Snakes in weird places
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Snakes in weird places
@Numinar
Please don't follow me! Please! Remove my account right now! Never follow me! Please!!! - Masahiro Ito
Daylesford - Hepburn Springs Sumali Nisan 2011
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@TheIshikawaRin Yes! So good! Keep at it soon you’ll be rocking the YGHJKL keys like a pro!
The way my mind flipped when I finally cracked orbital rendezvous. The more you do the more you can start kind of eyeballing it from the map screen, and using tiny mini burns to coast in at 3-5m/s
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@DrewPavlou I’m glad your one variation from heritage foundation funded ideology is that you are crystal clear on the moral right for Ukraine to defend itself. Gives me hope you might recognise other areas in which this movement wishes to bring destruction to democracy.
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Zelensky never tried to attack Orban’s residence. This is completely made up.
Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦@VolodyaTretyak
JD Vance: "Even until yesterday, I didn't even know that Zelensky said he was going to send soldiers to Orbán's residence. Viktor himself told me about it, and then I went and checked. I couldn't believe it was true, but it is true." x.com/grntmedia/stat…
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@CrownMaybe What the fuck. It had one job to do and didn’t well. Is it because it can’t run full page adds between chapters or track your eyes or something?
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Stupidly and naively, it didn't occur to me that Amazon would force-retire my Kindle Fire 7 that my wife gave me for an anniversary well over a decade ago, one of my most treasured possessions. It wasn't hurting anyone. It just sat there and worked every time I asked.
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@Shelifon The heritage foundation captured yanks will try and force you to cease fire the moment you have the Russians collapsing. Slowly slowly so they don’t notice might be the best way.
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Я дуже обережно це кажу, але маю відчуття, що на початку цього року загальний хід війни переламався на нашу користь. Повільно та поступово - але помітно.
В нас все ще неймовірна купа проблем - військових, економічних, геополітичних - але ворог відверто закульгав. Йому перестало вистачати людей, йому перестало вистачати грошей, йому перестало вистачати технологій - і окремо важливо та приємно, що йому перестало вистачати засобів ППО. Почав-таки стікати нафтою від нашої тактики тисячі порізів.
Звісно, рудий дідо нам своїм підвищенням світових цін на нафту "удружив" неслабо. Але навіть з урахуванням цього є великий шанс, що цього року ми будемо домінувати та принижувати.
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@DrewPavlou I don’t think we should be paralysed with guilt about it, but it is a factual statement. Someone else was living here and someone else showed up and took all the best bits. Yes disease did most of the work, but it was helped along with plenty of violence.
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This applies for Australia too.
I have seen recent Indian migrants (people who have arrived in the past 3-4 years to Australia) argue that Australia is “Stolen Land.”
It is extremely off-putting to normal Australians to be told that they carry blood guilt for their ancestors alleged crimes.
I highly recommend people do not employ this toxic political language
Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️@razibkhan
if indian americans tell other americans that they are on "stolen land" they are guaranteeing the end of immigration from india. ok, perhaps too extreme, but you're going to lose every conservative that defends you. EVERY SINGLE ONE
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@sunflowersoul88 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA The US has such insane power and influence that you must do everything you can to make yourself appear as an inappropriate target as they don’t seem to need much of a reason to fuck your shit up.
Fighting one former superpower supplied by another is hard enough as it is.
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Wait. If Budanov is aware of that document then President Zelensky too must be aware of it. The extent of Trump's treacherous plan. Then why have they been trying to call him an ally, seek support and all the diplomacy? Why not seek other radical paths, e.g. to expose him? ELi5.
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❗️🇺🇸 Budanov explained the plan Trump is following:
"His actions are as consistent as possible. Six months before his term, a program document was developed for him - it has 838 pages. And everything he does was clearly described, calculated and explained - for what and why."
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@_TomHoward @YellowSnow60 @dotkrueger I love space, But if generation ships were possible the universe would be visibly populated by someone already.
We haven’t even started to solve mars travel and habitation yet. It’s unlikely in my lifetime. Maybe we can reassess extrasolar voyages after we plant a flag on Pluto.
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@YellowSnow60 @dotkrueger Yes obvious constraints are the realm of commoners. Interesting and smart people solve constraints they don’t complain and give up.
Uninspiring.
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We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us.
We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever.
1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there.
2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy.
3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it.
4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break.
5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.
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@Sheldone @Waddananggu We had a version of apartheid within living memory. As in the US it took a few decades after WW2 for the lessons about genocide and facism to seep into society and inform reforms.
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@Waddananggu I was surprised when an indigenous mate told me the actual numbers. I was a huge WWII ‘fan’ as a teen and I never realised how white-washed Australian history was.
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Aboriginals have served at a higher rate per capita than European Australians in every major war,
Yet not one Victoria cross has been awarded to an Aboriginal soldier.
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@marcvelitrae @CattSentinel @michaeldweiss Western Imperialism does not justify Russian imperialism.
And the US did not annex any of those territories, which remain independent countries.
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@Numinar @CattSentinel @michaeldweiss That's nonsense. They have had discreet conflicts with former Soviet republics including Ukraine and Georgia. Compare that to the US/NATO who have invaded/bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Serbia, Venezuela Iran.
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New: We have more calls between Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó. These include discussion of Hungary’s role in blocking financial aid to Ukraine and impeding its accession negotiations with the EU. “Sometimes good-willed direct blackmailing is the best option,” Lavrov told Szijjártó. vsquare.org/kremlin-hotlin…
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@KobieThatcher Anything real to criticise or are you a brainrotted partisan hack?
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PM Anthony Albanese will fly to Singapore today to discuss fuel supplies.
In times like these, wouldn't it make more sense to hold a meeting on Zoom and save all of that fuel from his private plane?
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@FaultLineAUS @clairlemon Are you saying he didn’t do what was claimed, or that he did it and what was claimed isn’t a problem?
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@clairlemon My brother was an SAS soldier. They are our elite killers in a defence force beset by government indolence.
He is innocent, the middle classes remain unaffected by war.
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Bolt is right.
x.com/theheraldsun/s…
Herald Sun@theheraldsun
ANDREW BOLT: Defending Ben Roberts-Smith is being made a test of our patriotism. But these allegations could not be swept under the carpet and our response to them is a measure of both our integrity and loyalty to Australian values. > bit.ly/4tyDI9E
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@auboomers Twice the income but the homes cost 10x as much. The math dosn’t math.
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He wants one logical answer. Here it is. Stop renting and buy. We did it on $41,500 combined in 1983. The median Australian earns double that now. Twice the income and somehow worse off? I'd be looking at the lifestyle before I blamed the system 🏡
BroBro🇦🇺🏇🏻@realRick_AUS
The median Australian earns between 80-90k a year, Someone tell me how they’re suppose to afford a home, an electric car and installation equipment required? Not including all the other bills they have to pay. Just one logical answer would be nice.
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@Teslaconomics @boringcompany The real reason for the “high speed rail” is money-laundering to bureaucrats, consultants & unions, not actually transport. That is where the billions spent so far have gone.
That is why they don’t want an actually cost-efficient high speed transport system.
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The @BoringCompany could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown SF to downtown LA for <5% of this cost and it would be a technological marvel exceeding any high speed rail on Earth
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke
If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.
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@marcvelitrae @CattSentinel @michaeldweiss They marched into multiple countries this century. Usually after saying they wouldn’t, grow the fuck up.
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@Numinar @CattSentinel @michaeldweiss Russia is not a threat to anyone. It's not the Soviet Union. And it has borders with 15 countries to defend. Read some history.
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@MilesTaylorUSA @theliamnissan I dunno. These people were insane and unreliable then, I think they are now. But even nutters can be right sometimes.
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There’s a tidal shift happening. People who got Trump elected are warning he’s demented:
Tucker Carlson
Megyn Kelly
Joe Rogan
Candace Owens
Alex Jones
Marjorie Taylor Greene
They see it. Finally. The president is out of control. Will elected Republicans act?
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@marcvelitrae @CattSentinel @michaeldweiss Russia is the only threat. If you are not willing to fight them you might as well fuck off.
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@CattSentinel @michaeldweiss When my country's soldiers and equipment are defending Europe, the last thing I want is more march to war with Russia.
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@JohnCleese They don’t judge aggressors harshly because they are aggressors themselves who feel thy should be able to take whatever they want by force.
The yanks have become the monsters loser tankies always said they were.
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Oh I see !
Just surrender !
What a good idea !
You know, you're going to have to change your name again after this
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate
Vance: “What I would say to both Russians and Ukrainians is we're talking about haggling over a few square kilometers of territory. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional russian and Ukrainian young men?" Vance is once again failing to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, attempting to convince you that it is acceptable to pressure the victim into complying with the aggressor’s demands. He fails to recognize that he is not only urging Ukraine to surrender territories, but also the people who live there, our homes, and our most fortified defense lines dooming us for future attacks, because this war is not at all about territory, but about Ukraine existence as a state.
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@DrewPavlou Ah I’d be so happy- dependant on what replaces it.
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Even if the Iranian regime completely disintegrated tomorrow, 90% of retards on twitter would say the Ayatollahs are winning. It's literally impossible to reason with these people, because they are retarded, and the only thing they believe in is ''Trump = Bad''
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@GenXMofo @ChristopherHale Are you saying this is made up?
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@ChristopherHale Lol it’s amazing the lengths you retards will go to smear this administration
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NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address.
Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”
thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon…
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