@m7saint @Fights_bro Dude he pays taxes. Why would he engage in violence when he could leverage the services he pays for(police) to do it for him?
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@Fights_bro I’m more pissed off at the “man” of the house, what a bitch, instead of neutralizing an unarmed attacker of your family, you’re being a historical bitch
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The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force.
We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
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Guy found an anthill in his garden. Poured gas on it. Lit it up. It did not go the way he thought 😬
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Tengo un sueño, y ese es que un fabricante occidental haga un tanque mediano de verdad, con una barcaza dedicada, no soy muy favorable a ese concepto de usar chasis de VCI.
En oriente China lo hizo bien con el ZTQ-15/Type-15.
Paulo Roberto Bastos Jr.@Parabelum
LAAD 2026: a Otokar 🇹🇷 apresentou uma maquete do MMBT Tulpar, um dos favoritos para substituir os Leopard 1A5 no @exercitooficial 🇧🇷
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@tqbf SAP believes it has the best UI and refuses to change it despite massive begging from its community
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This is a very weird thing for an enterprise software company to publish! Does SAP believe even weirder things, and just nobody asks them a lot?
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@JoshYusifov The part of the coffee culture I miss the most is a place that still has the hold school filter where you eat a meal while waiting for it to finish or read the paper and watch the traffic pass. Lots of places are switching to espresso machines.
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PAG-17 sight by Factory Z199.
I like how the AK gas tube latch is reused as the safety selector.
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Vietnamese SPL-17 30mm AGL during a live fire exercise at the 141st Regiment, 312nd Division.
Gun is 2024 production, ammo 2023. Good look at the feed tray and belt. Note the writing on the cover: "When loading, the first link must be empty".
More photos ⬇️
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Wreckage of C-130 shot down on an resupply of encircled ARVN garrison in AnLoc 65 miles north of Saigon. “There’s no way anybody is going to come out of there alive” said Cobra pilot Capt Don Gooch who witnessed the crash landing on 18 April 1972. All seven crew members survived.
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@semmansa Dont put the lime in there. Just squeeze and discard
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pho is truly everything. full of hydration. full of collagen. protein, ginger, and other spices that help with digestion. warm and so gentle on my stomach. and absolutely delicious. thank you God
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@KevubASelene @ipissuponafart @jakeonrails Better the companies bear the cost than society. Thats the point. And letting corps scam and mislead customers reduces dynamism not increases it
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@ipissuponafart @SummonToes @jakeonrails Do you understand that government regulations wouldn't fix this problem either? They'll add cost and reduce dynamism. Is that what you want?
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This kind of promotion should be illegal
Dan Liu@danliu
uber is betting that people don't realize 70 * 0.25 = 17.5
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@KevubASelene @jakeonrails Why do you think it’s OK for corporations to mislead customers?
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@jakeonrails Can we try not to be like Europe and regulate the fuck out of everything with government?
I'd bet you Uber will fix this due to the bad press alone. And if they don't then anyone is free to choose not to do business with Uber if they don't want to.
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@ryuuder A religion teacher being atheist is best case scenario especially if you have to learn multiple religions in the class. They would approach the topic as a human construct and give you a better explanation
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@MorosKostas We could do parliament style elections where we vote for the parties and the seats are distributed by percentage instead of voting for individuals.
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"It's fine that we are taking away almost all your representation and making a 55-45 state have a 10-1 congressional delegation, because we did so democratically."
It's literally the joke about democracy being two wolves and a lamb voting on who gets eaten for dinner, but in real life.
"Yes" could win by even one vote, and if so, almost half the state is effectively unrepresented in Congress.
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Are the “it’s about historical accuracy!” bitches going to complain about casting an African in this role, or….?
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Charlize Theron is playing Calypso in ‘THE ODYSSEY’.
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@u50pp @AEA850856790187 Definitely not 600 km as the crow flies
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@GedDuny @SOF_UKR @73navalsof I assume it's a very close range anti-drone weapon to be used within 25 meters or 27 yards.
But since the drone was stationary, he swapped to his M-4 and took it down, hence I assume the gizmo doesn't have the range required.
I'd be interested in how it works.
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