Matthew
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I went and did it. I bought an electric mower…and I absolutely HATE it. I already miss the smell of the gas. This thing bogs down & shuts off at even a little bit of high grass. It won’t slice up a pine cone and kick it out the side like my gas mower. The cut is extremely uneven. Sometimes I used to edge the parking area and instead of grabbing my gas powered Stihl blower, I’d just run my gas powered mower over the edged grass on the concrete and it’d suck it right up and give me a clean sidewalk. Not this Electric mower. No, it doesn’t even have enough power to move the clippings off the concrete. Worst $700 I’ve ever spent. (Now the EZ-Go edger/weedeater combo..that thing is a beast)
Braxton McCoy@braxton_mccoy
All the bros will have electric mowers before the end times come.
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@55FitAndFeisty @WallStreetApes They can't be helped. That's the point.
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@WallStreetApes The data may or may not be true, but what's your point? Are you just trying to insult black parents and students? Why? Wouldn't it be more constructive to invite a debate about the best ways to help underperforming schools improve - including help for families?
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American compares 2 schools in the same area, both for the exact same funding, both had the same amount of teachers, facilities everything. They were only 10-15 miles apart
- Floyd Central High School was 91% White students
- New Albany High School was majorly black and multicultural students (of very close to majority, at least 41%+ from what I could find)
The white high school performed better in every metric
- Test scores
- Teachers preferred working at Floyd Central because of less fights, better environment
- Floyd Central beat them at every metric, every sport except basketball
So the majority (or nearly majority) black and minority school was at a slightly less economic advantage, but the white kids that went to that school still outperformed the minority students in test scores, while they to were also being in that ‘less economically advantaged’ group
So the proven claim here is
- 2 school gets the same funding and assets, the white school did better in every metric
- White kids that are also economically disadvantaged still performed better on tests then black students in the same bad financial position
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What does Zendaya have on Hollywood filmmakers that they keep casting her in almost every major upcoming movie?
She plays the same character every time. And no hate to her, but her acting range is limited.
Despite years in the industry, can anyone name even one scene from any of her movies where she delivered a truly outstanding performance?
So why do they keep choosing her over other talented actresses?
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@OMApproach His femur bone would snap in half at that size. As an animal gets larger, the bone must become thicker.
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The further you go back, the larger the human species are. Second Temple Jewish texts and Christian literature describe Adam as an enormous cosmic being, so the only specific size we have is from the Hadith, where Adam is described as being sixty cubits tall. That's 30 meters, or over 100 feet.
Next we have Gilgamesh from the Sumerian texts and the Epic of Gilgamesh, described as being 11 cubits tall, or almost 6 meters and 19 feet.
Today, we humans are much smaller. If we take into consideration the megafauna that went extinct during the Younger Dryas and almost every animal having giant ancestors, why is it forbidden for humans to know their true history?
The antediluvian civilization was not only bigger, but its people also lived longer...
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@PageauJonathan You don't need to attend the gladiator games to find meaning. Nobody is making you do this.
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There are three wives in The Odyssey movie: Penelope, Helen and Clytemnestra. Here's a question for all of you. Why would Nolan cast the same actress to play both Clytemnestra and Helen? This is in no way required in the original story. What do they have in common and how are they both different from Penelope?
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The Bible is not a story where Christ just shows up halfway through to create a fun little plot twist.
Christ was present at creation. Christ was present in the burning bush. Christ was at Sinai when the law was given. Christ was at Jericho. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
The law belongs to the Triune God, not to a people. It is His law, not ours. The consequences of breaking the law belonged to all people, Jew and Gentile—until the incarnate Christ Himself bore the penalty of sin and paid the ultimate price on behalf of all who believe in Him. Christ fulfilled the law perfectly, yet died, and rose again that we might live with Him for eternity in spite of our sin.
The entire Bible, from the beginning to end, is the story of adoption, apostasy, atonement, and redemption. It is the story of our sin and the Triune God’s mercy and grace.
There is no Bible without Christ, because there is no God apart from the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And there is no redemption without Christ, either.
That is the point of the Bible. That is why the Triune God gave us the word and the Word. And anyone who tries to obscure that essential fact—the most essential Truth in all of history from now until the end of time—deserves to be strongly rebuked.
Dr Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
With regard to "Judeo Christian": The 10 Commandments are Jewish. The great stories of the Old Testament are Jewish. The Jews developed the idea of subsidiarity as the alternative to tyranny and slavery. The Jews established the cultural preconditions for the rise of universal literacy. The fate of Israel at the hands of the Islamists is the fate of the West. This rising tide of anti-semitism sickens me. Those of you engaging in it for your oh-so-moral reasons—you're despicable. And remember, you proud "Christians" objecting in all your purity to the term: Christ Himself was a Jew.
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In the 1970s, several species of Asian carp were brought in as foreign workers to do the low-skill, labor-intensive jobs that native fish supposedly couldn’t handle at scale. The carp performed the task efficiently at first, and their population size remained relatively contained.
Over time, the carp escaped into the broader ecosystem. Their numbers exploded. They consumed the resources the native species depended on, outcompeted local populations, and turned the environment into a chaotic and dangerous mess for all involved.
For decades the official response was to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem. Nothing worked. The invaders kept spreading anyway. The carp had anchored themselves through mass reproduction.
Turns out the real solution was already swimming in the same waters. Strong native predators like the blue catfish began devouring the invaders whole. These were the all American fish who had been held back and kept down for years. Once they were allowed to operate at full strength, they controlled the explosion naturally and at no extra cost to the system.
The expensive interventions mostly failed. The natives who were built for this kind of competition succeeded. The solution was to allow the native fish to do what they had been built to do all along: defend their homes and offspring with all the ferocity of a mother grizzly.
I hope you enjoyed this story that is only about fish.
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@MichaelGirdon Doesn't he realize he's sitting at a different altar when watching these?
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I understand Pageau wants to focus on the story itself but he seems OK with throwing the form of it in the bin because it's cleverly told, which from Nolan isn't a surprise.
But I, like many people, am tired of being told to look past obvious issues in media so that I can enjoy them.
The aesthetic (medieval fair costumes) and woke (black Helen, trans soldier) issues have become too numerous and too obvious to ignore.
These movies, video games, stories made for "modern audiences" and their creators do not deserve our money and attention anymore, certainly when being able to simply enjoy them requires increasingly more effort and homework.
Jonathan Pageau@PageauJonathan
First thoughts on The Odyssey. There is a scene at the very beginning of the film in which, in the absence of his father, Telemachus is being trained by the blind Eumaeus, Odysseus’s loyal servant. Eumaeus warns that the reason Telemachus is constantly being bested by his sparring partner is that his defense is too quick. He must move more slowly, open his chest, invite the attack, and use his opponent’s momentum against him. In the spirit of Odysseus, deep trickery is at work in this film. Don’t let the apparent compromises fool you. The Odyssey is an absolute triumph. It is made with a profound love for the source material, filled with deep pathos: the return of the father, the elevation of the son, and the restoration of proper order despite all the sins perpetrated by the guardians of that order. It is a film about the end of one world and the beginning of another; about remembrance, return, and the perpetuation of an order after a long wandering through chaos. It’s The Odyssey.
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@PageauJonathan We know what they're doing. You know what they're doing. They know we know what they're doing.
You still post this.
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An by the way, the casting of "Eliott" Page is absolutely brilliant. A masterstroke actually.
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@RepThomasMassie In Trump's own words 6 years ago:
“We’ve spent 8 trillion dollars in the Middle East and we’re not fixing our roads.”
Your founding father George Washington was very clever not to fight wars with Europeans, and America too the opportunity to become superpower.
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To fund an overextended empire, Roman emperors debased their coins by diluting the precious metal content.
This week, Congress will vote to eliminate the PENNY, which was already mostly zinc since 1982. The same bill will allow the U.S. Mint to make NICKELS with cheaper metal.
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@PageauJonathan No one doubts Nolan's ability. There are other issues going on.
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First thoughts on The Odyssey.
There is a scene at the very beginning of the film in which, in the absence of his father, Telemachus is being trained by the blind Eumaeus, Odysseus’s loyal servant. Eumaeus warns that the reason Telemachus is constantly being bested by his sparring partner is that his defense is too quick. He must move more slowly, open his chest, invite the attack, and use his opponent’s momentum against him.
In the spirit of Odysseus, deep trickery is at work in this film.
Don’t let the apparent compromises fool you. The Odyssey is an absolute triumph. It is made with a profound love for the source material, filled with deep pathos: the return of the father, the elevation of the son, and the restoration of proper order despite all the sins perpetrated by the guardians of that order.
It is a film about the end of one world and the beginning of another; about remembrance, return, and the perpetuation of an order after a long wandering through chaos.
It’s The Odyssey.
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In the Judeo-Christian western world, Islam is:
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@PageauJonathan @PageauMatthieu 3 minutes of this interview requires 3 days of soaking it up.
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Matthieu, @PageauMatthieu dropping bombs non-stop in this interview, strategies in understanding what is happening to us right now, how we are manipulated, how we have accepted dark strains of thought. youtu.be/RDoma7f9N_4?si…
YouTube
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Jonathan does a deep dive into Sabbatai Zevi the Jewish Messiah
This is one of the most interesting stories you have never heard
Link in the comments
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Behold! A suit of crocodile armor, likely worn by an Egyptian cultist over 2000 years ago.
@grok please illustrate how this figure would have looked like wearing it.
Be as historically accurate as possible, I want to see if I'll lose my job.
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@Cernovich Once you said something like, "just get in and build the habit. You can always turn up the juice later."
Wonders for me. Wonders.
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A lesson people don't like to hear as it goes against "all or nothing" brain rot. One day a week won't be progress, but it can stop the regress. Sometimes that's good enough. No big deal. Do what you can.
Jose Antonio PhD@JoseAntonioPhD
A little bit of exercise still helps!
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Lindsey Graham came from humble beginnings and became one of the most powerful lawmakers in the most powerful nation on Earth. His story was a fundamentally American one.
Early in my Senate tenure, I remember getting into a shouting match with Lindsey about a Ukraine funding bill at lunch and then learning the very next day that he was pushing rail legislation I really cared about behind the scenes. That was Lindsey Graham. He fought like hell for the things he believed in, and he was just as willing to go to bat for you when it counted.
Lindsey had the best sense of humor in the Senate. He loved the game of politics. He was constantly asking which races were up and down, and how he could help. As he liked to say, “I don't care if you're an isolationist or a religious fanatic, so long as you have an R next to your name, I want you to win.”
We certainly had our disagreements. But I couldn't help but like him. A one of a kind figure in our politics. I'll be praying for him and his family.
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Whoever figures out how to create household items to do the thing you bought them for (and nothing more than the thing) will be very rich.
Don’t need an app. Don’t need Bluetooth. Don’t need push notifications. Don’t need it to be “smart”. Don’t need it to calculate my biological age.
Just do the thing. Enough.
taoki@justalexoki
how the hell am i supposed to pick a washing machine like literally what am i even looking for. i just want it to wash clothes good why is one $200 and another $2500
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@KyleDWilson1 Persians were white. Why are we pretending modern demographics are how it has always been.
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"I am going to compare a shitty Disney adaptation of a video game to the adaptation of one of the keystones of western literature done by one of the most prolific directors of the day to somehow conflate the two adaptations, of course ignoring the fact that nobody liked the white guy in the Prince of Persia movie, thus making any comparison meaningless. I remain a smart person."
-Still not a smart person, 2026
Damian Wayne@Fame_0007
For no reason, here is Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan in Prince of Persia. Must've been really accurate.
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