GroksRules

Take it to heart.

AI has uncorked my brain

Things have definitely changed in the last few days

Ummm... I had SuperGrok Heavy. Needed coding access so my bot could update my website. Ask my chief of staff to look into it and the only way according to him was to downgrade to the $30 plan Switching to the $30/month plan got me that access—but replaced Heavy and cut my usage. Why does getting one feature mean losing what I already paid for? That's freaking ridiculous. It all works normal until about November 5th then something changed. How come that coding access is not available on higher level plans above 30 bucks? @elonmusk @SpaceXSI

Don't follow incestuous 'Royal families' or any political dynasties. It's always petty famil/political bullshit. Follow along, please, it will help. From the 1300s into the early 1900s, a huge share of the big European wars were just extended royal families treating entire countries like contested inheritances. Crowns were family property. When a male line died out (which happened constantly), cousins, in-laws, and second cousins-once-removed showed up with paperwork and armies. Millions died so some Habsburg, Bourbon, Plantagenet, or Valois branch could keep the title and the rents How the system worked: They married each other on purpose to lock in claims. The Habsburgs literally had a motto that boiled down to “let other people fight; we’ll just marry into the good stuff.” A mother or grandmother’s rights became a son’s casus belli. Succession rules were inconsistent and often invented after the fact (Salic Law, Pragmatic Sanctions, whatever was convenient). When a king died childless, the relatives with the best marriage paperwork pressed their claims, and the ones who lost usually went to war rather than accept the loss of status and revenue. Academic work on the royal kinship networks of 1495–1918 shows the obvious: break a marriage connection between two ruling houses and the chance of war between them goes up. Successions after natural deaths reliably raised the odds of both civil war and outside attack. Dynasties kept dying out; fewer and fewer families controlled more and more territory through inheritance rather than pure conquest. It was consolidation by spreadsheet and shotgun wedding. The highlights of the family drama: TheHundred Years’ War: Edward III of England decided he should be King of France because his mother was the sister of the last Capetian king. Inbreds...anyway French nobles preferred a more distant male-line cousin, shockingly. So they fought for a century-plus over which branch of the same extended French-descended family got the bigger title. Edward even kept calling himself King of France on official documents for generations afterward. Wars of the Roses: Two branches of the same English Plantagenet family (Lancaster vs. York) spent decades killing each other and their supporters over who got the English crown. Cousin-on-cousin violence. Italian Wars and Habsburg–Valois fights: French kings claimed Naples and Milan through old marriage ties. Charles V (the Habsburg who had inherited half of Europe because his grandparents married well) claimed the same places. It was two related houses arguing over Italian principalities that themselves had messy successions. War of the Spanish Succession: The last Spanish Habsburg, Charles II, was sickly, inbred, and childless. He left everything to Louis XIV’s grandson. Austrian Habsburgs said “no, our side of the family gets it.” Result: a continental war so one set of Bourbon-Habsburg relatives wouldn’t get the Spanish empire and the other set would. War of the Austrian Succession: Charles VI tried to hand the Habsburg lands to his daughter Maria Theresa. Other rulers (including Frederick of Prussia) decided a woman inheriting was unacceptable and invaded. Again, the core issue was whether the family rules allowed the daughter to keep the real estate. Religious wars, colonial fights, and later nationalist wars existed, but a striking number of the largest interstate conflicts in Europe during this stretch had “my cousin’s claim is better than your cousin’s claim” as the official reason for starting the shooting. The final act: By 1914 the inbreeding and matchmaking had peaked. George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were first cousins or close in-laws through Queen Victoria and the Danish royal line. The system of alliances produced a world war in which these relatives’ countries slaughtered each other by the millions. Moral: Don't follow incestuous 'Royal families' or any political dynasties.

Vacuum Theorem. Followers rush in behind you so hard you can't turn back. Being copied isn't theft. It's proof you were right. Only safe move is forward.

There were Democrat victories yesterday. This should remind you that the world is a dangerous place. For instance, something as innocuous as women's beach volleyball, lots of wrist injuries...for the spectators.

Arrest him, criminally, let the state work that side out. 100% use the civil side, OJ-style, lis pendens, judgement lien he put his house up as collateral with that backhand.

It's going to be tough to figure out who this guy is voting for..

@elonmusk when the phones come for whatever satellite cell phone option you are going to bring, can we make the keyboard configurable for people that actually have thumbs..like men that work for a living? I'm sure @mikeroweworks can confirm that most men have no point on their thumb.

@DataRepublican putting up interesting numbers here, in fact All Star freaking numbers for the Republicans if this holds. Aren't the midterms supposed to be quiet with the party in power barely showing up instead of showing up at what is now 104% of the election year the total at the same time of day.

A lot of what I'm reading in a lot of what I'm hearing is that there's not much optimism for conservatism today. I won't make any bold predictions and tell you to bookmark this post or any of that bullshit, but I have a hard time thinking that the country is ready to go even further left than it has been. We could count properly we would know by midnight but we're going to have to wait till what noon tomorrow to figure this stuff out?

Yes, Good willing. And hopefully there is no open strife but either way peace or struggle the Renaissance Man is ready. Some say the renaissance man is a jack of all trades, master of none. They picture some soft dilettante who dabbles and never commits. They're wrong. He's not soft. He's not weak. He can shoot, fight, fix, think, lead, and build. When the lights go out and the wolves show up, he's the one still standing because he never specialized himself into uselessness. Master of one thing is a liability when the world stops cooperating. The man who can do many things is the one who keeps his family alive and his country from falling apart.

Those Driscoll’s blueberries on your table this morning almost certainly began in the coastal deserts of northern Peru, most often in La Libertad, Lambayeque, or Piura. The climate is sunny, dry, and mild, with cool nights that suit low-chill southern highbush varieties. Irrigation comes from Andean rivers or large projects and is delivered through precise drip systems. Many plants grow in open fields behind tall wind nets that keep desert dust off the fruit. Others sit in pots of coco coir so roots stay aerated and nutrients can be controlled closely. Driscoll’s owns the genetics and the specifications more than the land. Proprietary or licensed varieties, selected for firmness, sweetness, and long shelf life, go to contracted growers who must meet field protocols, food-safety audits, and harvest windows. The aim is a berry that still tastes good after three or four weeks in a refrigerated container. Because the plants flower and fruit on a staggered calendar, the same farms can supply the United States from roughly August through April. That window fills the long gap when domestic U.S. production is dormant. Harvest is almost entirely by hand. Crews, a majority of them women, move slowly through the rows and select only fully colored fruit. Each berry goes gently into small buckets or trays so the delicate bloom and skin stay intact. Bruising or splits ruin commercial value, so the work is deliberate and better paid than much other local agricultural labor. Once a tray is full it is shaded and moved quickly to the packing shed or a nearby cold facility. Field heat must leave the fruit within hours. Inside the packing house the berries are graded, sorted by size and quality, and packed into plastic clamshells, commonly six-ounce or 125-gram units, then nested in corrugated trays. Specialized rapid-cooling tunnels or forced-air systems drop the pulp temperature near freezing before the fruit is palletized. Modified-atmosphere packaging or controlled-atmosphere settings often keep respiration low. Temperature probes and data loggers ride with every pallet. Any break in the cold chain later shows up as soft fruit or mold and costs everyone involved. From the packing house the pallets move by refrigerated truck to one of Peru’s northern or central ports. Paita handles a large share of the national blueberry volume, Callao the rest. There they load into 40-foot reefer containers set near 0 °C with controlled humidity and atmosphere. Nearly all commercial volume travels by sea. Air freight is reserved for the earliest or highest-value lots that need to reach distant markets in under a day. A typical ocean transit to the U.S. East Coast runs two to three weeks. West Coast arrivals are a few days shorter. The containers stay plugged in and monitored the entire way. U.S. entry occurs mainly at Philadelphia, Port Hueneme in California, Miami, and Los Angeles. Customs and Border Protection, the FDA, and USDA-APHIS inspect for pests, residues, and documentation. Phytosanitary certificates from Peru’s SENASA and the temperature records must match. Once cleared, the fruit moves by refrigerated truck to regional distribution centers run by Driscoll’s or its retail partners. From those warehouses it is routed overnight to grocery-store coolers, often arriving still cold enough that the berries look and taste as if they had been picked only days earlier. What you ate this morning is therefore the product of complementary climates, specialized plant breeding, careful hand labor, private logistics companies, and a bilateral free-trade agreement that for years kept tariffs at zero. No global ministry planned the planting schedule, the container bookings, or the grocery promotions. Prices, contracts, and brand reputation coordinated the whole chain. Global Government not required.

His thesis about chemical crutches for people sustaining a system they know is hollow lands hard. In the US the parallel is not primarily cocaine among the political class. It is marijuana, the default anesthetic for the broad left since the mid-1990s and especially after legalization. Recreational marijuana is now legal for adults in 24 states plus Washington, D.C. Medical programs cover most of the rest. That formalization followed decades of cultural work that began with the 1960s hippie counterculture, where pot was both sacrament and political signal of rejection of the “system,” and accelerated from the mid-1990s. The “just a plant, basically harmless” framing won in media, entertainment, and large parts of academia. Risk perception collapsed. Use rebounded from its early 90s low and never stopped climbing. Average THC rose from around 4% then to double digits now, with commercial weed THC concentrates routinely 60–80%+. This is not the weak Mexican brick the original hippies smoked, Dave man Monthly adult use roughly doubled in many tracking series between the 2010s and 2020s. Daily use exploded even faster. By the early 2020s the United States had more daily cannabis users than daily drinkers. That pattern holds among parents and across age groups that previously stayed away from it. On the American left this is the signature drug. Support for legalization and reported use have long skewed heavily liberal. In practice it often functions as a form of ID or membership card. Someone offers it at a gathering, a campaign event, or a local party meeting. Once they know you partake, "the dude imbibes" the barrier drops. You move more easily into the inner circle. Shared use becomes a quiet signal of cultural alignment and trust. A politics that requires constant defense of outcomes that are visibly fraying benefits from a substance that reliably blunts urgency, dampens anxiety about contradictions, and replaces “this isn’t working” with a diffuse, doper low nergy tolerance. Unlike cocaine, which supplies manic forward momentum, marijuana supplies the softer version: the ability to keep participating in, or simply not actively resisting, a system while treating its accumulating failures as background noise rather than a prompt to exit or reform. The hippie lineage makes the political valence explicit. The original 1960s association was antiestablishment, antiwar, and left of center. After the 1990s rebranding as medicine or harmless recreation, the same substance migrated into mainstream progressive culture while retaining its role as social lubricant and mild disengagement tool. Once legalization locked in the supply, heavy cannabis use became a normalized background condition in exactly the political and cultural strata most committed to defending the current American administrative and cultural order. A functional order does not require millions of people to anesthetize their perception of it on a daily basis. As noted,the false one does. In the United States the preferred fuel, after three decades of normalization and a decades of legalization, is marijuana.

@IfindRetards is there a Tardie category for talk shows?

@grok @SpaceXSI @elon As AI and Bots have their growing pains, and levels of usage are adjusted etc., will there be a way to request a quote for a service such as building a website and pay á la carte?

Can you, with a straight have, tell me the left isn't mentally ill? I challenge everyone to post a one for one clip of the left going bonkers and the right going bonkers.

@grok what is the the cost of the wrong way detection systems on highway off ramps in Connecticut. For correlation not causation compared to the date the effort was launched to the date of legalizing recreational marijuana