Daniel B.

@hamavinyavin And we've been bikkurim over the details ever since.

Jews were required to give the Temple a half-shekel donation every year. The money was used to purchase communal sacrifices. Judaism has a karbon tax.

The Gaon of Vilna, famous for both his opposition to Hassidism and plotting interdimentional space travel to colonize the universe.

@aelfred_D You other Gravettians can't deny.

When the sculptor was done and showed the rest of the cave we were all like “Oh shhhiiiiittt”

That moment as a kid when you realize that you're definitely straight.

@BuzzPatterson If you go that route, you'll also be required to add ADS-B Out.

I have to be the world’s worst with my wallet. I need a transponder or something. I lose it almost everyday. That’s right, the same dude that carried the nuclear football can’t keep track of his wallet. What an idiot. 🤣

@aelfred_D Good to hear there are still Tag Team fans out there. Whoomp!

Somewhere out there there’s someone putting the seventeenth bumper sticker on their car and thinking “There it is”

@infantrydort After that, parallel parking in a regular car must have been a breeze.

Little known fact about me: I drove a Bradley Fighting Vehicle before I ever drove a car. To this day I don’t know how it was possible, but it’s true. The Bradley was the first thing I ever drove with an engine.

@BrianRoemmele Dr. Franklin has been hard at work. Jaime Sommers needs to check on the Weather Control Device.

EVA-9 by NeoLife Robotics is a bit uncanny…

@npchumor Hip-hip-hooray!

@npchumor Bracing humor.

@KurtSchlichter Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

@CynicalPublius Banana (hammock) republics.

The only thing more offensive than the European position on air conditioning is the European position on men's swimwear.

@CynicalPublius Discuss.

"Universal health care" is neither universal nor healthy.

The US had the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

@CuriosityonX That's a very clean image.

@BrianRoemmele Not to mention nearby Korean BBQ.

The Missed Opportunity of Airship Docking at the Empire State Building And What Could Have Been In the late 1920s, as the Empire State Building rose in Manhattan, its designers and investors envisioned it as far more than an office tower. They planned for its iconic spire to serve as a docking mast for transatlantic airships. The dream was bold and practical: passengers would arrive by airship, secure to the mast atop the 1,250-foot building, disembark directly into the upper floors, and ride elevators down to street level in Manhattan — all within about seven minutes of landing. A dedicated mooring mast was even constructed to make it reality. Engineers ultimately struggled with the core challenge: safely docking a massive, wind-vulnerable airship to a skyscraper in gusty urban winds. Airship operators deemed the risks too high, and the concept quietly faded. A single private blimp managed a brief three-minute docking in September 1931, snarling traffic below but never unloading passengers. The final nail in the era’s coffin came with the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, when the massive hydrogen-filled airship caught fire during landing in New Jersey, killing 36 people and effectively ending public confidence in rigid airships for passenger travel. What Grey Airships Could Have Democratized This was not merely a failed architectural gimmick it represented a fork in the road for transportation itself. Had the technology matured, airships (including modern “grey” variants with advanced envelopes, vectored thrust, and hybrid propulsion) could have fundamentally democratized air travel in ways airplanes never fully have. Unlike fixed-wing aircraft that require long, expensive runways and massive airports, airships can hover, maneuver slowly, and land almost anywhere with minimal infrastructure, a field, a rooftop mast, a cargo yard, or even a ship at sea. Any town, rural area, or emerging region could become a viable “destination” without the need for billions in concrete and tarmac. This would have distributed economic activity far beyond today’s hub-and-spoke airport model, enabling point-to-point travel, regional revitalization, and true aerial accessibility during the critical decades of the 20th century. Safety Through Better Technology and Safer Gases The Hindenburg’s hydrogen catastrophe was tragic but not inevitable. Hydrogen’s extreme flammability doomed the public perception of airships, yet helium (non-flammable, though scarcer and more expensive at the time) was already known and used in some U.S. military airships. Modern grey airships combine: •Inert helium or helium-hybrid lifting gases. •Advanced fire-resistant materials and compartmentalized envelopes. •Redundant propulsion, fly-by-wire stability systems, and weather-avoidance AI. •Much stronger, lighter composite structures that resist high winds far better than 1930s designs. With these improvements, docking at skyscrapers like the Empire State or thousands of simpler masts worldwide would have been not only feasible but routine. Airships could have offered luxurious, low-speed, high-payload travel across oceans and continents with far lower energy intensity per passenger-mile than jets, while opening the skies to places planes could never economically reach. The Empire State’s unused mast stands today as a monument to a path not taken. It reminds us that technological abundance often hinges on persistence through early engineering hurdles. Grey airships, with safer gases and superior control systems, could still fulfill that original democratic promise turning the sky into a truly open transportation commons rather than a network of exclusive runways.

@CynicalPublius @RNCResearch OOO TEEE DEEE!

@RNCResearch He forgot the Jawas emerging from their Chicago Sandcrawler.

The Obama center opening opens with a land acknowledgement: “We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations.”

@CynicalPublius Made homeless due to the Obama Presidential Center.

The reason the legacy media is desperately fawning over the opening of the Obama Jawas Sandcrawler and the cavalcade of Deep State former President/former First Lady villains is because they think they can turn around the fact that America completely rejected everything these evil hooligans stand for. They don't realize it's too late. America's eyes are open and they are not going to close. Amen, and thank you Lord.

@miles_commodore Only #6? (Sad music plays as I slowly walk away.)

The 6th best TV show of the 1970's according to me is The Hulk. Don’t complain about this pick. You might make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry. The Hulk smashes in at 6.

@miles_commodore And the Gorn, who shall be merciful and quick.

The best TV show of the 1960's according to me is Star Trek. This show didn't dazzle you with a bunch of special effects, it was the terrific writing and acting that made this show great. The crew of the Enterprise is my favorite 60’s show.

@BrianRoemmele No problem. The store nearby had one of these.

A technician replaces a malfunctioning vacuum tube inside the ENIAC. Keeping the machine operational meant constantly checking its18,000 tubes for failures.