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@BasedMikeLee @ColdWarrior39 Yes, my guess is that Iran is in serious trouble.

Pray for President Trump. Not sure what’s happening. But whatever issue brought him back to Washington must be serious.

@EODHappyCaptain @DocStrangelove2 courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/hubb…

@EODHappyCaptain @DocStrangelove2 Good leadership. If one of my marines got in trouble, I had them read message to Garcia. Whatever they got from it, I would say “that’s right”. There was no wrong answer.

I remember at least three times an NCO made someone do this, and they literally tossed it in the trash the second they were given it every time.

@GuntherEagleman Can’t all the great minds get together and come up with a better system than yelling?

🚨 LMAO! JD Vance just piled on and confirmed Marco Rubio was 100% RIGHT, the White House briefing room is straight-up CHAOS! Press starts ERUPTING and YELLING Vance: “Marco’s RIGHT, this REALLY IS chaos! This is CRAZY! You guys gotta behave yourself!” 🤣🤣🤣

@johnkonrad Ouch! Retirement for that guy just got a little harder to endure. No legacy, no retires enlisted friends to call, no one to worship his stars anymore. Man, that’s tough.

How to tell what phase of retirement a retired admiral on TV is in: Posts “our democracy is under threat” before breakfast: retirement hit harder than expected. Tweets nonstop about “toxic leadership”: feels guilty he personally carpet-bombed morale on three staffs. Replies to random 24-year-old lieutenants: misses having subordinates legally required to pretend he’s insightful. Says “whole-of-society approach”: he screen records zoom meetings to hear himself talk Suddenly stops posting photos during a leadership summit in East Asia: marriage entering EMCON. Retweets MSNBC clips and airport-lounge selfies: trolling for a NATO consulting gig Moves to San Francisco to advise tech startups: still upset don’t ask don’t tell came too late for him Writes 27-post geopolitics threads on LinkedIn: starting to realize he did nothing important in his career Calls critics “dangerous”: struggling with the fact he spent 35 years unable to handle disagreement from anyone below O-6. Thinks drug testing is racist: moved to Bainbridge Island and is high 24/7 Says battleships are dumb: needs Brookings to hold his security clearance. Runs for Senate: still doesn’t know all his chiefs hated him. Retweets all the woke talking head generals: secretly always hated the navy. Says “we need hard choices”: wants Congress to fund his favorite contractor. Says we need “soft power options”: wants Congress to fund his favorite consultants Defends Tom Nichols: had a vasectomy that went horribly wrong

@johnkonrad Ask if they attend church regularly too.

Apparently I’m the bad guy for asking what the person dating my kid got on the SAT. Not sorry.

@TheBuddyCSM Except for the OpsO. That poor sucker is involved in everything. The CO speed dials him whenever something goes wrong and wants details. If you ever wondered why that guy is in peoples business all the time, now you know.

Every good commander I’ve ever met: “This unit is led by officers and run by NCOs” It’s really as simple as that.

@MavrocksGirl Still love that show! I’ll check out the new one.

Seriously, I'm trying to be patient with some of the "comments" on the NEW ROCKFORD FILES however, have you ever thought to reserve your harsh judgment until you see it first? This is my father's legacy & I could not be more pleased with how it turned out! #Jimbo 4 ever

@johnkonrad I’m feeling sick all of a sudden. The sight of these sailors is revolting.

✔️ Hands in pockets ✔️ Un-shined boots ✔️ Brown boots on a SWO ✔️ Camo at an official function ✔️ Plastic jacket instead of wool peacoat No single photo sums up Admiral Lisa Franchetti’s short tenure as CNO better. All that’s missing? A rusty warship in the background.

Fantastic post. It takes humility to first understand that we’re not in the genius category. Secondly, it takes courage to correctly assess our true potential and make the most of it. Finally, it takes work ethic to bring our talents to fruition for the benefit of our families and greater humanity. All of this works together to bring about God’s plan for our lives, our “mission on earth” so to speak.

Alex is talking about how 0.01% top-tier talent works… but he’s wrong about not being able to understand them. When I was in grade school, we had no money and lived in the Bronx but my Dad wanted us to get a top education. So he bought an abandoned house in the best school district in America. We happened to move across the street from a kid my age who now is one of the 1% top physicists in the world. We grew up together. My dad graduated from Cornell Medical School and had an IQ far to the right of the distribution curve, but this kid was somewhere on the tail. Just listening to the conversations they would have was mind-opening. Much of my academic success was just trying to keep up with this guy. He’s probably a big reason why I became a ship captain too because we were on the sailing team together & he always kicked my ass. No matter how much I tried to outperform him on the physical side, he would calculate some changing wind angle or currents & blow past me. The best of the best truly do think differently. Spending so much time with him gave me three major advantages in life: I can’t outthink them, but I was able to learn how they think and operate. Put me in a room with these people & I can follow along. People like this are not telepathic, they are limited by the same words the rest of us are. They have to slow their brains down to communicate with each other. Get in a room with a few true geniuses, and you’ll feel like listening to the teacher in Charlie Brown… but learn your vocabulary words and understand how they think & you can follow along. Second, after a few years, you will be able to understand many of the ways they think through problems. It’s radically different than the rest of us, but over time, you’ll pick up new ways of looking at the world. Geniuses have a massive toolbox of ways to think through problems. If you spend enough time with them, then you start to pick up individual tools. Now you can never compete fully because they can operate the tools faster and, more importantly, know what tools to use in various situations while you’re stuck trying each one… but there is real value in having them. Finally, and most importantly, you can recognize genius when you see it. It’s incredibly rare, but every few months you’ll spot someone truly gifted. Help them out and become friends with them & you have true talent on speed dial. I love understanding geopolitical complexity in situations like the Strait of Hormuz today. I think grok can tell you my predictions have been more accurate than most. How did I do that? Well, I worked through several problem sets, then when I reached my intellectual capacity, I called a genius. So how can this help you? Well, there is a trick. The most valuable resource in the world isn’t brain power or money… it’s time. Another valuable resource is friendship. Geniuses need friends & people who can help them compress time. For example, I have one friend I volunteered for years to drive him to the airport. I saved him having to spend time figuring out parking or worrying about a taxi. I got an hour each way getting access to his brain. But to do that, you have to recognize & understand genius first. There are two ways: Get a low-level job somewhere that hires geniuses. It doesn’t matter if you fetch coffee or manage the printer. You’re there to learn. Second is to get access to their classrooms and workshops. I was CTO of a startup at MIT. It sounds more impressive than it was, but the best part of the job was access to MIT lectures. I’d walk into subjects and just listen. Often I’d arrive late because what I wanted was not the lecture information but rather the chance to listen into the discussion after. My son does this now with the rocket club @ERAU_Daytona. Has he contributed a new rocket motor fuel design? No, but he helps lift the rockets & such, which lets him be a fly on the wall when the literal rock scientists work through problems.

@CSW_Hoosier Excellent progress! You’re following the path that my spouse traveled 30 years ago. Bonus: many Catholics will learn more from you than you will learn from them. You will know what I mean by that later on. In the meantime, keep researching. Truth lives.

2015: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2016: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2017: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2018: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2019: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2020: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2021: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2022: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2023: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2024: Non-denominational Baptist ✝️ 2025: Questioning Protestantism, researching the early Church, and every answer came up Catholic. Started OCIA in October. ✝️ 2026: Confirmed Catholic and received first Holy Communion on February 15 ✝️

@greta @TheBlooch I think he meant stupid as in lacking common sense, not lacking knowledge.

One good thing about Jerome Powell not our Fed Chair is that Trump will stop calling him stupid - I found that insult disturbing since Powell went to law school with me and did better than I did. :)

@Catholic_bro Tell both to read Saint Ignatius of Loyola: discernment of spirits. ignatianspirituality.com/making-good-de…

If two believers claim the Holy Spirit led them to opposite conclusions, how do we tell who’s right?

@CynicalPublius @ballsdeepindoge My childhood beagle was named Manfred the Mighty Dog. Remember that cartoon?

@ballsdeepindoge My childhood dog was a beagle. I have a hard time watching these beagle rescue videos.

Ridglan Farms was just the beginning… now it’s time to turn the spotlight on Marshall Farms. The fight for the beagles isn’t slowing down… it’s only getting louder. Keep pushing, Nick. The world is watching.

@JesterJum Drinking from a water bull parked in direct sunlight in the middle of the summer is the best cure for all known diseases.

If you ever drank from one of these, I promise, you have nothing to worry about from the Hantavirus

@omoelerinjare1 Straight up HERO

“I tried to thank him… That’s my whole world. That’s my daughter.” New Ring doorbell video shows the dramatic moment a Chattanooga police officer rushed into a burning apartment to save a mother and her two children. Rachel Blaylock can be heard screaming “There’s a fire!” as flames spread. She says Officer Eli Rogers didn’t hesitate — and she’s not sure her family would have survived without him.

Exactly. Research is possible only through funding. Funds are distributed to researchers who pursue and confirm predetermined outcomes. Try getting a continuation of grant money after briefing an outcome that apposes popular bias. That’s an excellent way to throw away tenure opportunity, promotion, prestigious awards, etc.

@CynicalPublius What you basically saying, is there is no actual science, in social science. It’s just bias confirmation.

When a scientist or an engineer earns a Ph.D., it is usually based on reproducible, verifiable outcomes drawn from the laws of the natural world. When a social "scientist" earns a Ph.D. in a "social science," it is based on collating the written opinions of other "social scientists" into a heavily footnoted thesis, and those people who were footnoted earned THEIR Ph.D. based on collating the written opinions of other "social scientists" into a heavily footnoted thesis, and those people who were footnoted earned THEIR Ph.D. based on collating the written opinions of other "social scientists" into a heavily footnoted thesis, and so on, and so on. A Ph.D. in science or engineering is based on the laws of the natural world. A Ph.D. in any "social science" is based on regurgitating the writings of other people who never had to prove anything. A "social science" Ph.D. is an intellectual Ponzi scheme--one based largely on restating the (often mistaken) opinions of those who came before you as if their opinions were fact, but arranging those opinions in such a way as to create your own novel and equally untrustworthy opinion. We are at a point in society where anyone with a Ph.D. in a non-scientific or non-engineering field is more untrustworthy than random people on the street.

@CynicalPublius Thank you for taking time to write about this important distinction. It would seem that job data of technical vs social PhD’s support your theory. Nearly 100% of engineer PhD’s are employed and well-paid. As for the rest…well, not so much.

@SGTWipper1Each I showed up late to zero dark thirty formation. Showed my wrist watch to an NCO. “Your watch is 15min slow”. Turns out the NCO’s all set their watches 15 min ahead.

Zero Dark Thirty: The ungodly hour before sunrise when the military decides “early” means stupidly early. Like getting yanked out of your rack at 3 a.m. for a “quick” training exercise that lasts all day. Basically: o’dark thirty, when normal people are still asleep.

@LarryTaunton Can I have some of that free coffee? 😂

I’m at Starbucks. White kid with grommets in his ears takes my order. Seeing my book on Marx he assumes (wrongly) that I like him: “I’m a socialist, too,” he says proudly. “Great. Then you won’t mind, comrade, if I just take this coffee without paying.” I wink as if we’re a secret society. He looks startled. “Huh?” “Well, people like us believe in the free and equal distribution of wealth. ‘Death to all tyrants,’ right?” “Uh, yeah. I guess. But who’s the tyrant here?” “Starbucks, of course. Oppressing third world coffee growers and me in my right to free coffee.” “But you have to pay for it. Nothing in here is free.” “I know. Capitalism is just the worst, isn’t it? Screw the capitalists, said Marx, and I say screw Starbucks.” He looks trapped, but he’s not sure how. I let on that I’m teasing, pay, and tip him generously for enduring my playful persecution of the idiotic worldview that he’s adopted more like the latest ideological fashion one tries on but doesn’t actually understand. This is the typical “socialist” youth. I encounter them on campuses, online, and in coffee shops just like this one. My point wasn’t so much to mock him—it almost certainly isn’t his fault—but to gently poke holes in what is more slogan than actual coherent conviction. Do you engage the young in your life? Do you speak to them on meaningful topics? Last night my three sons and I sat out under the stars and debated the spiritual significance of baptism. That may seem meaningless to some, but not to us. I wanted to challenge them and be challenged. I’m pleased we can do that. At other times we discuss politics or cultural trends. Don’t neglect the young for they shall one day, be it for better or for worse, define the country.