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@CameronQuotes In my heart I am always looking for the girl in the red hat with my boombox and blue french horn.

@netflixsports You can get away with promoting things like this when people aren't paying 50-90 bucks a pop for this via PPV.

JUST LIKE THAT. RONDA ROUSEY DEFEATS GINA CARANO VIA ARMBAR IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS. #RouseyCarano

@RepJackKimble You can always go into the waterbed finance and waterbed service industry.

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

@MassieforKY Voting for you is like KY not having a seat at all. You stop nothing, you do nothing.

Today, Saturday 5/16, is the last day for early voting in KY. If you can’t vote today, make a plan to vote on Election Day, Tuesday, 5/19. I promise to continue fighting for you and true conservative, Kentucky values. Find your polling place and times: thomasmassie.com/vote

@FellerYeller This, but with Patton Oswalt or Kal Penn, who continually show up in IPs I like and make them worse.

"He's too excited about this movie. Add Pedro Pascal."

@CaptainMcKlide The only thing GenX ever saw unions do is preside over factories in their towns closing ("Oops! We asked for too much!" - Union) or moving out of state or overseas, and watch the unionized US auto industry and others get beat by the non-union Japanese.

@cheaptrickrules Gen X also loved Reagan and thought unionizing was stupid so they weren't running to help themselves off the chopping block to begin with 🤷

a key point in the plot of office space is that the employees of initech have no stability, and are in fact perpetually on the chopping block because of the gutting of job protections and corporate profit-maxing that continues to make life hell for most americans every year

@MericaCulture Were there Deus-Ex-Machina Eagles?

Lewis and Clark traveled more than 4x the distance Frodo and Sam did. Frodo and Sam: 1,800 miles Lewis and Clark: 8,000 miles

@AlexThomp you're terrible at your job,

2 years later. The jump cuts 😬

@ChrisMartzWX My year 2000 GM truck had auto headlights. For years I'd step into rentals or friend's cars from other brands and manufacturers and they still had to turn them on manually. Has everyone *finally* gotten automatic headlights?

Daytime running lights should be banned on motor vehicles. Too many people are driving around at night with them on thinking that their headlights are on. Pro-tip: ALWAYS leave it on “Auto.”

@infantrydort "This shit isn’t hard." - indeed, especially when the world isn't coming down. If we can't do the leadership and planning work while in shirtsleeves and air conditioning, how are we going to be able to do it in a peer conflict or trying to plan an invasion?

This shit isn’t hard. Marshall did something similar. It’s a plucking board and “Louisiana Maneuvers on a budget” hybrid. We already have CTC and Warfighter data for many. Testing can be initiated to fill a gap if there is none.

🧵I feel like triggering Pentagon bureaucrats and partisan ideologues masquerading as neutral actors today. Everyone gives @PeteHegseth a hard time for his “mass purge” of a whopping 2% of senior officers. They screech, asking why?! On what grounds?! They shouldn’t panic, but they do. No. This is what will make them panic in the halls of government. Just like they did in 1940. A system that can be stood up at this exact moment to delineate between who stays and who goes. Who rises and who falls.👇

@ericadamsfornyc Well, this is all your fault. So.

There was never a $12 billion hole in the budget. That fairy tale was cooked up to justify reckless spending and political theater. I left the incoming administration with $8 billion in reserves, not a financial apocalypse. Albany election-year bailouts are not a long-term economic strategy. The free money dries up after Election Day, but the bloated “free” programs stay forever. And here’s the part the socialists in City Hall never want to admit: the millionaires and billionaires they love demonizing already pay roughly 40% of NYC’s taxes. Keep demonizing the people creating jobs, investing in this city, and carrying the tax base, and eventually they’ll stop investing here altogether. Facts are stubborn things. Even when some politicians aren’t.

5 years from now, Kristof will publish another piece of garbage and he will be exposed and people will imply that this is the end for him but it won't be because no one at the NYT gives a shit about lies or the truth. The truth is for suckers

Spoiler: this will end with no one punished and no consequences and when you bring it up in 2 years, liberals will tell you it never happened and you are a liar

@JamesSurowiecki @joekovacevic7 The response should have been 'no response', anyway, but if it came from a lab, maybe we should stop funding such labs.

@joekovacevic7 How would the response have been different?

How would knowing that Covid came from a lab - assuming for the sake of argument that it did, and that we could know that with certainty - have saved lives? What would have been different about our response?

@MattWalshBlog What would wrestling with the implications look like? How would we know we are wrestling with them or not wrestling with them? More X posts? People on TV talking about it? We all go back to home room for a week and hash it out?

I’m not against the technology itself. I think the technology is amazing, mind blowing. There are all kinds of totally valid and useful applications. All I’m saying is that we are not wrestling at all with the implications, and there are no limitations of any kind being placed on these companies as they race towards their goal of fundamentally transforming human society overnight. Reckless in the extreme.

Big Tech companies are sprinting forward, building data centers as fast as they can, sometimes using eminent domain to seize the land by force, making their AI more and more powerful, expanding the technology at lightening speed with no guardrails of any kind at all. Yet none of these tech gurus or any of their apologists have even attempted to explain what exactly all of the millions of people who lose their jobs, and the increasing numbers who lose their homes, all sacrificed on the AI altar, are supposed to do. How does society support millions of unemployed and displaced people? What becomes of a society where algorithms and machines do everything, and a few people become trillionaires while millions more lose everything? There is no answer to any of this. They aren’t even attempting to answer it. Instead we’re simply told that China exists and we have to “beat them” in some unspecified way, in order to achieve some unspecified goal. We’re going to obliterate entire industries, entire categories of jobs all at once, and the only justification anyone can give is “China.” It’s madness.

@TheBatmanSagaNW Ugh, Harvey Dent? That old road?

I just KNOW the internet is going to explode like a hydrogen bomb once Matt Reeves confirms Sebastian Stan as Harvey Dent 😭🦇

@kristenmag We would never think to run another industry this way. 'Hey, let's move semi-conductor manufacturing into people's garages! That'll make things more affordable and efficient.' Childcare is super inefficient.

UPDATE: full list of WA childcare grant recipients has now been released. I’m still wondering what justifies giving small home daycares hundreds of thousands of dollars in ‘maintenance’ grants. What’s stopping these homeowners from selling for big gains after the improvements?

@severalbird I went into a remodeled Target a few years ago

beating my girlfriend because walmart changed their layout and im scared and confused

@GunnelsWarren It's a real shame the European powers and the International Community didn't step up to fund the things USAID stopped funding.

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

@caroljsroth I was reliably told it was all just transitory.

and it won’t stop there, folks…

@katrosenfield I had briefly conflated Montag with Courtney Stodden, and was very happy I un-conflated them.

My sole point of interest in the LA mayoral race has been learning that Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are still happily married, a fact that warms every last cockle of my cold, dead, elder millennial heart