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@CattardSlim You post this online, comfy in your own home, nice and safe all of the time because rough men and women are ready and willing to commit ultimate violence on your behalf. The world is full of monsters. Our guys are *so good* at slaying them, you don't even notice they exist. 🇺🇸⚔️

@C_3C_3 She's from the Uncanny Valley

85% of Jennifer Griffin’s coverage of President Trump and Pete Hegseth has been negative. She is a propagandist. The Media is the enemy of the people. But… Is she the leaker?

@aakashgupta A bag of dongles. Lol! 😅

The story behind the rise of USB-A is wild. In 1990, an Intel engineer named Ajay Bhatt couldn't get his wife's printer to work for their daughter's school project. A printer. In his own house. He was a senior architect at the world's biggest chip company, and he couldn't make a printer talk to a PC without rebooting three times and opening the case. He pitched the idea of a universal connector to his managers. They didn't just pass. They told him nobody would want it. Bhatt switched teams, found a manager who said yes, and spent the next four years convincing Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel to sit in the same room and agree on a single plug. Seven companies that competed on everything else agreed to share one connector. The USB 1.0 standard shipped in January 1996. Almost nobody used it. Windows 95 barely supported it. USB was basically dead on arrival. Then Steve Jobs did something nobody expected. He shipped the 1998 iMac as USB-only. No serial port, no parallel port, no floppy drive. Just USB. Apple, the company that fought standards harder than anyone, single-handedly forced an entire industry onto Bhatt's connector. Intel owned the patents. They made the entire thing royalty-free. Any manufacturer on earth could build a USB-A port for pennies. By 2009, 6 billion USB products were in the market, with 2 billion more shipping every year. Making the connector reversible would have doubled the cost, so Bhatt kept it one-sided to keep adoption cheap. "In hindsight, we blew it," he said years later. The most cursed design decision in consumer electronics, and it was a deliberate trade. USB-A killed serial ports, parallel ports, PS/2 connectors, game ports, and eventually the floppy disk. One rectangle replaced an entire generation of cables. The connector is 30 years old and as of 2024, Type-A still accounted for 46% of all USB device shipments. Billions of ports in airplane seatbacks, hotel nightstands, hospital beds, and office walls. The EU mandated USB-C on all new devices in December 2024. The installed base of USB-A will take 20 years to turn over. One guy's printer problem became the most successful connector standard in computing history. And now the rest of us carry a bag of dongles everywhere we go because of it.

@throwem_out @FalkTG Respect.

@FalkTG My Dad made 3 landings, N. Africa, Sicily, 1st Wave Omaha Beach Normandy. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge and other combat ops. He would have been absolutely sick at how Europe turned out. He passed in 2018 at 97 and I am glad he is not around to see what Europe has become.

I repeat: The U.S. sent thousands of its 19 years old soldiers to die in Normandy, to free Europe and to end the biggest crime against humanity ever commited - by Europeans. It was just 81 years ago. The whole reason, France, Benelux etc. 🇫🇷 exist today is because of this heroism. My grandparents could grow up in a liberal democracy. Without the U.S. they would be raised at the H*tler Youth. We Europeans would still be in wars again and again, like 1914, 1866, 1870, 1795 etc. They brought peace, democracy, liberty and human rights. They invested billions of U.S. Dollars into Europe with the Marshall Fund. They gave us more than we ever had in our history before. They protected us for 7 decades with hundreds of thousands of soldiers against the cruelties of the Soviet Union. The terror we can see nowadays in Donetsk, would have happened in Bavaria, Bourgogne or the Netherlands in 1950 if there wasn’t the U.S. 🇺🇸 Who do we Europeans think we are to let that nation down, act like bad allies, calling their President names every day on television - and have full confidence we stand better alone. All of instagram is just about, why we’re better than the U.S. We owe them so much. We Europeans are most arrogant species on earth. And to cure this we have to face the truth.

@JustTheTweets17 Have you ever heard of Metallica? youtu.be/ZaGrNq9VrCc?si…

He is insane. I am as MAGA as they get. I was a Front Row Joe, 42 rallies, walked the halls of congress 3 times for Trump, became a state delegate, then a national delegate ALL TO SUPPORT TRUMP. He has absolutely lost me, in fact I'm eyeing the 25th amendment for him because he's lost his damn mind.

@uncledoomer They call that the Craftsman's Curve!

just finished this foundation for a client. tacked on some extra to the invoice too because he said it was his dream home and he was willing to pay for the best

@0hour1 I hope they post the video when they get him.

Jackson Hinkle is under investigation. 😂😂😂😂😂 He is in hiding.

@SemanticSteward @Polymarket Yuuuuup.

@Polymarket legion

@JohnWight1 I'll take a hamburger and a Coke.

The civilisation that invented algebra is currently doing battle with the one that invented the hamburger. This is all you need to know.

@Cointelegraph youtu.be/-rYjfciwWGk?si…

🚨 NOW: Crypto trader James Wynn has been liquidated shorting Bitcoin on Hyperliquid, wiping his account from $100M down to just $900, per Arkham.

@EndWokeness Sounds amazing.

Joy Reid's warning about the far-right: "Their plan? 0 income tax, 0 regulation, earn as much as you want, your family inherits it all!"

@pmarca Same

I have never been so bullish on the United States of America.

Anyone get the feeling… The Deep State tried to remove Hegseth so they had control of the military? They didn’t want a man with “We the People” on his arm in control of the military while POTUS Trump cleans up the mess they created to save America and the World. Protect Pete.

@TheChiefNerd He is the front lines.

THEO VON: “During the Roman Empire, a lot of the politicians also had to fight on the battlefield.” JAKE PAUL: “I think you're right … Trump should be on the front lines.” THEO VON: “Or Barron…”

@AutismCapital Beautiful

Trump's posts are getting unhinged.

@DailyMail I'm sorry that happened to you, Daily Mail.

@ElectPenguin @BlueBoxDave Any American who has been trashing our guys or reposting foreign propaganda during this conflict is dead to me now. Reposting enemy propaganda in the middle of hostilities for internet gud boy points is a scumbag move.

@BlueBoxDave As much as the left tries to spin this as a failure, I've seen posts from all over the world commenting on how impressive the rescue was.

It becomes clearer every day that we now have a Department of War run by soldiers, not by experts.

@infantrydort @BlueBoxDave

@BlueBoxDave Plot twist: the real experts ARE the Soldiers.

@BlueBoxDave I thank God for this on a regular basis. If people really knew, they would be too.

@marsh_crypto @serxzsz @coinbureau In 50 years, there is a possibility that AGI takes contol of a quantum computer that is capable of altering timelines. What happens if an AGI from the future takes control and then plants itself in the year 1910 and starts altering timelines?

@marsh_crypto @serxzsz @coinbureau Yes, I think they are using AI to build them. I still think it is a good idea to secure them from AI. If we don't succeed at air gapping quantum computers from AI, humanity will eventually be ruled by AI. And quantum computers will be used on us like a Ghostbuster's trap.

🚨SOLANA TESTS QUANTUM-RESISTANT CRYPTOGRAPHY Solana is working with Project Eleven to test quantum-safe signatures. Early tests show major tradeoffs: signatures are up to 40× larger and the network ran roughly 90% slower, raising scalability questions.