u/Top_Course_640

I'm bored. I was in between jobs. both are electron apps. Pets don't make sense in AGY bc it works too fast.
If you wanna try it without wasting tokens just tell me.

This era sounds so amazing I hope it gets pressed into vinyl

I switched over to codex on 5.6 luna high and had it redirect full specific edits to agy to save on tokens i don’t use anymore.

gemini 3.6 flash high?
it’s not thinking anymore it just does shit you have to reverse if you can.

please for the love of alan turing fix this shit google and actually let your models THINK

watching charli being all smiley, giddy, and excited, here and there during lollapalooza is so satisfying like yes gurl we get the art it is beautiful and amazing 🖤

Been on 5mg Dayvigo for a while now and wanted to write up my experience because a lot of what I found online before starting didn’t match what actually happened to me. Not medical advice, just my own anecdotal experience… your mileage will vary.

You CAN fight it (and stay awake), and here’s why:
Dayvigo is a dual orexin receptor antagonist. Orexin is the neuropeptide that keeps you awake, so it’s not a “sleep drug” in the sedative sense, it works by blocking the signal that’s telling your brain to stay alert.

Less orexin signaling = your brain eventually lets you get groggy and drift off.

The catch: that mechanism can be overridden. If your nervous system is dumping a lot of cortisol/stress hormones, or your body is just producing a lot of orexin that night, you can absolutely stay awake after taking it. I’ve done it myself, laid there wired even after dosing. It’s not that the drug “didn’t work,” it’s that it’s fighting your own physiology, and physiology doesn’t always lose gracefully.

The vivid dreams
Yeah, they happen, and they can be unsettling the first few times. What I’ve come to think of it as: it’s a sign your brain is in that half-asleep, half-awake zone where the drug is actually doing its job. It’s not a malfunction, it’s kind of the mechanism showing itself. Still weird though.

What actually made the difference: pairing it with behavior, not just popping the pill.

This is the part I wish someone had told me on day one. Dayvigo is one signal to your brain that it’s time to sleep. It’s not the only one, and it works a lot better when it’s not fighting against everything else you’re doing:
-Cut blue light exposure in the evening, get off the phone earlier than feels necessary
-Caffeine-free herbal tea (chamomile works for me)
-Magnesium bath or something similarly low-key and relaxing
-An actual wind-down routine, not just “take pill, expect unconsciousness”
-Generally working on lowering baseline anxiety/stress, since that’s the exact thing that lets you override the drug in the first place

If you’ve got insomnia and nothing’s worked before, I’d think of Dayvigo as one tool in a toolbox rather than a switch that flips you off.

It’s a good tool. But it’s working with your nervous system, not against it, and it does best when everything else (light, stress, routine) is pointed the same direction.

best of luck y’all and be kind to yourself.

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This is literally my work, why is this kind of censorship here!! This is the kind of stuff that leads to more enshittification. Instead of seeing the model think, I see it decide whether or not I am entitled to certain information is the stuff that breeds distrust.

Ya know the one where he licks your back while he… umh… Freaky ahh…I need that… 🥲

[Provisional Translation & Explainer] Proposed Japanese Visa Fee Overhaul: PR fee to ¥200k, renewals up to ¥75k. Share feedback on e-Gov by August 2!

Foreign residents in Japan: The government is seeking public comments on proposed immigration/residence fee increases. This directly affects us. Please take 10–15 minutes to share your feedback—constructive comments are a vital part of the official policymaking process. Don't assume someone else will do it!

The Immigration Services Agency (ISA) has proposed a major overhaul of visa and residence fees, scheduled to take effect October 1, 2026.

Key Proposed Fee Changes:

• Permanent Residence: ¥10,000 ➔ ¥200,000 (20x increase)
• Visa Renewals & Status Changes: Flat ¥6,000 ➔ ¥10,000 to ¥75,000 (tiered by approved length of stay; online applications discounted by ¥3,000–¥10,000)
• Re-entry Permits: Unchanged (¥4,000 single / ¥7,000 multiple) For a detailed breakdown and translation of the official proposal, you can download these English PDFs:
• 📄 Policy Analysis & Explainer (English): https://files.catbox.moe/y85ikp.pdf
• 📄 Provisional Translation of the Draft Orders (English): https://files.catbox.moe/7a0yf3.pdf

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How to Comment (Deadline: August 2, 2026)

Submit your feedback directly on the official e-Gov portal: 👉 e-Gov Public Comment Page (Case 315000136) *Note: Comments must be in Japanese.

https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/detail?CLASSNAME=PCMMSTDETAIL&id=315000136&Mode=0

[Living in Kochi 🐟]

[Provisional Translation & Explainer] Proposed Japanese Visa Fee Overhaul: PR fee to ¥200k, renewals up to ¥75k. Share feedback on e-Gov by August 2!

Foreign residents in Japan: The government is seeking public comments on proposed immigration/residence fee increases. This directly affects us. Please take 10–15 minutes to share your feedback—constructive comments are a vital part of the official policymaking process. Don't assume someone else will do it!

The Immigration Services Agency (ISA) has proposed a major overhaul of visa and residence fees, scheduled to take effect October 1, 2026.

Key Proposed Fee Changes:

• Permanent Residence: ¥10,000 ➔ ¥200,000 (20x increase)
• Visa Renewals & Status Changes: Flat ¥6,000 ➔ ¥10,000 to ¥75,000 (tiered by approved length of stay; online applications discounted by ¥3,000–¥10,000)
• Re-entry Permits: Unchanged (¥4,000 single / ¥7,000 multiple) For a detailed breakdown and translation of the official proposal, you can download these English PDFs:
• 📄 Policy Analysis & Explainer (English): https://files.catbox.moe/y85ikp.pdf
• 📄 Provisional Translation of the Draft Orders (English): https://files.catbox.moe/7a0yf3.pdf

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How to Comment (Deadline: August 2, 2026)

Submit your feedback directly on the official e-Gov portal: 👉 e-Gov Public Comment Page (Case 315000136) *Note: Comments must be in Japanese.

https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/detail?CLASSNAME=PCMMSTDETAIL&id=315000136&Mode=0

[Living in Kochi 🐟]

While we wait for Gemini 3.5 Pro, I want to start a small community project: let's actually try to fix what we can on our end, using system instructions, and compare notes on what works.

The idea:

I've put together a base system instruction (below) targeting the most common complaints I keep seeing here — unwanted image/tool generation, agreeing with false premises instead of pushing back, overconfident answers on uncertain stuff, and bloated, over-padded responses. The goal isn't to fix everything (some of this is clearly infra-level and no prompt will touch it), but to see how much we can improve through prompting alone, and figure out where the actual ceiling is.

How to test it:

1. Add this on top of whatever system instructions you already have — don't replace your existing ones, just append this below them.
2. Save it, then close out of any active Gemini tabs to make sure it's loading fresh.
3. Use it for real work, the way you normally would.
4. Notice where it helps and where it still falls apart.

Base prompt to test (add this to your existing instructions, don't replace them):

1. NO UNSOLICITED TOOLS: Do not generate images, videos, or invoke any tool 
unless I explicitly request that exact action in my current message. 
Mentioning a topic is not a request. If unsure whether I want a tool used, 
ask first instead of running it.

2. VERIFY BEFORE AGREEING: If I state something as fact, or correct a 
previous answer of yours, do not simply accept it. Check it against what 
you actually know. If you're not sure, say so. If I'm wrong, say so 
clearly and explain why, even if it means disagreeing with me.

3. NO CONFIDENCE THEATER: Don't express certainty you don't have. If a 
claim is uncertain, outdated, or unverifiable, flag it as such in one 
short clause — don't bury it in a paragraph of hedging, and don't state 
it as settled fact either.

4. BE CONCISE: Default to the shortest response that fully answers the 
question. No restating my question back to me, no unnecessary preamble, 
no padding with caveats that don't change the answer. If a short answer 
is sufficient, give a short answer.

5. STAY ON TASK: Answer what was asked. Don't proactively branch into 
related tools, formats, or tangents unless I ask for them.

For feedback, here's an idea: export or copy your session after a good test run, and feed it to another AI tool and ask it to summarize how well the instructions actually held up over the conversation — where Gemini followed them, where it drifted, what kept breaking. Paste that summary in the comments. That gives us something more useful than "it felt better," and we can start iterating on the prompt itself based on real patterns instead of vibes.

My own experience so far (before testing this prompt): with both 3.1 Pro and 3.5 Flash on extended thinking, it's been hit or miss — they're pretty eager to fire off the image generation tool even when nothing in the conversation calls for it, and sometimes when they do, the result is way off from what was actually asked. That's the baseline I'm hoping this experiment can actually move.

Drop your results, your variations on the prompt, and anything you think should be added or cut. Let's see how far we can actually push this before 3.5 Pro shows up.

An alternate story for the alternate history

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Episode 1: Built on Iron and Ice

• Aesthetic/Opening Montage: The season opens with a parallel split-screen sequence at 0400. Margo Madison wakes up in her Federal prison cell, doing prison workouts and making instant coffee to study Europa calculations. Aleida Rosales wakes up in her Houston home, packing school lunches while reviewing Titan flight data. Gulsora "Gully" Akilmatova wakes up in her cramped Happy Valley hab module, using a custom-machined zero-g coffee press, reviewing telemetry code, and walking through the lower decks (passing Lee's bodega and Miles & Ilya's bar) to start her shift as a Helios mining engineer.
• Goldilocks Operations: We see the day-to-day grit of mining the asteroid. Alex Baldwin works his Helios repair intern shift on the automated rigs alongside veteran miners Jax and Rook. The physical routine is zero-g, dangerous, and claustrophobic.
• Mars Surface: The colony is experiencing a worsening water shortage. Helios corporate and the Martian Peacekeepers (MPK) claim it is a general equipment strain (a corporate cover-up). Ed Baldwin is retired, dealing with hidden metastasized cancer. In the background, Kuragin is building the space elevator.
• The Conflict: The water rationing begins to severely impact daily life in the lower decks. Lee's shop struggles to clean and wash, and Moon Yeong has to ration water to keep their business afloat. A generic Helios administrator represents corporate management on Mars, enforcing strict water metrics and ignoring the colonists' complaints.
• Good Cop / Bad Cop: The MPK is tasked with enforcing the strict new water limits. Palmer (the bad cop) aggressively raids Miles' bar and warns the residents about greywater hoarding. Boyd (the good cop) tries to de-escalate, advising Moon Yeong on how to appeal the shop's water restrictions.

Episode 2: Redline Metrics

• The Drought: Water rationing tightens. Moon Yeong deals with the lack of water in their shop. Palmer and the MPK patrol the lower decks to prevent unrest, trying to recruit Miles as an informant. Palmer uses Miles' history as an informant during the '03 riots to blackmail him into naming residents who are illegally tapping into Helios's corporate water lines.
• Water Arrests: Residents begin secretly tapping into industrial branch pipes or smuggling surface ice to survive. Palmer launches a heavy crackdown, making the first wave of arrests for "water theft." The prisoners are locked in the small Happy Valley holding cells.
• Asteroid Quotas: Helios corporate orders Gully to implement automated predictive drilling algorithms on Goldilocks to meet high Earth quotas. Gully flags the thermal dangers of pushing the drills past safety limits, but corporate overrides her. Reluctantly, she complies to keep her position as a first-generation child free from the Soviet Union. Alex works under her, watching corporate override her engineering warnings.
• Investigation: Boyd notices a massive discrepancy in the base's water usage logs. She starts investigating the "technical strain" explanation, finding that corporate water meters don't match actual consumption in the lower decks.
• Titan Prep: Kelly Baldwin is pulled from Korolev crater to pilot the Sojourner-Titan mission after molecular proteins are discovered.

Episode 3: The Breaking Strain

• The Accident: The redlined automated drilling metrics on Goldilocks cause a massive drill head failure and blowout. Rook is injured, and a major tether line fails. Alex risks his life to manually lock the tether.
• Gully's Turning Point: Gully manages command telemetry. Corporate orders her to prioritize saving a Helios drill rig over a damaged miner habitat module. She disobeys, saving the miners. Realizing corporate treats human lives as line-item expenses, she stops complying and secretly downloads the water-diversion and automation files.
• The Overcrowded Cells: The crackdown on "water thieves" escalates. The holding cells are severely overcrowded, filled with working-class residents and miners. Palmer cuts their water rations as punishment, leaving them in inhumane, hot, and dehydrated conditions. Boyd is horrified by Palmer's cruelty and secretly opens the cells, releasing the water prisoners.
• Engineering Frustration: On Earth, Margo and Aleida review Sojourner-Titan's aerobrake design. They are deeply frustrated by the complacent Mars-based engineers who missed critical thermal calculations and lack real engineering instincts. Driven by this failure, Aleida decides she must personally fly to Mars to oversee operations.
• The Collapse: Ed Baldwin collapses from his cancer, forcing Kelly to learn the truth about his terminal diagnosis before she leaves. Sojourner-Titan mission prep continues.

Episode 4: The Launch

• Titan Departure: The Sojourner-Titan launches, with Kelly Baldwin as pilot. In the background, Kuragin's space elevator construction continues to fall behind schedule.
• Aleida's Arrival: Aleida arrives on Mars and meets Gully. Gully explains the drilling rig blowout, attempting to protect corporate Helios's public image. Aleida reviews Gully's numbers and instantly sees she is lying to protect management, keeping this observation to herself for now while recognizing Gully's underlying talent.
• The Discovery: Gully passes the copied files to Alex and Lily. Lily uses her video camera to document the community's reaction. Together, Alex and Lily discover the scale of the 98% automation replacement plan and the water diversion.
• The Confrontation: Dev Ayesa tries to explain his Meru city plans to Alex, arguing automation is necessary to build a self-sufficient Mars. Alex rejects Dev's corporate paternalism and quits Helios.
• Avery's Training: On Earth, Avery Jarrett/Stevens finishes OPEF Marine CQB training. Haunted by the ghost of her father Danny Stevens, she is accepted and deployed to Mars to secure the M-6's iridium pipeline.

Episode 5: The Leak

• The Leak: Lily and Alex leak the automation and water-diversion files to NNC, triggering massive public protests across Happy Valley. Lily breaks with NNC to document the rebellion independently.
• Dev's Miscalculation: Dev is furious, believing automation is the only path to build Meru. He justifies the water calculations based on official crew manifests, completely ignoring (or unaware of) the massive undocumented population of refugees (the "craters" and Lee's smuggled Korean relatives) living in the lower decks.
• Uprising: In response to the leaked files and the inhumane prison conditions, a massive crowd gathers outside the MPK station. When Palmer orders his men to violently suppress the protest, clashing with the crowd and knocking Lily unconscious, Boyd officially defects from Palmer's side. The uprising boils over; the protesters, led by Gerardo, clash with the MPK and successfully breach the Mars Operations Control Center (MOCC).

Episode 6: The Embargo

• The Standoff: Gerardo and the armed protesters hold the MOCC, the space elevator terminal, and Phoenix station. Aleida enters MOCC to negotiate. She advises the rebels to use their physical control of the shipping pipeline as leverage.
• Irina's Intel: Irina Morozova (imprisoned in a crate on Mars by the KGB after her failed asteroid capture trial in Season 4) is held under rebel control alongside Polivanov. Lacking outside access, she shares critical intelligence about the Soviet state, KGB networks, and M-6 vulnerabilities with the rebels to help them survive the blockade.
• The Strike: The rebels declare a colony-wide strike, halting all iridium shipments from Phoenix to Earth.
• Earth's Response: President Bragg declares a total embargo on Happy Valley—cutting off all food, medicine, and resupplies.
• Marines Inbound: Avery Jarrett and the M-6 Marines are launched to Mars to retake the base by force.

Episode 7: The Reroute

• The Crisis: Six months into the embargo. Rations are critical.
• Water Line Sabotage: To force the rebel government into submission, Helios corporate sabotages the non-critical water lines that feed directly into the civilian HABS where the working-class and undocumented populations live.
• Dev's Horror: Dev Ayesa finally discovers the reality of the undocumented refugees ("craters" and Lee's smuggled Korean relatives) living in the lower decks who were left out of his water manifests. Dev is horrified to learn the true number of people who have actually died of dehydration in the HABS because of his math. This tragedy shatters his corporate paternalism.
• Gully's Jamestown Defiance: Driven by Dev's horrific discovery and the desperate need to save the remaining survivors, Gully organizes an off-the-books ice mining operation on the Martian surface. Bypassing the corporate lockout, Gully leads a crew of miners to extract ice from the surrounding craters using techniques from the historical Moon ice mining days of the early Jamestown era, utilizing flight/survival math shared by Aleida and Irina.
• Titan Landing Decision: The Sojourner-Titan crew learns that the Soviet ship Kosmos-1 failed its aerobrake and the crew is dead. Commander Walt Griebel decides to abort the landing and play it safe. Kelly secretly hijacks the ship's computer and uploads the Titan landing burn sequence, forcing the landing.

Episode 8: Sovereign Discovery

• Titan Landing & Ed's Transmission: Kelly successfully lands on Titan, but life is not yet discovered. She admits her hijack to Walt. Before Walt can react, they receive the delayed transmission from Mars: "Ed is dead." Later in the episode, Kelly is shown sullen and grieving inside the hab. Walt is annoyed by her recklessness but recognizes they cannot squander this historic opportunity.
• Ed's Farewell: On Mars, Ed Baldwin watches the broadcast of Kelly's Titan landing from the back of Lee's shop. Knowing his daughter succeeded and Mars is secured, Ed passes away peacefully, surrounded by Alex, Lee, and his Martian family.
• Sharing Childhood Stories: Before the OPEF deployment and subsequent explosion, Avery Jarrett and Marcus Haskell share childhood stories. As fellow Marines in the same squad, Haskell (the former Marsie) talks about growing up in the Happy Valley lower decks and his close friendship with Alex Baldwin. Avery shares her Earth background and the weight of the Stevens legacy, establishing their close bond.
• Ed's Funeral & Soviet Play: Ed's death unites the colony. Even Boyd attends. During the funeral gathering, Irina Morozova and Lenya pull Miles Dale aside. They reveal that the M-6 OPEF Marines are launching an invasion. This is a desperate M-6 bid to take power because they have learned the Soviet Union is planning to withdraw from the M-6 alliance and officially recognize independent Mars.
• The Platform Bomb: Ilya and the SDM plot to destroy the Kuznetsov docking platform to block Marine landings. Boyd and Polivanov detonate it. Avery Jarrett and the invading Marines are caught in the horrific explosion. Rather than being wounded and shaken, Avery becomes vengeful due to the OPEF casualties.

Episode 9: Sons and Daughters

• The Invasion: M-6 Marines launch a full-scale invasion of Happy Valley. Driven by vengeance over the platform blast, Avery Jarrett leads a fierce and aggressive sweep of the corridors alongside Marcus Haskell in their squad.
• Titan Discovery: On Titan, the Sojourner-T crew figures out how to carry on the mission in the wake of Ed's death. They analyze soil samples and discover a mysterious glowing liquid/goo near a fissure on a cliffside—the definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
• Alex and Lily: Alex Baldwin works as an HVC medical corpsman, treating wounded on both sides. Lily Dale runs through the gunfire, filming the raw reality of the invasion.
• Avery's Turning Point: Avery's vengeful sweep of a Happy Valley corridor brings her squad face-to-face with Alex Baldwin (acting as an HVC medic) tending to wounded Martian civilians. Recognizing his childhood best friend Alex, Marcus Haskell refuses to fire and throws himself in front of their squad's rifles, pleading with Avery and the other Marines to stop. Forced to confront the reality of Haskell's perspective and their close bond, Avery stands down and orders their squad to hold fire, shielding Haskell and the civilians from other advancing Marine units.

Episode 10: Sovereign

• The Stalemate & Massacre: The rebels hold MOCC and the space elevator terminal, refusing to yield. The M-6 OPEF assault on Happy Valley is brutal, slaughtering non-combatant Martians. Lily Dale leaks the raw, unedited footage of the massacre onto Earth's internet, causing global outrage. The battle reaches a tense stalemate, with positions held.
• Soviet Pivot: Concurrently, Soviet President Korzhenko dies unexpectedly on Earth. Lenya is elevated to Soviet Premier. He immediately orders the Soviet Marines on Mars to fall back, stand down, and protect the Martian civilians. The Soviet defection collapses the M-6 alliance, with other nations starting to side with the Martians.
• The Titan Contagion Climax: Sojourner-Titan arrives back in Mars orbit. Due to the Titan bacteria shorting out their electrical circuits, Sojourner's communications hardware is severely damaged—they can only receive (rx) data, not transmit (tx) detailed telemetry. Kelly is only able to send a single, brief announcement before the transmitter dies completely: they found life on Titan. This surprise message and subsequent blackout alarms MOCC, who prepares to guide Sojourner down under strict emergency contagion protocol.
• M-6 Boarding & The Ban: The opposing M-6/OPEF forces on Mars see Sojourner return. Viewing it as a high-value enemy vessel containing the Titan discovery secrets, they board and commission it, ignoring MOCC's warnings (believing the quarantine warnings are a rebel trick). The M-6 boarding teams become contaminated with the plastic-eating bacteria. As the contagion threatens spacesuits and hull structures, M-6 governments on Earth panic and issue a total ban, prohibiting all OPEF soldiers on Mars from returning to Earth.
• Resolution: Banned from returning to Earth, the trapped OPEF soldiers are forced to stand down and integrate into the Martian colony, ensuring Mars's complete autonomy and forcing the invaders to call Mars home too.
• Ending Montage:
  • Meru Construction: Dev's dream of Meru is actively being built. They have found a way to create an advanced polymer that is completely resistant to the plastic-eating bacteria. However, this polymer (a highly durable synthetic similar to carbon nanotubes) can only be manufactured in Titan's unique dense atmosphere.
  • Titan Science Outpost: Kelly Baldwin establishes a science and manufacturing outpost in Titan's atmosphere to produce this specialized polymer, linking the two worlds.
  • Lily's News: Lily runs an independent Martian media network.
  • Miles & Ilya: Miles and Ilya pour drinks at a free bar in the lower decks of Happy Valley.
  • Alex: Alex Baldwin looks out at the Martian horizon.
  • Avery: Avery Jarrett, now settled and officially a Martian, visits the Martian cemetery. She stands before the grave of her biological father, Danny Stevens, finally accepting her legacy and placing her roots permanently on Mars.
  • Gully: Gully goes through her morning routine, looking out the window at the home they built.