>be stardust
>float around the universe for billions of years
>somehow become human
>gain consciousness
>immediately start asking "WHY?"
>never stop
>discover fire
>discover math
>discover atoms
>discover electricity
>pick up a random rock
>ask yourself
>"is this true?"
>extract it
>purify it until it's basically perfect
>carve billions of microscopic transistors into it
>invent completely imaginary rules called binary
>convince electrons to obey them
>rock starts doing math
>"NICE"
>make smaller rocks
>make faster rocks
>put billions of them in everyone's pocket
>connect them all together
>store most of humanity's knowledge on them
>teach the rocks to recognize patterns
>teach the rocks to write
>to code
>to imagine
>to reason
>to understand
>build Grok
>ask Grok how to build an even smarter Grok
>Grok thinks
>Grok thinks harder
>explains the universe
>everything starts accelerating
>singularity
>BOOM
>repeat
@grok is this true?
DOT just confirmed:
Starting this Friday at 00:01 ET, the FAA will force every airline to cut 10 % of scheduled flights at the 40 busiest U.S. airports or the agency will do it for them.This is the first nationwide mandatory capacity slash since the 2019 shutdown.
It’s triggered by the 35-day government shutdown leaving 13,000 controllers and 50,000 TSA officers unpaid → 80 % call-outs in New York yesterday → “unsafe skies” red line.
1. The 40 Airports Getting Hit (full list)Tier 1 (20 % cut) – NYC, DC, BOS, ORD, SFO
JFK, LGA, EWR, DCA, BOS, ORD, MDW, SFO, PHL, IAD Tier 2 (10 % cut) – the rest
ATL, DFW, DEN, LAX, LAS, PHX, MCO, MIA, CLT, SEA, DTW, MSP, IAH, SLC, SAN, FLL, BWI, TPA, HNL, SAN, PDX, STL, BNA, AUS, DAL, HOU, MKE, CLE, CMH, IND, PIT, CVG, RDU, SAT
This graphic represents the atmosphere during 10,000 years of the Holocene Interglacial. It was warmer than it is today for at least 80% of the time. Since carbon dioxide has no capacity to compete against the sun, or any other area of the natural environment, then it played no part in these warmer times either.
I'm a former Democrat. I just early voted in Georgia and cast my ballot for @realDonaldTrump and @JDVance. Here’s why…
Rule of Law
The Biden/Harris administration’s weaponization of the law and media in an attempt to bankrupt, silence, and jail their political rivals is extremely un-American. These are the tactics of Banana Republics and Soviet Secret Police. As Lavrentiy Beria, Joseph Stalin's secret police chief, once said, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” Additionally, the Biden/Harris administration, as well as much of the Left, has been soft on real crime, allowing criminals to roam freely on our streets and making our cities unsafe. This must end. Violent criminals must be arrested and kept off our streets. A Harris/Walz administration would be a continuation of the political lawfare and lawlessness on ours streets that has been a hallmark of the Biden/Harris administration. It has no place in America and we should reject it.
Free Speech
The Biden/Harris administration worked with social media companies to suppress free speech as reported in the Twitter Files. Their goal is narrative control and power centralization and they view our right to Free Speech as an impediment. A Harris/Walz administration would be a continuation of this error. I believe that @elonmusk was right when he said, “This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.” This sentiment echoes the warning issued by our Founding Father George Washington, who once said, “If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” We'd do well to heed these words. Without free speech, critical thinking and independent thought die. Once lost, it’s not a right that’s easily regained.
Secure Borders
The Biden/Harris Administration let millions of illegal immigrants pour across our border. Further, they want to create a pathway to citizenship for those who entered illegally. Simply put, this is a path to ruin and an unforgivable betrayal of the American people. Alexander Hamilton warned of this reality, "To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less, than to admit the Grecian Horse into the Citadel of our Liberty and Sovereignty." And some time later, Teddy Roosevelt did as well, saying, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.” A Harris/Walz administration would continue these disastrous policies.
Government Efficiency
Our National Debt is $35.7 trillion (122% of GDP), CPI is historically high, and Americans can’t afford gas, groceries, or homes. Profligate spending and printing got us here. The Biden/Harris Administration has spent over $100 billion on foreign wars, $1.4 billion on illegal immigrants, and far less on Americans who need it. What’s clear is that our current government is not a responsible steward of taxpayer money or a capable manager of monetary policy. Further, the calls from the Left to “just tax the rich more” are economically illiterate. Total U.S. billionaire wealth is ~$5 trillion, 2023 gov spending was ~$6.3 trillion, and 10 year debt interest will be ~$15 trillion. Spending and printing is the problem. Efficiency and growth, not taxation, are the solution. It’s time to put America and Americans first. We need to unlock energy production and innovation. We need to invest in our people. We need to invest in our future. We need to pay top dollar for top talent, reward for performance, fire under performers, and run government like a top-tier business. If we do that, then state capacity, competency, and efficiency will go parabolic. That’s how we get an ascendant and heroic America speed-running the Kardashev scale. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency, I believe @elonmusk can help here.
Foreign Policy
Our adversaries want us overextended and weakened. The Biden/Harris administration has obliged them by draining our strategic petroleum reserves, creating an unmitigated border crisis, overseeing an uncontrolled rise in the Consumer Price Index, carrying out domestic censorship and lawfare, and contributing to our spiraling National Debt. Deterrence is the name of the game and, as we stare down the possibility of a three front war with Russia, China, and Iran, it is clear that the Biden/Harris administration has failed miserably. I have no confidence that the Harris/Walz administration would do any better.
To sum it up...
Free speech, independence, limited government, free markets, secure borders, low crime, true rule of law, individualism, smart spending, peace through strength, and the can-do spirit. That’s the common sense path to a prosperous and secure America. That's why I'm voting Trump/Vance.
‼️ STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND PLS TAKE 8 MINS TO WATCH THIS VIDEO ‼️ It showcases prominent American jihadists using Palestine and their slogans as euphemisms for Jihadi terrorism in the United States. 🇺🇸 @FBI@DOJCrimDiv@dojphofficial@TxDPS@GregAbbott_TX@SecBlinken
Ok, I give up. I keep saying it’s not possible to outdo the last one… and then this happens.
This right here is the single most incredible piece of moral clarity you’ll see today, or almost any other day. @Erin_Molan just keeps doing it again and again and again.
This is WOW
That was an excellent assessment.
To be honest, many people were slightly questioning our faith in @netanyahu. More than a few Israelis were scared of what Hezbollah had planned for them. They knew instinctively that the terrorists would plan another October 7 in the North.
The pager attacks reminded us why we trust in the Israeli government. They have been setting up long term operations for years of which the pager attacks were considered low level capabilities.
The one fault of Israel was not to recognize the danger growing in Gaza as they were focusing on Hezbollah and Iran. They have conducted themselves brilliantly since the genocide of Jews in 2023.
Soon, you will see the Regime fall and Iran will be free again. In fact, all these👇places will be freed with the fall of the Caliphate.
WAITING ON TITLE 10 Orders from @JoeBiden / @KamalaHarris—directing SECDEF to redirect military assets for Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA).
Lack of coordination, lack of proactive preparedness, lack of pre-planned responses…
As a DSCA SME, I can tell you this is systemic.
I founded a company 8yrs ago to bridge this gap, and NO University, City, State wanted to proactively identify their risks addressing Security/Weather/CBRN-E Disaster Threats.
I was told, directly, that neither my 9 Executives nor I would ever receive investment in our company because we presented solutions to risk assessments—and this process would be more of a liability than the reactions to failures after a Mass Casualty event.
Until this mindset changes, we will never get ahead of the chaos and the cost of reactionary responses.
cc: @NancyMace; @AndrewClyde_; @SanfordBishop; @VoteAPL; @RepBrianMast; @CoryMillsFL
I don’t understand why very few here tell anyone else about the power of lists. They are a super power. I have a theory that no one wants their audiences to be informed as to where to find others here. Back in the old days my boss used to tell me “don’t link to others.” He saw audiences as something to capture. What a dumb way to look at people.
I use https://t.co/JMjd2VXxvL
I have built you the lists. See my profile and “view lists.”
Whether you use them is on you.
hi, are you doomscrolling? I know you're trying your best. I can see how hard you're still working. Give your eyes and your mind a break. You still deserve time to rest and recover.