Kirk's Inner OCD

@GW49221300 @WallStreetApes Anyone who would buy that is an absolute idiot and deserves to pay that.

@WallStreetApes In GTA, we get this.🥲 F🖕 CK Carney

Man in Moscow Russia shows what their regular supermarket has for selection This entire section is just eggs, so many different brands and sellers. Butter and more is the same huge variety In America we only have a couple brands that are monopolies all owned by the same company

@JeffreyLuscombe Train rage bait posts are one of my favorite niches on Twitter

Why do Conservatives hate this so much? Anyone?

@RasmusJarlov @will58030719 You can only extort and take advantage of others from a position of power. If Europe becomes powerful again you sure they won’t revert to the old ways… ie much much worse than the USA.

@will58030719 I am not obsessed with what happened hundreds of years ago, no.

In the future, there will be three major powers in the world: China, USA, EU. Neutral countries will move as much as possible towards the EU as their preferred partner because both China and the USA treat other countries disrespectfully and try to extort them. Europe will be the only great power and market to turn to if you want to have an equal and fair relationship. Canada is already moving towards Europe for this exact reason. India and Japan will also form a closer relationship with Europe. This is what soft power means. MAGA replies in the comment section will prove the point.

@RasmusJarlov Im not sure you have ever read a history book. Theres no history of European nations taking advantage of other nations from a position of power… none at all…

@alexgroberman I always love these posts. Ending Hunger in America? Nobody is starving in America. If you want to seek help for food insecurity its available. Every kid that needs free or reduced lunch at school already gets it. Nobody knows what it would cost to get rid of lead pipes.

The Artemis program has cost $93 billion. Ending hunger in America would cost $32 billion a year. Making school lunch free for every American student would cost $11 billion a year. Replacing every lead pipe in the country would cost $45 billion. Covering uncompensated healthcare for every uninsured American would cost $42 billion a year. NASA just used that $93 billion to send four astronauts around the Moon. They are flying all the way there, looping around the far side, and coming home. Ten days. That is it. Here's the logic behind that $93 billion spend: Artemis I launched in 2022. No crew. No humans anywhere near it. Just the rocket and the spacecraft flying unmanned for 25 days to prove the systems worked. The heat shield. The navigation. The separation sequences. 161 test objectives completed. It proved the foundation was sound. Artemis II is the mission that launched today. Four astronauts. First humans beyond low Earth orbit since 1972. First woman beyond low Earth orbit. First person of color beyond low Earth orbit. They will fly around the far side of the Moon and return to Earth at nearly 25,000 miles per hour. The mission proves the spacecraft can keep humans alive in deep space. That is all it needs to prove. Artemis III is next. The crew will launch into Earth orbit and dock with the SpaceX Starship lander and the Blue Origin lander for the first time. They will test the vehicles that will eventually carry astronauts to the surface. Still no landing. Just proving the docking systems work. Artemis IV is the actual landing. First humans on the Moon since 1972. But it only works because three full missions built every piece of infrastructure underneath it. The rocket. The spacecraft. The life support. The landers. The docking systems. None of it skipped. Every mission compounding on the one before it. Four missions over six years before anyone touches the surface. $93 billion invested in the infrastructure underneath the moment everyone is waiting for. This is exactly what is happening across most marketing budgets right now. Most businesses run marketing like standalone missions. Launch a paid ad campaign: one flight, measure the results, mission over. Post on social media: one burst of reach, gone in 48 hours. Send an email blast: one open rate, done. Run a PR campaign: one news cycle, forgotten. Pay an influencer: one burst of attention, then silence. Every campaign is its own Artemis I, except there is no Artemis II. There is no infrastructure building underneath. Nothing carries forward to the next mission. You start from zero every quarter. (If you want to see where your site stands across Google and AI search, start here: seo-stuff.com/free-audit) SEO and AI search visibility is the only marketing channel that operates like a program instead of a campaign. You publish one authoritative page. That is Artemis I. It proves the foundation works. It ranks. It earns backlinks. It gets indexed. Then you publish the next one. That is Artemis II. And because the first page already built authority for your domain, the second one ranks faster. It earns trust quicker. It gets cited more often. Each piece of content builds infrastructure the next piece uses to go further. When ChatGPT cites a source, it evaluates the authority of the entire domain behind it. When Google's AI Overview pulls a reference, it selects based on the depth of everything connected to that page. When Perplexity assembles an answer, it pulls from the sources with the deepest, most authoritative body of content on the topic. These systems do not evaluate each page as a standalone mission. They evaluate the program behind it. No ad budget influences that selection. No social following determines it. No campaign calendar controls the outcome. The depth of what you have already built is what makes the next piece more powerful. That is how a program works. That is why it compounds. Paid ads are a standalone mission every time you launch them. SEO and AI search visibility is a program where every mission builds the infrastructure for the next one. That is the gap SEO Stuff was built to close. seo-stuff.com NASA could have tried to land on the Moon with the first crewed Artemis flight. It would have been faster. It would have been cheaper in the short term. And it probably would have failed, because the infrastructure underneath was not ready. Instead they built a program. Four missions. Six years. Each one proving something the next one needs. And today, more than 53 years after the last human left the Moon, four astronauts are on their way back because every piece of the foundation was already in place. The question is whether your marketing budget is running standalone missions that reset every quarter, or building a program where every piece of work makes the next one more powerful.

@Captain2Corner ABS is OK. If theyre going to keep real umps calling balls and strikes I think Id prefer an automatic system where every pitch is reviewed and if the call was off by more than 2" or something its overturned. The challenge system is just kinda awkward.

Am I wrong for saying I don’t like ABS? I thought I would, but I think I’m out on it tbh.

@CougarCamper74 @euhatetrump @johnpavlovitz Trump is doing it for Russia much more quickly and cost effectively.

@CougarCamper74 @euhatetrump @johnpavlovitz Do you know how quickly the US will fall if we lose access to all these global markets? Do you realize thats what the Cold War was about. Expanding markets and fighting proxy wars to maintain/expand those markets. The US had to fight many proxy wars to kill USSR Markets.

Dear NATO, We're 100 percent with you. Sincerely, Decent Americans.

@euhatetrump @johnpavlovitz So does 69% of our country.

@johnpavlovitz Dear Citizens of America we love you but we hate your president Trump.

@lattenomics @BiankaB12 Sponging off America? How has America become the richest most powerful nation on the planet with everyone sponging off of us? Do you know what the Cold War was/is? Its a battle for international markets which make one of the two potential global super-powers rich.

@BiankaB12 Strange how Europeans think that when US asks them to take their own defence seriously it’s US dismantling the alliance. Never occurs to them that maybe, just maybe, sponging off America for decades is the things that’s dismantling the alliance?? 🤔

MAGA doesn’t seem to grasp what’s happening to them - or what they’re doing to America. Their movement is systematically dismantling the foundations of American power: its alliance system, its supply chains, the dollar’s reserve currency status, and the global trust in its institutions. That’s the very infrastructure that made America the dominant power of the last 80 years. So, unless MAGA is totally and irreversibly destroyed and deep structural reforms prevent another rogue president from taking office, there is no way back. History taught us that this is how empires fall - not from external invasion, but from within. I don't think that institutional resistance to MAGA is coming through impeachment or prosecution. The only cards left to play are engineered failure and manufactured consequences: > Trump promised a booming economy and low inflation. What Americans will get is crushing inflation and an unaffordable life - turning his own voters, especially independents, against him. > Trump promised to end wars. What Americans will get is proliferation of wars, higher military spending, and compounding misery. He promised everything to everyone and the only strategy left on the table is to weaponise those promises against him. With that said, the rest of the world will suffer collateral damage - that’s unavoidable. But the calculus is brutal and I think in 20-30 years, we will realise it was the least worst option: MAGA has become an existential threat to the Western order, and the only way to save said order is to destroy them politically - completely, and permanently. The people that chose to die on that hill - for whatever personal or ideological reason - will have a very tough life regardless of the outcome. Their lives would be shit whether or not Trump & MAGA are destroyed or prevail.

@BiankaB12 MAGA Idiots cant comprehend the mutually beneficial nature of alliances. There is no other explanation then Trump is compromised. Putin's Wishes US Out of NATO & Expensive Oil Trump is giving him exactly what he wants while convincing the loyal 25% smooth brains its good

@Frid45 Cant control Iran? Is the US trying to control Iran?

- Russia 🇷🇺 spends $150B on its military and can’t defeat Ukraine. - The US 🇺🇸 spends $1T on its military and can’t control Iran. And some still think Europe 🇪🇺, with a combined military budget of $400B+ and two nuclear powers, is an easy target? Europe is far from defenseless!

@WojPawelczyk Well when The Soviet Unions plan was beyond allying with the nations of Eastern Europe, it was actually conquering them you can see why they may have done this to themselves.

History of NATO expansion. You can draw your own conclusions.

@thesiriusreport @amuse Ok now I realize youre a propaganda account. Carry on with your nonsense.

Russia knows that the US will never come to the aid of European NATO countries. Whilst Russia will never do so, if it was to invade say the Baltic republics the US would do absolutely nothing. What exactly are 100k US troops going to against the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world?

If Trump pulls the US out of NATO, Europe will quickly realise that they never needed the US in the first place. As we have said for years, the US was never going to defend Europe. It was and will always be an utter myth. They just want Europe to buy their useless military hardware and munitions and so they can seek to control Europe and prevent it's rotation to Russia and Eurasia. Europe has a choice, die defending its pointless relationship with the US or embrace Eurasia including Russia

@thesiriusreport Man the idiocy on both sides of this issue is astonishing. The US was never going to defend Europe? Even if youre partially correct that NATO is more an economic tool. If the US is to leave Nato or if Russia takes over Europe who is buying the "useless military hardware" then?

@Rail_splitter1 This is dumb. Hes selling Ukraine weapons to fight Russia yet you jump to the conclusion that he would team up with Russia to fight Europe? Based on what?

Never in my worst nightmares did I think I’d say this: In the event of a Russian attack on NATO, we have to start thinking the unthinkable: whose side will U.S. forces in U.S. bases in Europe take? We all know this: Trump would find joint aggression with Putin irresistible.

@TobyMeachi20390 @Tom730410985 @AlexBarnicoat_ The USA exists because it took a certain type of risk taking individual to sail across the ocean to settle in America. Those people were not going to be colonized. Whether they were British or French or Spanish the outcome would have likely been the same.

@Tom730410985 @AlexBarnicoat_ The land would exist obviously but hes right the USA would not be a thing without the British

The USA would not exist if not for England.

@MikeMutnansky @dhurley15 @stoolpresidente @UConnMBB Good for you Mut, I hope you finally realize that Kirk does this stuff because he doesnt want to see you melt into the roll of 8th guy on Pick Central and then get laid off in a year. This type of shit keeps you relevant at the company.

With a huge assist from the guy that spoke to my 8th grade basketball banquet UConn’s Tom Moore, I got word that @dhurley15 might be coming out different door. I waited. Great to meet you, Coach. go Huskies ! @stoolpresidente @UConnMBB

@Conservative2TX You also cant "win" a war without completely obliterating a nation. This all changed in the 1940s. This being something the US has chosen not to do does not signify weakness it signifies strength.

So let me get this straight. - Iran keeps the regime. - Iran keeps missiles. - Iran keeps uranium. - Iran gains more leverage over the Strait. And Trump gets to puff out his chest, yell “victory,” and sprint for the exit. What exactly did the West win here? Because from where I’m sitting, this looks less like strength and more like theater. The kind where everyone claps at the end, even though the building is still on fire. - Russia is watching. - China is watching. - North Korea is watching. And the lesson they are learning is not that America is unstoppable. It is that America talks big, hits something, declares success, and then looks for the nearest door. That is what a paper dragon looks like.

@Conservative2TX No this is how a regular dragon would look. You know destroying every threat from the skies without putting itself in danger and then going home.