@Oilfield_Rando The problem is true midnight basketball has never been tried.
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TheRuminator
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TheRuminator
@Ruminator1000
I probably spend too much time ruminating.
Katılım Aralık 2024
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What’s the solution here?
More “programs”? Counseling? A hug?
Katelyn Caralle@Katelyn_Caralle
Bystanders (including young children) get cornered as teens break out into a violent altercation at the Navy Yard Chipotle in SE Washington, DC.
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People completely miss the most important thing about Tesla FSD
It’s not just about convenience. It’s not a "cool self-parking trick."
It’s about the fact that car crashes are the #1 killer of healthy people aged 5-29 globally and one company has gathered over 10 billion miles of real-world data to actually solve it
Look at the recent data: Tesla just became the FIRST vehicle to pass NHTSA's new ADAS safety tests. Not the first EV. The first vehicle. Period.
The reality is harsh but simple. Countries that approve FSD get safer roads overnight. Countries that delay will literally watch their citizens die in preventable crashes while bureaucrats sit in meeting rooms debating "safety."
The "safety" argument against FSD is officially dead
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How much of the Woke madness that we have seen from Hollywood was driven by California state policies?
"Productions receiving credits under this program are required to set ethnic, racial, and gender diversity goals and to develop a plan to achieve those diversity goals."
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When they die, these books will be thrown in the trash by their Haitian caretaker and no one will ever remember they existed
INTERIOR PORN@INTERIORPORN1
OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭
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An assault doesn't require physical contact, only the threat of contact. That the attacker continued the assault to the point of physical contact even after Chud produced his gun proves the attacker was serious about trying to hurt Chud.
That said Chud is "unlikeable" and so will probably lose.
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“Based on surveillance video, this never turned physical until Eatherly pulled out his gun.”
I have a feeling we’ll be seeing that video soon, and a lot of people screaming “FREE CHUD” are going to move the goalposts.
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I'm a white American male citizen who has been disadvantaged relative to both American minorities and non-citizens in every of the several decades of my life.
I have for my entire life been systemically and governmentally disadvantaged in academic placement, in corporate hiring, in governmental contracting, in mortgage eligibility, indeed in every facet of American society, solely because of my race and my gender.
And there are millions upon millions of other white American males--literally the creators of everything of value in Western civilization--who have been and continue to be systemically discriminated against for exactly the same racist reasons.
And we see you. And we're done with it.
You, sir, can simply go fuck yourself.
Dr Terry Simpson@drterrysimpson
What a strange little performance this is. A man who likely benefited his entire life from invisible networks of class, education, geography, culture, and social familiarity suddenly discovers an almost priestly devotion to “pure objectivity” the instant diversity enters the conversation. You people speak of the MCAT the way medieval clergy spoke of holy relics — as though a standardized exam has descended from Sinai untouched by wealth, coaching, privilege, educational inequality, or institutional advantage. And the truly comic part is watching grown adults scream “racism” because medical schools dare consider that physicians might need qualities beyond competitive bubble-sheet filling. Medicine is practiced on terrified human beings, not on Scantrons. But outrage merchants cannot survive nuance. Their business model requires panic, caricature, and the perpetual fantasy that society was once a flawless meritocracy until minorities arrived to spoil the arithmetic.
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@TheRabbitHole I did something similar with Google Ngram.
Then I added "revolution" to the mix.
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@ignisanimae @dorkburger84 @spqr_sulla I spent a little time learning about the subject of cave diving after several fatalities in the area including Eagle’s Nest Sink.
Cave diving seems to me to be more dangerous than parachuting or rock climbing.
I'm sure you're familiar with this sign.
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@dorkburger84 @spqr_sulla You'd need more than that, you need open water, OW advanced, rescue and for caves it's like 3 more I think cavern cert, intro to caves and full cave diver cert - it's scary what some instructors allow or were these people alone? It's so weird
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Will never not be unsettling that after a certain depth you no longer float up but begin sinking.
New York Post@nypost
5 dead in 160-foot Maldives scuba dive - worst diving accident nation has ever seen trib.al/CgL7v4Q
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@megbasham That’s what happens when you prioritize nonsense over actual life threatening crimes. Your own police force becomes an accomplice to your murder.
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DEI has led to a dual competency crisis. On the one hand, untalented morons given educations beyond their intellects and positions beyond their abilities, who will be a curse on their professions for decades to come. On the other, talented young white men denied such training and opportunity, who did not and will not develop the skills they could have.
Some of those left by the wayside have overcome, to some degree, their oppression. They've succeeded, in some measure. Others will in the future. Many did not and will not. Their spirits were crushed, and in the depths of despair they were destroyed by the bad habits they developed to cope. Like red Indians stuffed onto reservations with all the firewater they could drink.
What was done under DEI was a crime of historic proportions against our entire society. We'll all pay the price in the form of technology that was never invented, art that was never made, children that were never born.
Even if we staunch the bleeding now - and we are far from doing so - the damage has already been done. AI will not fix it. The best we can hope for is to limit the damage, and get revenge.
Fugitive Caesar@ThomBrady5
I don't think this is true in one important respect, which is success is often a YES//NO binary which plateaus. The real problem of DEI suppressing talented white men is a lot of prodigies were crushed and will remain locked into downward mobility even after fairness resumes.
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Here you go randy. A Portland jury affirmed a self defense claim from a black male that stabbed a White male who used the N word after being stabbed.
The aggressor successfully filed a self defense claim because of a slur that happened after the stabbing.
Randy@scruffy_rb
Can you find me a single example over the last 60 years of a black person, or any person in general, who actually thinks it is LEGALLY justifiable to KILL someone over that word? I really do not understand why we’re allowing conservatives to take part in public discourse at this point. They’re all either evil or stupid.
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Civil Rights was a white-on-white civil war where the Northeast Acela Corridor used balkanized racial anarchotyranny to persecute and break rival power centers across the country. It was a way for the managerial caste to engage in class warfare with plausible deniability.
𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (Golden Age Arc)@myth_pilot
You have to understand that virtually all of American government including the legal system was restructured in the decades following the 60s with the singular goal of avoiding making black people mad. All the gibs, the crackdowns on whites, the baby-soft legal treatment in the judicial system, the EEOC discrimination regime that lets them sue their employers over slights, the 24/7 wall to wall pro black propaganda in the schools and on TV. All of it with the singular goal of appeasing blacks lest they riot. I support Chud the Builder 100% but unfortunately he’s touched an electrified load bearing pillar of the post war legal order in America and that does not bode well for him. I hope he gets the best lawyer that money can buy.
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scott cummings was an academic involved in community organizing. in the late 70's he arrives at a place in texas he calls "Rosedale," which is experiencing the exact same process of demographic transformation as dozens of other cities in america at the time.
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During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs.
Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes.
FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated.
I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy.
But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay.
First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories.
Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living.
Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment.
I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.
Amy Nixon@texasrunnerDFW
We basically did NINJA loans again but this time with non-US citizens Many homebuilders, such as Bloomfield Homes in Celina, TX offered access to FHA loans for H-1B visa holders through their preferred lenders until May of 2025, when Trump had HUD shut these lending practices down Some of these FHA loans offered 100% financing through a combination of a standard FHA loan and access to State assisted first time homebuyer grants for the 3% downpayment Yes, you read that correctly, your tax dollars funded home-buying grants for non-US Citizens during the Biden administration Is it just a coincidence that home prices began falling at a rapid pace in Celina, TX almost immediately after Trump shut this program down? How many people bought a brand new home with zero money down at peak 2022-2024 pricing? You won’t see an impact at a national level, but you WILL see it in certain markets with a lot of H-1B tech workers and new construction
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So, it turns out that it was an Indian truck driver, sorry, I mean shipping technical superintendent, who took out the Baltimore bridge.
Radhakrishnan Karthik Nair & 2 companies have been criminally charged for making 2 unsafe modifications that caused the ship to lose
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gCaptain@gCaptain
DOJ has indicted the foreign operators and technical superintendent of the M/V Dali over the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge that killed six construction workers. Prosecutors allege unsafe vessel modifications, failed redundancies, and a cover-up tied to the blackouts that left the containership without propulsion before impact.
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This is the first of a five-article series examining what @DataRepublican revealed in her recent piece, “The Shadow Cabinet of Soros.”
Soros-linked donors have built a “plug-and-play” network of national security professionals that can be inserted into key government positions almost overnight when Democrats regain the White House. When out of power, the same group forms part of the organized resistance.
This is why the Biden administration often felt like Obama 2.0. Within hours of Biden taking office, veterans from this network filled many of the most important national security roles. Congress confirmed the majority of them with little to no resistance. It wasn’t Obama 2.0, it was the National Security Action network picking up right where it left off, without missing a beat.
@DataRepublican did the deep research. In this series, I will show you why it matters from an operational perspective: how the network functions, what its strengths and weaknesses are, and how it can be countered.
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Eric Schwalm@Schwalm5132
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@SamaHoole @OzLutheranChick I consider that fat essential for making great gravy or even for toasting taco seasoning with a touch of flour to be recombined with the browned meat.
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@OzLutheranChick That's the proper move. The drained fat was the best part of the pan, and a generation poured it down the sink.
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There was a time, not that long ago, when 70/30 ground beef was the standard cut at every butcher counter.
Not the premium. Not the specialty. The standard. The default the butcher handed you when you said "a pound please" without specifying further. Thirty percent fat by weight, because that is the ratio at which ground beef actually tastes like beef, holds together on a grill, drips through the grates onto charcoal and smokes the patty from below, and feeds a family of five for what a coffee costs today.
The Sunday burgers depended on it. The Wednesday meatloaf. The Friday chili that simmered all afternoon and tasted better the next day. The neighborhood cookout where dads stood around the grill with a beer and a spatula and a sense of purpose. A whole summer rotated through 70/30, and nobody got fat, and nobody had heart attacks at fifty-two, and nobody asked the butcher whether it was lean.
He wouldn't have understood the question. Lean was for the dog.
Then 1977 happened. The McGovern Report came in. The food pyramid followed. "Extra lean" appeared as a category. The default crept down.
70/30 became hard to find. 80/20 quietly replaced it. The children grew up not knowing it had been anything else. Then 80/20 started disappearing. 85/15. 90/10. 93/7 marketed as "extra lean" with a heart-check logo and a markup. Ground turkey next to it, beige and apologetic, the color of a hospital wall.
Now the floor at most supermarkets is 90/10 and the ceiling is whatever the butcher will grind for you if you smile and ask. 80/20 has been quietly reframed as "the fatty option." The upscale grocer's butcher will warn you about 70/30 with a small chuckle, as if you'd asked for arsenic and he had a duty of care.
You have asked for the cut your great-grandfather grilled in the backyard after he came home from the war. He has been trained to advise you against it.
So. Plainly.
Find the 70/30 where you can. Local butchers will grind it on request. Farm stands will do it. The good neighborhood carnicerias often have it as their default, because their customers actually cook. If you find a place that sells it, tell them you'll be back, and be back.
Where 70/30 isn't available, use 80/20 as the floor. Not the ceiling. The floor. Anything leaner has been engineered for a market that has been quietly turned against the food it was built to eat.
Your great-grandfather crossed an ocean for a country he had never seen and ate 70/30 in the same year.
You can ask for it at the counter.
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🚨ARTICLE: The Shadow Cabinet of Soros🚨
This is the story of National Security Action, a secretive Soros NGO.
Ten days after Trump's inauguration, a former Pentagon official publicly floated a military coup in Foreign Policy magazine. Within a year, she was advising a new Soros-funded organization that quietly assembled 70 former Obama national security officials under one roof.
46 of them went on to staff the Biden administration -- including the Secretary of State, CIA Director, DNI, NSA, and UN Ambassador. 88.6% were Obama alumni. The primary funder: the Open Society Action Fund.
The same woman simultaneously sat on the funder's board and the organization's advisory council. She also co-founded the Transition Integrity Project and spent 14 years at New America developing doctrine on military refusal of orders.
Read it here.
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
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@davethul The only thing better than being born an American in The United States to have given birth to the United States itself.
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Not a single person in this photo was born in the United States of America.
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
Not a single person in this photo is named: “Wajahat Ali”
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