Freeport Thinker

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Freeport Thinker

Freeport Thinker

@FreeportThinker

"A hero to some, a villain to others, and wherever he went people spoke his name in whispers."

Katılım Temmuz 2023
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Freeport Thinker
Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@Reiteller @SimonStormRider Uranium decays into helium through alpha decay, where uranium-238 or 235 emits alpha particles—each a helium-4 nucleus. Earths a big place and atomic decay happens all the time, because half life is the time for half the stuff to decay not a specific lifetime for one bit.
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Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer@SimonStormRider·
There is a seriousness of helium waste most people don't seem to comprehend. We can't make helium, there's no chemistry we can do - it's incredibly rare on Earth.
Eric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing

FUN FACT—helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines used in hospitals worldwide. We lost the largest helium extraction plant in the world in Qatar. US reserves running low. Helium cannot be produced de novo. Any helium escape is permanent.

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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@SandyofCthulhu Progress Party. Anti tax party, famous for running tax avoidance in their ads, that was then destroyed by the establishment over tax when their leader was convicted of tax evasion. That said they did have to knock 10% off of income tax in the face of the enemy, so yay.
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Sandy Petersen 🪔
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
In the 1970s (I think) a Danish politician said, in effect, “Denmark hasn’t won a war in 400 years. I move we disband our armed forces and get an answering machine for would-be invaders to leave messages.” I don’t remember his name but he’s one of my favorite politicians ever.
ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

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Fandom Pulse@fandompulse·
Supergirl director Craig Gillespie on what to expect from the character: "What I loved about the script that Ana [Nogueira] wrote and what you guys were supporting is she's got a lot of baggage and a lot of demons coming into this, which is very different than the way Superman is in his life." Is this what you want out of Supergirl?
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@dailybritainonx The problem is that they had weapons grade uranium to give away. That is a nuclear non proliferation treaty no-no.
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The Daily Britain@dailybritainonx·
🚨 BREAKING: Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway.
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@fandompulse The impossible dilemma being to watch this or do anything else including nothing? Sounds not really like a dilemma. Its hardly Sophie's Choice.
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Fandom Pulse@fandompulse·
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy showrunner Noga Landau on the main villain for Season 2: "The villain of season 2 is not just a person. In a very classic Trek sense, it is more an impossible dilemma that we find ourselves in as Starfleet." What do you think it is?
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@anon_opin I buy books for the pleasure of reading them at home. The supermarket is efficient. The bookshop is full of Monster Milking Farm, so as a male its not for me.
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Anon Opin.@anon_opin·
I'm baffled by people who go to a bricks-and-mortar supermarket every week, but buy things like books online. Why would you not want to spend time in a nice little bookshop, but you're happy to go to an aircraft hanger on the arse-end of town full of baked beans?
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@neilvagg Because its bad writing. Its not a reveal. To use the meme, if its a show called Vampire Surfing Dude, the wait for hours for the guy to become a vampire and then to get out to learn surfing is filler. If he ain't surfing in the first 15m you have failed.
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Neil Vagg
Neil Vagg@neilvagg·
Can we pause for a moment and question why it’s an issue to only reveal #Buffy at the end of the pilot? From the outset the idea was transitioning to a new Slayer with Buffy in a Giles/Watcher role. She’s the ace up this series’ sleeve so why not build up to a big reveal?
Variety@Variety

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Chloé Zhao’s failed "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reboot: - Sarah Michelle Gellar’s return was shockingly minimal, with Buffy reduced to just one line in the pilot as the story centered on a new teen Slayer. - Sources say the project, which Zhao directed, was viewed as not mainstream enough and skewing too young, while Gellar has since blamed a Hulu executive who “was proud” he never watched the original series. - After multiple rewrites, the revival was ultimately deemed “unsalvageable” and scrapped. variety.com/2026/tv/news/b…

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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@arusbridger @montie "Some work for places that discourage freelance activity hence the anonymity." Your ethics checkers you are using to critique your competition are known to be operating against their employers ethics policies? Edgy.
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alan rusbridger@arusbridger·
@montie Hi Tim. We’ve listed the publications they work or have worked for. Some work for places that discourage freelance activity hence the anonymity.
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alan rusbridger@arusbridger·
Since @Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalist from a wide range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @GBNEWS . Their conclusion: the supposedly regulated channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@Tam85414 @ghost_wales You seem to be ignoring the present. The EU used to be an economic power and a military museum. Now its not an economic power either.
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CraiginEngland
CraiginEngland@ghost_wales·
Apparently there’s an emerging argument the EU is emerging as a superpower capable of balancing the rivalry between the United States and China as a “third superpower” There’s some right dreamers in the EU 😂 Seriously delusional.
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Lynette Nusbacher@Nusbacher·
The literature of German invasion fiction generally has to yadda-yadda the means by which Germany (or Nordland) gets past the RN and conducts a successful amphibious assault without landing craft. That said, never underrate the alien space bats.
Tom McKinnell@hobbitomm

@Nusbacher I mean, aside from needing to explain which particular Alien Space bats intervened to make Sealion work!

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Clownmojo@clownmojo·
@no_itsmyturn So basically the US/Israel will just keep taking these guys out until one steps up that they like it seems
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Aleph א@no_itsmyturn·
Unconfirmed reports: Iranian 🇮🇷 regime hardliner Saeed Jalili will succeed Ali Larijani Jalili previously served as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 2007-2013; during that time, he also served as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. He is currently a member of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council.
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@FennellJW You don't. The UK is a highly regulated environment around 15 years technologically behind the US.
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@Fergie_CJ Private and work pensions can be taken from age 55, raising to 57 in around 2028.
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Fergie@Fergie_CJ·
If this happens, my age group will have been robbed of 15 years of pension rights. That's about £185,000 in state pension, but it also applies to your private and work pensions, which go back in line with the state ones. It's the biggest theft from poorest to richest ever.
Alison Moyet@AlisonMoyet

I see the proposal that retirent age should be raised to 75. My question is - Where are these jobs going to come from? Given that the young and mid-lifers alike are struggling to find work.

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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@Schwagl0rd @MarkUrban01 Currently with the Iranian army shooting the few remaining IRGC kneeling by a ditch in the head, followed by music and dancing. Possibly some alcohol might come out.
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Mark Urban@MarkUrban01·
Israel’s defence min is claiming that they killed Ali Larijani. He would be a big loss to Iran, was de facto leader since Ayatollah Khamenei’s death. He was also v well known to western diplomats working the nuclear file + someone who would be impt in deciding how this war ends
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@SirNotAppearing @DachshundColin "If you think the US economy is insulated from global oil prices because it exports oil there's very little sensible conversation to be had" I agree. The word "relative" seems to escape you.
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film
Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film@SirNotAppearing·
@FreeportThinker @DachshundColin If you think the US economy is insulated from global oil prices because it exports oil there's very little sensible conversation to be had Also - if you think Trump doesn't care about public opinion regardless of his ability to stand again you've seen nothing of who he is 1/n
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
@SirNotAppearing @DachshundColin The Democrats routinely call Trump a Nazi and after the first shooting, which killed an innocent man, kept doing so. At that point yes, its a Democrat approved assassination.
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Freeport Thinker@FreeportThinker·
Sigh. You're being reduced to insults. The answer is, broadly, that countries that export oil will do better than countries that import oil in a time of higher oil prices. This is an unremarkable observation. The US policy has been about reducing cheap imports from Asia which high oil prices will do so. Again, unremarkable. Trump isn't up for election again. The Democrats have already tried to kill him twice. Again, unremarkable observation.
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film
Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film@SirNotAppearing·
@FreeportThinker @DachshundColin You're so far up Trump's tract you can't think straight You think that the US is domestically ok because a few oil companies are coining it in & despite one of their biggest markets being in recession? Trump cares about what people think of him, and Vance & Miller really care
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@Reiteller @SimonStormRider @SandyofCthulhu @fandompulse @dailybritainonx @Danjsalt @anon_opin @neilvagg