GaltsToad

@0xFrenxbtdotxrp Feels like the market is pretending to care about the war at this point.

Ok but what if a whole civilisation dying tonight has already been priced in?

@luke_leisher_ I can't wait for the North America pic one day.

Instant homescreen.

@RockettLord The thesis that men are so horrible that some 90%+ of women avoid working with them in engineering conflicts with all other times women spend time with men.

@GaltsToad ???? Women don’t want to deal with jerks and misogyny everyday. That doesn’t mean they don’t want to be engineers or scientists. Women love being creative and solving problems.

My graduating class of Aerospace Engineering at a university of 33k people was less 10% women. My university prided itself in having a high percentage of women in engineering majors at 25% and that was largely due to a biomedical engineering program that had a 50% ratio. I have been the only woman in an engineering department at two jobs. Our work is not finished. The STEM outreach is fantastic these days but the alctual engineering industry still has work to do

Earthshine on the left. Starlight on the right

@undeservingfut @AutismCapital Indeed, just pointing out the theater is no reason not to go through with it.

@GaltsToad @AutismCapital The Iranian Gov. will shoot them anyway and blame it on the Americans.

If this is true it's a very interesting move to call Trump's bluff. Iran is trying to make the cost of his decision so morally high that it becomes a line that if he crosses there's no coming back from. i.e. "Are you prepared to directly kill all the youth?" It's diabolical.

@Grummz Rocky is a national treasure. Statues everywhere

Who’s gonna have more personality?

@MissLadyJay_ZA I also watched it twice. Must harvest all its vibes.

All this Artemis II news made me buy a ticket to watch Project Hail Mary in theatres again for a second viewing 🥺

@JennyHPhoto Was the bottle tested for such a mission?

Nutella around the Moon! 😆

@Polymarket One of these whistleblowers made a claim about the recovery of non human organics and I'm thinking, "what an ant?"

JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett says a source told him the U.S. has knowledge of both "non-human life and non-earthly machinery"

@SierraWhiskey9 cultured

People who wear complete golf outfits when not golfing, thoughts?

@ABernNYC AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE

WOWOWOW

@OliviaStalvey @NASA I WANT A PIC WITH NORTH AMERICA PLZ

GIVE ME THOSE PHOTOS RIGHT NOW @NASA

@hoshizorarock I had cheesecake for breakfast

勘のいいアメリカ人諸君ならもうお分かりだと思いますがチーズ警察は月からもアメリカのチーズ犯罪者達を監視しています。

Thank you autobake2

@amitisinvesting Markets get bored of a crises and move on. I assume this happens as everyone adapts thereby making the crises non/less damaging.

Why are the markets holding on to a bit of green today? Last night, Axios reported a potential 45-day ceasefire was being negotiated. That flipped futures green. This morning, we got a response from Iran rejecting the ceasefire, but...they did send a 10-point proposal to the US. The main points in the proposal are calling for a full end to the war and being paid for the damages. The US hasn't responded and likely will counter their points again, but it does seem like negotiations are taking place and if they are, that may be enough for the markets to think that Trump's Tuesday deadline isn't as aggressive in escalating the war as was thought. Trump just now: "They've made a proposal, and it's a significant proposal...it's not good enough, but it's a very significant step."

The mighty zip tie

@Pirat_Nation Crises averted

A new study from the University of Michigan found that common lab gloves may be making microplastics levels look higher than they really are. Tiny particles from nitrile and latex gloves can be mistaken for microplastics during testing, which may have affected some earlier studies.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.