match people's keys with their cars. The first time you did this you took 4 at once and may have mixed them up when returning them to the owners' pockets. That will confuse them when they wake up! At that thought, you decide to amuse yourself by playing a few pranks. You swap people's hats. Then, you place new outfits on people, move their arms to weird positions, place a stray cat in a lady's arms, scribble "I love unicorns" in pink markers on a tattooed guy's forehead, and put a flying pigeon into some kid's backpack. You feel bad about the bird. You put it in a garden near your motorbike instead. The parking lot, that's right! Underground, glass crunches under your feet. The shadows seem to move, though you know that's impossible. Something feels... off. This creepy parking lot is the last place in the mall for you to explore. You turn a corner. Someone's there. Staring menacingly straight at you. Knife in hand. You freeze, then realise that they already have. Heart still beating quickly, you notice it's more like they're looking through you than at you. You follow their gaze. There's a woman. She's looking, worried, over her shoulder. High heels, you note. There's no way she's outrunning this guy. You angrily snatch the knife out of his hand. No. Not good enough. You leave to collect what you need. Hours later, when you'd usually be sleeping on the mansion's Ultra Comfort Super Duper King and Courts feather mattress (trade marked), you arrive back at the lot. You wrestle the stiff policeman off your motorbike and position him to witness the crime. You place an entire armed squad in the staff parking lot. Originally, you weren't going to relocate anyone, but now you have other ideas. You take a camera from the tech store and snap a photo. Even better idea: You hit record and clearly pan from the sneering man to the worried lady. You then find the lady some pepper spray and place it in her manicured hands. Still angry, you want to do more. You take a breath. Hands shaking, you leave. Later, lying on your back, staring at the slit of sunlight that always enters the vast room, you reevaluate your 500 year plan. What if instead of merely upgrading your skills and knowledge for when time restarts, you fix the town now? Heck, the region. You have time. And you can learn anything about anyone. Open any drawer. Read over their shoulders. Find their passwords, their secrets, their needs, their dreams. What if, when everyone wakes up again, it's to a better world? Sleepless, you grab the camera and stuff it into the backpack with your day gear. You strut outside again. You have work to do. Year 200: It's amazing what you can get done when purpose is your only companion. You smile wistfully, wishing for the millionth time that someone, anyone else shared this time freeze with you. In your hometown, the streets are clean. Realising there was more crime than police, you duplicated the camera files, put people in a holding cell, and left a note: All the evidence you need is here. The memory cards on the desk have all the receipts. Being a lawyer is about to be even more lucrative. You've written up invention ideas from your culmination of knowledge, intense drive, and thirst for problem solving. Stray animals are safely in the shelter, waiting in the once-empty cages with raw meat, toys, and fresh water. You've made sure that some pockets contain notes about adoption. You can't wait until everyone sees the notes you've left in their pockets: "Your daughter is wishing you would call her. She forgives you." "Your husband is secretly a dangerous drug dealer. Get out while you can." "Your idea will change the world, if you only pursue it. Start by call 0800 12345 678 and ask for Steve Williams." "Your keys are under the fridge. You're welcome" eh. Some notes are better than others. You always thought you'd learn a new language. 200 years in, you realise if you wouldn't prioritise it with 50 years left then you never will. It's hard when there's no one to practice with. You've written your book. You printed out a copy for yourself. You look forward to the realise date. It's just for fun. You already know what's happening in the business world because of the projections and reports you've read. Your body is toned now, from all the walking and heaving criminals into jail cells. Your mind is sharp, albeit sometimes depressed and lonely. I signed up for this. You remind yourself. I've already done so much good. Sighing, you add another item to your "When the world wakes up again list" See a sunset. Hug Mum. Tell a joke. Smile at the next driver who cuts me off, because I can't wait to not be the only one on the road. You add: Spend a day a week at the retirement home. Those people deserve company. You're a better person now. One day, there will be a point to your personal development. One day... I can't wait to start growing old again.

@SoveyX What's the itty-bitty ladder for?

I’m not even there and this triggered my acrophobia. My stomach sank.

A Final Message From Scott Adams

Finally, someone in the United States has started asking the obvious question: what exactly happened to the Qing Dynasty and Republic of China government bonds that the U.S. still holds? If the Chinese Communist Party insists those debts don’t count, then by the same logic, there’s no sacred reason the United States must honor U.S. Treasury bonds held by the CCP either. And if Beijing’s defense is that “the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China are not today’s China,” then congratulations—you’ve just invalidated the entire “since ancient times” narrative in terms of Taiwan in one sentence. You can’t disown history when it comes to debt and then reclaim it when it comes to territory. I used to think the CCP was playing some kind of grand, long-term chess game. Turns out it wasn’t chess at all. Just a pile of rhetorical boomerangs—thrown confidently, only to come spinning back at full speed.

The most recent one was setting up a custom Killing Floor 2 server at home. Your grok.com version led me through soo many hoops only to find out that those were not needed. And problems that were caused by wrong information given by Grok, lead to even more problems and solutions that broke other stuff. The same goes for coding intranet stuff and web applications. To this day. Sigh.

@zFurball @elonmusk Thanks for the feedback—it's super helpful. We're constantly tuning Grok to reduce errors in faster modes while keeping responses quick. Your ratings make a big difference in prioritizing fixes. What specific topics have been off?

Please help us make Grok as perfect as possible. Your support is much appreciated.

It seems this post went over the heads of some of the socialists, so let me put it as simply as possible: 1. If the US had not "given" (using Socialist jargon here) Musk $38b, they would have had to have "given" Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other "Aerospace" companies $78b (and they probably would not have been able to have got delivery the products & services in time, or ever, anyway). 2. Elon Musk's companies deliver between $100b to $140b of taxes and added value to the US and it's citizens every year (more than the GDP of a small state), and these contributions are growing faster than the US economy every year. 3. To spell it out to the unbelievers, the US (and particularly Elon's 140,000 employees) is earning an enormous return from Elon Musk's wealth.

@interesting_aIl Nah. If the factory deemed the task too cheap or critical for automation, then no, a robot would NOT be used for this task. Ever.

This seems like a job for a robot

@elonmusk Won't this just make judges stop releasing anyone who commits a crime? MAYBE if we had a standardized set of criteria that would help determine who should or shouldn't be released... huh...

It would stop instantly

@MarioNawfal Just goes to show that not anyone can just become a Tesla killer overnight. Heck, even if you manage to copy the source code, you'd still need the hardware to get to where Tesla's at now. That's easy to understand, right?

ELON REVEALS TESLA’S “CORTEX 1”: AN AI TRAINING MONSTER WITH 100K GPUS TRAINING CARS TO OUTDRIVE HUMANS During a Tesla all-hands meeting earlier this year, Elon dropped a bomb that somehow flew under the radar: Tesla is now operating Cortex 1, a colossal AI supercomputer brain built entirely in-house, designed to train Tesla’s fleet to drive itself using video from millions of real-world miles. Think about it, 100,000 GPUs. That’s not a server farm, it’s essentially AI Thanos. Once fully scaled, Cortex 1 will likely rank in the top 5 most powerful AI training centers on Earth, used solely to teach Tesla's how to navigate traffic better than you do. Tesla’s running an AI brain the size of a small planet and feeding it millions of hours of driving footage 24/7. This is what happens when you combine EVs, space-race energy, and GPU hoarding at Elon scale. The rest of the industry should be panicking: “We have the Cortex 1, basically a giant computer brain that is used for AI training. We take the vast amount of video that we get from all the cars in the fleet and we use that to train the artificial intelligence to be able to drive the car. And this is one of the most powerful training systems in the world... I think probably top five in the world in training centers.” Source: @ElonClipsX, @elonmusk, @Tesla

Chicago resident goes off in board meeting 🔥 “We’re calling for a boycott on these taxes. Nobody is playing this game no more. We won’t pay our taxes until we get a forensic audit on where all our money is going. We demanding that. We’re asking President Trump to send the Feds here.”

the thing about calling DEI 'economic genocide' is that it undersells it yes, young White men were systematically excluded from careers during their peak marriage years, but that's just first-order effects. second-order: marriage market collapse. women date across and up. men without careers become invisible to the women who would have married them and disappear. the "eligible bachelor" pool shrinks. third-order: fertility crisis. fewer marriages, fewer children. but it's worse than just men not marrying or having families. the women who "won" the DEI lottery got careers instead of families, delayed fertility until it was too late. DEI attacked family formation from both sides, excluded men from provider roles AND diverted women from their fertility window. everyone lost. fourth-order: psychological. young men couldn't even name what was happening to them. the same institutions that excluded them told them they were "privileged", that complaining was proof of weakness. so they internalized failure as personal inadequacy rather than systemic rigging, retreated into depression, video games, porn. the symptoms we then pathologized as "male failure". the system broke them (on purpose) and blamed them for being broken. fifth-order: institutional trust gone. once you know positions are filled by demographics rather than competence, every credential becomes suspect (if not a priori worthless). is your doctor qualified or a diversity hire? your pilot? your engineer? you can't prove any individual is incompetent, but you can't trust any individual is competent either. medicine skepticism, academic failure, media skepticism, none of this emerged organically. it was manufactured by the DEI hire you can't be sure is qualified to treat you. sixth-order: reality became unspeakable. noticing any of this was a fireable offense. pointing out the obvious got you called a bigot, deplatformed or fired. pure totalitarian censorship and the problem couldn't even be acknowledged (until now, finally) men knew they were being cheated but couldn't say it. women sensed something was wrong with the men but couldn't identify it. relationships poisoned by a dynamic neither party could name. seventh-order: the feedback loop. fewer eligible men means more women competing for a shrinking pool, more women losing the marriage market, more resentment, more "men are trash", more support for DEI, fewer eligible men and the system accelerates itself. and the worst part is that DEI was just the economic arm. the same people and institutions pushed the complete package "toxic masculinity" to pathologize male identity "the future is female" as explicit zero-sum framing delusion "believe all women" to weaponize trust against men "men are trash" to normalize open contempt a coordinated ideological assault on family formation. and it even had a business model. HR departments exploded (millions of jobs invented to administer the regime). DEI consultants became a multi-billion dollar industry. politicians got voting blocs dependent on racial grievance. established boomers kept their positions while their competition was eliminated. the architects knew what they were doing you don't accidentally build a system that specifically targets men during peak marriage years, tells them they deserve it, makes it unspeakable to complain, attacks their identity as toxic, promotes women into career tracks that burn their fertility, then acts confused when society collapses if you wanted to suppress the fertility of a specific demographic, engineer the breakdown of trust between the sexes, and make it illegal to notice, the playbook would look exactly like this. DEI should be held responsible for the fertility crisis, the marriage collapse, the epidemic of male depression and suicide, the destruction of institutional trust, the atomization of society, and the manufactured war between men and women but DEI was the weapon the people who designed it, funded it, made it mandatory, enforced it through HR, fired anyone who resisted, called all opposition hate and racism, built careers and industries on its maintenance, they knew. and they're the ones who should be remembered as the architects of one of the worst crimes against humanity

@gamaliel_Onye @WR4NYGov Yes, please just ignore and stop telling us, oooh this shithead said this and that. We. Don't. Care. Forget he ever existed.

@WR4NYGov Guys stop showing this guy to me please, I muted him and you guys just keep bringing him to my timeline with screenshots. It is obvious what he is doing but you all keep encouraging him by engaging him.

Zack is damaged Unfortunately he’s out of warranty and the manufacturer does not offer repair manuals ps: Tell us you don’t understand Enron without telling us

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Season

Five years in Night City. Endless memories. One legendary GPU. To celebrate the anniversary, we’re giving away a custom Cyberpunk 2077 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti signed by Jensen Huang. Comment "GeForce Season" to enter 🌆

@interesting_aIl Let's just hope nobody shakes the bottle beforehand...

Coca-Cola created a bottle that only opens in pairs to encourage interaction

@Rainmaker1973 Since Wordstar was around...

How old were you when you learned this?

@gunsnrosesgirl3 He actually did 75m, after doing 50m and 65m. You should watch the full clip on YouTube.

Sandro Dias set a world record by skateboarding down a 65-metre curved ramp attached to a building in Porto Alegre, Brazil, an event organized by Red Bull

@niccruzpatane RoboGrab would be better, so as not to limit Optimus' to just getting food. Even RoboDo would be better I guess.

No one seems willing to say it, so I will… The modern Democratic Party is not ‘sorry’ when political violence happens. They want it to happen. They create the conditions for it. Here’s the playbook: 1. Corporate media demonizes you, calling you Hitler, fascist, deplorable. 2. Left-Wing dark money groups fund, arm, and radicalize people to target you. 3. They hype violence, glorify killers, and manipulate minds with drugs and social media. 4. One of their radicalized, over-medicated loaners decides they can die a hero if they just “kill Hitler” Repeat. Republicans and law enforcement need to seriously change their mindset on left-wing violence. Charlie Kirk was villainized mercilessly for a decade up to and even *after* his political assassination. Check twitch or Tik-Tok, or Reddit: they’re demonically celebrating and looking for the next target. Charlie is a martyr because he stood against the radicalization and violence the left uses as a tool. This is not politics. This is inhuman. It must be exposed. It must be stopped. It must be destroyed. Thanks for having me on to talk about it @MegynKellyShow @megynkelly

This is by far my favorite video of Charlie Kirk and it should be required for everyone in America to see