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Jeff Bezos says “if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive” in response to NYC’s high school spending

This is literally the Saber level from Reach, just this time your in a Seraph. Literally everything else is the same, your literally fighting the same Space Banshees and Seraph AI from 2010

I'm feeling nice, so here's a list of things I liked about Halo 5. Time for a thread.🧵

Some Republicans Push to Repeal 17th Amendment — Allowing State Legislatures to Pick Senators Instead of the People

Good luck everyone in NYC

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them. Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country. Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants. The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible. And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore. Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest. They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

Unpopular opinion: I just don’t get it — why are so many women wearing thongs and super cheeky bikini bottoms in public around kids at pools and beaches? We’re out here fighting hard against the grooming and sexualization of children, yet we’re okay with adults openly displaying their bare butt cheeks in family spaces? It doesn’t add up. Save the adult-style swimwear for adult-only areas or private settings. Kids don’t need to be subjected to that in everyday public places. Modesty and common sense around children should still matter. What am I missing?