Aerospace engineer and writer, blogging since 1997. "He smelt the old Evil and knew it for what it was." --Tolkien _ War/Ea/gle
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Oh.
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The degree to which we piss away our human capital is shocking to me. It's bad enough that we haven't solved aging but society is increasingly dependent on transfer payments via taxation from a hyper productive outer crust. Now, more than ever, we need to be identifying our future captains of industry and training them. Instead, we run schooling into our mid 20s as daycare with no real stakes or consequences.
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The filmmaking bar must be excellence. Any other goal is an insult to the audience and the filmmakers themselves. @ClubRandom_ @billmaher
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Wild Braves stat 👀
The Battery (real estate + mixed-use) made more operating income in 2025 than the baseball team itself:
⚾ $51M
🏙️ $69M
The development around Truist Park is now the bigger money-maker. Atlanta doing Atlanta things 🔥
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One year from now, in the NFL's second annual game in Paris...
“Now let’s turn to Broncos quarterback Bo Nix. There was some concern about his mobility earlier in the season, but look at him down there for the pregame warmup. He’s sprinting with no problem at all.”
“Wait, is that somebody chasing him?”
“And carrying a sign … something about the ‘haute bourgeoisie.’”
“Some people just can’t get over that four-year guaranteed $18 million rookie contract with a $10 million signing bonus.”
“Well, he’s scrambling and escaping the rush pretty well so far. Good pocket presence. As our old friend Marv Albert would say, he’s _on fire!_”
“Much like the rest of Paris these days.”
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Candidates: Please sir, we need the price of gas to come down or we're going to lose every single race.
The President: Best I can do is whine about "Super Intelligence."
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Abdullahi Ahmed, the Somali-born muslim assistant superintendent of Portland Public Schools in Maine, proposed a policy to regulate dogs on school grounds because they’re "impure” according to Muslim culture.
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Also, if “only” 2% of the ~12 million illegals who came in under Biden are rapists and murders, that’s 240,000 rapists and murderers. These journalists act like we should just live with that, like it’s okay because deportation is mean.
A conversation with @60Minutes on rapists and murderers, which they declined to include.
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CONCLUSION 🧵(1/2): Putin would have the world, and especially the United States, believe that he is somehow holding back from crushing Ukraine, but that he could do so at any moment of his choosing. The opposite is the case.
If Putin had had a way of ending the war quickly, he surely would have used it. The effort to field an army large enough to make virtually no gains is costing Putin a fortune, driving up inflation in Russia, and generating increasing social discontent. Fielding a larger army would cost more with no guarantee of materially changing the situation on the front. That is why Putin is holding back at least for now. ⬇️
Putin has likely recognized the folly of trying to drown Ukraine in Russian blood and has instead opted to try to hammer Ukraine into submission with a strategic bombing campaign. The Russians have secured a temporary advantage in the skies over Ukraine through their jet-powered drones and the shortage of Patriot missiles that can intercept their ballistic missiles. But Ukraine is fielding solutions to defend against the jet-powered drones, and it is hardening and decentralizing its infrastructure to survive the ballistic missile strikes (as well as developing its own ballistic missile interceptors, although that effort will take time).
The Russian strikes are currently devastating Ukrainian energy and other infrastructure and imposing a brutal cost on Ukrainian civilians—as Putin intends. But there is no reason to think that this strategic bombing campaign will be any more successful than every other strategic bombing campaign in history—all of which have failed to compel a country holding its own on the battlefield to surrender.
It is unclear whether Putin is lying about Russian gains or being lied to by his own military—or both. Russian military correspondents constantly complain of what they call “beautiful reports” that Russian military units send to higher headquarters, claiming gains they have not made. Ukrainian forces say that they have been able to use the Russian military’s own internal culture of lying to their advantage, luring Russian troops into traps because the Russians think that they are moving through territory they control. Leaked Russian military maps show phantom gains, often matching Putin’s claims. The pervasive lying within the Russian military is a problem for Russian soldiers, but likely an advantage for Putin, as it supports his own efforts to present Russian forces as advancing and winning when, in fact, they are doing neither.
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The Soviet Union once single handedly drove several whale species to the brink of extinction because murdering them pointlessly was the best way to fulfil the fishing quotas set by communist bureaucrats in metric tonnes.
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This is a watershed moment and it passed by almost unnoticed. Here we have British cops threatening a man with arrest for being “openly Jewish” at a pro-Hamas rally. Being Jewish in public where Muslims can see you in Sadiq Khan’s London is now officially a crime. Never mind that he’s standing quietly with his hands in his pockets while people chant “Nazi scum” at him: he’s visibly Jewish, which makes him clearly in the wrong.
Also worth noting: the fact that the cops, apparently incapable of preventing violence as long as this man is antagonizing the crowd by breathing Jewishly at them, have decided that the best way to deal with the problem of violent antisemitism is to side with the antisemitic mob. Arresting a Jew, whose very existence is an act of Islamophobia, is so much safer than protecting him and his right to be openly Jewish in 21st century Britain.
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How badly does Abdul Want money out of politics?
Well, according to public FEC filings he has spent over 51 million dollars while Mike Rogers has spent 19 million.
Imagine if we had any journalists to point this out!
🤖 Made with AI
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Judging by the Kremlin readout of Putin’s phone call today with the Finnish and Norwegian leaders, the Russian president hasn’t moved a single inch on the issue of peace in Ukraine despite the recent flurry of diplomatic activity
Just the same old tired talking points
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democrats: if we take power we will seize elon musk's companies and put him in prison and no, we do not care if he technically committed any crime or not
also democrats, somehow: why is elon musk funding republicans?
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Years ago, I was extremely naive about what Antifa were before being nearly killed by them. Today, I see people have the same ignorance about the radical trans agenda, which also seeks to destroy rights through the use of violence and intimidation disguised as a civil rights movement. I write about this in my new book. amazon.com/Zizians-Inside-Tr…
“Antifa claimed to protect and defend people of color from racists. I did not think that they would even attack a journalist, a journalist of color.”
@MrAndyNgo, son of refugees from Vietnam, was beaten in Portland and hospitalized with a brain bleed. His story 👇
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On the Anthropic "breach" of Georgia voter data, they did not access voter files. Claude accessed the public data on who has voted, outstanding absentee ballots, etc. I know because Claude built a tracker of the data. There was nothing illegal. It's a great use of AI. And Claude did a better visual representation than what is on the Secretary of State website.
