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WATCH: A meteor streaked into Mayon Volcano in the Philippines as the volcano was erupting.

@Slatzism @martianwyrdlord A people in epistemological shambles

they’re having to give disclaimers that they’re not transphobic when debating about what constitutes a grilled cheese sandwich and I think that’s really beautiful

@VDAREJamesK @loganclarkhall I was assured that we were creedal

Let’s check in on the Proposition Nation

@Pledditor Ahhh some moments I PINE for old bitcoin twitter. This would have been one of the good ones.

The Bankless guys dumping their ETH feels good because being a bitcoin maximalist was really hard in 2021. The consensus among all the influencers back then was that bitcoin was a dinosaur that not only was soon to be flipped, but wasn't even going to be a top 10 asset on CMC

The Idaho constitution requires the state to mange state public land for “long term financial return.” What that means is a 5th generation Teton ranching family will get the boot from their lease when well connected billionaires ask the Idaho Land Board to sell, like what happened with this Tetons Driggs 160 case. The Mike Lee thing failed, so the next move in the playbook is transferring public land to the states who will then say “we can make more money off this land so we are selling it off.” They’re saying he won’t build a subdivision here, but there’s nothing stopping him as it’s private land now. The billionaire who bought the parcel is a New York movie producer and tech investor with a lot of financial interests in AI and data centers. He lives full time in Pittsburgh. When we carve up the American West like this, and make something that once was public private, the possibility for development of open land increases. What made conservation of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem possible as one of the only fully intact ecosystems left in America was the scale and connectivity of public land for seasonal migrations of elk, mule deer, pronghorn, and bison. Herds follow green waves of grass with the season. Suburban development has stopped these migrations almost everywhere else. Public land prevents fragmentation into housing developments that would end these migrations too. Ranchers are a big part of this as ranch lands are often some of the most productive low elevation habitat for herds or they fall along migration corridors. Ranches maintain these large open spaces that allow migration to continue. If the buyer keeps the land undeveloped, that would be great, but now that it’s private and the 5th gen family who had a grazing lease there into the 2030s is gone, there’s no guarantee. Another part of America sold off to the highest bidder because the line must go up.

@bwrrs66 @Oilfield_Rando @neoavatara Why is it always the cuisine w these people. It’s so lazy

@Oilfield_Rando @neoavatara That sounds awesome. Maybe you guys will finally get some decent food instead of the normal mayonnaise casserole.

There are not. Your math sucks.

@Polymarket @plzbepatient People thinking that body is going to break a swimming world record are going to be disappointed

JUST IN: The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.

genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks

It’s nationalists vs communists from here on out.

Many, many such cases.

@GetOnTap I own property in orange and purple and I don’t think I’m ever gonna leave, NOVA buffoonery be damned

Pretty damn close

@AwakenedOutlaw @HaroldWren22 Sounds more like trump blinked to me

The squeeze is on. At some point in the not to distant future, illegal aliens won't be able to bank, rent, buy, work, drive, etc. And with no access to public benefits, this is the sure path to mass self-deportation.

@dchidyllo 100% alignment on money printing as the rot at the root

@bitgriffs Normally I would agree with you but the structure of the economy makes it that it doesn’t really make sense. If we went back to a system where you couldn’t print money on demand then I would say everyone should pay.

I’ve said this forever; our tax system is too complicated and needs revision for both reality and simplicity. I like Jeff’s number, first 75k of gross is tax free and then you need two tiers above that. 10% and 25%. Eliminate carried interest and 1031’s. Everyone wins.

@amidnightstroll @slatestarcodex @selentelechia Fair distinction

@bitgriffs @slatestarcodex @selentelechia He's recommending it to deal with teething pain. Not really as sleep aid

oh my god how do I get my kids to stop waking up at 4am, 4:30, I'm dying here I do think the formula change helped a bit but now the baby is cutting teeth and I just hate this so much I hate dealing with baby sleep and I wish I had known how awful it would be

@slatestarcodex @selentelechia Tylenol as a sleep aid is something

Sorry if this is stuff you already know or you don't want advice, but this is a topic I think about often. Things I've found to work: - Infant Tylenol just before bed is most helpful intervention I've found. - Teaching them to go to sleep on their own in the evening (eg "cry it out") seems to help them sleep later in the morning too for some reason. - Sometimes changes in ambient bedroom light (eg nightlight brightness) can have big effects. - Sometimes can help to preempt wakeup, eg if they're waking up at 4, you can wake up at 2 and feed/medicate them, and then they'll sleep until 6.

@RodeoProfessor @Gruntpa “Count Choclula”

Wildlife posts go mega viral like this every week. Their premise is always something like “we’ve killed all the buffalo and wild horses in America.” Obviously written by people who don’t live out here because wild horses are one of the biggest land management challenge in the West, there are way too many of them and they eat all the food, the landscape turns to dust, and the public would lose their minds if we “managed them” or “drove down density” in any way that involved mortality of any kind. Every Western state has BLM corrals full of wild horses looking for adoption for this very reason. This isn’t just my opinion either, the federal agencies have run the numbers for the carrying capacity of public range (how many wild horses can public rangeland reasonably feed) and there are 3x the wild horses vs what we have to feed them on public range land. BLM deals with this through removals from public and private land (when they wander onto your property you can call the Feds and get them taken to a corral to be adopted). Each year the plan is to remove about 12-14k but it’s hard to do as the scale out here is so large and they cross the mosaic of public and private. But like lamenting wild horses being gone is like lamenting pigeons are gone from whatever city you live in. Then with buffalo, I mean Americans have orchestrated the most comprehensive scientific recovery of that species maybe in the history of the field of wildlife conservation, we now have herds on public, private, and tribal land that reflect the huge investment in buffalo conservation that we’ve made as a society. Yes, we don’t have pre American settlement wide open frontier, but do we actually want nobody living out here just to bring back entirely free moving herds of animals? Or is the new system where herds live on private, public, and tribal land and continue to be recovered by scientists, Feds, ranchers, tribes make sense for the modern age. Grow up Peter Pan.

Leftist journalists are beautiful in a certain way, like flocking birds, or snails pulling their shells slimily over an enormous gap. Effortlessly, with infinite grace, they pivot from "it didn't happen" to "why do you care?"

Last day of spring season for Eastern Wild Turkey. Until the fall!

@RepFine @pervitinyummy Interesting that this has become an AIPAC-approved position

Deporting every single illegal is not enough. And paperwork doesn’t make you an American. We must denaturalize and deport millions like Zohran Mamdani who lied to gain citizenship, hate this country, and seek our destruction. The barbarians are inside the gate.