Rob Kremer
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And ship captains today are what? chopped liver?
We aren’t airline pilots worried about three feet of turbulence and what’s on the breakfast menu tomorrow at the Hilton. Rogue waves are still real 😜
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.
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@PerBylund The real problem is that to a large extent teachers have repudiated this first role in favor of the second.
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It is not a problem that teachers specialize in educating our children, to help them acquire skills, expertise, and knowledge. But it is a problem that teachers have thereby also been given the role of grandparents: to instill in us the values, norms, and traditions of society.
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@BigWave372 So stupid. There's no such thing as "divided by half." Half of what?
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There seems to be zero reflection on the question: If the measured achievement isn’t the reason, why parents are paying so much to escape the public system? This guy’s inference is that they are just stupid. I’m guessing most have very intentional and specific things they are seeking to avoid in the public school system.
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"Private schools are the most expensive placebo in America."
Nick Maggiulli@dollarsanddata
Private schools are the most expensive placebo in America. Nowhere else will you pay $250k+ for something that has so little impact on school achievement. My latest on why private school isn't worth the cost: ofdollarsanddata.com/why-private-sc…
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@peterboghossian And to extend this discussion: not only is it true that these institutions do not deserve our trust, it is also true that institutions NEVER reform from within. We should not try to “fix” them. They must be replaced.
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One of the main reasons the public does not trust our institutions is because they are not worthy of trust.
They are not pluralistic. They are ideologically captured and that capture taints research, outcomes, methodology, and completely destroys trust. As it should.
Theory and Society (Springer Nature)@Theory_Society
New in @Theory_Society, the first systematic, cross-disciplinary, assessment of ideology in social science, drawing from ~600,000 social science abstracts across ~60 years. Check it out here (open access!): link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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@minnano_dougaww It must have occurred to him in the empty space left by his failure to think of putting a bit of tape on the underside of the closed end wrench.
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@RichardZokol @THEPLAYERS I asked this question on another thread: if you polled the current exempt PGA Tour players asking “Would you rather win a Players or a PGA,” what percent would answer PGA?
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The “major championship” argument makes more sense after the end of this @THEPLAYERS championship than it did before the start of the tournament.
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@Top100Rick If you polled the current exempt tour players with the question would you rather in a Players or a PGA, I think a majority might say Players.
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The Players Championship is clearly NOT a major.
However, it clearly is better than one of them.
One of the best Sundays of golf in a long time. We saw everything. We finally got the conditions and setup to really test the players. What a damn day.
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What a week of golf watching!
Here are 18 Parting Thoughts from the 2026 Players. On CamYoung's breakthrough, Angsty Scottie, the PGA Tour leaning into its identity (The Cut!), TPC Sawgrass, and an untucked shirt. Enjoy:
skratch.golf/news/pro-golf/…
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@VigilantFox We should thank him for creating so much wealth for the world.
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Bill Maher’s rich guests look like deer in headlights when he asks what the solution is to Elon Musk becoming worth 2.7% of the U.S. GDP.
MAHER: “Forbes came out this week with their richest list.”
“Musk - $840 billion.”
“What should we do when people have this much money?”
“I know communism doesn’t work, and neither does advanced socialism. But what we have now, I can’t make the case that’s working either.”
“What is the answer to this income inequality problem that we have?”
Anthony Scaramucci and Lloyd Blankfein stare at each other with the look that says: “You wanna try and answer this question?”
MAHER: “Next question.”
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@burackbobby_ Because fathers teach kids to throw and swing a golf club. There are far fewer fathers present in black households.
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Honest question: why is the lack of black people in pro golf, hockey, and baseball seen as an issue, but the lack of every other group but black people in pro football and basketball not?
Why do black peope deserve representation in every sport, but white, Asian, and Hispanics don’t?
Note: I don’t think any group deserves representation in any sport.
By all indications, in 2026, the best athletes in every sport reach the highest levels.
Everything can’t be as black and as non-white as the media demands. It’s not possible.
Golf Digest@GolfDigest
For the second straight year, there are no Black golfers in the Players Championship. That raises the question of how much the game affords opportunity to players of color who want to reach the highest level. Read more: glfdig.st/eAhf50YsX5E
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For the second straight year, there are no Black golfers in the Players Championship.
That raises the question of how much the game affords opportunity to players of color who want to reach the highest level.
Read more: glfdig.st/eAhf50YsX5E
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For the life of me I can’t figure out why PGAT would want less tournaments?
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@TheGhostofhogan Would she give a straight answer to “Are you a dude?”
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She doesn’t say anything about NOT caddying for a man on a date so I’d lay that on the table
Dr. Jebra Faushay@JebraFaushay
This woman has a set of rules for ALL of the men in her life. This includes not driving to meet a man and not paying for anything, ever.
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@MarioNawfal If this is true, each ship signs its own death warrant by firing one missile.
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🇮🇷 Iran has been hiding ballistic missiles inside ordinary cargo ships in the Indian Ocean, turning merchant vessels into surprise launch platforms that could strike the B-2 base at Diego Garcia.
Ships like the Shahid Avi were converted into floating bases with drones, helicopters, fast attack boats, and vertical launch systems while still looking like regular cargo haulers.
Now you understand why the US is hunting down every Iranian vessel it can find.
Source: AI Telly
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸🇬🇧 Diego Garcia. A remote island in the Indian Ocean that most people couldn't find on a map. The joint U.S.-UK base has been one of America's most important military launchpads for decades. Britain blocked the U.S. from using it when the war with Iran began. Trump says it cost "3 or 4 days working out where we can land." Britain is also in the process of handing sovereignty of the island to Mauritius, raising serious questions about America's long-term access to its only base in the Indian Ocean. “The UK has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have,” Trump said. Source: Anadolu Agency
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@InnaVernikov @Annie_McDonough @SahalieD And the Mayor has no problem with his life partner celebrating a terrorist group slaughtering 1000+ innocent people. Ok.
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@Annie_McDonough @SahalieD She’s a private person who publicly supported Hamas. Got it….
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"My wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall," Mamdani says, when asked about this story just now. Says it's his responsibility to answer to his "thoughts, policies and decisions."
Will Bredderman@WillBredderman
NEW, from me @J_Insider—New York City's First Lady, Zohran Mamdani's wife, liked Instagram posts celebrating the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, including one that featured stills from livestreams of the assault and labeled it "systemic change for collective liberation."
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