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@akafaceUS Water proofing and insulation optional?

Building a $21,995 kit in only 6 hours. Now he just needs to add in foundation, insulation, electrical and plumbing. 😂

@StarWarsDaily_ 4 planets that close together surely wouldn’t cause gravitational chaos to one another. Tides? Gentle as a Sunday morning. Let’s build some megacities.

Over 155 billion people are killed in The Force Awakrens, making it one of the highest kill counts in cinema history.

@notcapnamerica @AldamsScott What’s that gonna do? You can’t change people.

@AldamsScott The overwhelming majority of WW are not confronting their families or spouses about racism like the woman in this video is doing.

I can’t believe I watched all 23 minutes of this girl confronting her family about being racist but it was fascinating to witness. They use every trope in the book to deflect and gaslight her. But she stood her ground.

@JimBowdenGM Why? Because your paycheck hinges on having opinions every week now?

I think it's time #MLB revisits one aspect of the Ohtani rules and eradicate the exemption the #Dodgers get to carry an extra pitcher. I'm ok with allowing him to DH when he pitches and remain in game but roster advantage not fair in my opinion.

@WotBuwcheeks @nonregemesse So the majority of NZ deaths at Gallipoli were Maori?

@nonregemesse Its their culture. Get a grip.

They should have done something more solemn and dignified instead. These gimmicks are fine for rugby but there’s a time and place.

@mnolangray “Los Angeles streets are not crumbling because…” But because…? What? I’d like to know the counter argument.

Los Angeles streets are not crumbling because it's just impossibly expensive to pave wheelchair ramps on sidewalks or paint bicycle lanes, and the coordinated conservative campaign to promote this narrative is sufficiently facially dumb that you should doubt those promoting it.

@UpdatingOnRome Lots wrong with this list but not being able to pluralize person pretty much gives away its trash origin.

I think the man who the dating system is based off of might be number 1.

@Mike_M_Klotz Because….?

This is a danger to society, not something to be lauded.

@moonlightcheese @RpsAgainstTrump No they’re not. They were never Catholics. They’re Protestants.

@RpsAgainstTrump What a bullshit take. I think a lot of people are questioning Catholicism after this heretic shit show from Leo. This is not about Trump over religion. It's about a religion that has turned away from God.

“As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic” Fox News’ Sean Hannity makes it pretty clear: Trump comes before everything, even over his religion. It’s a cult.

@swd2 @HeatherThomasAF For example?

An aging population with no immigrants is how a civilization dies.

@godknowsdgj1 For those who need to see the full computation to understand why you need to isolate X, the first one teaches more and you learn more. The second is just a quicker way to solve it but it’s not applicable to everything. Solving math and learning math are two different things.

Who’s the smartest one? 🤔

@ywomendeservles This was written by a guy.

@HeraldOfRome Who’s making the argument that Rome fell because of immigrants? Plenty argue that barbarian migrations contributed to the collapse but I’ve never heard of immigration within the empire having any role.

The argument that Rome fell because of immigration-driven population replacement doesn't really hold up when you look at the genetic and historical evidence. 90+% of the "immigrants" into Roman era Italy were ancient Greeks, coming from the most developed regions in the world with the most educated populations. They don't really count as immigrants since they were simply moving from one Roman province to another, and in most cases they were moving into areas of Italy that Greeks had already colonized and settled centuries earlier. The difference in the Imperial period is that they were now also moving into central and north Italy. So the basic premise of a totally foreign population flooding in is already wrong. What actually happened was the opposite of the decline story. They arrived centuries before the western collapse and a millennium and a half before the eastern one, and the populations they contributed to went on to produce some of the highest measured cognitive profiles in pre-modern Europe. Once you line up the genetics, the timeline, and the outcomes, this fairy tale falls apart. 90+% of the "immigrants" into Roman era Italy were ancient Greeks, coming from the most developed regions in the world with the most educated populations. They don't really count as immigrants since they were simply moving from one Roman province to another, and in most cases they were moving into areas of Italy that Greeks had already colonized and settled centuries earlier. The difference in the Imperial period is that they were now also moving into central and north Italy. You can see their genetic contribution clearly in modern Italians, which hasn't changed much since antiquity apart from minor Germanic admixture in the north. Southern Italians (Calabria, Campania, Sicily) carry 63–67% Roman-era Ancient Greek-like ancestry. Central Italians (Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche) carry 49–56%. Even northern Italians (Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria) carry 29–33%. The same Roman-era Ancient Greek-like signal shows up at around 20% in Iberia. This is not a foreign population replacing natives because it's a continuation and expansion of a Mediterranean genetic cline that already existed. The samples from Imperial Italy, around 1–200 AD (after the big migration into Italy had already happened), were mostly Greek mixed, and scored higher on PGS EDU/IQ than other Europeans, higher even than medieval Europeans who lived 1,000 years later. So the so-called "immigrants" were still smarter than the surrounding European populations. The timeline alone destroys the argument of collapse due to population replacement. The main Roman-era migration into Italy happened around 150–50 BC. The western empire fell in 476 AD, roughly 500 to 600 years later. The eastern empire fell in 1453 AD, roughly 1,500 years later. What kind of "population replacement causes civilizational collapse" mechanism takes 600 to 1,500 years to produce its effect? At that point they're not actually describing a causal process, because when your supposed cause and effect are separated by 600 to 1,500 years with an entire functioning empire in between, they're just pointing at two distant events and asserting a connection without explaining how one led to the other. If you want to argue demographics mattered for 476 specifically, the only even remotely plausible candidate is Germanic migration, and specifically the fact that Germanic immigrants became overrepresented in military commands in the 4th and 5th centuries due to corrupt political decisions by emperors and regents. And those Germanics most likely had lower intelligence than the Italians they were displacing in military roles, since medieval samples from Germany and medieval Viking samples score lower on PGS IQ/EDU than Imperial Italian samples. But even this wasn't population replacement. It was a minority being overrepresented in military positions, not a demographic shift in Italy itself. The eastern half of the empire, populated by exactly the same Greek stock that had settled central Italy centuries earlier, continued for another 1,000 years and remained the most developed civilization for centuries after the West fell. The genetics were basically the same, yet the outcome was the opposite, which is something the hypothesis cannot explain. The actual genetic evidence, as far as it goes, points in the opposite direction. Pre-modern civilizations appear to show selection for higher intelligence and lower rates of mental disorders, not against.

@TJStats What a weird season.

Team OPS

@ThomasJCarcetti @tiff4mahogany It would be no exaggeration to say that way too many failed “artists” swerved to politics because it gives them a stage to perform for the affirmation they say desperately need.

Ben Rhodes makes a lot more sense when you remember that he’s a failed novelist cosplaying as a foreign policy expert.

@LeonaEadie123 @BasebaIlKing Manny, Fernando, Xander, Joe, Yu, and quite a few others are compensated very handsomely.

@BasebaIlKing The franchise that had to buy the World Series in order to win it?

This home run changed the entire trajectory of the franchise

@Jaberuski @UncleJsWildRide Looks like AI slop.

Anaheim Stadium in 1965. Now, I don’t there’s a single tree to be seen in this area.

@DanClarkSports mlb.com/dodgers/video/…

Quite simply, these types of emotional outbursts are accepted by the Padres. We have seen numerous examples in recent years. If he did this with the Dodgers, Dave Roberts would have benched him. It all comes down to clubhouse expectations and culture.

@MoonCall @TalkinBaseball_ mlb.com/dodgers/video/…

@TalkinBaseball_ Why bring this type of energy into the dugout. He wouldn’t have done that in a dodger uniform…

Walker Buehler wasn’t happy with the way his outing ended

@JomboyMedia Is it just me, or are everyone's tempers a bit short this season?

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Trevor Megill had words for each other after Megill closed out the eighth inning