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@Mobilized3213 @Arkypatriot There would be no West Germany left during the Cold War without the US troops, Germany owes them big time!

It is laughable how Americans think that there troops are in Germany to protect Germany. They are not. They're there because the US needs the bases to be able to carry out US operations beyond the north American continent. Without those bases the United States loses it's ability to project it's power to 3 continents. And no one asked you to build those bases. You decided to do so all on your own at the end of WW2.

Heard that POTUS is seriously considering drawing down the number of US military we have stationed in Germany. For decades, I've questioned why we, as a nation, felt responsible for protecting countries in Europe when they brag about how noble they are providing elaborate social services to their citizens and immigrants. We can save billions if we pull back and let the EU pick up the slack. How do you feel about closing US Military installations in Europe?

@NESPHound @Jamesjonesik8 No, as Green Card holder you are a guest in the United States! It can be revoked anytime for plenty of reasons.

@Jamesjonesik8 Bizarre case!! The vast majority of Americans oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians & genocide in Gaza. Like Khalil, millions of Americans have protested Israel’s ongoing unlawful conduct. Isn’t Khalil a green card holder with the same rights as citizen except voting?

🚨 A final order of removal has just been issued for Mahmoud Khalil after he LOST his appeal in court Khalil was one of the architects of the riots at Columbia University last year He’ll be scheduled for deportation imminently FINALLY! 👋🏻

@EL4USA Minnesota trash! No real man would ever attack a woman!

Christopher Ostroushko says it's overwhelming being doxxed, getting phone calls, makes him second guess even living in this country.. Maybe he should have thought about that before he physically assaulted a woman🙄

This Chinese developer launched Llama 70B locally on a MacBook on a plane and for a full 11 hours without internet ran client projects. He was sitting by the window on a transatlantic flight with a MacBook Pro M4 with 64 GB of memory. WiFi on board cost $25 for the flight. He declined. No cloud API, no connection to Anthropic or OpenAI servers, no internet at all. Just a local Llama 3.3 70B on bf16 and his own orchestrator script. The model runs through llama.cpp. Generation speed, 71 tokens per second. Context around 60,000 tokens. Memory usage, 48.6 GiB out of 64. Battery at takeoff, 3 hours 21 minutes. And he gave the orchestrator this system prompt before takeoff: "You are an offline orchestrator running on a single MacBook. There is no network. The only resources you have are local files in /Users/dev/work, the Llama 70B inference server at localhost:8080, and a battery budget of 3 hours 21 minutes. Process the queue at /Users/dev/work/queue.jsonl (one client task per line). For each task: draft → run local evals → save artefact to /Users/dev/work/done/. Save context checkpoints every 12 tasks so you can resume after a battery swap. Stop only on empty queue or when battery drops below 5%." So the system knows exactly what resources it is running on. It knows it has no connection to the outside world for the next 11 hours. It knows it has finite memory and a finite battery. It knows the human will not intervene until the plane lands. The system runs in 1 loop. Takes a task from the queue, runs it through inference, saves the artifact, writes a checkpoint. Task after task, just like that. And only when the battery drops below 5% does the orchestrator automatically pause, waits for the laptop to switch to the backup power bank, and continues from the last checkpoint. Here is what the system actually writes in his log during the flight: "saved context checkpoint 8 of 12 (pos_min = 488, pos_max = 50118, size = 62.813 MiB)" "restored context checkpoint (pos_min = 488, pos_max = 50118)" "prompt processing progress: n_tokens = 50 / 60 818" "task 37016 done | tps = 71 s tokens text → /Users/dev/work/done/proposal_westside.md" Outside the window, clouds, blue sky, and no WiFi. On the tray, 1 MacBook, an open terminal on 2 screens, and an inference server on localhost. From what I have observed, this is the cleanest offline AI workflow I have seen in the past year: 11 hours of flight, $0 for WiFi, and the entire client queue closed before landing.

@atensnut Absolutely! We don't need people like this in Minnesota!

🚨Savanah should sue them civilly for MILLIONS …… and include the group who paid them to be there.

@RepDonBacon The art of the deal - Germany will cave quickly!

The continued attacks on NATO allies are counterproductive. The comments hurt Americans. I commanded the huge Ramstein AB in Germany. The two big airfields in Germany give us great access in three continents. We are shooting ourselves in our own feet.

@DAGToddBlanche Thank you from Minnesota!

Today, Christopher, Deyanna, and Paige Ostrouchko were indicted by a grand jury for allegedly assaulting journalist and Turning Point USA contributor Savannah Hernandez, while she was lawfully reporting on anti-ICE protests outside a federal building in St. Paul. Hernandez was allegedly surrounded, physically assaulted, and shoved to the ground — simply because she was identified by the defendants as a conservative journalist. That is NOT “peaceful protest.” These deplorable actions as charged in the indictment will not be tolerated in America, and this Department of Justice will always punish unhinged acts of political violence.

@TheRealGOP Minneapolis is dead.

I noticed that one of the biggest bars in downtown Minneapolis, which is right across from the Twins ballpark, was shut yesterday before the game. Literally saw fans after fans trying to go in to get beer and food. What does this say about our city when the biggest sports bars don't even open for games anymore?

@GuntherEagleman At this point the Democrats are just stupid

🚨 BOOM! PETE HEGSETH ABSOLUTELY TORCHES DEM REP. JACOBS FOR DARING TO QUESTION TRUMP’S MENTAL STABILITY! Rep. Jacobs (D) smugly asks: “Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be commander-in-chief?!” HEGSETH FIRES BACK: “YOU wanna ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended Biden, who could barely speak and a Secretary of Defense who went AWOL for an entire WEEK?!” MIC DROP. 🫳🏼🎤

Your cat is leaving a chemical on your face. Its name is F4. The translation is “you’re family,” and cats only leave it on people and animals they trust. F4 was identified in 1998 by a French researcher named Patrick Pageat. Pageat found five different chemicals coming out of glands on a cat’s cheeks, chin, and forehead, and labeled them F1 through F5. F2 has to do with mating. F3 is for territory, and cats use it to mark furniture and door frames. (You can buy a synthetic version of F3 at any pet store, sold under the brand name Feliway.) F4 is the social one. The face-rub itself has its own name too. Scientists call it bunting when face hits face, and allorubbing when the whole body gets involved. F4 builds what researchers call a colony scent. In a wild cat colony, the cats rub against each other constantly until they all smell the same. The shared smell works like a family ID. Cats with the colony scent don’t fight each other. Cats without it get treated like intruders. A study of feral cats at Church Farm, run by biologist David Macdonald, found this rubbing made up 15.7% of all social interactions in the colony. Cats are picky about who gets F4. They reserve bunting for individuals they bond with. A stranger walking in won’t get bunted, even if they try to pet the cat. A new cat being introduced to the home won’t get bunted either. Furniture and walls get F3, the territory chemical, not the social one. Bunting comes out only for the social bond. When your cat plows its face into yours, you’ve been chemically classified as family. The behavior comes from kittenhood. Kittens rub their faces on their mom as a greeting and as a way to beg for food. Adult cats keep the move and redirect it at the people and animals they bond with. When a cat rubs its face on yours, it’s doing the same thing it used to do to its mother. In feral colonies, this rubbing flows in one direction, and the direction reveals status. Cats on the edges of the group rub toward cats at the center. Lower-status cats rub toward higher-status ones. Kittens rub toward the adults that raised them. The pattern is consistent enough that researchers use it to read social status in the colony. So when your cat plows its face into yours, the gesture also says “you’re the one with the food and the warm bed.”

@iam_elias1 They published the same nonsense when computers replaced typewriters. How did it end? With more and better jobs!

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617

@WarMonitor3 Do they work or is like a used Mercedes??

Germany has quadrupled is annual artillery production to over 1 million rounds a year rivalling the US.

@nickshirleyy Great job and thank you, Nick! Minnesota owes you big time!

Tim Walz called me a “far right delusional conspiracy theorist” and said exposing the fraud in his state was “white supremacy.” It was the classic false smear tactic that has worked for so long… but it didn’t work this time. Tim was exposed and dropped out. Tim leared.

Nvidia just admitted that "AI efficiency" is a LIE. Every major tech company is doing the same thing right now: Firing humans and replacing them with AI to "cut costs." 92,000 tech workers laid off in 2026 so far. Every single earnings call sounds the same: "AI is driving efficiency." But the VP of Applied Deep Learning at Nvidia, the company that literally SELLS the AI infrastructure, just told Axios: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." The man whose entire job is making AI work admitted that AI costs his company MORE than the humans it's supposed to replace. And he doesn't work at some struggling startup. We're talking about the most valuable company on Earth. An MIT study backs this up too: Researchers analyzed whether AI could actually replace human workers at a competitive cost and found that AI automation only makes financial sense in 23% of jobs. In the other 77%, humans are still cheaper. So companies are firing cheap labor and replacing it with expensive labor, then telling shareholders it's "innovation." But it gets even WORSE... Uber just revealed that they burned through their ENTIRE 2026 AI budget in 4 months. Their CTO said: "I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already." What happened is that Uber gave their engineers access to AI coding tools and encouraged them to use them as much as possible. They even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how many AI tokens they consumed, basically gamifying their own budget crisis without realizing it. By March, 95% of Uber's engineers were using AI tools monthly. 70% of all committed code was coming from AI. Monthly API costs per engineer hit $500 to $2,000. One software engineer in Stockholm told the New York Times: "I probably spend more than my salary on Claude." A human being now costs LESS than the AI tool they use to do their job. And Uber isn't some edge case. Big Tech has announced $740 billion in AI capital expenditures this year alone, up 69% from 2025, according to Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile the Yale Budget Lab says there is NO widespread data showing AI is actually displacing jobs or improving productivity at scale. So follow the money: Companies fire humans ↓ Stock goes up because "AI efficiency" ↓ Those same companies spend MORE on AI than they saved on salaries ↓ That money flows to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft ↓ Those companies use the revenue to justify their own insane valuations ↓ Everyone books growth ↓ But nobody's actually saving money McKinsey projects total AI spending will hit $5.2 TRILLION by 2030. The biggest wealth transfer in modern history is happening right now, and it's not from workers to companies. It's from companies to AI infrastructure providers. Every dollar "saved" on layoffs is being spent twice over on compute, tokens, and data centers. Nvidia posted $31.9 billion in profit last quarter. And somebody is paying that bill - the same companies telling their employees that AI made them "redundant." The entire narrative is a shell game: CEOs get to announce layoffs, Wall Street rewards them with a stock bump, and then the real cost shows up three months later when the AI budget explodes and nobody connects the two events. What's your take on this?

@RippleXrpie Might be the only way for Germany to get back on track!

🚨GERMANY WANTS TO LEAVE EU! 🇩🇪 Germany’s far-right party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is rapidly gaining popularity and aims to leave the European Union if they win the next election.

Forget GPT-5.5 Forget Claude Opus 4.7 Forget Gemini 3.5 A Chinese lab just open-sourced something that makes all of them look like toys 300 AI agents running a single task in parallel for 12 hours straight, perfectly coordinated. It's called Kimi K2.6 Agent Swarm. 10 use cases that prove the closed labs are cooked:

@Savsays That is good news! Now sue them!

🚨HUGE NEWS: A federal grand jury has decided to bring indictments against two of the violent protesters who assaulted me in Minneapolis No word yet on which of the three are being indicted, but I’m EXTREMELY grateful to the DOJ for moving so swiftly on this Justice is coming.

@cgtwts Who listens to this guy? Try to design something, that whole thing is full of flaws

@aiedge_ Qwen, Kimi and expect Apple and Elon to get in the game. Exciting times!

TLDR of the current state of the AI race: Anthropic: crowd favorite but too short on compute OpenAI: decrease in market share, trying to gain votes back Google: silent winner + mass distribution xAI/Grok: hasn't shipped in months - no update Who do you think wins the AI race?

@heyrobinai But it doesn't work very well...lol, will not replace designers.

NO WAY THIS IS REAL.. Claude can do CAD now. someone connected claude directly to blender.. you just describe what you want and it generates complex 3d geometries from scratch this is what 200k 3d designers were getting paid to do