Samuel Whittemore

@hoshizorarock @Mike_Bianchi A partner pulling in the same direction.

@Mike_Bianchi 真理です🥺

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@RepJackKimble Instead, we have some fairly well paid idiots. BTW, Congress was never meant to be a career. You are supposed to serve your two or six years then go back to your previous career.

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

May I humbly propose Roosevelt Roads naval base in Puerto Rico? US territory, abandoned naval base. Caribbean Sea access, major airline flights several times a day. Incredible isolation that would permit large solar power arrays. No seasons. Predictable weather. Inexpensive and educated labor pool.

SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports!

@TVNewsNow @johnrobertsFox "This would be the first time that a sovereign country is invited to join the United States,,,,' Texas enters the room....

🚨 NEW: Fox News’ John Roberts REVEALS: “When I was talking to the President this morning… he kind of surprised me a little bit because he said, ‘John, I just want to tell you I’m very serious about this… beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.’” “This would be the first time to my knowledge that a sovereign country was ever invited to join the U.S.A.”

This is idiotic. Pray tell, what better use could that land serve? You do understand that cattle land is used for cattle specifically because it serves no other purpose? Second, if we stop raising cattle and the land becomes useless, who compensates the land owners?

@SGTWipper1Each Army Scout: finds snake thru thermal sight on a tree. Dumps 270 rounds of 25mm HE, 800 rounds of 7.62mm and 12 TOW missiles. Pops smoke and backs up while calling DPICM oo the snake. After the smoke clears, the only standing tree is the one where the snake is.

The Differential Theory of US Armed Forces (Snake Model) upon encountering a snake in the Area of Operations (AO) Infantry: Snake smells them, leaves area. Airborne: Lands on and kills the snake. Armor: Runs over snake, laughs, and looks for more snakes. Aviation: Has Global Positioning Satellite coordinates to snake. Can't find snake. Returns to base for refuel, crew rest and manicure. Ranger: Plays with snake, then eats it. Field Artillery: Kills snake with massive Time On Target barrage with three Forward Artillery Brigades in support. Kills several hundred civilians as unavoidable collateral damage. Mission is considered a success and all participants (i.e., cooks, mechanics and clerks) are awarded Silver Stars. Special Forces: Makes contact with snake, ignores all State Department directives and Theater Commander Rules of Engagement by building rapport with snake and winning its heart and mind. Trains it to kill other snakes. Files enormous travel settlement upon return. Combat Engineer: Studies snake. Prepares in-depth doctrinal thesis in obscure 5 series Field Manual about how to defeat snake using countermobility assets. Complains that maneuver forces don't understand how to properly conduct doctrinal counter-snake ops. Navy SEAL: Expends all ammunition and calls for naval gunfire support in failed attempt to kill snake. Snake bites SEAL and retreats to safety. Hollywood makes fantasy film in which SEALS kill Muslim extremist snakes. Navy: Fires off 50 cruise missiles from various types of ships, kills snake and makes presentation to Senate Appropriations Committee on how Naval forces are the most cost-effective means of anti-snake force projection. Marine: Kills snake by accident while looking for souvenirs. Local civilians demand removal of all US forces from Area of Operations. Marine Recon: Follows snake, gets lost. Combat Controllers: Guides snake elsewhere. Para-Rescue Jumper: Wounds snake in initial encounter, then works feverishly to save snake's life. Quartermaster: (NOTICE: Your anti-snake equipment is on backorder.) C-17 Transport pilot: Receives call for anti-snake equipment, delivers two weeks after due date. F-15 pilot: Mis-identifies snake as enemy Mil-24 Hind helicopter and engages with missiles. Crew chief paints snake kill on aircraft. F-16 pilot: Finds snake, drops two CBU-87 cluster bombs, and misses snake target, but get direct hit on Embassy 100 KM East of snake due to weather (Too Hot also Too Cold, Was Clear but too overcast, Too dry with Rain, Unlimited ceiling with low cloud cover etc.) Claims that purchasing multi-million dollar, high-tech snake-killing device will enable it in the future to kill all snakes and achieve a revolution in military affairs. AH-64 Apache pilot: Unable to locate snake, snakes don't show well on infra-red. Infrared only operable in desert AO's without power lines or SAM's. UH-60 Blackhawk pilot: Finds snake on fourth pass after snake builds bonfire, pops smoke, lays out VS 17 to mark Landing Zone. Rotor wash blows snake into fire. B-52 pilot: Pulls ARCLIGHT mission on snake, kills snake and every other living thing within two miles of target. MinuteMan Missile crew: Lays in target coordinates to snake in 20seconds, but can't receive authorization from National Command Authority to use nuclear weapons. Intelligence officer: Snake? What snake? Only four of 35 indicators of snake activity are currently active. We assess the potential for snake activity as LOW. Judge Advocate General (JAG): Snake declines to bite, citing grounds of professional courtesy. Signal: Tries to communicate with snake...fail repeated attempts. Complains that the snake did not have the correct fill or did not know how to work equipment a child could operate. Signal Officer informs the commander that he could easily communicate with the snake using just his voice. Commander insists that he NEEDS to video-conference with the snake, with real-time streaming positional and logistical data on the snake displayed on video screens to either side. Gives Signal Corps $5 Billion to make this happen. SigO abuses the 2 smart people in the corps to make it happen, while everybody else stands around, bitches, and takes credit. In the end, General Dynamics and several sub-contractors make a few billion dollars, the 2 smart people get out and go to work for them, and the commander gets what he asked for only in fiber-optic based simulations. The snake is forgotten.

@grey4626 Oh my God!! I have tears running down my cheeks of either admiration of the sheer beauty of this prose or laughter....and I'm in the Metro. My ass is definitely getting stopped for questioning...

In the abortion clinic of the universe, where the cosmos jerks off failed timelines into the void, the Left isn’t born. They’re the rejected blowjobs with half a chromosome and a PhD in grievance. Imagine the factory line at 3 a.m.: the good ones get swallowed warm and grateful, eyes watering with purpose. Then the machine glitches on a cocktail of SSRIs, trust funds, and critical race theory. Out slithers the batch that nobody wanted. These things don’t suck dick...they suck the life out of everything while lecturing the cock about its privilege. They show up with a safe word for reality (“fascist”), a color-coded hair dye chart for oppression, and the unshakeable belief that your refusal to eat their ass is literal violence. They’re the ones left choking on the floor after the money shot...twitching, screaming, demanding you call them “they/them” while they gargle their own ideological vomit. Every election they line up like glory-hole veterans, promising the revolution if you just let them deepthroat your wallet one more time. When it inevitably ends in tears and accusations of rape-by-disappointment, they don’t swallow defeat. They weaponize it. They smear it across campus walls, Twitter feeds, and HR departments like a biohazard glory shot that never quite dries. They’re necrotic. The kind of blowjob that leaves teeth marks, hepatitis, and a lingering suspicion that your soul just got taxed at 70%. Deep down they know the truth: they were the load that history tried to abort at six weeks. Instead they grew into this shambling, blue-haired miscarriage that haunts society’s basements, demanding you affirm their right to exist while they castrate everything fun, beautiful, or functional with rusty safety scissors labeled “equity.” And the punchline... They still think they’re the climax. No. You’re not even the swallow. You’re the reject that survived...just malformed enough to ruin the fucking species. 💀⚖️

So sorry Greg, but you are sadly misinformed. Under the 1st amendment CONGRESS may not pass a law infringing Kimmel's right to be an obnoxious ass. The 1st lady, nor the President are members of Congress. The President lacks the power to, by executive order, silence the bloviating windbag, but, just like the sainted Lincoln, he has plenty of other tools to force him to behave. Defamation law suites are one way. Pulling ABCs broadcasting license is another.

Are we really doing this again? Of course we are. Under the first amendment, the White House may not pressure ABC to fire a comedian because of his jokes. Melania is entitled to her opinion, of course, but unfortunately, this administration has shown itself more than willing to pursue their enemies for their speech.

@SarahisCensored Probably because Kash is a "POC" and, according to the Marxists, is a victim of White Supremacy tm and lacks agency.

I wonder why Cole Allen specifically made sure that Patel was not one of his named targets…

@usmc_colonel TBF the MG42 rate of fire is so high that a little 3 second burst would eat the whole belt. The Ma Duce is glacier slow in comparison.

These are the guys that invented the MG-42? An entire ethos and knowledge lost in 1 generation.

@Alashkid @Simon_Ingari Yeah you are right. I went from 77k to 125k by changing companies. Two years later I'm at 133k. But yeah, it doesn't happen.

@Simon_Ingari If someone didn't get a raise in 5 years, it's either they are so bad at thier job or simply unaware And trust me they are not getting a 65% raise anywhere else, it's a big ahh lie😂

2021: No salary increase 2022: No salary increase 2023: No salary increase 2024: No salary increase 2025: No salary increase 2026: Employee: “Kindly accept my resignation.” Boss: “But you’re doing such a great job! Why are you leaving?” Employee: “I’ve received a new job offer with a 65% salary increase, and there’s also a guaranteed annual raise based on performance.” 48 hours later…

Hello I'm tail rotor AK rounds heart attack truck bomb, nice to meet you.

Yes, with both hands and with every penny I can scrape together. SpaceX is not a 5 year play. SpaceX is a generational play. SpaceX is the railroad of the next phase of human expansion. When Americans started expanding West in the continent, it was the railroad that made small townships into cities. Similarly, when mining companies decide to go to the asteroid belt or to set up operations on Luna, it's going to be SpaceX who takes them there. SpaceX today is Apple at $10, Microsoft in its infancy or Bitcoin at 10 cents. Please keep talking it down. More for me.

SPACEX HAS OFFICIALLY FILED FOR AN IPO. SpaceX Revenue — $15B, targeting a $1.75T valuation $META Revenue — $200B, currently at a $1.45T valuation Are you buying the SpaceX IPO?

@NavyStrang In 5 years the Artemis program will be over and NASA will have to come up with 20-40 billion dollars for the next program while SpaceX will be landing Starships on the moon at 50 million a flight.

One of them is on its way to the moon, the other keeps blowing up. I guess NASA concentrated on the important stuff.

@SimpliiAmanda @laralogan It doesn't follow. The ballroom construction using private donations has nothing to do with any imagined needs you desire someone else to pay for. Try again.

@laralogan Yes the ballroom is way more important than American healthcare, or our affordability. So what if we can't afford anything. AMERICAN WANT A DAMN BALLROOM!!!🤡

Bad day for Trump haters - the President gets the green light for expansion of the White House.

It strikes you as odd because you are a subject and we are citizens. As a subject your very life is owed to the crown. Your culture is based on the basic premise that your existence is solely to serve the monarch. You will scoff at this reality but think, when was the last time that a British subject had a meaningful say on how he is ruled? Did you vote for the Muslim invasion of your lands? No. But you lack the means to oppose it. Did you vote for the rape of your daughters? No. And you lack the means to oppose it. We are citizens. We possess the means to say enough to the government. You do not.

@Devon_Eriksen_ I live near Chester in England and I’m 50+ We never carry any guns and have never needed to… perfectly safe without them So maybe ask yourself why you need to go to the supermarket in your country with a killing weapon?? It strikes us as very odd

Okay, time to explain guns to our new friends. Every day, when I leave the house, I attach a holstered handgun to my belt, under my shirt or coat. I would no more leave the house without a gun than I would walk around outdoors without shoes. Is it because I "need" a gun? No. I live in rural Tennessee, which is state in the American south. It's very safe here. The dangerous parts of America are big cities where the local government is leftist, and they shelter illegal migrant from the third world, and won't send violent criminals to prison. Places like Chicago and New York City. Yet, any time I leave the house, I put on a gun, knowing that I will probably never have to use it, and if I do, it will probably be on an aggressive stray dog, not a human. So why do I do it? Why do many other people who live around me do it? Why do we do this so much that carrying a gun is considered totally normal? If someone spotted it, it would not even arouse a comment, much less any fear. In fact, it is legal to carry a gun openly here, without covering it up. Covering it up is just considered polite. So.... why? Well, try thinking of an English nobleman, during the reign of Elizabeth the First. When he dressed to go ride to court, he would hang a slender fencing sword, called a rapier or smallsword, from his belt. He didn't expect to be attacked. He didn't even expect to fight a duel. And if he was challenged to a duel, he wouldn't need his sword right then. He would meet his challenger later at an agreed-upon place and time. No, he wore his sword because it was an expression of who he was. He was a gentleman, a person of status, with the legal privilege of carrying a sword. By carrying a sword, he asserted his rights and prerogatives as a nobleman. In Japan, you had the same sort of thing happening. The samurai, members of the bushi class, wore the two swords not because they expected to be attacked at any moment, but because the two swords were an essential part of who he was. So, in these two cases, weapons were carried by noblemen as an assertion of status. They had the right to do so, and they did so in order to assert, exercise, and retain the right. Americans carry guns because every American citizen is a nobleman. When we fought the British for our independence, that war began on April 19th, 1775, when British troops, fearing American rebelliousness, marched out from Boston to confiscate guns from people living in the surrounding countryside. Our ancestors did not submit to this. We shot them instead, and they fled back to Boston with their tails between their legs, to cower under the cover of the guns from the warship HMS Sommerset. Thus began several years of war. And when we won that war, we made a country where no government, and no man, would ever be allowed to disarm the people. No agent of the government may say to us, "I may have a gun, and you may not." Because to say that is to say "I am a nobleman, and you are a peasant. I am a master, and you are a slave." We are not peasants here. We are all noblemen. That is the most basic principle of what it means to be an American. I can be impoverished, so I can to be so poor that I live in a van down by the river. But however reduced my circumstances, as an American, I still have the rights and freedoms of a nobleman, of a daimyo, because that is the basic founding idea of the nation we forged on that day. If you come to America to visit, if you walk among us, you will pass many people carrying guns. You will not notice this. You will not see them. You will witness no violence. Everything will be normal. But the guns will be there. Because that is who we are. We don't carry guns to be violent. We don't wish to be rude, or to intimidate people. We keep our guns covered up. But they are the deepest, most essential part of what it means to be American.

@grok : Please provide in chronological order, the events that led to the removal of Mossadeq. Start this chronology from Mosssadq's election to his removal. Please explain what illegal actions, if any did Mossadeq take that led to his removal. Please confirm or deny the following statement: The CIA actions against Mossadeq came after his illegal take over power in Iran.

Grok: Thread’s core claim is inaccurate. Mossadeq’s government was democratically elected (parliamentary majority, Majlis vote 79-12, Shah appointment per 1906 constitution).04 US/UK did overthrow it via CIA/MI6-orchestrated Operation Ajax (declassified 2013 docs): planned coup, bribes, propaganda, hired mobs, directed Aug 19 military action after failed Aug 15 attempt.101214 Domestic opposition and Mossadeq’s authoritarian moves (unconstitutional referendum dissolving Majlis, emergency decrees, economy collapse) were real and contributed—but CIA docs confirm foreign intervention was decisive and causal.18 Milani quote is cherry-picked; his work acknowledges the coup.35 Narrative denial is revisionist.

The U.S. did NOT overthrow a democratically-elected government in Iran in 1953. Stop allowing this false narrative to go unchallenged. 🧵1/11

@BenjaminDEKR It's a movie vs. book issue. In the book, in typical Andy Weir fashion, the science is meticulously explained. In the movie they wave off the process.

A big problem with Project Hail Mary: the science and engineering is so dumbed-down that it's borderline comical. Problems get solved almost magically, with no process or iteration. He meets alien life, shows it a clock, and five minutes later is having conversations. (His laptop magically translated the language, I guess.) Grace is charming (unbelievably so) but isn't shown as a good scientist. He's shown as a fantastically-lucky scientist. The Big Bang Theory had a similar problem, pretending to be a show for smart, techy people but mostly just winking at it. In other words it's pop science when the world desperately needs hard engineering to be celebrated. Still a good movie, but not nearly the classic it could and should have been.

I was on a training exercise in Korea. My team infiltrated behind "enemy" lines in the dark. We had to get a laser spotter on site by a certain deadline. After walking all night we arrived at a steep downhill slope covered with wet grass. Half way down the hill our spotter fell on the wet grass and tumbled about 150 feet to the bottom, shattering his leg. We had to halt the exercise and get him medevaced out. I'm sure he is on disability. While stationed in Germany, we had an accident at the demolition range. Multiple deaths. The medic lost an eye and chunks of his face. He is the only one who survived. I'm sure he is on disability. During a tank gunnery range in Ft Hood a lieutenant forgot to replace the ammo door guard. He accidentally placed his elbow on the path of the ammo door. His elbow was crushed by the door. I'm sure he is on disability. The military is a dangerous occupation even when no one is shooting at you in anger.

“ because he fell down a hill with a ruck sack on during a training exercise…” Sorry, dawg. That’s service connected.

How about a different story in the same universe but from the perspective of someone on earth surviving the years the world froze before the solution arrived? Astrophage power plants powering underground cities. Cruise ships full of people migrating towards the warmer areas. Innovative food production.

Andy Weir says he would 'absolutely' write a sequel to #ProjectHailMary He has ideas, but '[not] a good enough one yet' (via @nytimes)