samar

is there something just inherently wrong with me?

@judsonsprinkler Football in less than 6 months too 🙌

Irrigation start ups. Masters weekend. Anniversary in a few weeks. Well into spring. The vibes are peak😮‍💨

some people just make work so difficult sometimes

Ok, double or nothing…. What If the U.S. Navy STILL isn’t in a Hurry To Reopen The Strait?

@certopinion @raiderdamuni This is why football is ultimately better in every way - there is a brotherhood and loyalty aspect that those in basketball just don’t have

@raiderdamuni We are

Cmon Cougs. Run it back 😐

@raiderdamuni football >>> basketball

@Average_Homeboy 100% agree. The disappointment from this last season honestly makes me apathetic about BYU basketball now. I was a Richie guy but now I see no future. On to football now.

Sorry but Rob’s not a 4 mil point guard, but if he can get it somewhere then go get it.

My bet is that the left’s narrative today will flip completely on its head from “don’t destroy Iran” to “he is abandoning the Iranian people”

@cherylbenson @TiloJung I think the 3 strokes made you retarded

@TiloJung Sorry, I live through that and it’s not the same not whatsoever. They made a big hoopla out of nothing back. This is different with an insane Trump leading.

Is that how the Cuban Missile Crisis felt like?

@Sherank244 @WarMonitor3 Man the UK is screwed, either it’s send their broken boat to some islands on the other side of the world or to turn the power back on at home

@WarMonitor3 UK should send a warship oh yeahhhhh

Chile has just backed Argentinas renewed claims on the British Falkland Islands. Good luck with that...

@UtesBcrazy Lol you support a regime that regularly kills its own citizens and is willing to run their civilization into the ground for their religion. If they had obtained nuclear weapons, they would constantly be threatening to wipe out civilizations, and would actually use nukes to do it

Support a POTUS who threatens to wipe out entire civilizations & you’ve stopped caring & aren't Christian. This isn't strength, it’s just one man being reckless w/ everyone else’s lives. He does not care about us. God help turn the hearts of idiots away from supporting him! 🙏

@Stealth40k I don’t see myself as Link when I play the games anymore, so that immersion has already been broken and ‘Zelda magic’ still exists. So it’s time to let him have a voice in the story, especially in the movie. Games can stay the same but a movie is way different

Former Nintendo Developer Takaya Imamura has some concern about Link speaking in The Legend of Zelda movie: "The moment Link speaks, I can't help but worry a little that the 'Zelda magic' everyone has been nurturing in their hearts might just vanish into thin air" ign.com/articles/forme…

Shooters shoot. Don’t let anyone convince you Twitter isn’t a dating site

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

@Einstein_In @AlexSvanArt Study Newton’s laws bro, relative to them we are moving away from them at the exact same speed

@samar_laropa @AlexSvanArt Relative to them, we're moving away from them fast too. So relativity is a bitch

fun fact: astronauts on board Artemis 2 are aging slower than the rest of us

@Einstein_In @AlexSvanArt But they are still bound by the gravity of Earth, so that means they still have that orbital speed. That last phrase in the parentheses basically negates your argument, because relative to us they are traveling way faster, the orbit around the sun is meaningless.

@AlexSvanArt x.com/i/status/20403…

@BYUFlorida That’s why some people touch it but in Utah we can’t

No grass in sight

@plamen_neykov @rsolene @DrJStrategy I just wish you guys would put more money into Nuclear instead of renewables, because that’s the actual future of energy

@samar_laropa @rsolene @DrJStrategy With current technology, we can't completely avoid the use of oil/gas. But the overwhelming quantity is used for trasportation/heating - we can eliminate that. It is much more comfortable position if we need to import only 5-10% of what we import now.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@plamen_neykov @rsolene @DrJStrategy “Less prone” but never fully prone 😉 Especially when it comes to plastics and polymers

@samar_laropa @rsolene @DrJStrategy Fact is that the renewables make us less prone to foreign blackmail. And alone on this basis we have to double their build out. Am I clear MAGAtard?

@plamen_neykov @rsolene @DrJStrategy Lol, points out supposed story but won’t even prove it as proof. Face it, a full electrical world is hundreds of years away Eurotard

@samar_laropa @rsolene @DrJStrategy Battery-powered mining equipment is rare, but is starting to appear more and more (see China's fully automated electric mining trucks story).