ThatGuy (NoNotThatOne)
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ThatGuy (NoNotThatOne)
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Allow me to explain American weights and measures. There are several important principles at play.
The first thing you have to understand, America is a very big country. Everything here is big. Lots of wide open spaces. Not like Europe or Japan, all small and cramped.
Kilometers, centimeters, too small. They probably make sense in small, cramped places like Europe and Japan, but that is not our problem.
We also don't know what they are. Liter, what's that? Also small, whatever it is. We use gallons. Bigger. Pounds. Well, we like to pound things.
The yard? Well, one's yard is so many yards on each side, the smallest of all possible yards being of course, one yard square. That one is ipso facto logical on its face, no elaboration needed. Meter ... in this country a meter is a device with a dial, for measuring things like waterflow or electricity, what have you. Not itself a unit of measurement. That would confuse things.
Numbering things in twelves. Some link that back to Jesus. 12 apostles. How then do you explain the word dozen? No one ever said, the Dozen Apostles. Though the Dirty Dozen immediately resonated with Americans. They were dirty, and there were a dozen of them.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Are we expected to gut our language to satisfy Europeans.
It is also important to understand that the metric system was invented by the French.
Hard, fast rule. We do nothing the way the French do. Is that the way the French do it? No, we're not doing that.
The metric system was adopted by France during the French Revolution, which was a violent bloody flaming shitshow, during which the French sought to reinvent society. In a distinctly French, which is to say undesirable fashion. The downfall of the British Empire is in fact by no coincidence contemporary with Britain's adoption of ... French measurements.
But our adherence to the arcane and obtuse measurement system of our forebears stems from a deeper root. An almost mystical place and love of ancient British traditions that still live within us despite having severed the bonds.
During the runup to the Revolutionary War, 250 years ago, the Americans revered the king. Would have been glad to keep him. It was the British government they couldn't stand. They labored under the mistaken belief that George III also loved them and was sympathetic to their cause. He did not and was not. He considered them a rebellious rabble, which they were.
So ultimately they ditched the king.
But the Americans retained, with their contradictory adoration of all things royal that persists to this day ... that liberal No Kings nonsense notwithstanding ... the system of measurement that is based on the size of the king's dick, which is one foot long. Twelve inches.
No king's dick has ever been that long. But are you going to be the one to tell him?
This is something most Americans would understand, if they knew. Most don't, but the knowledge is primeval. It's in our cultural DNA.
We have among men in America a saying about "measuring dick size." Not that anyone's whipping it out, applying a ruler. It is a metaphor for when men compare, boastfully, their relative manliness or manly accomplishments.
So you can see that dick size, metaphorical or otherwise, is like a bulge in the trousers of the American psyche. So yeah, we measure thusly.
(They do tend to be bigger over here. Like everything else. FYI Japanese ladies, now enamored of all things big and American)
I hope that's helpful.
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アメリカ人へ Xにいる日本人の多くがアメリカに好意的なのはわかってもらえたと思う。 ただ、俺を含めたそういった日本人全員がアメリカに対してどうしても許せないことがある。 ヤードポンド法という悪しき単位だ。なぜ世界標準であるメートル法を頑なに拒み続けるんだ。
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@Angry_Staffer FDR didn't pause WWII while Captain Miller and his squad of Rangers went on a humanitarian search and rescue mission to extract a missing 101st Airborne paratrooper!
Amirite!?
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There’s currently a frantic search taking place for two US pilots who were shot down in Iran, and this idiot is talking about taking the oil.
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@ideafaktory @KarmaKontrol @marcportermagee A good time to remind people to be careful out there.
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@KarmaKontrol @marcportermagee Correlation, not causation. Women happen to gravitate to certain fields, but social sciences are inherently problematic and well, unscientific.
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Steve Faktor@ideafaktory
Part of our recent undoing is a dangerous equivocation of social science w/hard #science. They're distorting our perceptions & policies.
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Education research the least likely to replicate according to a huge new paper published by Nature
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I wrote about how we have moved from a modern culture to a postmodern culture, and why this has left us with a society saturated in absurdity.
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Gary, Indiana
Spencer Hakimian@SpencerHakimian
What Is The Cultural Capital Of The United States?
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If the communist Cuban government falls and is replaced by a democratic government with a market based economy, I predict that in a few years Democrats and their Leftist allies will hate Cuba and Cubans as much as they suddenly began to hate Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
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“This morning I’ve been at Madina Mosque and joined in prayers with everyone for Eid,” says Green MP Hannah Spencer.
Liberal white women are now actively promoting the most patriarchal, regressive, anti-feminist religion in history.
Astonishing, really. 🤯
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@Dudeabides36 @Rbonison @DogFacePonia @LedanoMary "Son, there is no draft"- SFC Hulka.
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@Oreallynow1 @DanielLMcAdams And yet you're still losing, fancy that
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It is astonishing how even US journalists can't seem to process that if you launch a sneak attack on another country you are the one in the wrong. You are the aggressor. They act as if the war just kinda happened. It did not. The US lulled them into a false sense of security with the talks for the sole purpose of launching a pre-determined attack.
Face The Nation@FaceTheNation
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the regime is not in a war of survival, telling @margbrennan the regime is “stable and strong enough.” “We don’t see any reason why we should talk with Americans, because we were talking with them when they decided to attack us, and that was for the second time,” Araghchi says.
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@ProfMJCleveland Does Greg @greg16676935420 know this?
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The panel is rumored to have picked Greg, who coincidentally is the obnoxious ayatollah nobody likes.
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Training/ programing/ asking AI to make moral judgements about humans may end up being not the best idea ever.
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BFD, we killed Hessians in their sleep on Christmas. We’re Americans, don’t fuck with us.
Jo@JoJoFromJerz
We just blew up an Iranian ship in international waters and left all of the survivors to drown. This is who we are now.
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse... A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill.
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There’s something viscerally pathetic about a man who’s this weak, who cringes away from battlefield victory and chides others for cheering on successes
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"This is why the establishment’s condemnation of the Iran strikes is so disproportionate to the event...They are recognizing, with alarm, what Trump is actually doing. The regime change Trump is attempting is not Iran’s. It is theirs".
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DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
Honored to have my first byline published by @theammind . For 40 years, the democracy-promotion establishment protected Khamenei while claiming to oppose him. When the strikes came, they dispatched the protest machine to protect the regime. Why? americanmind.org/salvo/the-fall…
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Honored to have my first byline published by @theammind .
For 40 years, the democracy-promotion establishment protected Khamenei while claiming to oppose him. When the strikes came, they dispatched the protest machine to protect the regime.
Why?
americanmind.org/salvo/the-fall…
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@infantrydort Ha! I think that is the take-away quote from the article. I also quoted it before I came across your post. You beat me to it by about four hours.
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"This is why the establishment’s condemnation of the Iran strikes is so disproportionate to the event. They are not mourning Khamenei. They are recognizing, with alarm, what Trump is actually doing. The regime change Trump is attempting is not Iran’s. It is theirs."
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DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
Honored to have my first byline published by @theammind . For 40 years, the democracy-promotion establishment protected Khamenei while claiming to oppose him. When the strikes came, they dispatched the protest machine to protect the regime. Why? americanmind.org/salvo/the-fall…
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I wrote a thing, if you have time please take a few moments to read it over and tell me what you think!
Junto@ReadJunto
The expert class engineered failure at home and abroad, then blamed American power itself. They were wrong every time. We are learning, right now, that America's power works as advertised. readjunto.com/p/wrong-about-…
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@CJGRISHAM As disgusting as most hate speech is, free speech is a foundation of our freedoms! If they control our speech they control us!
Hate speech MUST be protected!
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I had a hearing on a motion to quash the complaint today because it accused my client of disorderly conduct for "saying the n-word." I told the judge that "while saying Nancy Pelosi is indeed offensive, it's protected speech." I'm essentially forcing the State to say to which "n-word" exactly is he is referring. After all, the "victim" was a white woman!!! I also brought a bunch of DMX, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube records and read some of the titles while asking the state if I just committed a crime. The judge quashed the complaint but is allowing the state to amend it.
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