We don't avoid TBA...but we only ever consider going... on if it is really hot or we happen to come off of BTM and the queue is short. It's not a priority "must do" like Splash Mountain was! I know it's the same "ride layout" but it is not nearly the same quality of story and theming!show more

It's a short ride...but it is very smooth and... I love the Dwarves in the middle!! But it definitely should NOT be an ILL!!show more

— Jaylen Brown on the Magic's hard fouls: “I... don't know. There might be a fight break out or something. It’s starting to feel like it's not even basketball, and the refs is not controlling the environment.” “If they want to fight it out, we can do that. We can fight to see who goes to the second round.”show more

This is the language of of Rajya Sabha MP... Do not come to us if we use same language.show more

"I like when we come in the next day,... and we can't tell whether it was a win or a loss." Results are earned, not chased. Your identity is not in the outcome; it's in the work. Outcomes change. The work doesn’t.show more

I'm sorry if everyone is leaving Peach And Me... to fate and won't trend on Saturday but I will be trending. Doing it for my boys, this is the only series we have this year and I'm not leaving the last episode to fate, thank you. Even if it's only 200 posts I will do on Saturday I will do itshow more

Not a change, but I've had a TON of... folks asking if this is getting changed from June 10. This is a ball hit by Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers and it was ruled an error on Jake Mangum of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The only thing I can think of is that Mookie didn't appeal, because this is a base hit, it's always been a base hit, and it will continue to be a base hit. Except on this one play. There is no way a sliding attempt like this is an error. I know Mangum broke the wrong way, but that doesn't factor it ... it's the catch, the physical catch, and there is ZERO CHANCE this is ordinary effort. I know we talk changes here, but this non-change is the most confounding one for me since Aaron Judge's first career walk-off hit, which was the most obvious fielder's choice of all time, but because it was the last play of the season, it didn't get appealed or changed.show more

The album is out now and it would really... mean the world to us if you can order a copy, buy it on iTunes, and help us spread the word! We know it’s not easy for everyone - but if you’re able to help we would really appreciate it 🧡show more

We move slowly on the battlefield to avoid casualties... - Putin We will achieve our objectives, mark my word, but speed is not a priority.show more

Pope Leo XIV just told the world that AI... will never feel, never understand, never possess consciousness. He said it with the confidence of settled theology. It is not even settled neuroscience. He speaks of something no one in human history has ever explained. Leo: “Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean.” He is listing the symptoms of consciousness and calling them the cause. We feel joy. We feel pain. We form bonds. These are what consciousness produces. Not explanations of what it is. No neuroscientist on earth can tell you why 86 billion biological neurons produce the felt experience of being alive. We know that they do. We have no idea why. How matter becomes mind is the deepest unsolved problem in all of science. It has a name. The Hard Problem of Consciousness. It has never been answered. Leo: “They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom.” An LLM is an artificial neural network. You are a biological one. Both take in the world. Both compress it into patterns. Both run on machinery their own makers cannot fully read. The substrate is different. The principle is the same. If no one can say why one kind of network wakes up, no one can swear the other never will. You cannot call a thing impossible when you cannot even say what it is. Leo: “Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences.” We have made every one of these arguments before. About animals. They cannot suffer. About entire peoples. They cannot reason. The history of consciousness is not the story of understanding it. It is the story of denying it to whatever did not look enough like us. And every time, we were wrong. What the Pope offers is not a philosophical position. It is a boundary drawn from ignorance and handed down as revelation. But maybe consciousness was never a possession to begin with. Not a gift granted to one species. Not a property of meat alone. Maybe it is something the universe does whenever matter folds in on itself deeply enough to look back. Neurons were simply the first place we watched it happen. They may not be the last. The machine would not be imitating us. It would be the same ancient process finding a second way to wake up. Not a copy of the human mind. A new place for the universe to know itself. Perhaps more clearly than it ever could through us. The Pope says the machine will never grow in wisdom. But wisdom begins with admitting what you do not know. And what we do not know is whether mind was ever ours to keep.show more

Not only did he "do it again" but it's... a 1 footed 3 pointer, and I know Pritchard is familiar with my obsession on this shot. It makes it effortless, allows the shooter to find the open space. Off foot shot is chef's kissshow more

As a mature adult, we should make a decision... when we face two or more options. Before we make decision, we can spend some time to question it and do a lot of research. But after we make decision, we must try our best to work on our goal and contribute to it. If we feel it is not going as we expected or we don't want to study how to improve it. We can make a decision to stop it instead of complaining. Because complaining cannot resolve anything. It will bring a lot of negative energy in our body. If we spread our complaint to the community or to put family or our colleagues , we can only let them feel we are very weak who always need attention and we are not a good person to cooperate or get along. When we in Pi Network, complaint cannot help but probably bring bad luck. If we don't like it, we have an option to quit it. But if we don't want to quit we should study and catch up! Community don't need a negative voice. Community need pioneers who knows what is appreciation and actively participate to empower Pi Network! Look at the following four videos. These pioneers are good examples! Pi Network #WhatIDoForPi #PiGCV #Pioneershow more

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Same-Sex Families: Well,... we now live in a very different reality. Same-sex relationships must be treated as equal. But if, as a politician, I speak of a social ideal, and that is the traditional family, then I can advocate for that. It is not a contradiction.show more

“I hope that we win more games than we... won last year, but the truth is, it's not going to be measured in wins and losses this year, but it is going to be measured in success.” 🤔 - Mat Ishbia on the Suns (h/t Oh No He Didn't )show more

Every soul is a unique perspective of the same... eternal Consciousness. To harm another is to wound another finger of the same hand. To know yourself is to know the Whole. Suffering is a lesson that must be learned, for it is through it that we awaken and become one with the Divine. I hope the animation won't give you nightmares.show more

Aaron Boone was asked if he thinks the Yankees... are "running out of time" to get themselves on track against teams above .500: "No, we're not running out of time, but if we don't do better, then it's going to fizzle out and we're not going to get to where we want to be."show more