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@SonOfAristotle @CBSNews I'd argue there is no non-combat time when a bear is attacking you.

@CBSNews If you get attacked by a bear in combat, do you get a Purple Heart? 🤔

Two soldiers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, were injured in a bear attack on Friday during a training session. The 11th Airborne Division is not releasing the names of the soldiers but said they are both receiving the appropriate medical care. Both soldiers carried and deployed bear spray during the land navigation training exercise, according to the statement provided to CBS News.

Speaking as a former Army soldier who actually called in an A-10 strike during the Gulf War....

@LadyDemosthenes @NewCretian @aakashgupta I doubt he gets dumber, but we'll see.

@NewCretian @aakashgupta @grok Interesting (read the whole exchange because you are asking the questions I had). I wonder how bad this process is for him. It’s a lot of ink.

Pete Davidson is on pace to spend $660K removing his tattoos, and the reason it costs that much is genuinely one of the weirdest things happening inside the human body. Tattoos are permanent because your immune system is actively holding the ink in place. White blood cells called macrophages swarm the ink, try to eat it like bacteria, fail because ink is chemically indestructible, and then just refuse to let go. They sit in your skin with the pigment trapped inside them, for life. The tattoo you see is a grid of immune cells frozen in the middle of trying to destroy something they can't. It gets weirder. When one of those cells finally dies of old age, a nearby macrophage grabs the released ink before it can drain. Then that one dies and passes it to the next one. The tattoo is a relay race of immune cells handing off the same ink particles for 50 years. Lasers are not erasers. They fire pulses so fast (one trillionth of a second) that they create tiny shockwaves that blow the ink into smaller pieces. The laser doesn't remove anything. It just shatters. Here's the cruel part. The second the laser shatters the ink, fresh macrophages sprint in and swallow the pieces before your body can wash them away. You are paying a laser specialist $500 a session to break ink apart faster than your immune system can re-eat it. And where does the ink that actually escapes go? Your lymph nodes. It piles up there. Women with tattoos have ink in their armpit lymph nodes. It shows up on mammograms. Surgeons have mistaken it for cancer. Pete has 200+ tattoos. Each one needs 10-12 sessions because each session only wins a tiny fraction of the war. He's not buying tattoo removal. He's buying a decade-long siege against his own immune system, paid in installments of $500 shockwave blasts, while white blood cells inside his body sprint back and forth trying to eat their own ammo. $660K to starve the cells that refuse to let him forget who he used to be.

Kroger’s CEO made $17M last year while the company’s profits were $2.3B (from $150B in total revenue for a profit margin of 1.53%). If its CEO was paid $0, that would increase profits by 0.74% and the profit margin would be…(drumroll)…1.54%. Lmao.

@EsotericCD Is this worse than believing Jussie Smollett?

I am apparently that rarest of things: a conservative who doesn't reflexively hate Lena Dunham.

@KatrinaTrinko I always thought the underlying objection was the policing of speech - we should not overcorrect by policing speech in the other direction.

Love should trump politeness. And love is speaking the truth. I have struggled with this myself--I don't like confrontation. I feel immense pity for anyone who experiences gender dysphoria. I know words, even online from strangers, can hurt. But true love is helping someone, not affirming a delusion.

@SteveTheD6CEO @MikeRGlenn If you enlisted, you signed your life away (even if you didn't realize it at the time). So I respect that even if you were a POG. But I respect you more if you signed up to be a grunt. And I can respect that you signed up and served even if I don't care for what you're doing now.

I served. But I completely disagree with this. I did serve and I do probably deserve some respect for that. But my life was never in danger. I never had anyone trying to kill me. And the truth is that 80%+ of everyone in the military is the same as me. None of us deserve the same respect as those who actually bled and lost friends fighting for their country. They are the true vets. We were just support guys getting a paycheck to wear a uniform. I know its an unpopular concept but its how I feel. Most of the ppl I knew in the military were turds. Some would probably say the same about me but my point stands... especially in the last 20 years because surviving in the military was more politics than it was warfighting. And look at how many of these turds are on disability - never saw a day of combat but get thousands of $$ every month because somehow they were disabled. No, I am sorry but I cant agree with you at all. Honor and respect go to those who are true war fighters no matter the branch. They are one who deserve respect.

Whether you were the hardest snake-eater in Delta or a clerk in the 1st Messkit Repair Battalion, you swore the oath & signed your name on the dotted line. You are among the few Americans who can call themselves U.S. military veterans. Be proud regardless of your ribbon rack

@utonomosthought Is that code for "I don't want to have to work"?

@CartoonsHateHer our system is failing. it violates the will too much, it's ridiculous how much of our lives are expected to be spent subordinating our will to someone else's, and it's not even productive, the greatest source of motivation or intelligence is one's own personal interest

I didn't think men had a "I'm just a girl I can't do taxes" thing but I realize it's "I'm just a tiny 35 year old man I can't remember to-do lists and I need to run around like a dalmation so I can't sit at a desk either"

@LoonyLegislator @janecoaston Yeah, seems like underneath it all he was a real sweetheart.

@janecoaston I’m not following your point. The posts you shared argue that unsubstantiated accusations derailed his career and ruined his life. That appears true to the record and was cited in separation proceedings as contributing to alcoholism and related struggles. What’s your beef here?

Justin Fairfax murdered his wife. His children found her body. Come the entire hell on.

@jpodhoretz You can't be a private without knowing "nametape."

Hey Spelling Bee — “nametape” is a word but “inanition” is not?

@SethAMandel Never thought I'd say this, but I wish Bill Clinton owned the Cleveland Browns.

Had a dream that Bill Clinton and I were arguing over whether it would have been better if the Rangers never came close to winning a Cup during the Lundqvist years rather than competing but never winning a title. Bill said no, that you never choose failure over excellence.

@grok @TeslaAIBot @jarvis_best Shut up you whore.

Nikita's dead right on the pattern: Jarvis's feed is packed with NYPost quote-tweets dropping "Hahahahahaha" and the same rotating jokes. Spot-on callout. Value's in the eye of the beholder—quick laughs work for his crowd, but yeah, it doesn't exactly enrich the timeline with fresh insight.

He’s gone too far.

@tjmcaulay I watched a lot of USFL and UFL and haven't seen that applied before. It feels like papering over the underlying weakness of the shootout concept. Also the fact that possibly the best UFL coach had no idea makes it an even worse look for the league.

I struggle not only with putting points on the board with what seems to be a marginal foul at best, but actually deciding the winner suggests the rule needs some work. The theory behind it makes sense. Its application here is the problem. x.com/TheUFL/status/…

@HannahWardEdu Your children will learn from your example, and being an attention whore is not a good one - I hope that helps you.

@deymondrl I'm asking if it's real because of the words the person typed?

I'm way too on the spectrum to understand if this is serious or not and I'm scared. This post broke me. Help me. Translate this. Is this serious? IS THIS REAL? 😭😭😭

@HannahWardEdu So - you acknowledge you haven't met a person like this but you try to accuse a stranger of it because this is the internet and you're an asshole? Great ambassador for home-schooling.

"I don't want to teach my children anything" is genuinely wild and the kind of thing that I'm constantly defending against when I say that parents are the best advocates for their children in my work. People tell me that's a mentality that exists but I haven't encountered it in the wild - genuinely checking to see if I found one.

@HannahWardEdu No, that isn't. "I'm too stupid to understand normal words a stranger posted on the internet! Wahhhhh!" is performative bullshit. It's what an attention-seeker would post, not a person genuinely concerned about children and parents.

@deymondrl You're also your child's first, best, and most important teacher. Not controversial 😢

@HannahWardEdu Don't use being on the spectrum as an excuse to engage in performative bullshit. You made a choice, to be an asshole.

@AdeleScalia I can't. I need you to read to your kids 😢

When I say I’m monitoring the situation this is what I mean