Mach Velli

@RT_com Kinda cute actually.

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@PollTracker2024 SCOTUS: "Hold my beer."

The panel of federal judges blocks Alabama from using its 6R-1D congressional map for the 2026 midterms. (Pictured below) Reinstates 5R-2D map

@NatureUnedited Is that a tardigrade coming out of its torpor?

A Himalayan brown bear emerging from hibernation

@SheDrills Well you can ask broad questions, and then ask intelligent follow up questions. And as far as any book you read, most are absurdly too long for the actual content they offer.

Was reading a book on quantitative futures trading at the pool today. Guy comes up and asks why I don’t just use AI to learn what I need. I say, “I could but then I won’t get the general knowledge that the author believed was needed” He responds that I can just keep asking AI questions. I say “you only get answers if you know what to ask. The problem w/ over dependence on AI is that you’re not gaining broad knowledge. Thats why it’s making people dumber not smarter.”

@Rainmaker1973 Fun fact: they make great pets.

A microscopic tardigrade, also known as a water bear, walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, it can survive decades without food or water and are the only known animal that can survive in direct exposure in space. [📹 Tobin Sparling]

@malmesburyman yeah tom wolfe

I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?

@elonmusk Because of MAJORITY RULE... not "human rights."

True

Well kind of. They started with 12 out and then reused holes on the way back. at first it was 22. Because that was the size of their strip of land in the dunes... And they then modified it to 9 out,9 back at some point... Which was then copied. So it first depended on the how much land they had.

@VelliMach Right. St. Andrews had 18 holes, so that won out as the standard. I'd think 12 or 14 would have been more convenient for fitting courses in to metro areas and fitting a full round into a day.

The Trump family has really improved at renovating golf courses over the last several decades.

@AnyadubaluIfedi @skizbear @MarioNawfal that's why I asked the question asshole. But explain it to me... what holds the camera in place without a connection to the person? A drone or something? It does not appear to be physically connected. Yes you're an asshole.

@VelliMach @skizbear @MarioNawfal Are you trolling or genuinely ignorant of such cameras? There are cameras that use a special app to eliminate the holding structure so it appears like it captures like an unattached equipment.

The suit-up alone would finish most people off. Zhang Shupeng getting dressed on a narrow ledge at Tianmen Mountain before BASE jumping at 180 km/h. No room for error at any point.

@skizbear @MarioNawfal nope the camera shot was away from his body, including his helmet.

@VelliMach @MarioNawfal Mounted camera attached to his helmet. 🤦

@MarioNawfal Did she have a ring on her pincher?

A crab watched his wife get grabbed by a fisherman and said: not today. Walked out of his hiding spot, wrapped his claws around her, and just... held on. The fisherman let them both go and gave him a fish. Bro got the girl AND a free meal.

@wonderofscience Amazing this animal was named after Plato.

A baby platypus is called a puggle.

@TAmTrib Locke explicitly excluded children from "consent of the governed." Like it or not... this idea has taken over the world. Even North Korea calls itself a democracy.

John Adams explained this general mindset the best. In his view, men without property lacked the independence of mind necessary to vote, and so had to be excluded from the franchise. He explained this view in a letter to James Sullivan in 1776, arguing: It is certain in theory, that the only moral foundation of government is the consent of the people. But to what an extent shall we carry this principle? Shall we say, that every individual of the community, old and young, male and female, as well as rich and poor, must consent, expressly to every act of legislation? No, you will say. This is impossible. How then does the right arise in the majority to govern the minority, against their will? Whence arises the right of the men to govern women, without their consent? Whence the right of the old to bind the young, without theirs? But let us first suppose, that the whole community of every age, rank, sex, and condition, has a right to vote… But why exclude women? You will say, because their delicacy renders them unfit for practice and experience, in the great business of life, and the hardy enterprises of war, as well as the arduous cares of state. Besides, their attention is so much engaged with the necessary nurture of their children, that nature has made them fittest for domestic cares. And children have not judgment or will of their own. True. But will not these reasons apply to others? Is it not equally true, that men in general in every society, who are wholly destitute of property, are also too little acquainted with public affairs to form a right judgment, and too dependent upon other men to have a will of their own? If this is a fact, if you give to every man, who has no property, a vote, will you not make a fine encouraging provision for corruption by your fundamental law? Such is the frailty of the human heart, that very few men, who have no property, have any judgment of their own. They talk and vote as they are directed by some man of property, who has attached their minds to his interest… Harrington has shown that power always follows property. This I believe to be as infallible a maxim, in politics, as that action and reaction are equal is in mechanics… We may advance one step farther and affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way then of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue, is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society: to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates…I believe these principles have been felt, if not understood in the Massachusetts Bay, from the beginning… I would not advise [our people of Massachusetts] to make any alteration in the laws, at present, respecting the qualifications of voters… The same reasoning, which will induce you to admit all men who have no property to vote…, will prove that you ought to admit women and children: for generally speaking, women and children have as good judgment and as independent minds as those men who are wholly destitute of property: these last being to all intents and purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, clothe, and employ them, as women are upon their husbands, or children on their parents… Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open so fruitful a source of controversy and altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the qualifications of voters. There will be no end of it. New claims will arise. Women will demand a vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their rights not enough attended to, and every man, who has not a farthing, will demand an equal voice with any other in all acts of state. It tends to confound and destroy all distinctions, and prostrate all ranks, to one common level.

@lionesspike this got really stoopid

the funniest part of tonight's episode to me #widowsbay

@MattWalshBlog First 3 episodes were good. Gawd has it gotten stooopid after that.

Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years. If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten. It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting. For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.

@WeTheBrandon I liked Massie about a lot... but his Epstein fixation was absurd.

The GOP is lost.

@aimeeterese Excellent

The strongest red flag was when leftists lost the ability to be funny. Comedy relies on subverting expectations to expose truth. Leftism subverts the truth to peddle lies. That’s why they can’t be funny, they can’t reveal the truth, their entire politics depends on concealing it.

@msrdsr7402 @MarioNawfal Someone says he did this earlier in the meet and was warned.

@MarioNawfal I'm a Boomer, and HATE excessive celebrations. But, I don't think this is the case here. If it's a true breach of sportsmanship, then deny him in future events. Don't punish the team .

🇺🇸Mallard Creek boys track got STRIPPED of a state title because Ngannou Brown raised his hand before crossing the line to win the 4x400. Officials called it "taunting." Same kid set a state record in the 300m hurdles that day. Justified or overreach?