Tim Williams

@C_3C_3 Some people don't speak common sense or rational thought, but everyone speaks pain

What’s the solution to the “Teen Takeovers” destroying cities? Arrest the parents, right? But what if they do not have parents? Arrest the kids, right? But what if the Leftist judge just releases them? Seriously. What is the solution? I got nothing.

@appathfinders Trucking first, then construction, and then heavy equipment repair

For any veterans out there. What job did you transition to after getting out?

Ours had a horizontal bar at the top, connecting the hand rails together. If you really wanted to impress the ladies in 5th grade, you'd wait until the recess monitors weren't looking and do a flip over the bar before going down.

@Official_ICRT @AlphaOm82382270 @aakashgupta Episode IX. Along with Ed Sheeran

@AlphaOm82382270 @aakashgupta He had a small cameo as a Stormtrooper.

Karl Urban's resume shouldn't be real. Lord of the Rings. Star Trek. Star Wars. Marvel. He's the only living actor who's appeared in all four of the biggest sci-fi franchises in cinema history. Combined box office north of $5 billion. In Ragnarok he shaved his head, gained 20 pounds of bulk, and played a coward who dies holding twin assault rifles named "Des" and "Troy." In The Boys he spent five seasons as the most compelling antihero on television, and the final episode aired six days ago. In between those two roles he starred in Dredd. The entire film. Never removed the helmet. The audience never saw his eyes. Most actors at his level would have demanded the reveal. Urban kept it on because that's what the character required. He started on Xena: Warrior Princess in New Zealand. Taika Waititi called him for Ragnarok and said he'd be working with Cate Blanchett. Urban's response: "Sign me up. I don't need to read anything." $20 million net worth across a career where he's never been the lead franchise face. Always the second or third name on the poster. Always in a different body. The Kiwi character actor who quietly assembled the most impossible filmography in Hollywood and nobody talks about it because he disappears into every role. That's the whole trick. You can't recognize him because he's actually acting.

@SGTWipper1Each The Marine Corps decided they had 20k more Marines than they needed and dead-ended 4500 Sergeants, and I was one of them

I would have stayed in the military, but ______.

@cybrgalaxy @JasonrShuman Cybertruck trapped Piedmont college students who burned to death, new lawsuits claim | KRON4 share.google/scEp13JflfRkKS… I'd rather die on impact than be cooked alive because my electric door handles wouldn't function

@TRWilliams_Jr @JasonrShuman At least I’m a lot safer than you are.

People said the cyber truck was ugly when it first came out too…

@cybrgalaxy @JasonrShuman If driving was that much of a chore for me, I would move to the city and ride the bus

@TRWilliams_Jr @JasonrShuman But does it drive you from door to door?

@iampumba @JasonrShuman $640k? Even if I was Ferrari's number 1 client, they would have to hold my mother for ransom to get that much out of me for a 4-door. House, hell. My landlord would probably let my whole apartment building go for that much

@TRWilliams_Jr @JasonrShuman The new Ferrari Luce EV that everyone is dunking on for being fugly, and has a $640k price tag

@iampumba @JasonrShuman What are you comparing it to that costs as much as a house?

@JasonrShuman And they were right. But the cyber truck is at least visually distinct, and has a compelling feature set. It also doesn't cost as much as a nice house

@cybrgalaxy @JasonrShuman Define "huge truck bed." Because I can haul plywood and sheetrock in the bed of my $4000 beater with the tailgate shut. And it has seating for 5.

@JasonrShuman At least the Cybertruck drives itself, tows 11,000 lbs, has a huge truck bed, hold 5 ppl, goes from 0- 60 in 2.6, 845 horsepower, is bulletproof stainless, adjustable air suspension all for about a fifth of the cost.

@Tesla_Analyst @JasonrShuman If you want to honor the design of an iconic car, build a car. I swear on my life, Tesla hires the stupidest smart people in the world.

@JasonrShuman The Cybertruck is literally inspired by the Delorean.

@Lordgregorlives @eshanbuilds It doesn't take Shakespeare-level writing and acting to sell toys to 8-year-olds. I laugh every time an adult complains about Star Wars. It's not for us. It has to be written at a level a child can understand, or he's not gonna want the toys.

@eshanbuilds The acting and dialogue in those movies? Still trash. Nothing can undo that. Its not haydens fault tho, its a series with Liam Neeson, Christopher Lee, Samuel l Jackson, and Ewan MacGregor, and somehow no one turns in a decent acting performance when it matters. Its George.

Hayden Christensen was 23 when Revenge of the Sith came out. He was 42 when he returned to the role in Ahsoka. For 17 of the 19 years in between, he was effectively exiled from the franchise and from Hollywood. The exile was not voluntary at first. Christensen was the focal point of the cultural backlash against the Star Wars prequels in the mid-2000s. The performances were mocked. The dialogue was mocked. The acting choices were mocked. He was 22 years old playing the most analyzed character in cinema history and the analysis decided he had failed. He kept working for a few years. Jumper in 2008. Takers in 2010. A handful of smaller films. None of them landed. By 2012, the offers were drying up and Christensen had largely stepped back from acting. He moved to a farm in Ontario. He spent years out of public view. The Hollywood narrative was that he had been broken by the prequels. Two things happened during those years that the Hollywood narrative missed. The first was the cultural reassessment of the prequels. The generation that watched them as children grew up and rewatched them as adults. What had read as wooden dialogue in 2005 started to read as deliberate stylization. The political plot, which critics had dismissed as boring senate scenes, started to read as one of the most substantively serious treatments of how democracies collapse into autocracy ever put in a blockbuster. By 2017, the prequels were being rediscovered as the most thematically ambitious Star Wars films in the franchise. The second was what Christensen was doing on the farm. He kept training. The lightsaber choreography he had learned for the prequels was technically demanding stage combat, taught to him by stunt coordinator Nick Gillard over months of rehearsal for each film. Christensen never stopped practicing it. When he came back to the choreography in 2022 for Obi-Wan Kenobi and 2023 for Ahsoka, the muscle memory was intact. He was technically better at 42 than he had been at 23, because he had spent 17 years quietly preparing for a return nobody had told him was coming. The Ahsoka scene that the fan accounts keep posting is from the episode where Anakin confronts Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds. The choreography is fast, precise, and recognizable as the same combat style Christensen used in the prequels two decades earlier. The body knows what to do. The body has been keeping the role alive while the rest of the industry was writing him off. What landed differently in the return is that Christensen at 42 has a stillness the 23-year-old version did not. The 23-year-old was performing Anakin's intensity. The 42-year-old is embodying it. The role finally fits the actor in a way it did not when he was first asked to carry it. The audience that mocked him at 23 had also grown up. The audience that watched the return at 42 had spent fifteen years missing him without realizing it. The exile turned out to be the preparation.

That's what I pay for a 540 sq ft 1-bedroom apartment in Greenville NC. Having pets bumps it up to $685, but dogs are restricted to 35 lbs or smaller.

@Yoc_Star I bought my first house in 2014. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1700 sq ft on just under an acre with a 30'x60' concrete block garage in the back. I paid $56k. The total mortgage payment was less than the cheapest 1 bedroom apartment I could've rented in town.

The “starter homes for $25k” makes me laugh. I looked up the price of what my parents paid for their house in 1986. $117,500. The average interest rate was around 13%. It was a small 3 bedroom 1 bathroom 1008 square foot home. My room was the smallest and my brothers shared a room. Built in 1941. That was a starter home. It didn’t have a big kitchen or a spacious bathroom or walk in closets. One bathroom for five people. We didn’t have TVs in our rooms either. We didn’t eat out all the time. Food delivery didn’t exist. And it was NOT in the best part of town; you didn’t leave anything outside you didn’t want stolen. Saw it on Zillow, still has the original basement wall panels and flooring 😂

I rescued Gina from the woodpile at my job, and adopted Tommy to keep her company. I spent 4 months earning Gina's trust before I was able to pick her up and take her home. Tommy was born and raised in a foster home.

@wartirnes I was on the USS Nassau with the 22nd MEU when that happened. They recovered the dead pirate and it took the better part of a week to repatriate him to Somalia.

Somali Pirates Stupidly Attacked a U.S. Navy Warship On March 18, 2006, pirates off the coast of Somalia made the worst decision possible. They opened fire with RPGs and rifles on the USS Cape St. George and USS Gonzalez. The U.S. Navy responded with overwhelming force. One pirate skiff was destroyed, 1 pirate killed, and 12 captured. Zero American casualties. Never bring a skiff to a guided-missile cruiser fight.

@brollbenny Underdog by Steve Azar youtu.be/-lIpY2wS7AU?si…

If your life was a movie, what song would play during the opening credits?

@SandyofCthulhu Can't have Jager on the list without Ouzo

So I am creating a cultist tavern for a Call of Cthulhu adventure and I want it to have the nastiest liquors imaginable. Not the cheapest - the nastiest. Obviously Absinthe is a star. My problem is I am a teetotaler. So I don’t know what ANY liquor tastes like, except cheap whiskey and apple wine which I tried in my misspent youth. I’m thinking Jagermeister, Absinthe, Jeppson’s Malört, banana schnapps, Fireball, Certain Baiju (Chinese pal recommended this), Fernet-Branca and … what else? Suggestions are welcomed. Cloying sweet is as gross as bitterness so let me know. Yes, all the drinks have a magic effect TBD.

@DanFriedman81 A guy in my high school had a full ride scholarship to Alabama State University to play basketball. A month in, he robbed someone at knifepoint for $11 and got kicked out.

I’ve put a lot of thought into trying to understand the Black Lives Matter moment and the “racial reckoning,” and I believe that the fact that black Americans endure a much higher level of routine crime victimization is a big part of it. The races of the people in this post are not disclosed, but I think they are probably black because the norms described here are foreign to white communities. White people call the cops when someone steals from us. I don’t believe there are any white people anywhere in America who would feel bad if a white neighbor kid who stole $2000 off our porch lost his college scholarship because we called the cops. That just isn’t how white people work. Nobody expects that whites will tolerate someone who is identifiable on video stealing an expensive package off their porch and not involve the police, and therefore, packages don’t get stolen off of porches in white neighborhoods. A tremendous amount of propaganda has been disseminated through elite media to convince black people that white people tolerate these kinds of transgressions from each other out of racial solidarity. This has always been a lie. White people do not practice racial solidarity. White people call the cops. People like the poster — nice, middle-class black folks who work hard and are doing well enough to order expensive stuff from Amazon — perceive that their lives are somewhat worse than they ought to be, which is true. Powerful political, media and NGO interests are telling them that the cause of this is racism, which is not true, and that the solution is solidarity with people like the neighbor kid who keeps stealing Amazon packages, which is completely counterproductive. What will actually make this poster’s life better is the rule of law being imposed on her neighborhood, which is something that America has failed to do for black communities for 200 years and is the fundamental source of persistent inequities. The reason you can’t order online packages and have them left on your porch is this neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason you have to put bars over your windows and you can’t park a car on the street in front of your house is the neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason there is no grocery store or pharmacy nearby is the neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason property values in the neighborhood are not appreciating the way they are elsewhere is the neighbor kid who steals everything. Your life will be better if he goes to prison. When there is a huge race inequity in who commits crimes, you can either have a huge race inequity in who is punished by the criminal justice system, or you can have a huge race inequity in who is victimized. Americans have chosen the latter, because that is the policy people in the most directly-affected communities vote for.

@WarMonitors His Hulkamania is running a little TOO wild

No offence but what do barbers do for a living in Estonia?