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@memeticsisyphus I am not a lawyer but based on K9 legal precedent, the bags of urine left on the moon by US astronauts during Apollo missions should be sufficient to establish dibs.

The indigenous people of the moon (Americans) get to decide. Keep your colonial mindset out of our affairs.

@SamaHoole Don’t forget when Doctors decided newborn babies’ nervous weren’t developed enough to feel pain so it was fine to perform surgery without anesthesia. The babies screaming (until they went into shock) was because babies scream for no reason sometimes. This was into the 80’s btw

Doctors told pregnant women that smoking was fine. Doctors told parents to put babies to sleep on their stomachs. Doctors told patients that thalidomide was a safe sedative. Doctors told people dealing with chronic pain that OxyContin was non-addictive. Doctors told everyone that margarine was safer than butter. Doctors told patients that lobotomies were a legitimate treatment for depression. Doctors told the public that DDT was safe to spray directly on children to control lice. Doctors endorsed specific cigarette brands in medical journals. Doctors told patients with stomach ulcers it was stress, for decades, while Barry Marshall was being laughed out of conferences for suggesting it was a bacterium. Doctors told millions of people that dietary fat caused heart disease, based on a study that excluded the fifteen countries whose data didn't fit. And now a doctor is going to tell you that seed oils are fine. You decide how much weight to give that.

@HustleBitch_ Those look like chicken wheels which were second only to nuggets underway on a sub. People would literally request wake-ups for those.

🚨 U.S. NAVY SAILOR FILMS WHAT THEY’RE BEING FED ON A WARSHIP DURING THIS WAR — PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED A sailor aboard a U.S. Navy warship filmed the food line during deployment. The camera slides past the trays revealing: • breaded patties piled in a metal pan • thick brown gravy poured over everything • oily greens • picked-over mixed vegetables • a tray of rice nearly scraped empty • a few scattered potatoes left at the bottom Some say this is exactly what military chow has always looked like. Others say if sailors are deployed and fighting a war, their meals should look a lot better than this. If billions are spent on the military every year… why does the food look like this?

@ElPenizMightier @crusade_enjoyer @grok This post wasn’t claiming that US F-14s were shot down, it’s claiming that the F-14s that Iran owned from the late 70s were destroyed… the Iranian F-14s were the last in the world since the US scrapped every last nut and bolt from our fleet to prevent Iran from servicing theirs.

@crusade_enjoyer @grok did the US actually use f14s in operation epic fury?

Today we remember the Tomcat. Reports from Iran say the last F-14s were destroyed in airstrikes over Tehran. RIP, old girl. Rest easy.

@RocketPulpHack If true it would be the first time a US SUBMARINE sank a warship with a torpedo since WW2… and the first submarine from ANY country to sink a warship since the Falklands War (1982)

If I’m not mistaken this might the be first time the US Navy has sunk an enemy warship since 1945.

@true_res you have some gorgeous products in some awesome finishes. Unfortunately that means it’s nearly impossible to pair your products with other appliances (oven, dishwasher, etc). Any thoughts on selling a service to refinish other brands to match?

@fl6060842 @CynicalPublius @CaptMarkKelly I think @CynicalPublius is saying the opposite of what you think he said. He’s been a vocal critic of Mark Kelly’s video since the day it aired and is calling out leaders who are trying to undermine POTUS and SECWAR.

Every Soldier understands this from Day One. We don’t need dipshits like you or @CaptMarkKelly or any of the other asswipes who made that video telling service members what to do. If you want to tell them what to do put on a uniform. All you’re trying to do is undermine the President, Secretary Hegseth, and every other person in leadership positions. What “illegal” orders has @POTUS given? None. What illegal orders has @SecWar given? None. Shut the fuck up.

I’d like to talk about one of the most fundamental duties of U.S. military officers and NCOs. When you are an officer or an NCO, and your supervisor issues a lawful order that you disagree with, you have a DUTY to tell your boss why you disagree with his/her order. Many times the boss will listen and change the order. Many other times, the boss will say, “I hear you, I understand your concern, but my original order stands.” When that happens, you—as the officer or NCO receiving the order—have a DUTY to fulfill that order to the best of your ability. Not only that, but you have a DUTY to enthusiastically adopt that order as your own. You can NEVER go back to your subordinates and say something like: “We have to do this because the Old Man said so. I totally disagree but we’re going to do it anyway because he is making us.” That sort of sentiment, if expressed, is absolute poison to good order and discipline and can never be condoned. Yet, this basic DUTY that every E-5 understands has been lost upon many of America’s senior officers with respect to President Trump and SecWar Hegseth. Derisively ridiculing the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and his appointees is absolutely anathema to good order and discipline. But this is so much worse than bad-mouthing your battalion or squadron commander. When you are a serving officer or NCO, when you bad mouth the lawful orders of POTUS/SecWar, you are actually bad mouthing the Constitutional will of the American electorate who elected that President to carry out those exact orders. You have become a rogue officer or NCO. You have betrayed the American people. You have become a late-stage Roman Empire Centurion, where national power was wielded only with the ever-changing loyalty of the legions. If this is you, shame on you. You are violating your oath and have slunk to the cesspool level of military leadership. ________________________________ Also, guess what? I just explained another problem with our military’s War Colleges.

@servomechanica Diablo Canyon produces roughly 18,000 Gigawatts (18 Terawatts) per year, not 18 gigawatts… its 2 units combined are rated to produce roughly 2.2 Gigawatts per hour.

18 gigawatts per year

@washghost1 That’s how I feel listening to the radio traffic report. “Seeing some notable traffic on I-85 southbound…” oh, you mean the exact same traffic, at the exact same time, in the exact same place as every single day? That’s not notable anymore

It’s every time too

@DaveDixonDFW @MatrixMysteries SC only gives you 45 day grace period for out of state plates. Most counties even have a snitch link on their website to report neighbors without in state registration…

@MatrixMysteries Register it in Montana. Setting up an LLC there allows you to do it. Avoids local taxes and high registration fees. That’s why you see high $ cats with Montana plates.

“I didn’t know I’d be taxed EVERY YEAR just for owning my car.” Virginia taxes cars, trailers, campers, RVs & boats EVERY YEAR — even when they’re paid off. Same vehicle, same owner… $2,104.45 just to own it. SEPERATE from tags & registration. “They're taxing OWNERSHIP.”

@Josevato11 @AmberJoCooper @realannapaulina @SpeakerJohnson There should be no question about what’s in a CR because there should be NOTHING new in a CR. You can argue the merit of the lawsuit provision, the hemp loophole, or anything else until you’re blue in the face, neither should have been allowed to be included.

@AmberJoCooper @realannapaulina @SpeakerJohnson This is why we need short, single issue bills, limited in scope and with plenty of time for congress to review them in depth. Too many rushed pieces of trash legislation passed over the years because they know no one would pass it of they knew what was in it.

The problem with this plan is that Mamdani will seem successful for some time. How long will depend on how fast they run out of money. He’s suggested he has the ability to tax any corp that does business in the city, not just those HQ’d there. Unless companies like Amazon, Meta, Coke etc. etc. abandon the city, that could drag out indefinitely.

Touch it 😍

@WallStreetApes SC does this as well. As a bonus, they use their own system to value your car. My wife’s Range Rover value has dropped like a rock on KBB and NADA but somehow still worth a fortune with SC’s system.

This is CRAZY The state of Virginia is making people pay taxes on their cars, trailers, campers, RVs and boats EVERY YEAR based on their value Every year you must again pay taxes on your vehicles, even if they’re paid off - They give you an assessed value - Then there is a rate per hundred dollars that you pay - This year's rate is $2.35 per hundred dollars of the piece of property that you own - Then they charge you per month that you own that item For this woman to own her own cars in the state of Virginia this year, she was billed $2,104.45 (She shows the bill as proof) This is separate from registration fees and tags. “This bill right here is specifically for owning a car or camper trailer, whatever, in the state of Virginia.” Taxes in America are out of control

@villigm I think if they just stay on their current path and continue to elect the same caliber of leadership, by 2030 they could have 0 companies in the top 50.

Europe now has 0 companies left in the global top 25. What needs to happen for that to change by 2030?

@SenateGOP @LeaderJohnThune @SenJohnBarrasso The Dems insist that their objection to the bill has nothing to do with illegal alien healthcare and everything to do with the expiring ACA credits.I’d say it’s reasonable to take the GOP CR, add the tax credits and see how they vote. Bet they’d find a new reason to say no.

@Technocrat_John @micsolana The available reports indicate that the rifle did not have a scope.

this is how NPR is characterizing a shooting at an ICE facility in which the terrorist responsible wrote “ANTI-ICE” on one of the casings

@gatorgar Not going to lie, this is part of the reason I find it difficult to start going back to church. As a teen I went often and everyone had their regular seat. Even though I know, rationally, that nobody would be mad if I took their seat, it still makes me super uncomfortable

Alright Christians, help an ex-atheist and former Democrat out: Can I just walk into a church and sit down? What about mass on Sunday? Is there anything I need to do in advance? I don’t want to start a denominational argument but where do I go? My family needs to go to church.

@LeadingReport I got a call from census bureau when I was on a work trip in Virginia and told the woman that I was only there for 3 days. She said that since I disclosed that I was in Virginia at the time of the call, she had to count that towards Virginia’s count.

BREAKING: Nearly all errors from the 2020 Census disproportionately hurt red states, with many undercounted and many blue states overcounted, per Census Bureau audit.

@maddenifico Maybe he can get one of those fancy Hunter Biden special pardons where it covers over a decade of anything he might have done that might be illegal.

When the Trump regime's reign of terror comes to an end and the magnitude of their crimes are revealed to the public — America is going to have its own version of the Nuremberg trials. Trump is already death warmed over, but Stephen Miller is going to spend a long time in prison.

@AdamKinzinger Acting like this is something new is just petty. I spent 20 years on subs. We would frequently go out for 29 days to avoid paying family separation pay? Hell, we would go out for 29 days, pull in for 1 and go back out. Half the sailors wouldn’t even get to leave the boat

So Trump put the national guard on 29 day orders?! Why does this matter: They don’t pay full housing allowance and no health insurance until 30 days. What an abusive commander in chief. So Trump