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@_kidR0BOT @FIT_grandpa_ @EricSpracklen Name any male/female population where your hypothesis does not fit.

@FIT_grandpa_ @EricSpracklen The men were also the dumbest, the most irrational, the most emotionally unregulated, the most likely to get a DUI, the most likely to catch a s3xual assault case, and the most likely to commit suic!de 🤭 But hey, it’s easy to be the “standard” when you’re the one defining it 🙃

Biological Female Marine Vs. Biological Male Marine

@not_lost_man @FIT_grandpa_ @EricSpracklen That's generally called, "The Navy".

@FIT_grandpa_ @EricSpracklen I'm sure the corps need medics, nurses, lawyers, and office staff. What it doesn't need are non-fighting combatants.

They’ve inadvertently created a new industry of bad Hollywood castings. 😂😂😂

If you don’t understand why the Electoral College exists, you are the reason the Electoral College exists.

@Stoikuz @AnnieJacobsen Size. Some things don't fit on trucks or trains.

@AnnieJacobsen Just look at the map—Russia doesn’t need to sail all the way to the Mediterranean Sea to reach North Korea. They border each other directly, and Russia can easily cross over inland to North Korea.

“…ship likely carrying two nuclear reactors and possibly destined for N. Korea, sank in unexplained circumstances…” Read: SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH

@jamiedupree Are you intentionally stupid?

We might be watching the fastest rollback of power for Blacks in the South since Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877.

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Almost nothing they know is the full story. Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled. The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end. Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian. They marched anyway. And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument. The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering. For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass. Then the Greeks were betrayed. A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded. He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came. So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name. The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it. They lost. Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home. Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame. That's the world they lived in. The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws. A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it. We remember 300 of them. There were always more.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

@hzrdperryghost The uneducated have been making this claim forever. No practical understanding of what a military is, and how it works.

Wait until this clown finds out about artillery or machine guns lmao.

@Emilio2763 That’s on the base coach, and it’s baseball.

What Bullshit…

Based.

Stopped at a small auto parts store yesterday. For the last few years they had migrant workers behind the counter. Nice guys. Competent at pulling parts from the warehouse and would go out of their way to help you loading heavy stuff like batteries into your car. But ask a question and you got a blank look. ICE cleared them out. The store hired stoners. The place became a dump, and I started driving an hour to AutoZone whenever I needed something. Yesterday I just needed a battery. As I pulled up I noticed the parking lot was unusually full. Inside, they had a young American kid right out of high school. I had to load my own battery, but this kid was a whiz. He flew through the inventory, explaining the lead-acid surface area in each option and why it mattered. I stuck around while he helped another customer diagnose a carburetor problem. I learned more in five minutes than I would have spending two hour on youtube. Then he started figuring out which replacement air filter the customer needed using basic geometry. I don’t know how much additional revenue this kid brought into the store, but it has to be substantial. And he wasn’t alone. They had an older Black gentleman working with him who, I’m told, had run a warehouse for a large repair shop or something in New York City before he got laid off. Slow but methodical and oozed competence. The store recruited him out of retirement, brought him up to our rural area part-time to organize inventory, fix the shelves, and scout local talent. I felt like I was watching a dynamic duo at work. Then nostalgia hit me hard. THIS is what it was like going to an auto parts store with my dad in the late 80s and early 90s. Everything well organized. People who knew cars cold. To be honest, the guys back then weren’t exactly nice, at least not in New York. They roasted you. But they helped. And it wasn’t just auto parts stores back then. Plumbing stores. Boating stores. Stereo shops. I remember going into Manhattan as a kid to a block of nautical shops, stores that sold charts and sextants, where a retired ship captain like I am now explained to me how a chronometer works. I want that job! The nation is healing! (but we still have a long way to go​​​​​)

Admittedly, we are running out of new ideas..

In a 24-team playoff, both these teams are comfortably in, with a bye. This game means nothing. In 2013, it’s widely regarded as one of the most dramatic football games of all time.

This is misinformation being pushed by China and Russia to slow down the US advancements in AI. Data centers use a closed loop cooling system. Once they're filled, the same water is continually used. Only a miniscule amount is lost and needs to be replaced regularly. Additionally... the amount of water used for all data centers in the country is a tiny amount of overall water usage and availability. Even if the number of data centers increased ten fold, it would still be dwarfed by other industries, like irrigating golf courses. Note the accounts that are whipping up the water use hysteria. Most are troll bot accounts, many are based outside the US, are anonymous or are using dubious sources.

@IrateMaxwell @DeepNotShallow Like AMTRAK?

@DeepNotShallow If mergers are the only way to prevent airlines from going out of business, just nationalize the industry already and merge them all into one

@nolanolegal Tax returns

Can you find my employment records from 1994 when I was a barista at a Barnie's Coffee & Tea in Cordova Mall? ...probably not.

🚨🔴🔵Everyone has to press a red or blue button – if more than 50% pick blue, then everyone survives. If more than 50% pick red, then only those that pick red survive. Which would you pick and what’s your sex?