Geopolitics, space stuff, military tech and Notre Dame sports. British/American dual citizen.
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I think “they launch waves of craft that fly through the air that can drop 2,000 lb bombs hundreds of miles from the ship with pinpoint accuracy” would get the message across.
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Lol where have you been? People constantly write about Japan needing to increase immigration. Their country is literally ceasing to exist in front of our eyes.
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He’s simply incapable of putting anything in normal human terms. He can’t just say that he went because the Pope was a decent man and an important spiritual leader of one billion people. It has to somehow be recast in his own terms and who voted for him. Imagine liking this guy.
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These idiots realize that it’s worse if a journalist somehow tricked/hacked his way in, rather than being a mistake?
They realize that’s worse, right?
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In what universe is it the only option to not pasteurize your milk? The raw milk psychos are a lunatic fringe that represent like 0.0001% of the market.
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Having a dumb fuck for a friend. Who you choose to associate with has consequences, and for good reason.
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LOL you’re recommending that Trump become a dictator to prevent a dictator.
So, pretty typical reasoning for every dictator who has ever lived.
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Does @TwitterSupport have any integrity anymore? Does Covid misinformation go both ways? This statistic is completely false and verifiably so.
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Yeah because demand is collapsing in the face of a pending recession.
You stupid mother fuckers.
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Yeah, but not the way you think. Leavitt looks like a moron here. Everyone who’s ever dealt in any way with import/export knows that Americans pay for tariffs.
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That would be one tree planted every two minutes, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for 20 years. There’s a zero percent chance that’s true.
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He canned all the sane people that guided policy in the first admin and replaced them with lunatics, sycophants and grifters. About 50 people from the first admin, including his own VP, warned against voting for him this time around. This catastrophe was completely foreseeable.
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Yes, and also the fact that hundreds of thousands of black former slaves served in the civil war for the Union and many of them probably *would* have had the last name Fateh if we hadn’t changed all of their names when they reached the United States.
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This is perfect. I think the same analogy applies to flat earthers, chemtrails and a number of other conspiracies. I’ve often wondered — if God himself told these people they were wrong, would they even believe it?
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Seems like you ignored the “ridiculous amount of butter delivered to their table” comment.
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No it doesn’t. People in developing countries have kids because they have no social safety net and thus need kids to take care of them when they’re no longer physically capable of the manual labor most of them need to do to survive. You have the situation exactly backwards.
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The police in this country have completely lost their minds. Even for a bunch of high school bullies who couldn’t find other jobs, this is bad.
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Someone talking about something on a podcast is not evidence, regardless of what appeal to authority they use. Present the data.
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The last few are deceiving. They were basically just single displacements of water that happened in an isolated lake, bay or inlet when a bunch of material slid off a mountain into the water. It wasn’t what we think of in terms of a huge wave in open water.
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Yeah he’s been talking uneducated bullshit about trade for 35 years. His points were as dumb and uneducated then as they are now, and he’s surrounded himself with an echo chamber that refuses to tell him when he’s wrong.
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Yeah the employees of a government agency pay taxes on their personal income they earn from the job. The agency itself does not pay taxes. How are we even having this debate?
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Sooooo, what incentive is there for Ukraine to sign it?
This guy isn’t real good at the negotiation thing outside of a real estate setting.
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They always add the “complete disarmament” for Ukraine clause as a poison pill to sabotage any possible agreement. They know that will never be acceptable because it’s, very obviously, tantamount to just handing the entire country to Russia down the road.
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That’s honestly the nice thing about capitalism. As a resource becomes more scarce, the price goes up and so demand decreases. It actually naturally promotes sustainable consumption, unlike socialist command economies with extensive price controls that untether supply and demand.
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Do you have an idea of how ridiculous this sounds? I’m honestly embarrassed for you.
This is more or less a parody of how Westerners think of the most backward of police states.
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No doubt all the Trump admin thought they had to do to implement tariffs was say “there are tariffs.”
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lol yeah they used to be normal until everyone realized how dumb they were and how much they were suppressing growth and innovation.
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I appreciate a person that can drink 15 units of booze on a weekday and consider themselves a moderate drinker.
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He didn’t take responsibility for anything. He spent twenty minutes deflecting responsibility before giving lip service to the idea, and completely ignored the real problem, which is not the decision to leave but the horrendous execution of that departure. It was embarrassing.
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Now the wait begins until we find out what even more incompetent idiot they name to replace him.
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Property rights are very literally the number one factor most correlated with a nation’s prosperity. Democracy is not, by the way, but property rights are. The right to own something creates ENORMOUS incentive to create and produce that cannot be substituted for any other way.
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You’re describing how evolution works. ALL genetic variation is a fluke but most of these types of mutations are either developmentally lethal or confer a disadvantage and die out. If they confer some advantage they thrive and become prevalent, which is evidently what happened.
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This stupid fucking asshole cops. There are cool, decent cops, and these are the other guys. Brainstorming about what you can charge these girls with? Get the fuck out of here you worthless paycheck stealers. How can we get @DOGE some authority at the local level?
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That’s a JDAM bomb, not a rocket. People are just posting random things and constructing any story they want out of it.
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Fuck you. People like you put us in this mess. It was so completely knowable that this was going to happen, you dumbass.
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Great idea to do this BEFORE negotiations really start. So not only have we conceded on every Russian demand but we’ve also removed Ukrainian funding preemptively, thus squandering any leverage we had over either side to stop the conflict.
Trump really is a master negotiator.
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Um, I’m not sure how this needs to be said but no, an anti-materiel rifle will not penetrate a Leopard 2 tank. From any angle.
By the way that weapon dates from 1941. Some army you’ve got there.
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You know death rates from cancer are an order of magnitude lower than just a generation ago, right?
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If prices come down because domestic production/supply improves, that’s great. But if they come down simply because demand is collapsing, that’s not so good. Do you get it?
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Thanks bud. I hope Freeman gives a little tip of the cap to NIU if we manage to win it all.
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There are a ton of us who appreciate your contributions and don’t feel the need to bring up “opsec” every time you tweet. Would appreciate you continuing but certainly do what you think is best.
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The Nordic countries are completely, entirely and in all ways totally capitalist. Their economies are extremely market based and private capital is everywhere. Probably more so than the US. They just have a more robust social welfare system and socialized healthcare.
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They’re actually fighting back against a brutal and intimidating adversary. At least 2/3 of the 30 countries already in NATO wouldn’t have mounted even a symbolic defense. They’re more deserving now of membership than most of the pretend allies they’re hoping to join.
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So the source is that he “read on the internet” and then speculated about what the aircraft may have been carrying.
Do I have that right? This is what you’re going with?
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NOT paying to park in congested areas is simply yet another form of demand-distorting price control. Parking space in cities is a scarce resource.
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Compassion for those less powerful than oneself generally (whether animals or other human beings) is always a good indicator of character.
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I’m tempted to be an asshole like some of the others, but it’s encouraging to see that at least some Trump voters are coming around.
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I think we’re just confirming that being overweight is bad for you and could make you die. I guess these days that’s called “fat shaming” but that doesn’t make it any less true
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Reads like the poor Russian people living in Depressionovisk Oblast appealing directly to Putin to build them a sewer system while he’s in the literal process of spending the money on mistresses, secret palaces and nuclear weapons instead.
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It’s just bizarre how the insular community that doesn’t test for autism doesn’t have much autism.
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They’re descendants of the Inuit, similar the native population in Alaska.
Are you trolling or did you authentically not know this? Have you ever looked up some of the goddamn place names in Greenland?
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Yeah, that’s my point. Anyone can make a mistake. If it turns out that someone actually hacked into the app they were using, it only reinforces what poor judgement it was to use Signal for these communications. If I were them, I’d own up to it being a mistake and try to move on.
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Somehow I don’t think there would be any cell service on an island with natives who’ve never been contacted before.
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In seriousness, this is probably in there so that the government can hit people who steal things with tax evasion as well as theft.
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How can he be a thief? This is a post-capitalist commune with common possessions. To each according to his need, no?
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Yeah I loved that. “Black Lives Matter!” before proceeding to dismiss and flip off the black lady who asks them to stop tagging a business in her area.
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Here’s an idea — don’t take your kid to the show then.
Problem solved! Phew, that was a tough one but we figured it out in the end.
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Pouring down artillery from distance is different than pushing forward. It seems Russia’s downtrodden forces just want to win by obliterating everything with artillery and then walking through the ruins. I guess that’s long been the Russian way of war, when it comes down to it.
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That doesn’t happen once a country develops. It just doesn’t. Many have tried, none have succeeded.
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God forbid you govern based on the principles of individual liberties upon which the country was founded and just let people do what they want to do, while focusing attention on important issues. I know that’s just not a reasonable request for you.
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I’d prefer we put the focus on not having incompetent people such as yourself leading our warfighters so that we don’t needlessly get some of them killed.
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Do you guys honestly just believe this stuff? Is this how your minds work?
I can’t imagine what it would be like to go through life just seeing random things that I agree with and celebrating them without any critical thinking whatsoever.
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If you were piloting an F-18 over Yemen that day, would you have been totally chill with your boss broadcasting your exact launch time and time over target through an insecure messaging app to people’s personal phones?
Be honest.
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He’s absolutely wrong. It’s absurd. American leaders knew in the 1870s that we could no longer rely on tariffs and started drawing up plans for other revenue sources. And it’s a different world today, anyway. The US is the world’s second largest exporter. He’s going to wreck us.
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Pure misinformation. Study after study has shown no difference in autism rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. There are a multitude of reasons why autism might be underreported in Amish communities.
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FFS the same people questioning why we’re supporting Ukraine are all in on giving billions to a country with free healthcare and higher education.
Make it make sense.
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The B-2 cost $1 billion per unit in 1990s dollars. The B-21 will cost half that in 2022 dollars and so can be procured in much larger numbers. It may have less payload but will be far more versatile in its capabilities, with better stealth/EA and even A2A ability (missile truck).
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I have to imagine. NATO won’t retaliate with nukes but Russia’s conventional armed forces will disappear. I’m confident that has been made clear to the Russians.
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I’m assuming they will throw your complaint in the rubbish/wipe their arses with it, as they should.
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I don’t understand the “smile more” stuff. It’s remarkably consistent for a line that has no hope of achieving anything positive.
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The irony of course being that if Trump/MAGA were in power in the US back then, the US likely wouldn’t have intervened and the French *would* be speaking German right now.
This is like the MAGA Republicans who take credit for Lincoln’s acts to prove they aren’t racist.
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Yeah for 99.999% of history infant mortality was off the charts and life expectancy was 30-40 years.
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This is preposterously bullshit clickbait, for what it’s worth. These animals were up to 47 feet long and weighed up to 2.5 tons. Their actual size relative to humans is depicted second from the top, below.
They were not the size of goddamn jumbo jets.
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This shit is wild man.
Some dude I’ve never heard of: “nothing is going to happen in 2027.”
<insert ominous music>
Thanks for the next level content guys.
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Why is it that most Russian soldiers look distinctly like they have IQs that push 50 on a good day?
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He’s probably too dumb to remember the historical reason why the US thought it was beneficial to guarantee German security rather than leaving it solely to them.
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That dude works out for hours every day. He’s just eating relatively normally, but that’s not a body that more than 1% of “dads” actually have.
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Attending a protest should never be illegal in a real country (not China or Russia or some other such hellhole) and certainly not posting on social media about a protest. Christ Almighty, get a sense of perspective.
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Fascinating fiction. I mean it’s batshit crazy with no bearing on reality, but you should write a novel or something.
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Lucky then that throwing a football accurately is such a core competency of the Secretary of Defense.
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It has not been officially announced but it’s fairly obvious given that no other systemic changes have been made that would reduce oil prices other than contracting demand (no major supply announcements or OPEC + Russia agreements).
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Thank you. This was beautifully written. I’m not one for “apologizing” on my countrymens’ behalf but what else is there left to do? They don’t speak for all of us or even most of us. We share a wonderful history with our French friends and hopefully that relationship can survive the current administration.
There are some legitimate complaints Americans could make about trade policy but they should be addressed in a civilized manner and there’s simply no excusing the embrace of brutal dictators or the abandonment of our allies. I fear we’re in for some ugly days until Trump’s supporters properly reap the results of their idiocy, but I wish that weren’t necessary.
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I keep reading this and see it as a good thing. But at the same time I’m astounded that so many have been in any way surprised by what they’re seeing in places like Bucha. It shouldn’t be for anyone who’s been paying even a modicum of attention, or who knows a thing about Russia.
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Humans’ eyes do this same thing instead. Birds’ eyes are much larger relative to their head due to their need for very acute eyesight so there isn’t room within their skulls for the corresponding stabilization structures.
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