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Robert Pinnell

@Robpi3

Evolving into a Christian Minimalist. Less is greater than more. God found me. God is love. Tenth (10th) generation Patriot and US Navy Veteran.

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They say Donald Trump was sent by God, maybe that’s true. Perhaps he was sent to demonstrate how little integrity Republican politicians actually have. Marco is now attached to Trump’s behind like a barnacle. Good Friday Happy Spring Oval Office JD Vance
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Stonehenge U.K@ST0NEHENGE·
Stonehenge Spring Equinox Celebrations 🙏
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Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@ksorbs Violence taught and condoned by supposed democratic educators.
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GoldenAge
GoldenAge@GoldenAgeUnfold·
Does the spread of Islam ☪️ on earth concern you? A. Yes B. I don’t mind
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Rushi@rushicrypto·
If the last one was named “The Great” Depression, what’s this one going to be called?
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Robert Pinnell
Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@OwenGregorian Everyone who purchases a defensive handgun has thought about shooting someone. Maybe not for vengeance but risk, reward and beta testing, in this case modeling. is part of every decision.
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Owen Gregorian
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian·
19 Million Americans Have Thought About Shooting Someone | Ben Sullivan, ScienceBlog Key Takeaways - Over 19 million U.S. adults have seriously considered shooting someone, with 8.7 million doing so in the past year. - Most individuals who have these thoughts never act on them, showing a clear gap between ideation and action. - Key prevention factors include social conversations and access to firearms, highlighting the need for intervention. - The study found no link between gun ownership and violent thoughts, indicating potential risk extends beyond gun owners. - Demographics reveal that men, younger adults, and Black Americans report higher rates of homicidal ideation, with no significant political affiliation correlation. --- More than 19 million adults in the United States have, at some point in their lives, seriously thought about shooting another person. That is not a projection or a worst-case modelling exercise. It is the prevalence figure from a nationally representative survey of over 7,000 people, conducted in 2025 by researchers at the University of Michigan. Nineteen million. And in the past year alone, the number was closer to 8.7 million, or roughly one in every 30 adults. You might expect Brian Hicks to find this alarming. He does, in a way. But Hicks, a psychologist and professor of psychiatry at the U-M Medical School who led the study, also thinks the number opens a door. The research, published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the first serious attempts to characterise this population at a national scale: who they are, what they were thinking, and crucially, what happened next. Most of the time, nothing happened. The vast majority of people who have ever thought about shooting someone never acted on the thought and never will. That is perhaps not surprising. What is perhaps more useful is what the survey revealed about the moments when things might have gone differently, and what, if anything, was there to catch them. Prevention, it turns out, may hinge on two underappreciated things: conversation and proximity to a firearm. Among those who had thought of shooting someone, roughly one in five had told someone else about it. That might sound like a confession on the edge of catastrophe. In public health terms, it is something closer to an opportunity. In 21 states, so-called extreme risk protection orders, often called red flag laws, allow courts to temporarily remove firearms from people identified as being at high risk of harming themselves or others. If a friend, family member, or colleague hears something that frightens them, that legal mechanism exists precisely for moments like this. The catch is that it requires someone to act on what they heard. The firearm access question is similarly layered. About 8% of those with thoughts of shooting someone had, at some point, brought a gun to a specific location with the intention of using it. That figure corresponds to roughly 1.5 million people. But among respondents who had never owned a gun, about 21% said they had thought about acquiring one specifically to carry out their thoughts. That is a distinct population, and one that current interventions largely aren’t designed for; waiting periods and background checks, which have been shown to reduce impulsive violence, aren’t triggered until the point of purchase, which may be too late for some and, for others, is never reached at all. “While most people who have these thoughts don’t act on them,” Hicks said, “the number is so high that the small proportion who do act turns into tens of thousands of fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries each year.” The demographics of the group are consistent, in several ways, with what researchers already know about firearm violence more broadly. Men were considerably more likely than women to report having had these thoughts, as were younger people and those with lower household incomes. Black Americans were about twice as likely as white Americans to report thoughts of shooting someone, a disparity the researchers link to the well-documented disparity in homicide victimisation: Black Americans are six times more likely than white Americans to be killed by a gun. Living in a city and living in the Midwest were also associated with elevated rates. What the survey did not find was perhaps equally notable. Gun owners were no more likely than non-owners to have had these thoughts. Nor did political affiliation show any significant relationship. Republicans, Democrats, and independents reported similar rates of homicidal ideation. The intuition that such thoughts belong to one group or another doesn’t hold up under scrutiny; they’re distributed more broadly than most people assume. The targets people had in mind were revealing. About half named an enemy, meaning someone with whom they had a pre-existing conflict. About a quarter named a stranger. Fourteen percent named a government official or employee, a figure that Hicks and his co-author, Mark Ilgen, describe as consistent with patterns of politically motivated violence. Family members, current and former romantic partners, coworkers, and classmates all appeared further down the list. The survey is part of a larger ongoing project called the National Firearms, Alcohol, Cannabis, and Suicide Survey, which will eventually examine how mental health, substance use, and other factors interact with firearm behaviour. This first paper is deliberately descriptive: here is the shape of the problem, here is who it affects, here are the points where something might be done. Future analyses may sharpen those points considerably. The sobering implication is that homicidal ideation sits somewhere on a continuum with homicidal action, and the distance between them isn’t fixed. It probably varies by access to a weapon, by the quality of social connections, by whether anyone asked the right question at the right time. What the University of Michigan study adds, for the first time at this scale, is a clearer sense of where people are on that continuum and what might move them, or stop them, from travelling further along it. Read more: scienceblog.com/19-million-ame…
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Robert Pinnell
Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@Simon_Ingari And this is how I lived in 7 states jumping from 10%-50% raises every 5 years. Company loyalty doesn't exist at any level.
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Simons@Simon_Ingari·
Employee: I’m resigning. Manager: Why, Simon? Is there a problem? Employee: No, I just received an offer from another company. Manager: Simon, you are young. At this age, you need to decide whether you want to jump from one company to another for a 5–10% hike or stay loyal to one, like I have for 12 years, and earn respect. In the long term, respect is more important than money. Employee: Boss, it’s a 45% hike. Manager: (Confused) Employee: And a 5-day workweek instead of 6. Manager: (Shocked) Employee: I’ll send my resignation notice via email. Simon gets up to leave. As soon as he opens the door, he hears a voice and turns around… Manager: Simon, all the best in your new job. I’m proud of you. Here’s a copy of my résumé—I heard there’s an opening. Kindly refer me.
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Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@Judster64 @EricSpracklen Still upset over mean tweets? Grow up and look at who is trying to stop him. They are the enemy of the US citizens. They are the lifer politicians that only care about themselves.@DNC @GOP
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AMfirstRN@Judster64·
Fox News staff are puppets for Trump. It’s very clear to viewers. They lie and make light of his stupid remarks where he downgrades people and embarrasses them. Fox News: “ oh that’s just how Trump is, ha ha ha” How they sleep at night lying to their viewers is beyond me. I’ve boycotted them.
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Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸@EricSpracklen·
The Fox News graphic merging the American and Israeli flag is absolutely disgusting to me.
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Nick shirley
Nick shirley@nickshirleyy·
If a politician gets mad about fraud being exposed They aren’t working for you, they are working against you That is all you need to know about them
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Robert Pinnell
Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@OwenGregorian The fact that he said we are more likely to have a nuke launched against us today is a little unnerving.
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Owen Gregorian
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian·
Former Air Force missile officer claims UFOs disabled nuclear arsenal at Montana base during Cold War | Richard Pollina, New York Post A retired US Air Force launch officer claims UFOs disabled multiple nuclear missiles when they appeared around the Montana base where he was stationed decades ago. Robert Salas claims a mysterious force paralyzed the military’s ability to control 10 Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967, the 85-year-old veteran said on the Danny Jones Podcast Saturday. Salas — whose job was to launch and monitor nuclear missiles “if given the order” during the Cold War — and his partner were at the controls underground around 10 p.m. on March 24 of that year when panicked guards called from above about another unidentified craft. “The main guard calls down, says, ‘Sir, we’ve been seeing some strange lights in the sky, flying directly overhead,’” Salas said. Salas said guards insisted the crafts weren’t Soviet airplanes, pointing to bizarre lights as they zipped through the sky before suddenly stopping over the underground ICBMs. He initially brushed off the report, thinking it was a prank — but five minutes later, the guard called back, “screaming into the phone.” “He’s yelling. He’s babbling. He’s frightened,” Salas recalled. After calming down, the guard told Salas his men had their weapons pointed at the crafts hovering above the base’s front gate, emitting a “pulsating reddish light.” Salas said the panicked guard asked what to do next, and he told him, “Do whatever you have to do.” The guard then said one of his men had just “got injured” before hanging up. Salas said he then went to wake his partner, who was resting, when “all of a sudden” a loud horn sounded at the controls, signaling something was wrong with the missiles. “We looked at the board, and sure enough, one of them went from green to red. No ability to launch,” Salas said. “Then, very quickly thereafter, bing bing bing bing, all 10 of them went down. They all went red.” They jumped up and ran through their checklist, then realized two launch facilities miles away were showing that “someone or something” may have breached the fenced missile area. Salas said he immediately sent guards out to the missile silos, and when they were about a mile away, they saw the lights hovering above the launch areas. “They were scared to death,” he said. “They didn’t want to go any further. They were so frightened of these things.” Salas said he later heard the injured guard may have hurt his hand while clearing a jam in his rifle or cut it on barbed wire during the encounter. He also learned guards claimed to have seen the crafts in the area in the days before the encounter, with movements that could reverse direction, snap into sharp 90-degree turns and fly in total silence. The former nuclear missile officer said a Boeing-led investigation could not determine what shut down the warheads, adding the systems were designed to prevent jamming. “They had no idea how this signal could have been injected into each of the missiles,” he said. “The cabling system that we had was triply shielded against electromagnetic interference from the outside.” Salas said he’s convinced that intelligent non-human civilizations visited Earth to prevent a nuclear war. “It’s another civilization out there that is visiting us and are concerned about us destroying this planet through nuclear war, for many reasons, probably some we don’t even understand,” he said. Air Force investigators forced Salas and his commander to sign strict gag orders following the encounter, warning they could face prison time if they ever spoke about it. He ultimately went public decades later after reading about a similar incident in a UFO book and concluding the information had already been exposed. nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-…
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Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@OwenGregorian If I see one roaming the streets because police officers are prone to human error then the challenge to destroy will be on.
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Owen Gregorian
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian·
Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers | Jake Angelo, Fortune It’s a scene straight out of a science fiction show: robot dogs. Think K9 from the sci-fi series Doctor Who, or Goddard from the cartoon Jimmy Neutron. Now, robot dogs are standing guard for tech companies, patrolling the massive data centers across the country that power AI operations, according to Business Insider. These four-legged robots, known as quadrupeds, are in high demand from AI firms, according to robotics company Boston Dynamics, which manufactures a quadruped called Spot. These systems are able to navigate complex landscapes on their own, alert authorities about security threats, and can provide around-the-clock video surveillance. “We’ve seen a huge, huge uptick in interest from data centers in the last year,” Merry Frayne, senior director of product management at Boston Dynamics, told Business Insider, “which is probably not surprising given the investment in that space.” Companies are pouring nearly $700 billion into the AI infrastructure buildout, a sum that rivals the GDP of developed countries like Sweden. And some data centers are the size of multiple football fields. One data center—Meta’s Hyperion—will sprawl out to about four times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park. Aside from requiring loads of energy and millions of gallons of water, the vast size of the data centers means the cost of security to protect their around-the-clock operations is inspiring some firms to look to alternative security resources. According to Frayne, Spot’s pricing ranges from $175,000 to $300,000, depending on their client’s needs. But despite that high price, the company estimates that the quadrupeds would compensate for their cost within two years. The robot dogs are actually capable of doing more than just perimeter patrol. Frayne told Business Insider data center customers are looking for the quadrupeds to conduct industrial inspection, site mapping, and construction monitoring. These tasks could help facility managers to more easily detect hazards, such as puddles or leaks. Boston Dynamics says Spot has “360° perception and athletic intelligence.” Quadrupeds like Spot have actually existed for some time now, assuming roles in public safety and law enforcement. Another robotics company—Ghost Robotics—advertises quadrupeds as a business solution for construction sites to streamline inspections and enhance safety monitoring. The company also advertises the robots for reconnaissance, intelligence, and surveillance use by the military. Forget the age of AI—the dawn of the robotics era Some tech leaders predict the AI revolution could usher in a new era of robotics, with some predicting they’ll soon outnumber humans. The current state of robotics is a bit far off from that reality. A Deloitte research report titled “AI for industrial robotics, humanoid robots, and drones” found that annual sales of new industrial robots have remained flat since 2021, at roughly 500,000 units. But their longer-term projection suggests massive growth in the future, with robot shipments doubling to 1 million by 2030 and revenues of $21 billion. That prediction jumps to $5 trillion by 2050. In a recent interview with Fortune, Zak Kidd, founder of AI company AskHumans—which has been used by organizations like the World Bank and Fidelity—said that while AI threatens white-collar work, robots could one day poach jobs that require physical labor. “I see AI as an augmentation of knowledge work,” he said. “But I see robotics, humanoid robotics, as a replacement for manual work.” fortune.com/2026/03/17/rob…
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Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@nondescriptive_ @dbongino Both are criminals.The only difference is the rupublicans are trying to remove 20,000,000 aliens and foreign nationals which would help gen z and Gen A get housing.
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Taarna Taarakian
Taarna Taarakian@nondescriptive_·
“DEMOCRATS” … Says “loyalist” who can’t stand accountability. You realize the same beast fund’s both sides, then tells you to hate the other, WHILE WORKING TOGETHER… Ask yourself why legacy media doesn’t make fun, or lie about the administration anymore. Why doesn’t either side accomplish anything? Silent crickets… Know this, when my president I voted for, isn’t President… The boarder will be back in business, because Congress isn’t “fixing” immigration laws. It’s all temporary, because they’re busy working for a foreign government, not the American people.
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Dan Bongino
Dan Bongino@dbongino·
Incredibly sad news.
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Robert Pinnell@Robpi3·
@C_3C_3 Impoverish and Imprison unless we can do a week in stocks in the public square.
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C3
C3@C_3C_3·
Meet Dr. Erica Pan. She’s Newsom’s appointed Director and State Public Health Officer of the California Department of Public Health. Paid $311,000 per year. Her job… Oversee hospice centers. License them. Certify them. Inspect them. Best case scenario Erica is incompetent.
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Ghost of Foxtrot@TheDogsInYou·
@EROSeattle Previously served jail time, for raping children... Invaded to rape our nation's children and is still around, why?
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ICE Seattle
ICE Seattle@EROSeattle·
CHILD RAPIST DETAINED ICE Seattle took custody of Miguel Angel Valenzuela Gonzales, a criminal alien from Mexico after he was released from federal prison. He was recently convicted for illegal reentry & previously served jail time for first-degree rape of a child in Washington.
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