Tony Temples

@SeverusChud She's playing Circe, not Helen. Save the outrage.

I'm sorry, but Nolan casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy has completely killed all immersion in this epic for me. Homer’s Odyssey was never some diverse melting pot. Helen was a fair skinned, golden-haired Spartan queen, daughter of Zeus, the ultimate beauty in an epic built by European blood and gods. Yet i'm meant to believe her face was the one who launched a 1,000 ships? It's very sad to see Nolan go down this route. Ancient Greece wasn’t full of Sub Saharans, yet they’re flooding Ithaca with dei and tokenism. This destroys what could’ve been a incredible Epic. Tragic.

@Linahuaa @ronmaest3 The Nolan one looks like it can hold soldiers. The Troy one doesn't.

@ronmaest3 The Nolan one looks creepier. The Troy looks more realistic. Just two different styles for two different movies

Nolan's Odyssey is gonna slap I believe. Everything so far looks quite uncanny- like it's an adaptation of a creepy comic book based on the Odyssey rather than trying to be *historical* I think that's how you should actually do Mythology. People back then also imagined the stories from their contemporary lens, instead of ruminating over how bronze age armors are supposed to akshually look. I mean, look at the Nolan horse- it's eerie and kinda makes you fear the Gods. The Troy horse looks like a Burning Man installation. I like the Troy movie because Brad Pitt was hot af, but it sucked because it took all the myth out of the mythology.

@TheRealPDQ @MarkMcThomas @AlwynS18 @LibertyLockPod @StateDept "The US president told Fox News that "we're not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like and not people that they don't like". He said the goal was letting "all or nothing" pass through the channel. " PS the US isn't" officially" at war either.

@TonyTemples @MarkMcThomas @AlwynS18 @LibertyLockPod @StateDept What ships, other than Iran's, is the US stopping...?

SECRETARY RUBIO: If Iran had a nuclear weapon and they decided to close the Strait and make our gas prices $9 a gallon, there would be nothing we could do about it. This is another example why Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

@TheRealPDQ @MarkMcThomas @AlwynS18 @LibertyLockPod @StateDept Then the US doesn't have the authority to stop ANY ship from moving through the Strait of Hormuz.

@MarkMcThomas @AlwynS18 @LibertyLockPod @StateDept Iran doesn't have the authority to stop ANY ship from moving through the Strait of Hormuz. Period. Under International Maritime Law, the strait is considered open ocean...

@mayemusk Is Elmo tweeting as his dad on his mother's account?

@coachbrucepearl Conflating Jewishness with support for Israel is actual anti-semitism.

Israel and the Jewish people are one and the same. If you are against the Jewish state of Israel you are against the Jewish people. That "foreign Government" you refer to is Israel is our greatest friend and Ally.

@hahussain @laurentsab There's no such thing as ethnic cleansing for military necessity, you ghoul.

@laurentsab Doesn’t matter. If Israel wants to keep the zone depopulated to bar Hezbollah from using empty houses as hideouts, then it doesn’t matter who owns which house. The solution is for Hezbollah to surrender its arms, and that ends the war and the destruction.

In fact, the unfortunate destruction of these house is totally justified by military necessity. But why the war? Right, Hezbollah’s unconstitutional militia whose continued armament violates international law (UNSCR1701).

@USTradeRep Is there a place called Bourbon where all bourbon gets produced? 😂 Is there anyone competent working for the government anymore?

10/10: Within the European Union, the term “feta” can only be used for cheese produced in Greece, since the EU claims that certain cheese terms are connected to specific places in Europe. However, there is no specific place named “Feta” in Europe! And the EU forces other countries to follow this same nonsensical rule. This locks American producers out of key markets merely for using certain cheese terms.

🚨🤯 Craziest Foreign Trade Barriers Facing American Exporters 1/10: You wouldn’t believe the lengths some countries go to stop American exports! In Costa Rica, customs inspectors manually squish black and red beans between their fingers to test how fast they cook and block sales of U.S. dry beans if they don’t pass this ludicrous test. You can’t even make this stuff up! Read the below thread for more off-the-wall examples.

@ParanoidPol @itsjohncrotty has already posted about how what you've said is false. But wait till you hear about what America and NATO did with actual Nazis when they hired them into positions of power and influence. Weird that you're not posting about 🤔

This triggered some Irish people because they refuse to accept that their government did in fact send the Nazis condolences after Hitler offed himself. The mental gymnastics they engage in to justify this and talk about the "broader context" is expected from people defending the fact that their government sent the Nazis condolences after Hitler offed himself.

@bennyjohnson The goal in Uno is to have no cards. So it's complete idiocy, exposing his ignorance, and being praised only by his lapdogs.

President Trump appears to be trolling Iran with memes:

@ThePowerAudit If Iran sent military vessels off the coast of New York and America attacked them who would the aggressor be? Also hilarious that the US has said nothing against an actual humanitarian mission being subjected to piracy and kidnapping in international waters by Israel.

This is a savvy legal move by Trump. May 1: War Powers letter formally ends hostilities, preserves force posture, asserts Article II constitutional authority. May 3: "Project Freedom" announced as a humanitarian operation, not military. Monday: US Navy escorts neutral commercial ships through Hormuz under freedom of navigation rights. If Iran fires on it: that is Iran starting a new conflict. Trump is responding defensively, not attacking. No new War Powers clock starts because the US did not initiate hostilities. Iran did.

@RealDannyTommo So the Belgians are concerned about having an attempted kidnapper in their country? Sounds like good security. And FYI, you being a British citizen is important to you but Belgium has its own laws. Womp Womp.

I am currently being detained at the immigration centre in Brussels Airport. The irony is staggering. While illegal migrants receive unchecked access into our country with zero documentation or scrutiny, I a legitimate traveler and British citizen am being held here because France and Belgium have now flagged my passport. #OperationOverlord

@PeterMcCormack You're telling people to not be dumb and then get VAT inputs completely wrong. Maybe you should take your own advice.

A simple message to the silly socialists. You’re upset by businesses telling you that they will fail with the minimum wage increase. You’re telling business owners silly things like if you can’t pay the minimum wage then you don’t have a viable business. I want to make this easier to understand, because if you mean what you say, you want people to have jobs and earn a liveable wage. So listen, businesses fail for all kinds of reasons, mainly because they are unprofitable. We are seeing a wave of business closures at the moment because of the compounding costs from the state against a cost of living crisis. To make a cup of coffee profitable it has to eat a lot costs: - 20% VAT (the inputs can’t be claimed back) - Business rates (a tax before you earn) - Rising NI costs - Employment rights load - Rising energy costs - Inflation All these are imposed by the state. There is also a time tax with all the accounting, HR and regularity requirements which impose cost of consultants and time costs to ensure compliance, distracting owners from operating their businesses. Then there are the other normal costs. A business owner needs to make a profit else the business fails. If the business fails there are less jobs and lower tax receipts. If there are less jobs then public services crumble and welfare requirements increase. This is a compounding problem and what leads to the downward spiral of a country. So… where does the money come from if there are less jobs. The government borrows it, that increase in the money supply drives more inflation, making life more expensive for the people you want to help. Some who now don’t have the job they once had. So what now? What is your plan? I get it, you don’t really have one, this is what has happened to every socialist state, this is how a country goes from rich to poor. We have no divine right to be a wealthy nation and can certainly lose that status. So this is your challenge, can you accept society has a distribution of wealth which means there are rich and poor or would you rather everyone was poorer as long as there are no rich. That’s what socialists tend to want, though I have a secret for you, you can’t get rid of people being rich. I know you think profit is ugly, but the profit motive is what creates business and jobs. So anyway. I’m going to keep promoting proper economics because that’s how a nation becomes prosperous and prosperity leads to a net better outcome for all. This does mean I am going to have to make fun of your stupid socialist ideas. Good luck, read a book and stop being a dumb dumb.

@Nigel_Farage Did you get paid 5m for this opinion?

It’s clear that Zack Polanski is a pound shop Jeremy Corbyn. His party must never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power. thesun.co.uk/news/38992660/…

@AriDavidPaul @MarioNawfal Hold on, so Oct 7th is attempted genocide in your deluded mind but actually wiping out entire cities and villages isn't attempted genocide? Have you even heard of internal consistency?

1. Of course leveling homes is justified when we keep finding hostages and military commanders and weapons caches in those homes. You want me to post dozens of videos as proof and Hamas and Hezbollah and Doctors Without Borders all admitting the same? Blame the Islamists for torturing people in hospitals and having “jorunalists” hold kidnapped children in their homes. 2. Aren’t we thrilled Gaza was leveled instead of genocided? Gaza/hamas/iran invaded, declared war on, and attempted to genocide Israel. Instead of retaliating in kind, Israel mostly demolished infrastructure. Again…infrastructure that keeps proven to be used for torture and rape and murder. Gazans are suffering horribly, unfairly. I oppose that. That’s why I’ve supported Palestinian statehood and opposed Islamist jihad my whole life. Israel has may times pushed for Palestinian statehood…all this suffering is because as the Islamists say openly - there will never be peace or a Palestinian state allowed by them until Israel is annihilated. Consider that Israel happily made peace with every state willing to, even those like Egypt that recently tried to genocide then. If Lebanon just stops trying to annihilate Israel, they wouldn’t face retaliation. Israelis and Jews aren’t even asking for the stolen land back, reparations for ethnic cleansing and massacres…just stop trying to colonize the last silver of non-islamofascist Middle East and stop trying to violently impose sharia on the world.

THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING IN SOUTH LEBANON And the world is silent The impunity in which they operate is wild! x.com/Ahmed_Nashwan_…

@RepDonBacon Good

The continued attacks on NATO allies are counterproductive. The comments hurt Americans. I commanded the huge Ramstein AB in Germany. The two big airfields in Germany give us great access in three continents. We are shooting ourselves in our own feet.

@shanaka86 Like all insanely wealthy asset-rich people he borrows to fund his lifestyle and avoids taxes by doing so. His salary being 54k is irrelevant.

Elon Musk earns $54,080 per year. Unchanged since 2019. That is the annual salary of the richest person on Earth from the company targeting the largest IPO in history. SpaceX’s board approved a new compensation package in January. It was disclosed this week in confidential SEC registration excerpts ahead of the IPO. The terms are not financial. They are physical. Two hundred million super-voting Class B restricted shares vest if and only if SpaceX reaches a $7.5 trillion market valuation and establishes a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million people. A separate tranche of 60.4 million restricted shares, awarded March 23, vests on valuation milestones plus the operation of orbital data centers delivering at least 100 terawatts of compute capacity. If any target is missed, Musk receives zero shares. Not reduced shares. Zero. Read the milestones again. They are not revenue targets. They are not EBITDA gates. They are physics problems. One million people on Mars means solving 0.38g gravitational physiology, 233 millisieverts per year of unshielded radiation, closed-loop life support across 26-month windows, and in-situ propellant production at industrial scale. Nature published a 2024 analysis showing Starship exceeds its published dry mass by roughly 110 tonnes and lacks return delta-v. MOXIE produced 122 grams of oxygen over two years. A colony needs tonnes per day. One hundred terawatts of orbital compute means space-based data centers where heat rejection scales with the fourth power of temperature. Global electricity generation averages 3.3 terawatts. This milestone requires 30 times the planet’s entire power output routed to AI chips in vacuum. Musk posted on April 22 that this scale “would be 200 times the US economy every year.” This is not compensation. This is a civilization specification sheet priced in equity. The lunar pivot makes the sequence visible. Moon first because windows open every 10 days instead of 26 months. Lunar factories manufacture orbital data centers. Mass drivers catapult them into orbit. Revenue from orbital compute funds the self-growing city. The city stages Mars. Mars becomes the backup. Each step requires a different branch of physics. Orbital mechanics for windows. Electromagnetism for mass drivers. Stefan-Boltzmann for cooling. Radiation biology for survival. ISRU chemistry for fuel. And at the base: a $54,080 salary ensuring the builder receives nothing unless the physics works. SpaceX filed its S-1 with an explicit warning: “Our initiatives to develop orbital AI compute and in-orbit, lunar, and interplanetary industrialization are in early stages, involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability.” The company told you the milestones might be impossible. Then tied 260 million new shares to achieving them anyway. The IPO targets June 28 at a valuation between $1.75 and $2 trillion. The compensation package requires $7.5 trillion. The gap between where the company starts trading and where Musk gets paid is a 4x return that depends on physics no human has ever demonstrated. $54,080. Two hundred million shares. Seven and a half trillion dollars. One million humans on another planet. One hundred terawatts in orbit. Zero shares if any of it fails. That is not a compensation package. That is a wager against the laws of physics with the stakes denominated in civilization. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@WhiteHouse If its the most secure building in the world why do you need a "secure ballroom"?

Build the White House Ballroom.

@MarioNawfal @Tesla "Now it's real"-Completely fake video

It’s happening. Cybercab is in volume production. No steering wheel. No pedals. Nothing to take over. It’s made to drive itself from day one. Under $30K. Can’t be ignored. Now it’s real. @Tesla

@afneil Yes or no, Neil, do you think politicians should be drinking on the job before voting?

“Smell the alcohol”?! Wow. I wonder what she thinks it will be like when she and the Greens get their way and legalise heroin? Also, she says that, unlike MPs, she doesn’t think bankers would have a drink then go back to work. What planet is she on?