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to the stars!

@Watchman_motto Is it? Wooden walls house with all BR next to each other, you can hear every snore or sound, no real privacy of parents from kids

The thing about these old homes is that the floor plan is always genius. You may think that you can come up with a better floor plan, but even modern architects have a hard time doing it right. It’s also not intuitive why this is so nice, and many people have a hard time seeing it in their mind’s eye when looking at a print.

@DalrympleWill @NJ_Timothy You sound idiotic because you erect a strawman conspiracy by the Muslims. In fact, the logical outcome of policies pursued by governments leads to increased Muslism immigration and eventual dominance. nothing to do with a hand of Muslims 'conspiring' but elite de facto betrayal

Muslims make up just 6% of the population of Britain. Conspiracy theories currently being aired by right wing bigots that they are secretly plotting the Islamic domination of Britain are the 21st century Islamophobes' equivalent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and just as idiotic.

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

@christopherrufo 'We' 'let' Dude, Israel has over 200 nukes due to stealing nuclear secrets from US, so WHO is destroying Israel?

I don’t think the State of Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophesy, but I also don’t think we should let radical Islamists destroy it

@hope_pead Mojtaba to Pakistan: 'pls send lawyers, nukes and money, the sh** has hit the fan'

@Tom_Rowsell 'They're not demons just evil spirits' thank you doctor

Many coalers getting scared of “demon” gods in Bali. No. These are the Ogoh Ogoh statues from the March parade in Ubud with vast statues of monsters representing negative energies and evil spirits, which are burned before Nyepi

mfw nobody will call me Eternal Stationmaster. I'm not crying, you're crying

@TuckerCarlson Why do you interview this kooky grifter? Did you ask him about the Punic Wars?

Professor Jiang Xueqin on how this war is likely to go and what happens to the world. (0:00) How Will the Iran War Be Resolved? (7:33) The 3 Major Trends We Will See Due to This War (11:28) Will Japan Become a Nuclear-Armed Power? (16:06) The Future of South Korea (20:12) The Energy Crisis (25:23) The Future of the GCC and Iran (29:57) The Greater Israel Project (35:11) How US Ground Troops Will Change the War (36:46) Prof. Xueqin’s Advice to Donald Trump (38:49) Is It Possible for the US to Get Israel Under Control? (45:03) What Role Does Trump Play in All This? (48:21) The Future of North America (54:59) Are We Seeing the End of Europe? (1:00:58) How Many Americans Truly Understand What’s Happening in the World? (1:03:50) The Effort to Destroy Western Civilization

@FistedFoucault because they lost

i.e. Israeli Lebensraum German Generals and politicians were hanged for doing an earlier version of Lebensraum

I guess if Trump does it, it's okay

a little bit weird to hear 'frog right' guys quote Nietzsche on 'the Jews' but then go 'anti-Semitism is cringe' as Israel installs Al Quaida in Syria, kills tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza and wags America into wiping Iran out. You'd think this would be... oh whatever

@CyberPunkCortes they'll greet you as liberators

It’s time for the US to arm the Iranian opposition.

@elonmusk @JessePeltan I would like to order a nicely designed car from you, Elon, is that more based than ordering cheesburger in fish restaurant? Something like this:

My son, Saxon, is so based that he would just order milk when we went to dinner in LA. This would always stun the waitstaff, as they had never heard anyone actually order milk! He also unironically ordered a cheeseburger at a very uptight sushi restaurant that doesn’t even allow you to order supplemental soy sauce. When the waiter recovered from this request to reply that they don’t have cheeseburgers, Saxon said “Fine, I will have a hamburger.”

I feel personally attacked

@christopherrufo why not tell people to touch grass?

In my observation, if you spend all day thinking about “the Jews,” it’s a sign that something in your life isn’t going well and, instead of fueling that resentment and paranoia, you’d be better off putting your personal life together. You might try listening to Jordan Peterson.

• be Torakusu Yamaha • the son of a low-ranking samurai astronomer in 19th-century Japan • obsessed with Western machines, you make a living repairing watches and medical equipment • 1887: a local elementary school has a broken American reed organ. Nobody in the small town knows how to fix it. • you take it apart, realize it’s just two broken springs, and easily repair it • but instead of just handing it back, you realize: "If I can fix this, I can build it." • you draw a blueprint of the inside of the organ and build the very first Japanese-made reed organ from scratch • you show it off. People tell you it sounds terrible. • most people would quit. You sling the heavy wooden organ over your shoulder on a bamboo carrying pole. • you physically carry it 160 miles (250 km) on foot, trekking over the brutal Hakone mountains just to reach the Tokyo Music Institute to get real feedback from experts • the professors play it. They tell you the mechanics are brilliant, but the tuning is completely wrong. • you don't get defensive. You stay in Tokyo for a month, sitting in on university music theory lectures, holding a single tuning fork to your ear until you completely master the mathematics of sound frequencies • you walk 160 miles back home • you build a second organ. The professors test it and declare it "as good as those from abroad." • you found Nippon Gakki Co. (which later becomes Yamaha Corporation) • you decide to make your company logo three interlocking tuning forks to remember the pain and discipline of learning music theory from scratch • decades later, your company uses its piano woodworking expertise to build wooden airplane propellers in WWII • after the war, the company uses its new metallurgical expertise from the airplane engines to build motorcycles • you accidentally create a timeline where repairing a broken elementary school organ directly leads to the creation of the Yamaha YZF-R1 superbike • absolute, relentless horizontal integration based purely on figuring out how things work The ultimate testament to reverse-engineering reality.

@husafell_stone Trump probly got some promises of non-prosecution of himself and close family over Iran war etc. I'd bet his loyal followers have received no such promises, and will be the recipients of D vengeance

It could very well be that if MAGA does not fully understand the moment and take action before the window closes, it will be hunted down and persecuted in 2028, and not just MAGA but everyone who supported MAGA, the tech bros from Elon on down, everyone. It’s time to get serious.

@mtracey @ScottMcConnell9 You kinda memory-holed that moment when your pal Glenn Greenwald pressed you on the fact Epstein was indicted for contact with a 14 year old...

@ScottMcConnell9 Jeffrey was a fun-loving guy, who loved to have fun, and so did his old pal Donald

Joe Kent states his belief that Epstein was an "intelligence asset," not because of anything he learned in the government with a high-level security clearance, but because of stuff he "read on the internet." Speculates that Trump could be "intimidated" by the "Epstein network"

@DailyMail this is called full rehabilitation

Neo-Nazi who was jailed for handing out racist propaganda says prison made him even more radical as he plans to rejoin far-right group Patriotic Alternative trib.al/uVfsELy

@Tom_Rowsell @Erik_Hamre Blood substitute

@Erik_Hamre Useful to know. Must be an auspicious colour

Thais uphold a custom of appeasing land wights much like that of our pagan ancestors. They make little houses for the spirits called san phra phum and make offerings to the wights to appease them. My brother lives there on a farm with his Thai wife and daughter who I am going to visit next month. They held a ceremony for the land wights after construction work was completed. The old man in the photo was the one who invited the spirits back to the land. You can see there are 2 little houses in the picture. One is the shrine of the household gods, a domestic altar used for honoring protective spirits to ensure family safety and prosperity. In Ancient Rome, this was the lararium for Lares, in England they were called Cofgodas “cupboard gods”. Thais offer food, flowers, and incense at the houses. The other house is an ancestral shrine for old ghosts of people who lived there before, like the Hustomtar in Scandinavia, and also for the land wights that inhabit the land itself. Thai people believe there are spirits on every piece of land. Prior to construction there was an old spirit house at which the family made an offering. That night my sister in law dreamed of an old man who resembled the doll idol within the spirit house. He instructed her to keep the idol which they intended to replace, to restore and maintain the spirit house and in return he would make the land fruitful and protect her daughter of whom the wights are apparently fond. My sister in law agreed to build a new spirit house if the wight never came into her house again, as it scared her. So today the new spirit house was inaugurated and the wights were appeased with an offering of a pig’s head, a chicken and some decent whiskey. Basically all the same sorts of things I do in England. Such is the perennial nature of the most ancient ways.