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I’ve been on a CAD learning curve for months now (a very steep curve, at least for me). All the physical material forming skills I’ve honed for decades (and can do almost without thought) now must be transferred to a digital format, which means relearning which program’s design tools or modifiers will achieve the desired outcome, and via what specific procedure. Powerful CAD programs have dozens of different tools and hundreds of modifiers. It’s only been the last few weeks that I’m finally grasping enough of the basics to be able to do meaningful work in a reasonable time. These eye shapes (which heretofore would have been thermoformed from plastic, cut, sanded, machined to allow attachment points, & painted) were completely 3D printed in a fraction of the time. Though it doesn’t show, that STL is a milestone for me.

@_BrotherGreg_ @johnkonrad @antonioguterres Came here to leave this exact same gif. Had to settle for being the eleventh like.

@johnkonrad @antonioguterres

In this age of war our addiction to fossil fuels is destabilizing the climate, global economy & global security. Now more than ever, we must accelerate a just transition to renewable energy. Renewables deliver climate security, energy security & national security.

@PaulPar666 @Rickisback_ON_X I also hear he’s considering issuing Trump a “Notice To Vacate” the White House.

@Rickisback_ON_X Judge Boasberg is getting prepared to overrule SCOTUS on this.

Looks like it's going to be a 6-3 decision for "Election Day" not Election week or month.

🧵 THREAD: "House of Singham" : Neville Singham's mega-exposure. This is part 1 out of 5 in a mega-project exposing Neville Singham and his money flows. Honored to have been friends with @AsraNomani throughout this. I'm going to explain this article below - but you should also click through it, because it shows the amazing depth and scope of research which Asra has done. 👇 As always, patience as I pull together the thread.

Immigrants shouldn’t be eligible for ANY welfare.

RE: Data Republican I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well. But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman. You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you. For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned. This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected. These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness. Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible. It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST. You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under. And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR. I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall. For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding. An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear. But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out. Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense." If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them. This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President. Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is. I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that. One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

Two charts explain why we don’t have enough warships to convoy tankers through Hormuz: 1.Military spending vs GDP 2.Fraudulent spending via NGOs The media ran a narrative that national debt was caused by “massive military spending” as a smokescreen for massive fraud.

@CynicalPublius @infantrydort How does any “military expert” who refuses to dialogue with @CynicalPublius @infantrydort AND @DataRepublican have any credibility whatsoever? Classic ivory tower…

@infantrydort He blocks me. I find that many of the people who formulated our failed military doctrines of the past 25 years block me. I guess that's a compliment.

You’re a stick in the mud Greer. And your boos mean nothing to me, I’ve seen what you cheer for. Tell us your thoughts on George Floyd again. I always love those takes. Tell us how I’m the unprofessional one when you’ve injected partisan filth into this space for years.

@CAgovernor @JenSiebelNewsom Will you and the rest of your staff be taking this as well?

🚨 ALERT: Bombshell—20 CIA/FBI agents confirm Obama & ex-CIA director fabricated Russia Hoax, hidden in CIA vault for ~10 years, to undermine Trump’s election via manipulated intel. Do you support arresting Hussein Obama for treason? A. Hell yeah B. Nah

@CynicalPublius @XFreeze Huge fan… it’s in my top 3 best episodic sci fi ever made, with Andor & Battlestar Galactica.

@XFreeze Any fans of "The Expanse" out there?

Elon Musk reveals the deeper purpose of becoming a multiplanetary species: “Having two planets that are both self-sustaining and strong is going to be incredibly important for the long-term survival of civilization The goal is not just to visit Mars - it’s to ensure the light of consciousness never goes out”

@DaleStarkA10 I think the pontoons would make great racks. Grok even included a family size board.

Okay hear me out: an A-10 like this but with surf racks. I have the vision of someone has the funding. DMs open.

@JakeCan72 “Afroman: The Musical” - it’s destinies to be a Broadway smash.

Seven cops raided a rapper’s house looking for drugs and a kidnapping victim. Found neither. Filed no charges. Left behind a broken gate, busted doors, and one deputy eyeing a lemon pound cake in the fridge. Afroman had security cameras rolling the whole time. He turned the footage into diss tracks, music videos, and merch. Mocked the raid. Made money off it. The deputies sued him for $3.9 million. Defamation. Invasion of privacy. Emotional distress. Yesterday a jury of his peers ruled in his favor on all 13 counts. Zero damages. Case closed. He walked out of the courthouse in an American flag suit: “I didn’t win. America won.” They came for the lemon pound cake. They left with nothing. 🇺🇸

@SophieMae1022 @BrandiKruse @POTUS @EDSecMcMahon @SecretService @AAGDhillon @FBIDirectorKash The only relevant question is: “Would this be allowed about a Democrat President?” We all know the answer is NO.

@BrandiKruse @POTUS Imagine if they did this to Obama? The outrage. Why are we funding these propaganda peddlers who wish harm on the President? @EDSecMcMahon @SecretService @AAGDhillon @FBIDirectorKash

Exclusive: This image was taken yesterday in an art classroom at Puyallup HS in Washington state. It depicts @POTUS as a pig, a KKK member, a clown, and mentions assassination. We have asked the district for comment.

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝟵𝟬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 Victor Davis Hanson just put the Trump era in its proper historical context — and the scale of what he's describing should stop you cold. The last time America saw a president attempt to fundamentally restructure the nature of government was Franklin Roosevelt from the left during the New Deal in the 1930s. What Trump is doing from the right is that consequential. Not a policy adjustment. Not a pendulum swing. A structural counterrevolution. The border is closed. DEI is being dismantled and Trump is winning the argument publicly. Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat for the foreseeable future. Universities are competing with each other to cut deals with the administration rather than defy it. The institutions that enforced left-wing ideological dominance for decades are retreating on multiple fronts simultaneously. But Hanson's most important insight is the one about power. The left exercises power even when they control nothing — no White House, no Congress, no governorship. They do it through universities, through media, through HR departments, through accreditation bodies, through regulatory agencies, through the permanent bureaucracy. They impose an agenda that the majority of Americans oppose — on immigration, on DEI, on gender ideology, on crime — because they captured the institutions that don't require winning elections. What Trump is doing is attacking those institutions directly. And that's why the reaction is so unhinged. This isn't Democrats upset about losing an election. This is an ideological class watching the infrastructure of their unelected power be dismantled in real time. Hanson's warning is worth heeding: brace yourself. The resistance coming will be frantic and fierce precisely because the stakes are existential for the left's ability to govern from the shadows. They know if this counterrevolution succeeds, they'll have to actually win elections to impose their agenda. And they know they can't.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is RAMPING UP his pressure on the State of Colorado to FREE TINA PETERS, the 73 year old patriot who now has CANCER Honestly, I’d be okay with the President sending in federal forces to free her at this point. Peters is a political prisoner.

@RealEmirHan I didn’t see this when it first came out, and didn’t think I missed anything. I watched it a few months ago and was floored- it’s a great movie, and probably my favorite Wonka film.

Timothée Chalamet calls WONKA “the riskiest thing” he’s done in his career: “It was untraditional career step. That movie didn’t get its fair shake. I thought it was punk rock to do something that wasn’t cool. I don’t think people really took it that way.”

@HappyMotorhead I hate three on a tree. Learned to clutch a three on a tree workvan on a deadline job IN TRAFFIC. Thanks for nothing, Greg…

Driving 3 on the tree! Any 3 on the tree stories?

🚨CAUGHT THEM !!! Listen carefully, because this matters. A man was taken under a psychiatric hold — what’s called a 302 in Pennsylvania. That law allows the government to take your liberty immediately, but only under one condition: There must be a documented, factual basis that you are a clear and present danger. Now here’s what the actual record shows. The original 302 — the one used to take him — was blank where it matters. It literally says: “Unknown at this time.” No facts. No threat. No explanation. That means at the moment they took him, there was no documented justification. Then something else happens. When they move to extend his detention under a 303 petition, suddenly there’s a different version of that same document — now filled in, now checked off, now attempting to justify what already happened. Those two documents do not match. That is not a clerical error. That is a timeline problem. Because the law does not allow you to detain someone first and build the justification later. That’s backwards. That’s a due process violation. And if proven, it means the entire detention was unlawful from the start. Now add this: He was not properly notified of the 303 hearing. He was placed in a room on Zoom. He objected on constitutional grounds. And the order was signed anyway. This is exactly why due process exists. Not for perfect cases — but for cases like this. This is not about politics. This is not about opinions. This is about one question: Did the government have a lawful basis to take someone’s liberty at the time they did it? Because if the answer is no — nothing that comes after fixes it. This is not just civil rights violations this is criminal spoliation, and false imprisonment @HHSGov @CivilRights @UHS_Inc @DOJCrimDiv Disclosures will be provided to law enforcement #FREESEANCONNOLLY

@CynicalPublius Excellent perspective. Grayzoning what we know to be right in order to get ahead is the slipperiest of slopes- it’s extremely difficult to come back from.

RE: Lawyerly Thoughts I have retired from the law and placed myself in “inactive status” in my two licensed jurisdictions. This finally gives me the freedom to share my unvarnished thoughts on the law and lawyers in a way I have been unable to do so before. I’m thinking of writing a series of lawyerly musings posts that I can later combine into a full length article. This is the first one. I believe I have a unique perspective on the law, having completed a successful military career before I stepped into law school. This meant that I was not wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in law school like most of my full time program (much younger) peers, and my earlier perspectives as a military decision maker made me cautious about some principles that I questioned as potentially being flawed or dangerous. So let’s talk about one: “EVERY CLIENT IS ENTITLED TO ZEALOUS LEGAL REPRESENTATION.” This is a bedrock concept of the practice of law, and one that lawyers are justifiably proud of as it is an essential component of equal justice under the law. But it has its flaws in the modern era. I remember one summer in law school I was an intern in a public defender’s office. One of our cases was a mass rapist who had been terrorizing women in local parks. This guy had blackish eyes that glowed with a sort of deep evil that seemed to come straight from the pits of Hell—it was like out of a horror film. He was as guilty as guilty could be, but we were trying to get him off on a claim of a bad search and seizure of some critical evidence. We were zealously representing a deranged rapist. The guy needed to be locked away for eternity, but we were trying to get him off. I know most lawyers are comfortable with that and consider it righteous, but for me it was the event that convinced me that I wanted nothing to do with criminal law. But that’s small potatoes to what I think is the bigger, profession-wide problem of “zealous representation.” Whether you are a litigator or a corporate lawyer (like I was), “zealous representation” means taking the facts at hand and interpreting them in the way most favorable to your client. I have found that “most favorable” means taking facts and pushing them in a client-favorable way right up to the edge of the line of lying, but not crossing it. You’re not lying, but are you really telling the objective truth? Over time that thought process of twisting facts away from what most reasonable laymen would consider as “true” changes a lawyer’s brain patterns. If you do this enough, you might stop being able to do anything else. Your brain changes, and not in a good way. I often found myself lapsing into this, but thankfully there remained a little portion of my brain that was still an Army colonel, and I think that little voice held me back. What ends up happening to too many lawyers is that every moment of their lives starts to consist of looking for angles to twist whatever facts are at hand into the manner most favorable to them. That’s a slippery slope. That’s why words like “oily” and “sleazy” are so popular when describing lawyers, and why jokes that involve lawyers at the bottom of the ocean as shark food are so popular. The problem is that as long as you never step right over the line into lying, none of this is against legal ethics. I’m not sure how to fix this exactly. Perhaps continuing legal education needs to focus on the limits of “zealous representation.” Or perhaps every lawyer needs to be on watch to not lose their soul. There are so many excellent lawyers that none of this applies to, but there are just as many who have no problem going into total sleaze-mode to win for their client. But then everything they do in life becomes sleaze-mode, and they harm themselves, their families and society as a result. It’s a large-scale problem. Think of this: “It depends of what the meaning of “is” is.” -Slick Willard