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@RealJamesWoods They attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, twice.

@SawyerMerritt Outperformed by a used Tesla Model S Plaid.

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. • Starting price: $640,000 • Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive • Range: 280 miles (expected EPA) • Peak charging speed: 350kW • 122 kWh battery • 1,050 horsepower • 0-60mph: 2.4s • 800v • Four-door four-seater • Four electric motors • OLED screens • Weight: 4,982 lbs • Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm • Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car. • Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels • The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered • 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

@Aku_700 Why has this statue not been melted down?

George Floyd went to jail 8 times. In 2007, he held a gun to a woman’s stomach during an aggravated robbery. George Floyd statues should be removed. Raise your hand 🤚 if you agree

@cremieuxrecueil It appears that 7 is still the magic number.

If you ask humans to pick a random number, they don't produce a uniform distribution of numbers. Like humans, AI disproportionately picks some numbers and avoids others. How odd!

@Mylovanov Petraeus can be correct on occasion.

Petraeus: The U.S. has not remotely learned the lessons it should from Ukraine. This is the future of war: Ukraine alone uses 10,000 drones a day, and 90% of Russian casualties are caused by drones. That should force institutional change. 1/

@infantrydort Sadly, less than 5 months later, the letter-writer will join the five soldiers in eternal rest, suffering for the Republic he tried to save.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam,-- I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. Lincoln

@LouDPhillips It is an honor to have you in town.

Proud to be in DC tonight. Honored to be the Grand Marshall for the Memorial Day Parade tomorrow. Here to give Respect and Gratitude to our Fallen. Remember them on #MemorialDay.

@VictorGischler Sink the Bismarck! is the best.

Best WW2 navy movie?

@Rothmus Is this trend explained by a difference in teaching methods or by a change in demographics?

Reading scores have absolutely tanked since 2015 while spending per student skyrocketed. Mississippi saw the biggest jumps without spending more. They’re still near the bottom nationally. They just went back to phonics, trained teachers in real methods, and quit passing 3rd graders who couldn’t read. TLDR: schools don’t need more money and politicians and teachers unions are leeches and grifters who don’t give a crap about your children.

@RealJamesWoods "She politicized intelligence." No, it was Obama who politicized intelligence. Every decision, recommendation, finding, action, and operation undertaken by the IC during the Obama administration was for the political benefit of Obama.

He can’t go to prison soon enough.

@KeenanPeachy I think that public castration might be appropriate.

If a rapist is deemed to stupid to know rape is wrong and therefore can’t be locked up, the only recourse a civilized society that cherishes women and children has is to summarily order his execution

@TheSpartansWire Great tournament for the Spartans. Not a moral victory, real. 2-1.

MSU baseball shutout by USC, ends season in quarterfinals of Big Ten Tournament 📸 Nick King/Lansing State Journal, Nick King/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images spartanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/c…

@TRHLofficial Please add LBJ's Great Society.

1913: federal reserve bank and what followed 1947: invention of the CIA and what followed 1963: the loss of JFK and what followed. Let me add 1919: women voting and what followed.

1913, 1947, 1963

@MCCCANM The "peace dividend" was a myth, but it played so well with domestic politics that we all fell into its trap.

True. After the Cold War ended, we massively drew down our forces. Something like 50% of the Air Force fleet was drawn down, w/ corresponding personnel cuts. Yeah, the B-52 is old, but so is the KC-135. The C-17 is getting used up much faster than planned & there is nothing to replace it or the C-5. I don’t know what the right size of our force is, but before you can argue it you should understand these things. It’s common to say the military sucks up the budget, but that’s not true…defense spending is about 13%, depending on year. Medicaid & similar programs are 24%. Social Security 21%. The interest on the debt is another 13%. Social safety net 7%, etc..

@skdh On the SpaceX site:

I've been looking for a four leaf clover my entire life and this is the first time I've found one!!!

@CowboyShepherd2 Love it that the Navy has a position labeled Sinatra.

Here’s a long story to show why I think that the decision to go with a non carrier capable jet trainer is incredibly shortsighted, and probably inevitable anyway. First, let me remark on my background as someone familiar with Naval Jet Training. I went through Primary Flight Training in the T-34C Turbo Mentor at NAS Corpus Christi. TX, followed by Intermediate and Advanced Strike Training at NAS Kingsville, TX, in the T-2C Buckeye and the TA-4J Skyhawk. My first fleet tour was flying A-6E Intruders with VA-75, at NAS Oceana, VA, deployed aboard USS EISENHOWER. I transitioned to the FA-18C Hornet and went back to sea with VFA-192 at NAF Atsugi, Japan, deploying twice aboard USS INDEPENDENCE. My next tour was with VT-22, back at NAS Kingsville, instructing in the T-45 Goshawk. After this tour, I returned to NAS Oceana as an FA-18 Department Head with VFA-87, deploying twice in ENTERPRISE and ROOSEVELT. I then spent a year at the Naval War College, and two years on a NATO staff. My final tour was back at NAS Kingsville as the Chief Staff Officer for Training Wing TWO. And that’s where this story really begins. When I left Kingsville after my IP tour in early 2000, the Navy had just hired the Thomas Group to find and cut waste in our processes. No problems with that. Waste should be minimized if possible. The thing is, when I got back for my CSO tour in 2007, the Thomas Group was still there, still “finding waste”. Somewhere during the intervening 7 years the decision was made to do away with the aerial gunnery syllabus. The argument was that the Guns syllabus was not needed since nobody used the very dynamic butterfly gunnery pattern in the fleet anymore. From my first days on the job as CSO I received calls from RAG instructors, training officers, even the front offices complaining that our newly winged aviators couldn’t fly tactical formation and work the radar at the same time. And I learned they had been complaining about this for quite a while. The previous solution had been to add a few more tactical formation hops to the syllabus, but it hadn’t helped. I thought it was fairly obvious that the problem could be attributed to the deletion of the Guns syllabus. Guns was flown during Intermediate in the T-2 and in the T-45. It was the first time that a student was expected to fly the jet through very dynamic, complex maneuvers, while keeping track of 4 other jets, and talking on the radio. It was a major building block to so many skills a fleet pilot would need to develop, and its absence was noted. I proposed bringing the Guns hops back into the syllabus, and doing away with some of the TACForm hops. This seemed the logical solution, though it would add costs back into the syllabus. Unfortunately, nothing could be changed in the syllabus without the approval of the staff at the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA). And CNATRA staff wouldn’t recommend anything to CNATRA actual without the concurrence of the “expert” on Naval Jet Training at CNATRA, who happened to be a one tour Helo driver, who had gotten out, earned a PHD in Behavioral Psychology, and come back as a GS civilian. CNATRA wouldn’t go against his “expert”, and since the original idea to scrap the Guns syllabus was the “expert’s” idea… Yeah, how many PHDs in a soft science have you ever met who would admit to being wrong? Anyway, that’s why I believe the decision to save money on a non-carrier capable trainer is probably a done deal. I hope not. Maybe things really have changed. We will see.

@TonySeruga @realannapaulina Ford and Rockefeller are rolling in their graves over what has become of their foundations. This is what happens when otherwise unemployable liberal arts majors infiltrate non-profit institutions.

NO KINGS Financials Released! The Financers: - Arabella: $79M - Warren Buffet: $16M - Ford: $51M - Rockefeller: $26M - Soros: $72M - Tides: $45M $294,487,641 MILLION Source @realannapaulina

@SoveyX If Zealandia is a continent, then Pluto is a planet.

Did you know geologists say there may be an eighth continent? It’s called Zealandia, or Te Riu-a-Māui, and it is basically the geological version of a woman saying “I’m fine,” because about 94% of it is below the surface. The parts you can actually stand on are New Zealand, New Caledonia, and a few smaller islands. The rest is submerged beneath the southwest Pacific, quietly doing continent things without asking for attention. The scientific argument is not “big wet land = continent.” It’s that Zealandia has continental crust, not normal deep-ocean crust. Continental crust is generally thicker, less dense, and chemically different from the basaltic crust under most ocean basins. Zealandia also has a large, coherent shape, distinct geology, clear boundaries, and covers about 4.9 million square kilometers. That is why many geologists argue it meets the geological criteria for a continent. So yes, the “eighth continent” claim is real. It just failed the traditional geography-class requirement of being mostly dry. Isn’t that interesting?

@stateofdeepness @JackPosobiec I still have mine in the garage.

@JackPosobiec The State of Michigan license plate

What do you remember about the 1976 Bicentennial?

@JackPosobiec I met my wife at a picnic/party. She did not know it at the time. I knew it immediately.