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@marcorandazza The only part that is free is the indoctrination.

It’s not “free”

@elonmusk @FischerKing64 Love this idea. For a while now I've planned to do this on Earth before the periodic micro-nova & pole shift.

@FischerKing64 Keep books and historical media safe. SpaceX will put copies of knowledge in space an on the Moon and Mars.

The Apple series ‘For All Mankind’ depicts how a future woke totalitarian propaganda could work. It gives an alternative history where America never got to the moon with just white guys - and the Soviets got there first because they had women in the program. Communism doesn’t collapse on itself, it survives. The entrepreneur pushing for Mars is black, rather than a white South African whose former country is falling to pieces. And on and on. It’s also just very well produced. It’s entertaining - and it is full of ‘what if’ sort of questions. But it’s the kind of thing that could become perceived truth in the digital age. Already we hear worries about movies having scenes clipped - and people saying ‘own physical media.’ I noticed a scene in Oliver Stone’s Nixon had been cut on a digital platform because it contained a slur against gays. All digital media can be manipulated this way in future if all we have is streaming rather than a DVD player. You can do the same thing with books. It’s just a useful thing to consider. We know very little about the past - what we have are things like government documents or diaries of influential people. We don’t know what we have lost, and we don’t know how reliable our sources are. Going forward we may not know what has been deliberately manipulated - actually changed to give us a completely false view of the past.

@AdvisorJohn Better to buy 2 smaller ones and push them together. Get ones you can flip over.

Buying a mattress feels worse than buying a used car. But, my wife and I need one SOOO bad! I’m looking for suggestions. Some questions we have: 1. I hear of people buying them online, like through Amazon as opposed to going to those run down looking strip mattress stores. Is that the best way to do it? 2. Some have said don’t buy anything nice, just buy a new one every two years. This actually seems smart in a way because I feel like every one I’ve purchased seems to suck around two years. 3. My spare bed queen mattress is awesome. Why does it seem like king size mattresses fall apart faster? Your recommendations are greatly appreciated!

@KathleenWinche3 Check the date.

Whoever thought this was a good idea is insane! Have you ever been on Route 1 in Saugus Massachusetts? Wow 🤯

I've been doing a "history tour" (and a dive bar tour) of the "Gulf of ... erm" for the last few days, and seen my share of decomissioned forts in Florida and Alabama. Among other things, they are a reminder that well into the 20th century we thought it important to protect our harbors. We stopped having to do that in part because of technology, and in part because we pushed our enemies far away, dealing with them in distant places rather than letting them come near. We no longer needed a coastline bristling with defenses, which we had during the lives of your grandparents and great-grandparents. Now, we have often blundered in fighting wars away from the United States, and that has caused a lot of people to believe that we ought to retreat behind our oceans again, because it would be much less expensive. Do not be so sure. If our enemies - and we will always have enemies - get close enough, we will find it necessary to rebuild coastal defenses and a navy designed for homeland defense. In addition to being very expensive, that will take up a lot of land and people along prime real estate. Americans, especially people who like beaches and tikibars on them, might well hate a new imperative to build coastal defenses more than they hate foreign wars. Not that I love foreign wars. I do not. But recognizing that "retreating behind our oceans" anew would be both costly and unpleasant is to confess, in a whisper in the quiet of night, that there is an advantage to fighting our enemies over there. Critics of this thinking will say that we create *more* enemies by so doing - the fifty year conflict with militant Islam being the main example. Maybe, but we also deter, weaken, and even destroy enemies that came to us naturally. There are pros and cons to both approaches. Just be sure not to ignore the cons in the strategy you prefer.

Fair warning...I'm stealing the "Gulf of ... erm" My current line of thought re: the rest most often resembles a Venn diagram consisting of: 1) putting wheels on Chesterton’s Fence 2) reverse engineering Deep Thought’s 42 3) which finger to use for Curly’s one thing: ☝️find what you love vs 🖕never bet against human nature

The world is open...people to people. Thank you Elon and team!

@Will_Tanner_1 That's just the building they WANT talk to focus on. OTOH...

The point of Brutalist architecture, such as the gulag-themed Obama Center for Quality Learing, is to demoralize They know that beauty is inspiring and uplifting, and so wish to replace it with these ugly, lurking behemoths that destroy one's spirit and blight the cityscape

@MorEdge_Insight Good way to temporarily get rid of flies.

Ever wonder why it’s called a Water Buffalo? Watch why

@gweiwhale @Jason @Rivian I hear it's already hard to get parts for these.

@Jason so you’re buying a @Rivian then?

if anything remotely close to this CyberSUV concept drops, it will take over the entire SUV category Would love to have hyper-lifted feature in this, in order to navigate Tahoe blizzards!

@Jason With an option to have a front bench seat...I'm in. Added points if I can get a wrap that makes it look like a woodie.

@MidwesternDoc And now possible shedding of the self-amplifying RNA vaccines they are giving to pets.

The most puzzling part of the COVID vaccine is its ability to "shed" and harm those who never got it. A peer-reviewed study just validated the thousands of shedding reports I've evaluated here. Please share your story so we can untangle this mystery. midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-weve-le…

@newstart_2024 Fecal folklore for the win!

Two patients got a poop transplant for C. diff… and suddenly started growing hair again. That unexpected result hooked Dr. Sabine Hazan. She saw alopecia areata disappear after fecal transplants from healthy donors — and in other cases, it appeared. So she started digging: is there a specific microbe linked to hair growth? Could the same microbiome signals be involved in Alzheimer’s, autism, or Parkinson’s? Her own experience with Alzheimer’s improving after a fecal transplant only deepened the question. Her blunt takeaway: “There’s got to be something more to poop than just poop.” It’s a fascinating window into how much we still don’t understand about the gut microbiome and its potential role in neurological and autoimmune conditions.

@BldrCOSheriff 🙏

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@morg72876 @theepicmap 😉👁️

@theepicmap Horrible! Especially the area in yellow. Don’t ever go there. Don’t even visit. The Land is flat, the water is polluted and nothing grows. The people are mean and there are dragons that live there. Stay away.

How is it living in this part of the United States?

@OldHollowTree Do you do a lot of that? They sell those on Amazon. Jus' sayin'...win-win.

I actually really enjoy taking porcupine quills out of dogs. It’s very easy if the dog has cheese and you’re about 3 beers deep. Gives you just enough inhibition for a steady hand and no hesitation. Very satisfying to slide them out. 10/10.

@HemmerleinLee That's been happening to us more often lately.

I went to a new feed store today and got minerals for the cows and a bag of seed mix for a food plot and maybe summer grazing for the cows. I got up to the register and they rang it up and told me my bill. I said that can't be correct. They looked at me and started to explain. And I am like no that is too low and after seeing how they entered it I quickly understood what had happened. They had looked at the food plot mix per pound and did not account for the fact I had bought a 50# bag and was going to charge me for 1#. They were happy that I would correct their oversight and gave me a discount on the bag purchase. I figured someone would get into trouble for that big of an error.

Not only neighbors, he may wake up ancient gods.

@BWalkerTTAGGG @laurel_libby I was there mid-70s until '98. Still lovely then.

@abiextra @laurel_libby Maine was my grandfather's favorite state. But that was in the 1960s.

Maine has an income tax. Maine has a sales tax. Maine still has higher property taxes than New Hampshire, which has neither. How does that make any sense?

@Architectolder I would repaint that as a sleeping fox with its head against a stand of bamboo.

Someone did this on purpose