@elonmusk This is what's supposed to be happening when politicians talk with voters, but it's usually just a photo op. Sad!
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Lord Devlin
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Lord Devlin
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New Albion เข้าร่วม Aralık 2022
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Most CEOs have no idea what’s really going on
David Senra@davidsenra
IBM built a cloud of suits to make sure the CEO never talked to anyone actually doing the work. @elonmusk does the opposite. "Elon's method is extreme focus on substance. Extreme focus on getting to the truth. In any organization with multiple layers, there's compounding lies. Each layer wants to look good. Each layer puts a little spin on things. If one layer lies to the next layer above it, maybe that's okay. When that happens two or three times, the lies compound. If that happens six times, the lies really compound. If that happens 12 times, the CEO has no idea what's happening. That was IBM. By the time I got there as an intern, I calculated there were 12 layers of management between me and the CEO. They even had a term for it: the great cloud. A cloud of men in gray business suits who followed the CEO around and prevented him from ever talking to anybody who was actually doing the work. When he would come to visit, it was like a visit from the king. A completely impervious bubble. That's the polar opposite of the Elon approach." — @pmarca
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@cdoretz Really interesting. I love the 3rd structure in picture 1. There's something to be said for taking architecture from colonial North America and the Mongolian steppe, but building it out of futuristic materials.
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Star Citizen's Colonialism Arstyle inital concept explorations - Part I
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@UniversalAtom @iwasnevrhere_ If this was a passive IR SAM, the pilot would have zero clue, especially if it was from a blind spot
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@iwasnevrhere_ There is NO WAY this footage is real. When a missile is about to hit a fighter jet, the jet takes evasive actions, not waiting to be hit like a passenger plane. Think people, think.
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Wild sequence. You can see the interceptor sit on it, close the distance, then the blast blooms right around the target.
Thomas Keith@iwasnevrhere_
The moment an American F-35 aircraft was hit by an Iranian missile.
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Iran has won the economic war. It’s over. Check mate.
We are now all waiting for the Epstein coalition to find the most face-saving way to get on their knees and beg for a deal with massive concessions to Iran and for Iran to decide when the lesson has been taught.
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Her kidneys are failing and she’s going downhill fast.
Tomorrow is going to be a hard day
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@DoimoManu @ripplebrain I think the ammo self-destructs while it's still in the air. You can see the string of white flashes where the tracers end
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@ripplebrain Where does this ammo end and land? C-RAM does 3k bullets per light squeeze. There must be injuries on the ground.
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Imagine being the guy operating the C-RAM protecting the US embassy in Baghdad
GIF
Ali lBK@Qa11am
بغداد..
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@PatrickHeizer This has prestige television series written all over it
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I am pleading with the forces of the universe to convince Villeneuve to tackle yet another "unfilmable" sci-fi series.
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@SandyofCthulhu It's either that or the Philippines. Big naval investments from the latter in recent days.
The Philippines also happens to be a overwhelmingly disproportionate source of sailors in the global merchant fleets
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@AndrewZ24597481 It's almost like a landed starship using its point defense weapons. The background resembles the spaceport from Part 1
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The people yearn for more sci-fi war films
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@donnac1188 @TolkienWorldG What an excellent connection to make. It really is
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@TolkienWorldG Just read that part of the book today. So intense. Reminds me of Jesus and the thief on the cross. Simple acknowledgement.
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Viggo Mortensen on his favourite scene in the Lord of the Rings trilogy: the departure of Boromir.
“That scene, I have to say—no offence to anybody else or any other part of the trilogy—but that’s maybe my favourite scene. It’s such a beautiful scene. And there are no effects, there are no imaginary monsters. It’s just two people who have a connection in terms of their ethnicity—you know, Gondor and all that—but they’ve been at odds. They’ve been kinda butting heads until then. And then there’s just such a strong connection.”
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@cmkosemen Don't forget the fully-functioning miniature train complex he built in his backyard!
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Public perception of H. R. Giger's art focuses extensively on his dark "alien" and "biomechanical" paintings - but the master created a WIDE range of weird and liminal work - including many colourful or just whimsical pieces...
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@stockpiledclay It has good airy phonetics and strong meter - it's a pleasant name to read and say aloud, like the name of a good friend
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It’s silly as hell, but “Duncan Idaho” is great worldbuilding. Words from the old world remain but they’ve been shuffled around so much they’ve lost all original meaning. No one in the Dune universe (without genetic memories) knows how funny “Duncan Idaho” is and that’s the point
Fred Scharmen@sevensixfive
The name "Duncan Idaho" just gets funnier and funnier the more you encounter it
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@goodcharls @royzkingin His admiration of Talleyrand gives the game away. Interesting book though
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@royzkingin He didn’t write to for defense. He wrote it so people would learn to screw over their own people and consider it strictly business when it is absolute lowest rung vile treachery.
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This is why suggesting that people shouldn’t read books like 48 laws of power because it teaches manipulation is ridiculous. You must study evil so you can recognize when you are being attacked by it and how to defend yourself from it.
Sheila of the Most High@sheilatebra
if you are a good person you have to study evil
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@liveinnoto @Aryx3D You gotta model a train bro. Do it for the glorious cause of autism lol
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@Birdyword Maybe our leaders feel like we're too numerous to safely rule? You climb out of the pyramid and see slave barracks marching out to every horizon, and you remember that the only thing between them and you is some old Babylonian mind control sorcery.
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What I find interesting about Erlich's influence is that he seems to have been pushing at an open door. Why is that? Why is the instinct to believe there are too many people already so widespread and ingrained that it made such quickly-disproven work so popular?
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
Normally, I don't speak ill of the dead but: rest in piss. Paul Ehrlich's work wasn't "premature," it was wrong, completely so, and evil: his recommendations resulted in many hundreds of thousands of coerced sterilizations and abortions among the world's most vulnerable people.
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@peterrhague Just want some strange young men to come out of the desert and save us in a glorious coup de main 😩 🙏it doesn't have to be prestige cinema
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It’s hard to tell the difference between bait and genuine stupidity these days
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@sarobertsonca The Americans have been patrolling Alaska, the Arctic, and the Barents Sea since before this man was alive.
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PM Carney on defence procurement: "Historically -- more than 70¢ on the dollar has gone to the US. That's not an effective way to build our industry or to protect our people ... given the maritime and Arctic nature of the security needs we have, the Nordic countries are natural partners for Canada."
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@dynamic_voltage @fandompulse Or maybe it's more like the Templar versus the Jesuits (anachronistic, I know), with the rulership of the Galaxy (Catholic Church) in the balance
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@dynamic_voltage @fandompulse I agree with this. The Sith Order is meant to be a full fledged competitor and counterpart to the Jedi, like the conflict between the Jesuits and the Franciscans.
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George Lucas on how Disney lost a lot of his original ideas for Star Wars:
"Iwas the one who really knew what Star Wars was … who actually knew this world, because there’s a lot to it. The Force, for example, nobody understood the Force,
When they started other ones after I sold the company, a lot of the ideas that were in [the original] sort of got lost. But that’s the way it is. You give it up, you give it up."
Is he right?
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