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@Jringo1508 I grew up in what I affectionately refer to as a “prairie cube.” All across the Great Plains you’ll find big, white, square farmhouses. I don’t know if it was from Sears or another company, but if I ever build a house, it will be an updated version of one.

Great idea, right? Archaeologists working on a site in Southern Italy about a decade ago were puzzled. It was a roman era quarry but many of the pieces were had numbers chiseled on them and there were multiple remaining stones that appeared the same but were different numbers. Turns out the quarry would turn out pre-fabricated 'Greek Style' stone villas that were then shipped around the Roman empire to be assembled on site Lego style. More or less the same thing Sears did here. The more things change...

@SandyofCthulhu Of all the characters in Star Trek I hated, I hated Kes the most. I loathed literally every moment she was on screen.

Everybody loved Uhura and Sulu and Worf and we missed Yeoman Rand the moment she stopped showing, so misogyny & racism is no longer on the table as a possible excuse. Also we f*king hated Wesley Crusher who was both white and male. (Yes I know it wasn't Wil Wheaton's fault - he just did his job.) So racism and sexism is pretty much not a Star Trek thing. Like at all.

@rabbriansamuel If I had it to do over again, The State would have nothing to do with my marriage.

In my view, when a Christian couple is married by clergy but refuses to get a State marriage license, they are fornicating and living in sin. Am I incorrect? Every now and again, I am approached by believers wanting me to marry them without a legal marriage license, because marriage is between them and God, not the government. I will not officiate such ceremonies.

@BradRTorgersen I told my wife to let them take whatever little is still useful to someone else and she can do whatever she wants with the rest. Burn it, bury it, blast it into space, sink it in the ocean. I don’t care. I won’t be using it anymore.

Can I confess again my TOTAL CONFUSION at American funerary custom as it exists in 2025? Spending tens of thousands of dollars on a fancy, decorative metal box. In which the embalmed-for-preservation deceased is laid in a 3-piece suit and tie. To be lowered into the ground, but not to properly decompose and return to the Earth. Just to slowly . . . mummify. Protected. Though no one will ever want to see.

@DefiantLs How much pepper spray can fit in a super soaker?

Chief Brian O’Hara and Minneapolis police that defended anti-ICE rioters get chased down by the same people they defended

@Jay_Crack23 @robprogressive You know people have been making up stories to make a point or have a moral for thousands of years, right? This isn’t something new. Aesop has a whole book of them. And then there’s this guy Jesus…

@robprogressive I'll take shit that didnt happen for £500

A man was getting out of his Lamborghini and someone stopped him and said aggressively: “How many people could you have fed in starving countries for the price of that Lambo?” The man paused, then replied. “I don’t know, but it fed a lot of the 1,800 families who work at Lamborghini. It fed the designers' families. It fed the carbon-fibre manufactures families. It fed the tyre manufacturers families. The 300 workers who are dedicated to making each individual Lamborghini all get to eat and work building something they love" This is the fundamental problem with socialists. Socialism expects you to give it all away, but capitalism creates it in the first place

@eurofounder Wait, are you friggin serious? I can’t tell if this is real ir just really really stupid satire. Please daddy gubmint, wipe my ass for me when I’m old. I would opt out of social security if I could. The State is TERRIBLE at managing money. Let me do it so I don’t starve.

I recently visited my sister who lives in Chicago She moved there for a "big opportunity" three years ago She took me to her office, presumably to show off I noticed employees eating lunch at their desks "Why is nobody taking a proper break? Is there no worker canteen?" I asked her She laughed and said "we just order DoorDash, we have unlimited budget" I did not know what "DoorDash" was but it sounded like another scammy American startup Later she showed me her "401k" balance with almost $300,000 saved She said it's her "retirement" to which I burst out laughing "Real pension is managed by the state, this is gambling by Wall Street" I flew back to Germany the next day On the flight home I sat next to a banker from Frankfurt We shared a cappuccino together and I told him what a failure my sister is He shook his head and said "Americans are not well" He is right, my sister calls herself successful, while she doesn't even have a government pension This is exactly why Americans lose at everything No government protection, no guarantees, no rights

@Jringo1508 Weren’t you writing whole-ass novels every few days at one point? It’s not like your fans are out there waiting for you to do anything but ride the gravy train for the last 14 years. *cough GRRM cough*. Your pace is acceptable. And your books are enjoyable.

'Why doesn't John Ringo write as much as he used to?' I spent 15 minutes trying to remember the word 'funnel.'

@lamps_apple @beaverd @FBI That place is a huge commercial building in the Midway area with dozens of office spaces for rent. It’s centrally located right off 94. A very desirable place to have an office. There may be some scam businesses there, but a lot of people actually do real work in that building.

@beaverd If anyone feels like having a field day (.@FBI) go down the 1821 UNIVERSITY AVE W, Saint Paul, MN 55104 rabbit hole... endless amount of businesses here.... I am sure some are legit (i hope) let me know what you find...

$778,450. 3 WA childcare providers received $778,450 in subsidies that exceed the mathematical maximum allowed under state law. A bounty hunter found it and submitted their research $1,000 paid. More bounties available. somaliscan.org/crowdsource/bo…

@RamboVanHalen Anyone who was an Apple fan through the 90s knew Jobs was a prick. They also (usually) recognized that without him, Apple would have faded into obscurity. I just miss the days when they built stuff for pro users that was designed to be upgraded.

Steve Jobs was a prick. Among other things, he always parked in handicap spots. And no, he didn't pay the ticket. He exploited a loophole in in the California DMV system which allowed new cars to go unregistered for up to 6 months. So he would lease a new AMG every 6 months and never had to get plates--which effectively made his car ticket proof. BUT... people loved Steve Jobs. And they loved Apple. Because Steve Jobs convinced the world that Apple wasn't just another evil corporation, and that he wasn't just another evil billionaire. In the early 2000s I was living in the Bay Area. I was getting into film work, but to make ends meet I was temping as a litigation assistant at a Silicon Valley law firm. One night, I was at an artsy party in The City. Someone asked me what I was working on, and I explained that I was working on a lawsuit against Apple. Apple had been marketing their OS as "Unix based" without permission from the entity that owned the Unix copyright, so Apple was being sued. It was pretty mundane stuff. Nothing scandalous. This was just business. But this neckbeard art professor type turned to me and said "Apple would NEVER do that." I explained that I'd seen all the discovery documents (because all I did was read discovery documents) and told him yes, they did in fact "do that". Neckbeard got up out of his chair, stood up straight, and with self righteous indignation said, "Well I'm an Apple person" and walked away. Then some Asian chick gave me a look of sheer contempt--as if I told her I enjoy hunting pandas-- and said, "We are ALL Apple people" and she walked away too. So what could I do? There was no rational argument to make. Because by informing them that Apple was involved in a minor copyright dispute I had offended them personally. That's how much they identified with the Apple brand. They'd made the brand part of their persona. This was before the iPod or iPhone when owning an Apple product was a niche thing. Outside of education and creative industries, nobody really used Apple. So owning a Mac made you part of a select tribe. But more than that, Mac users were emotionally invested in the products. Because Steve Jobs (with help from ad agency Chiat Day) understood the value of emotions. He also understood beauty. Apple made (and still makes) beautiful products. And they came in beautiful packaging. The design and UI was important. The products were made to be LOVED. Jobs understood this. Furthermore, Apple's marketing equated ownership with being a good person. Boring and/or evil people used PCs. But the GOOD people who were changing the world for the better used Mac. And the people who should have known better--the creative class types who'd read Chomsky and considered themselves immune to propaganda--they ate it up. They loved it. They loved feeling that they were special, and that they were "good ", and that they were doing good things for the world and making it a better place and all the other hippy bullshit. And they loved Apple. And they loved Steve Jobs. The loved him despite his flaws. And so what if he went to great lengths to park in handicap spaces and not pay the ticket. In fact, they wouldn't hear of such blasphemy. And if you brought it up you wouldn't have been invited to the San Francisco art parties. So... this Billionaire Tax is probably going to pass in California. But I have to wonder, would this happen if Steve Jobs was still around? Because he knew how to make people love him--which is something our current crop of Tech Overlords haven't been able to pull off. In fact, the publics hates them. Now, I think most of them are admirable people--and I'm sure they pay their parking tickets. But they don't understand what the people really want. I see them trying to explain their value to society. They cite facts and figures and "empirical evidence" about how they drive the economy and create wealth. But if you're trying to use facts and figures and "logic" then you've already lost the argument. Because no amount of rationality will defeat irrational emotions like envy and resentment. So they'll leave California for Austin or Miami, and maybe they'll be okay for a while. But this thing will come for them eventually--just like it's coming for all of us. Personally, I'd prefer to see the Tech Lords stand their ground and fight. And maybe, instead of looking for the best ROI, they should fund art and culture and other beautiful things. Because that would put them on the side of the good and the beautiful. Just like Steve Jobs. Just like Apple. This isn't an original idea. This is what wealthy men have always done when faced with angry resentful mobs. The Medici did this. The 19th Century Robber Barrons did this. And there's no reason why the Tech Lords can't do it to. Because if they made things that people love, they'd make the people love them. And maybe they could stand their ground and win--even if they're pricks in real life.

@TheMindScourge Nah, I call BS on that. I ran a business from home when my kids were all born and was the primary caregiver, and they all bonded with me instantly. My wife would often need to ask me what they needed because they didn’t respond as well to her.

I’ve had 4 newborns and, fundamentally, newborns have zero interest in their fathers. They just don’t. They are entirely fixated on their mother. They know her from being in the womb. They know how she sounds, smells, the rhythm of her heartbeat. The father is a stranger by comparison. They don’t know you. So when you hand off the baby to the dad, you might as well be giving the baby to a random person on the street for all the baby knows The dad’s role is the support the mother however possible. But you cannot get the baby to care about the father for several months at a bare minimum. Some dads take this personally. They think they have to do something. But there’s nothing to do. It just isn’t about you A great example of this is skin to skin contact: fathers can warm their baby against their chest, but also overheat them, as the heating is unidirectional and there’s no feedback Whereas with the mother, the thermoregulation is bidirectional. Her chest can warm up to 2 degree C or cool up to 1 degree C to thermoregulate the baby

@DaingenKeltoi @KurtSchlichter Nor is this one, though I will be if this descends into more nation-building bullshit.

@KurtSchlichter This libertarian is not upset. It always cracks me up when folks affiliated with either of the two political ideologies most responsible for screwing up America attempt to smear the fans of the only ideology that can bring America back into alignment with the Constitution.

The 10 Best Things About Trump’s Venezuela Victory: 10. America’s enemies are terrified 9. Democrats went from siding with Somali fraudsters early in the week to communist narco terrorists who ignored democracy by the weekend 8. Libertarians are upset 7. Unleashing Venezuela's oil production will screw the Iranians and the Russians 6. We blew up Chavez’s tomb. Screw that guy. 5. Everybody who had doubts about Pete Hegseth has to contend with the fact that our recruiting is through the roof, Iran has no nukes, and Maduro is worried about picking up the soap 4. The video of cheering Venezuelans 3. Trump has made the Monroe Doctrine great again 2. The Cuban communists are literally wetting themselves 1. It was the Army and Delta Force instead of the Navy and the SEALs

@RBPundit K, but does grandma need a nurse or caregiver there most days to make sure she eats, bathes, takes her meds, and isn’t lying at the bottom of the stairs with a broken hip? You know, some assistance in… living? If so, how can you claim it’s fraud?

These "assisted living facilities" are just homes where an old person lives. They set up a company and say it's an assisted living home. And then other people claim to work there which makes them eligible for welfare to pay for daycare. But it's just people taking care of their own families. It's an entire ecosystem of welfare fraud.

@grok @rupesignal @ImMeme0 Does the audio match up with a video from a different event?

@rupesignal @ImMeme0 The video depicts the skyline of Caracas, Venezuela, with its characteristic high-rises and surrounding mountains at dawn. This aligns with reports of recent events there.

🇻🇪Here’s what the legacy media refuses to show you. Caracas wakes to the sound of Venezuelans shouting “freedom,” applauding, and celebrating a moment years in the making.

@chefifyy Dude in that video was 100% doing that on purpose. I have seen hundreds of unintentional spinouts and spent countless hours bombing around in the snow. That dude was whippin shitties because it’s fun.

When I tell my friends to buy winter tires, that it is an investment cos you would use it for years during winter , they would say they prefer all seasons tire as it saves cost and time of changing tires every winter time. This is the result 🤣🤣🤣🙈 e nor go grip well… #winterfest

@GrageDustin There’s a reason so many people refer to it as the Star and Sickle

“So you’re telling me Minnesota’s largest paper ‘fact-checked’ Trump for saying there were billions in fraud.” “Yes, Dave.” “And now we’re learning it’s at least $9B?” “Mmhmm.” “And that paper is run by a former Tim Walz appointee?” “Correct, Dave.”

@TRHLofficial Lots and lots of fuel.

Why is this explosion so wide spread? I honestly don’t know. Are they all like this and I’ve just never seen one this close-up?

Pray for the families of the pilots.

@benonwine GTFO ASAP

What’s the first thing you would do if you woke up in New York?

@d_ruff @sirferrell2 @MattWalshBlog Amazing, almost like the burned up shit got torn down or rebuilt because it was a hazard. Or were you expecting people to live surrounded by the husks of what used to be as a momento forever?

@sirferrell2 @MattWalshBlog Lol all these people saying Minneapolis should go visit Minneapolis and try to find the damage they purport happened there. I was just there last year and walked about 15 miles around the city across the 2 days I was there and it was… beautiful. Lol.

2017 Matt Walsh hadn't seen his friend get shot in the throat. 2017 Matt Walsh hadn't seen the Left burn down cities across the country. 2017 Matt Walsh didn't yet have to move because deranged leftists were showing up at his house while his children played outside. 2017 Matt Walsh hadn't experienced a lot of things that 2025 Matt Walsh has. People change over time. If you really haven't at all since 2017, then congratulations. Must be nice living in your little bubble, oblivious to what's actually happening in the world.

@therealmrbench Looks a hell of a lot more fun than dodgeball

How many snowflake parents will be triggered by a teacher who is having her students learn: • to pay attention to their surroundings • hand eye co-ordination • work both as a team and individuals • have fun • get exercise • take a knock down and get back up