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@TheBabylonBee The US Government did that, and they make a habit out of ignoring the voters. Can’t pin this mess on anyone else

Generation That Put Nation $39 Trillion In Debt Condemns Gen Z For Spending Irresponsibly buff.ly/s2AnKnh

@KathleenWinche3 I'm over these performances for clips. I don't want to hear anything from an elected politician that isn't how they are getting work done that they were elected to do. If they aren't explaining how they delivered on the campaign promises, I'd rather not hear from them.

Gill: "Yes or no question. Are you a racist?" Yentel: "I'm, I'm not a racist." Gill. "You're not a racist? Particularly interesting because according to one of your affiliate charities under your nonprofit umbrella, 'Denial of racism constitutes covert white supremacy.' Are you a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "Uh, sir, I'm here to talk about the essential work that nonprofits..."- Gill: "Are you a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "Can I talk about the work that nonprofits do in district?" Gill: "No, I'm asking you if you're a covert- Because think white supremacist, which according to one of your own organizations, again, 'Denial of racism constitutes covert white supremacy.' Would you like to answer the question?" Yentel: "I don't know what the question is." Gill: "So you refuse to answer whether you are a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "I am here to talk about the essential work that nonprofits do. If you'd like to ask me a question nonprofits..."- Gill: "I am utterly dumbfounded... You are on record right now and you will not say that you are not a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "I don't have a definition in front of me. I haven't looked at the definition. I'm not gonna answer a question about my personal views. I'm here to talk about the work..."- Gill: "I wanna give you one more chance to do this. Are you a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "Why are we so off track from the topic here?" Gill: "No, I'm asking you - I'm asking you a very straightforward question." Yentel: "I've heard your question. Thank you, sir." Gill: And you're not gonna answer whether you are a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "I would like to answer questions about the work- This is- of nonprofit organizations Thank you." Gill: "That is really, really astounding. I can answer very directly that I am not a covert white supremacist and I imagine all of my colleagues can as well. I think you ought to reevaluate what you're doing in the nonprofit sector, uh, if you can't answer that in a straightforward way. That is astounding." Rep Gill is going to be the president one day imo.

A herd of ruminants grazing and moving is magical for what it does to improve the ground. Ranchers who really knew what they were doing rotated sheep, cattle and goats through an area. The result is soil and grass quality you can’t get any other way. As for this story yes that happened and you could do a whole television series on the details of it. Bison or any animal in those numbers is not purely positive.

In 1870, if you took a spade to the ground in Iowa, or Nebraska, or eastern Kansas, you could push it in to the haft and not hit anything that wasn't soil. Six feet of topsoil. Black, friable, alive. The richest agricultural earth on the planet, by a margin so absurd that European visitors with farming backgrounds went silent when they saw it turned over. Most arable land on Earth carries between one and eight inches of topsoil. The Great Plains carried seventy-two. Nobody had ploughed it. Nobody had fertilised it. Nobody had irrigated it. It had been built, slowly and completely, by something else. Stand back from the spade. Stand back from the field. Stand back far enough to see the continent. A herd of bison, fifty miles wide, takes five days to pass the hillside you are standing on. Colonel Dodge recorded this in Arkansas in 1871, and he was not the only one. From the top of Pawnee Rock the herd ran to the horizon in every direction at once. The earth, observers wrote, trembled at three miles. Sixty million animals. The largest gathering of large mammals the planet has ever held. They had been doing this for ten thousand years. The grass grew tall because the bison grazed it hard and moved on. Their hooves broke the crust for seed. Their wallows held the rain. Their dung fed the microbes. Their carcasses fed them harder. The deep-rooted prairie grasses, big bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, drove their roots fifteen feet down, locking carbon into the soil at a depth no plough would ever reach. The bison built the six feet of black earth. The bison were why it existed. Then the hide market arrived. Five thousand bison a day, shot from train windows, left to rot. The U.S. government encouraged it openly, because starving the Plains nations was cheaper than fighting them. By 1889, of the sixty million, five hundred and forty-one remained. The plough followed within a decade. The grass was turned under. The hooves and the wallows and the dung had stopped. The soil, untethered from the system that built it, dried. In April 1935 it rose into the sky as a black wall a thousand miles wide and travelled to the Atlantic. Six feet of soil, built over ten millennia, blown into the sea in a generation. There is no putting the bison back at that scale. The cow is the closest analogue the continent has. Run her like a bison, on grass, on the move, in a tight mob. Watch what the land does.

@libsoftiktok @SecWar Petty Officer is not an Officer. It is similar to Sergeant in other branches

Navy officer SLAMS ICE while in uniform, says their actions are illegal, and says the riots are justified Cc @SecWar

@Double_Blink @2pt_font @davepl1968 Corn could be anything else thar will grow in that soil and climate. It isn’t just “replacing corn”.

@2pt_font @jgndev @davepl1968 Replacing just those fields with that corn with solar would produce far more energy in a season then the corn every will

@2pt_font @davepl1968 This solar sprawl belongs on rooftops.

@jgndev @davepl1968 Growing corn for ethanol is really inefficient use of land and worse for the environment and yet we're doing that. 50% of all new power capacity in the US is solar right now because it's the cheapest, it's going to be a large part of the grid.

@usr_bin_roygbiv @pmarca Where do you think all the stuff GPT is trained on comes from.

I'd be willing to bet a zoomer who has been using gpt for 3 years every day 8 hours a day has a higher level of general knowledge than 99% of boomers from their entire lives

@burgwx @PettusWX 100

Many have tried excessive clickbait with over the top headlines & thumbnails before. Results are often predictable: short-term benefit from audience growth, followed by long-term risks to audience trust and credibility when headlines fail to live up to reality.

@DataRepublican @data_republican This was obvious right away. They don’t mean the concept of democracy they mean the tax money gravy train

🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy” The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State. Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.” Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself. This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a "threat to democracy." To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.

@meathead @andrewzimmern Local butcher is the best if you are lucky enough to have one.

That’s good advice in general, but the grocery store is near me have meat cutters who have been there for many years. I have gotten to know them and often when they see me coming they will tell me wait a minute go into the back room and bring out something special for me. It’s not unusual for them to find a heavily marbled section of beef rib roast in a box of USDA choice that is like buying prime at choice prices. Occasionally, I will bring a slab of ribs that I’ve cooked down there around lunchtime. Several of them eat out back on a picnic table and when I drop off a slab of ribs they are very happy.

Stop buying your meat at big box supermarkets...do this instead. tastingtable.com/2158658/stop-b…

@hiranoi_nomade Good looking knife

アメリカのブラザー達の反応が少ないけど戻っておいで。こういうのも好きでしょ？

@japan_nobunaga Small populations in the US are more likely to be like this. Unfortunately it does not scale here.

In Japan, no one tips. Not because the service is bad. Because tipping would be an insult. The server already gave you everything they had. Money can't add to that. Japan also has nearly 14x fewer lawyers per person than the United States. Not because problems don't happen. Because most of them get resolved before anyone needs to threaten anyone. Think about the last time you tipped 20% and still got bad service. Think about the last time you paid a lawyer just to get what you already deserved. Japan built a different system. Not written in law. Not priced into the bill. Just expected. Of everyone. Always. 🇯🇵

@DudespostingWs A more civilized era

Before online multiplayer took over, people had "LAN parties". Everyone brought their computers to one central location, wired them together, and played in the same room for hours.

@learning_yohei Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann

こんにちは。英語の勉強をしている日本人です🇯🇵まだ初心者です。アメリカ人に質問があります🇺🇸🥰 英会話の練習におすすめの歌があったら教えてください♫ 車の中で歌いながら練習したいです🚘🤭

@tanpukunokami Peanut butter s personal preference but i like crunchy

Apparently apple + peanut butter is a thing in America. Can I trust this? Trying it tonight. Quick question: what's the right peanut butter? Skippy? Jif? Something else? Help a Japanese guy out 🥜🍎

@thomasbrushdev Movies gave people that idea

Just cuz something is flying around in the sky that you don’t understand doesn’t immediately mean it’s from space. Why is that the immediate assumption ?

@Jim_Jordan What we want to hear from y’all is what you are doing to fix it. Not in your next term but right now. On Monday what are you doing to change this? Sound bites from hearings don’t cut it anymore. Nobody with a brain cares about thar because it is not the same as doing something

Illegal aliens are getting taxpayer-funded benefits. Migrants are becoming Medicare millionaires. And Americans are paying for it.

@CynicalPublius There is no debate. These people are morons, didn’t serve and have no opinion on it worth hearing.

Somehow there is an X debate going on right now about VA disability ratings. I'm hearing some idiots saying if it's not from a combat wound, you should not get a disability rating. To which I rebut with the following; 20+ years of: -12 mile ruck marches. -5k/10k/10 mile/every other distance runs. -Parachute landing falls. -Obstacle and confidence courses. -Vehicle rollovers. -Helicopter hard landings. -Heat injuries/cold injuries. -Anthrax shots, COVID shots, all other kinds of shots. -"Here, take some Motrin, you'll be fine." -Weeks/Months/Years of high stress and little sleep. -Extended periods of poor nutrition. -Weird diseases you can only get in places like Afghanistan or Korea. -Burn pits. -All other manner of training injuries. -Never telling anybody you are injured because if you do they might pull you from that leadership position you fought so hard to earn. You do all that for 20+ years, your body will be torn up, I promise. The US military is a physically demanding place, no matter what your branch of service or MOS. Training accidents happen routinely. People die in peacetime accidents, routinely. The idea that a VA disability rating should only come from something that also earns a Purple Heart is nonsense. If anything, our warriors are consistently denied VA disability ratings for what are clearly service-connected ailments.

@tuuu28283 Depends on age and region. “How’s it going”, “What’s up”, “Hey” are all something we say and everyone understands.

アメリカの兄弟達 やっほー！みたいな軽い挨拶ってなにかある？？ （Hello）がやはり基本的？？ 失礼のない軽い挨拶みたいなのがしりたいな！ いぇい！みたいなのがそうなのかな？