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@CynicalPublius Heavy on the being duped by not being critical of Obama as grace given by former Presidents. Same. Makes me sick

RE: George W. Bush One of my great regrets in life is the way I defended George W. Bush in the early 2000s. This cost me friends and exposed me to relentless personal attacks. I defended his CHARACTER. I thought what I was doing was right. I was wrong. I did not believe—and still do not believe—that he “lied” us into the war in Iraq. My belief was and is based on my knowledge of classified pre-war intelligence and my service early in the war on the Iraqi base that was most suspected to include WMD storage. I defended Bush against “Bush lied, people died.” I defended Bush against “Chimpy McBushitler” and all of the other spurious Democrat insults that served only to undermine the war effort I had been fighting. But while I defended Bush, he NEVER defended himself. Then, when a true Marxist was elected President in the form of the worst human being to occupy the Oval Office since Woodrow Wilson (i.e., Barack Obama), Bush was SILENT. He never, ever spoke out against Obama, and even cozied up to him and Michelle, which I assumed was part of the tradition of former Presidents never criticizing their successors. (I was wrong in my assumption.) THEN Donald Trump was elected President by America and suddenly Bush found his voice in criticizing serving Presidents. Why would he do this to a member of his own party other than because Trump was an outsider determined to dismantle the tyranny of the federal administrative state? I now know that George W. Bush is a Deep State charlatan of extremely low character. Allegiance to the Deep State and The Swamp trumps any allegiance he may have ever had to his own party, the United States of America, the Constitution, or the American people. He is despicable. Surprisingly, I now find him more objectionable than the other Presidents in this picture. At least they let us know who they actually were. One of my great regrets in life is the way I defended George W. Bush in the early 2000s.

@radioactivered Holy AI post

The world’s entire manufactured supply of radium was produced between 1898-1960s, we only have really been making radium on a commercial scale for roughly 50 years. In the U.S alone (even before production fully ramped up) about 70 grams of radium was sold just for radioluminescent paint used in consumer items between 1913-1920. Public demand for radium was so crazy that by the 1930s, doctors were complaining there wasn’t enough left over for medical and scientific work. Only around a few thousand grams were ever produced worldwide across that period. Every bit of it still exists in some form today (thanks to its 1,600 year half-life like you mentioned) but we only know the exact location of roughly 2–5% of it. The rest is scattered everywhere. Over 40% of global radium output was sold directly to the public in luminous compounds for quack medicines, pocket watches, alarm clocks, paint kits, light switches, pull chains and all other sorts of novelty items like you see me posting. Another 20–30% went to the military for luminous paint applications. The British Navy was one of the biggest users, their standard allowed up to 250 µCi of radium per gram of paint because I guess they REALLY wanted to see in the dark. Anyways, that makes it the ultimate treasure hunt for me and I’ll gladly contribute some of my space in life for helping preserve some of it. haha, radium go brrrrrrr ☢️ (I just bought this watch, btw)

I’ve worked closely with dozens if not hundreds of people in that salary range in four different businesses, all publicly traded multi billion market cap level. The people those roles are all institutionalized to the point of being robotic. Large corporations actively punish independent thinking. The idea that these people problem solved and innovated their way to mid-senior level in a singular minded monolith is borderline absurd. I can’t speak to the smaller private companies or start ups but for the large corps I would 100% disagree.

If you think a $300K corporate salary is payment for 40 hours of weekly labor, I've got news for you... There is a persistent cynical narrative that large enterprises are bloated engines of inefficiency, filled with overpaid professionals who spend their days looking at slides and doing "nothing." I mean, it's a comforting myth for critics, but I think it fundamentally misunderstands modern knowledge work. That $300K salary (or $400K, or $500K) isn't a reward for linear effort but an option premium on high-leverage thinking. We are still haunted by the ghost of the assembly line, ie, the outdated idea that compensation must directly correlate with time spent + physical output. In the factory world, if you leave your station, production stops, but in the knowledge economy, value is almost totally decoupled from time. Folks... An enterprise paying a senior leader or specialist $25K a month is not buying 160 hours of typing, they are buying *insurance* against catastrophic errors and positioning themselves for asymmetric upside. I'll try to make it tangible with an example... Consider a complex matrix organization busy with a $40M product migration. In this environment, the value distribution of a worker's is heavily spiked. Most days look like nothing... alignment meetings, reading documentation, maintaining steady state. Yes, to an outsider, it looks like "doing nothing." But then a critical day arrives. A vendor fails, a timeline slips, a crossroads appears, whatever... If that $300K professional has the institutional memory and capability to make just 4 or 5 correct decisions during those critical moments, the ROI is staggering! A single right call can avert a $5M problem. Suddenly, that $300K salary doesn't look like bloat but, to me, seems like the cheapest asset on the p&l. These days we are bombarded by tech CEOs promising fully autonomous, AI-driven organizations and I keep saying these pitches miss the entire point of how complex enterprises actually move. Data computation can be outsourced to an LLM but going through the decision fabric of an enterprise cannot. You need people for: > Knowing *how* to build consensus across disconnected departments with competing incentives; > Understanding the unspoken history of why past projects failed, and how to position a new initiative so it doesn't trigger corporate antibodies; > When a multi-million-dollar decision goes sideways, an algorithm cannot stand before a board of directors or regulators and take ownership of the corrective action. An AI can give you a pristine strategic framework with nice and difficult sounding words, but it cannot navigate the human matrix required to execute it. The ability to be effective inside a complex enterprise is a rare AND expensive skillset precisely because it cannot be automated or easily replicated. My point is you aren't paying for the 9-to-5 "grind", but more for the readiness. Like an elite surgeon or an expert technician, you pay for the decades of accumulated knowledge that allow them to fix a crisis in 5 minutes, not the 5 minutes itself.... Leverage, not labor.

Why have we never seen a hot girl with a crippling gambling addiction? Why does this not exist? Only men and old uggs

@Spursup79 The picture of the downtown area isn’t Beech Island.

Good Morning! Beech Island is an unincorporated community and Census-Designated Place (CDP) in Aiken County, South Carolina, known for its rich history as one of the state's oldest English settlements, dating back to the 1680s as Savano Town. It's named for the beech trees in the nearby Savannah River swamp and is home to attractions like the Beech Island Historical Society and Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site. The area is characterized by its historical significance, a mix of rural and residential life, and a population that tends to own their homes.

@ReaganGomez Kinda like the free EV chargers

Your first hit is always free.

@cornbreadcowboi All I’m hearing is the oyster roasts are back on

On god they bout to let Alex murdaugh out and he gon be ridin round the low country in a Benz stuntin on all his haters

@Empty_America Pea gravel if you like getting stuck in your own driveway

Driveway status levels: 1. Oyster Shell 2. Natural round gravels/small stones 3. Pea gravel 4. Grassy driveways, with grass in middle. 5. Blacktop 6. Sharp coarse gray gravels 7. Dirt with ruts and standing puddles.

@anewonex @NoahRyanCo You missed the point of the original post and Amazon doesn’t deliver in a Toyota Corolla

@nate34560 @NoahRyanCo This isn't food delivery and these things cost the same on Amazon as they do at Walmart.

The brokest people you know are prolific Doordashers. Impulsivity and instant gratification drives them to make poor financial decisions (like paying $30 for some dude to deliver them a burrito). Increase in food delivery is indicative of doomspending and loss of grey brain matter required for multi-step tasks like cooking. Cook more.

@PalmerLuckey Patiently waiting for the undersea logistics bases

Anduril is so much cooler than people think Anduril is cool. You think Anduril is cool? Okay. Wait till you see the products we haven't even started to hint at. Half a dozen game-changers in their own right, each of which could easily be a $1B+ startup on their own.

@Slim_Picking5 @MeanHash There’s a reason this has 0 likes

@MeanHash There is no trailer bigger than a house, then again as a nation who uses cups as a unit of measurement maybe sizing things up ain't your strong suit

Watching British people realize the double wide trailer I dropped on my hunting property is bigger than the biggest house in their neighborhood was funny af this weekend. I told them it was just a cabin to sleep in on the property and apologized for the amenities and then when we got there they were in total shock about how big and nice it is. 🤣 Told them I bought it used for $50k and they almost couldn't even talk to me.

@brockpierson As I should be

You are someone's most hated 𝕏 account

@MarmotRespecter I agree it’s not an insult, or shouldn’t be

@nate34560 idc about being called a yankee it's only an "insult" to retards i'm simply commenting that it's funny because a lot of these people are less southern than me

always funny to get people calling me a yankee when i (correctly) point out that the South is not good at customer service my (welsh) ancestors were in florida when it was still spain, one of the founding florida cracker families. i have ~1300 cousins around stone mountain, GA

@emilykmay Have women ever built a society that kept millions of people safe and secure?

if men stopped doing all the heavy duty, necessary, dirty jobs that make the world run...women would do them. we already know this, it happened in WWII. if women stopped doing the thankless, routine care work that makes the world go round, vulnerable people would be neglected.

@UsingLyft But at least we have street food on every corner now

I want my country back. Everything is fucking broken. Companies are all being run more and more poorly. The quality of virtually everything is worse. Nobody can get an order or a delivery right. Send these 3rd world immigrants home

@MarmotRespecter @grok I’m sure your beautiful accent had nothing to do with that

@nate34560 @grok cope. i just waited an hour for a white chick to process 5 car rentals

it takes one customer service interaction in the South to realize that the civil war was completely unnecessary because these people would have become an economic backwater within one generation

@swiss_34 @EricSwallowswel @realpeteyb123

@nate34560 @EricSwallowswel @realpeteyb123

I used to sell more organic baby formula in southern Florida than all of Canada, Nobody cares about the Canadian market.