@DerekMiiller @HouseLowlights Yeah, well then "the rules" are ass. If the ball leaves your hands before any contact, it should never be a fucking foul. Basketball sucks now... everyone is soft as fuck.
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@HouseLowlights You obviously don’t know the rules. You have to give the shooter a place to land. Can’t have your feet in that small bubble. They were doing that. Like it or not that’s a foul on most of those.
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Shai flopped on every single shot attempt.
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@AMCTheatres Yeah, except none of the three AMC theaters in Montgomery, AL got these.
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Cleared for takeoff! Grab your wingman and suit up with the TOP GUN commemorative Maverick and Goose helmets and souvenir cup. Large popcorn or drink included. Available 5/13 while supplies last. Get tickets now: bit.ly/4w1hDma
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@TrumpWarRoom @SecDuffy Did he learn that on his 7 month American Taxpayer funded vacation?
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.@SecDuffy says gamers "actually become really good air traffic controllers."
"We went to our academy in OKC. We asked questions of 250 of our students. All but 3 of those 250—they're all gamers ... So we had 12k people apply to become air traffic controllers in 24 hours."
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Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer.
A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question.
Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?”
One question. No recovery.
Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”
This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline?
Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.”
They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing.
They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.
And they publish it with absolute certainty.
That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in.
Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home.
His critics operate in a text editor.
He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap.
His loudest critics built a byline.
So why the coordinated hatred?
Because they lost the leash.
The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think.
They don’t hate the engineer.
They hate that the engineer took their monopoly.
You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics.
They own the syntax.
He owns the physics.
One of them is going to Mars.
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@Kory232753 @PalantirTech The only reason idiots like you are allowed to espouse ideas that will never work is because you're protected by realists.
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@PalantirTech No thanks bud, we need to use AI for the betterment of the human race....
Not to kill people better and quicker....
Can we all agree Palantir needs to be torn down peice by peice and scattered through the wind like dust?
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Because we get asked a lot.
The Technological Republic, in brief.
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
techrepublicbook.com
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@Unit_News @PalantirTech You didn't need so many words to tell everyone you're a retard with no real argument. My response is proportional.
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Palantir's tech-oligarch manifesto is pure self-serving garbage from a firm already raking in billions off AI kill lists and surveillance tools that Netanyahu's regime loves for Gaza ops.
Pushing Silicon Valley to "build better rifles" and embrace AI deterrence while simping for Musk's ego trips reeks of the same warmongering hypocrisy that keeps endless conflicts profitable.
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@lite_thespark @xwingxing @disneystore @alanmyching This is 100% a leftover Disney shill account. Only retards like the sequels.
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@xwingxing @disneystore @alanmyching agreed!!!! 7, 8, or 9 would have absolutely been purchased my me if they were available outright. Even if the mystery box had them it would increase the odds in getting one of my favorites 🫤
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Your destiny awaits! Will you receive one of the six episode Spirit Jerseys or the Special Chase style? The Star Wars Mystery Box lands on April 24 at 8AM PT.
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@drerunsit @mxb_twt @PsyopAnime Why are you out here talking about cocks in mouth??? What's with the tough guy routine, Dumbo?
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@VigilantFox Chappelle is still the funniest comedian I've ever seen. But he's a weak person who has caved to the woke mob. I feel zero sympathy for him. He went from making fun of gays, trannies, Blacks, Whites, etc., to pretending he's virtuous. Eat a fucking dick, bro.
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Dave Chappelle calls out Lauren Boebert for exploiting his good faith for political gain.
It started when Chappelle was on Capitol Hill, and Boebert asked to take a picture with him.
Boebert “instantly” used that picture for something Chappelle says you “should never do to a person like me.”
“Here comes Lauren Boebert, and she said, ‘Can I get a picture?’ And I’d already taken 40 pictures. I didn’t want to say no in front of everybody, but I didn’t know the phrase: ‘I respectfully decline.’”
“So I just took the picture. And then, she posted the picture before I could even get from there to the show and says something to the effect of ‘Just [three] people that knew that there’s just two genders.’”
“She instantly weaponized it. Or politicized it.”
“So I got to the arena, and I lit her ass up for doing that. And she should never do that to a person like me.”
The Vigilant Fox 🦊@VigilantFox
Dave Chappelle fires back after backlash over his Saudi Arabia show. Says no one ever had a problem with Saudi money until “a black man” made “money off the plantation.” “The United States government does business with the Saudis. Netflix does business with Saudis, everyone. Saudis financed tons of movies. I see them financing boxing matches and all these things.” “And none of these things were an issue until I went there.” “Now, why is that? As soon as a black man can make money off the plantation, they try to tell you that the money is dirty.” FULL EXCHANGE BELOW: REPORTER: “US intelligence did make it clear that they believe that the Saudis killed Jamal Khāshqujī in the embassy in Turkey. And you knew that when you went, right?” CHAPPELLE: “Oh, absolutely.” REPORTER: “You had no qualms?” CHAPPELLE: “I won’t say that. They asked me to go years before that, and I said no for that very reason.” “Since that time, the United States government does business with the Saudis. Netflix does business with Saudis, everyone. Saudis financed tons of movies. I see them financing boxing matches and all these things.” “And none of these things were an issue until I went there.” “Now, why is that? As soon as a black man can make money off the plantation, they try to tell you that the money is dirty. Well, okay, I’ll go home and spend the money with actual slave owners on it. Where is this clean money you’re talking about?” REPORTER: “But you said you hesitated for years to go. There are years you didn’t go. So what made the difference for you?” CHAPPELLE: “Time. Time and circumstance. Time. And the wheels of commerce kept turning.” “If you want to be that pure about money, then stop driving your car, stop eating, don’t use your cell phone. Everything is tethered to something that’s just terrible.” “And I can make a million excuses or reasons to deprive that crowd of that show, but, man, when I was standing in front of them, I feel like I did the right thing.”
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@Jint77 @mxb_twt @PsyopAnime Well, something your retarded ass said sure as hell was confusing. If PsyopAnime is "re-creating existing art," please link me the original art. If you can't, you love fat cocks in your mouth.
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🇯🇵 Mōna Kimura is running K-1 right now and it's not close.
K-1 is the iconic Japanese kickboxing promotion where strikes with fists, knees and kicks are all on the table. Kimura is using all of them and her opponents are finding out the hard way.
When the power catches up to the technique, it's over for everyone.
@mona_world412
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@Turbinetraveler I love when the robot voice starts repeating, "retard."
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Airbus A319 landing at Paro International Airport, known for being one of the most challenging airports in the world for landing, due to proximity of steep Himalayan mountains and narrow valleys, very short visual approach distance, no radar assistance, and short runway.
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@ESPNInsights @espn Cool… now do it when teams actually play defense and not All Star pace every night, matter of fact Rookie or not, 51 doesn’t impress me when everyone drops 40 like it’s nothing now
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Cooper Flagg (19 years, 103 days old) is the first teenager in NBA history with a 50-point game 😳
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@The4thEstate @DEI4WhiteGuys Not really, though. That's like "being Christian" and supporting abortion.
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Happy Good Friday, and I hope you have a great Easter Sunday
And to the Jews…
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@GuntherEagleman Remember guys, it's impossible to win a war unless you lose ZERO assets, it costs NOTHING to the taxpayer or the economy, and the media says it's cool. Fucking retards all in the comments.
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🚨 SECOND US Air Force combat plane — an A-10 Warthog — has gone DOWN in the Persian Gulf region
Pilot is SAFE after being rescued.
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