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Just a guy on Twitter. RTs ain't endorsements. Former Naval Officer, Christian, reading buff, boxing fan, last known owner of a flip phone.

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@4thClassOfficer
4th Class Officer
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So, a slight interruption into my normal content, but I am starting my last year (inshallah) of grad school, and starting to think about my capstone project. So if you're a follower with a more academic bent, I might reach out to you for advice. Feel free to tell me no.
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From Dall-E: "prometheus stealing fire from the atom, art deco style, building frieze" this was the best
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thebes
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this goes so hard, i can't believe it's on a government building. need more of this energy nuclear reactors should have prometheus stealing fire from the atom datacenters should have an angel with a flaming sword holding back chaos
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@jbarro I find it a fascinating insight into the mind that she seemed to think that Amazon cared enough about _her_ to call her for fraud
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@SwannMarcus89
Swann Marcus
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Never forget
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@MuseZack @hradzka So clearly they need to make a new season of the Mandalorian that both isn't woke and doesn't suck AND revolves around Indian cricket
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@SwannMarcus89 I liked where the NYT article noted that she had "experienced oppression" Lulz was she was the queen of one of the richer places in the world who came from a family that was isolated from all the poors
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@LiteralSheridan @sgodofsk @pspoutz Some of the Russian ops feel very OPERATION JUST CAUSE in the sense "Okay, we have to have point where the Rangers do their thing, and we have to get the SEALs involved somehow"
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@jarvis_best "Regular" Cop: "Tenure track?" Lady: "Application in review" Cop: [pulls up Google Scholar]"Lulz, not with that H-index." (continues hauling her away)
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"angel with a flaming sword holding back the chaos of data, building frieze, art deco"
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@mattparlmer "Sir, another possible Meissner effect has been observed"
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A thing a lot of normies (speaking of Colby here, not Zach) miss on ASCMs as weapons is that for the most part, they won't kill modern naval warships above the size of a FACs/corvettes. But even one solid hit is probably a mission kill.
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This thread is quite the journey
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auntie cistamine
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just had the weirdest experience was watching an X-files episode & there’s this country song playing in the background of the bar they’re in & it’s so good it jars me out of my idle multitasking to Shazam it except
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Imagine this going down in Philly, as the fans loudly boo at the babies and hurl slurs and batteries at them. Incredible entertainment value
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jonathan Slater
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For your viewing pleasure. The Savannah banana baby race. @TG22110 . For you
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Hi, shipdriving expert here, don't drive into bridges, that's bad
@bennyjohnson
Benny Johnson
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🚨 Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore COLLAPSES after a cargo ship from Singapore crashed into it. It’s being as a mass casualty event and multiple vehicles are reportedly underwater.
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Everyone on board be like "April Fools, Right?"
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Courtney Kube
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New: The USS Dwight D Eisenhower and elements of the carrier strike group have been extended in CENTCOM according to three defense officials. They’ve been underway since Oct 14 and for months have served under a crushing operational tempo in the Red Sea. @TheCVN69
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Shoutout to my guy with the chopper who knows that the Extended Trigger Finger is the thing that real soldiers do
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POPULAR FRONT
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🇭🇹 #Haiti : The UN Security Council has approved a multinational force to deploy to Haiti amidst brutal and widespread gang violence throughout the country. #Kenya is currently planned to lead the operation, which comes almost a year after the Haitian state first requested
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FWIW I think this one is even better
@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Department of Nuclear Energy should have this
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The European mind cannot comprehend this
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Hush-Kit Aviation News, History & Satire
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Proverbs 9:7: "The one who corrects a mocker will bring dishonor on himself." Man, God foresaw Twitter.
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angel with a flaming sword holding back the chaos of data, building frieze, socialist realism I actually liked this one more but it also doesn't feel very socialist realism, tbqh
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The Ghost of Kiev thing (especially footage debunked by @CalibreObscura et al) re-surfaced a niggling little doubt in my mind that keeps whispering to me: namely, that most of the Anglosphere #OSINT world is deeply pro-Ukraine, and I worry about what they are or are not saying
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@sgodofsk @Adrusi @nominalthoughts @s_daniszewski @growing_daniel @AlexGodofsky Imagine being a 12 year old prepubescent boy taking in a 100k to do data analytics
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Stealing from someone else
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@FOXSoccer Reject Modernity Embrace Tradition
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Anyone who thinks America is a highly racist place has never been out of the country.
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
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China and India have a huge problem with racism toward black people
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@sgodofsk Remember when getting reaction videos of people watching 2 Girls 1 Cup was A Thing?
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Mentioning Julian Hoke Harris doesn't help much as making sure it knows what general style I want and what kind of medium it should be
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Need an anime where most of the world has fallen into chaos and history is mostly retained through the collective knowedge of Japanese cosplayers
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@selentelechia @Nick65979825 @eigenrobot Imagine paying billions to join the elite world of pedophile sex orgies and hunting people for sport and all they give you for your round of the Most Dangerous Game is this guy
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@oryxspioenkop Crews seem pretty happy to have the extra storage space, so that's a plus
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That sound you hear is SOUTHCOM warming in the bullpen, ready for them to break out the one OPLAN that they have.
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@Toy__Truck @selentelechia @eigenrobot My not great way of explaining is "if you think people struggle to accept unmerited grace in a theological sense-and they do!-watch them try and accept it without a theological framework to do so"
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@CartoonsHateHer People also amusingly downplay class status to go from middle to working class (cf Nicholas Kristof noting he grew up "on a farm and attended a small rural high school"; you'd never know BOTH his parents had PhDs from that description)
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This is a pretty good example of a guy getting over his skis in an area he doesn't know about (and frankly feels like a major own-goal to even go offering opinions, tbqh)
@stavridisj
Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret.
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Hint: you don’t use heavy artillery in street to street battles
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Scorched and melted did that drone ride into Valhalla
@RandomTheGuy_
The Random Guy
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@NoCapFights Dramatic drone footage captures Iceland's volcano. Unfortunately, the drone didn't make it, but the footage did.
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@CrankyFed @devengus @ChowdahHill sir, seems like a market opening for a cookie called "the cruise missile", the CS' should see what they can cook up
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One day, our news about Kim Kardashian will be rudely interrupted by a mushroom cloud somewhere over the subcontinent. How unfortunate!
@TheTorontoSun
Toronto Sun
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Pakistan threatens a nuclear war with India: @TarekFatah
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@jessesingal We live in a golden age of outrage farming
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@eigenrobot @MorlockP Possibly somewhat related to this: think it's kinda hard for esp Blue Tribe to embrace a "you are our countrymen " narrative when nationalism/patriotism are terms that are inherently coded Red at this point
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@ouranometrian2 "husbandu, you tweet to hard"
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Out yourself, Tweeps: how many of you could fill up a bookshelf with 400 books without even having to leave the house?
@sarahccaldwell
Sarah Caldwell
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I... am speechless.
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Also, shoutout to me for being officially out of the Navy as of today
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@AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot But to bring up my meme
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@eigenrobot Entirely too many people who have grown up in comfort and peace are enthralled with the aesthetics of violence
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Or it had trouble with the concept of a "flaming sword"
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@eigenrobot @Crisis_Producer Lulz everyone in Europe is white *except* for Spaniards,
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It's been mildly reassuring to be reminded that "Joe will Joe" is a truly universal rule
@historicfirearm
Matthew Moss | Historical Firearms
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A Ukrainian combatant fires a shovel from an RPG-7. It appears he's attached a motor and booster via a homemade attachment adapter. Peak meme. #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #SALW
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So it will be randomly sent to places, only to never be able to make it home?
@AP
The Associated Press
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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus calls new destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, "a quantum leap" for Navy ships.
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@Bacon_Is_King atlas holding the world on his back, art deco style, building frieze, stone Don't skip leg days, boys
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@KToropin @USNavy Those drones must have been uh close
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@GarrettPetersen IIRC, many people who claim "Irish" ancestry end up mostly being English
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@jessesingal ABC Always Be Changing views to hop on whichever political tide looks most immediately profitable
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Good News: We've made a lasting change to Afghan culture Bad News: it's very cringe
@Shadzey1
Shadz
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I see we have reached the Taliban IG Gunbro arc of this timeline.
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@cgberube Think Navy is getting hurt by (among other factors) not having much of an identity to sell to the recruiting public
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various pointy-nose pilot types look at this picture and just smile, imagining how quickly they can become aces
@JosephHDempsey
Joseph Dempsey
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North Korea 🇰🇵 claims 150 combat aircraft involved in large-scale combined air-attack drill on 8 Oct. Su-25, MiG-29, MiG-23, MiG-21 & Mig-19 visible.
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@SwannMarcus89 Are you questioning the veracity of "Broseph Stalin"?
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Iran and Yemen are gonna team up and do a TOP GUN reboot with period appropriate aircraft
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@KennyKing_Jr @4_Ben_Media It's an AI generation (see the helmet on the ground)
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You, a Smart Person: "the metric system is clearly superior! We should always use it! Only dumb people would use Standard!" Nuclear Scientists, apparently Dumb:
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@RandallSPQR @ArmandDoma Layers upon layers at work her
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So, it looks like Ukraine is finally kicking off. As always, remember the First Rule of Crisis Reporting: First Report is Always Wrong. Or, if you prefer, the 190th Rule of Acquisition: "Hear All, Trust Nothing".
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@eigenrobot @petrichoid @selentelechia Also also it's fascinating to follow enough tpot accounts to know vaguely what's going on but it's so utterly disconnected from my real life that I might as well be reading about an incident in the Balkans
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Christopher Nolan is going to nuke you and you will enjoy it
@NolanAnalyst
Christopher Nolan Art & Updates
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Christopher Nolan promises that viewers will be able to almost physically feel the nuclear detonation in 'OPPENHEIMER': “We knew that this had to be the showstopper. We’re able to do things with picture now that before we were really only able to do with sound in terms of an
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@CartoonsHateHer But he is talking about bicycles, right?
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Congratulations to PV2 Joe for making what I will assume is merely the latest in a series of utterly idiotic decisions. RIP to PV2 Joe's leadership from Squad Leader all the way up to COL for the month you're about to have
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@AuronMacintyre
Auron MacIntyre
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You don’t hate journalists enough You think you do but you don’t
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SOUTHCOM be like "finally it's our chance to go to war"
@EmbassyGuyana
U.S. Embassy Guyana
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In collaboration with the @GDFGuyana , @Southcom will conduct flight operations within Guyana on December 7. Read more:
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@thinkdefence Especially underappreciated point IMHO is that the cost of modifying old pieces of equipment for different uses on the battlefield is pretty low (eg converting MT-LBs into SPAAGs by adding old naval gun turrets to them)
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Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but we're not going to war over a drone
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@eigenrobot @petrichoid @selentelechia "whether he vibes more Fed, Scientologist, or Bay Area cultist" inside of you are ***three*** wolves
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@4thClassOfficer
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@kitten_beloved @Duderichy Will never forget my dad in 1999 showing us the new desktop we had got from TigerDirect. Thing had a whole 1GB of memory, and my dad declared, "You'll never fill that up."
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4th Class Officer
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Note that report here is that the vessel was hit by a "land-based cruise missile", which almost certainly means ASCMs. Not good. Also Not Good: chemical tankers being on fire
@thewarzonewire
The War Zone
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Breaking🚨: Commercial Ship In Flames After Red Sea Missile Attack USS Mason has responded to a distress call from the M/V Strinda that was struck in the Mandeb Strait. What we know:
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@eigenrobot The LARPing will continue until we've walked ourselves into some Troubles
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@AlexGodofsky The media has never seemed more Mean Girls-y than it has since Elon bought the bird
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Inspired by some of @eigenrobot 's recent work, new pitch for the NYT: "Ask the Ethicist" column but the ethicist is Stephen Kershnar
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Your brother-in-law and his wife keep bringing over their dog when they come to visit. You, your husband and your child are very uncomfortable with the dog, but you don't know how to bring it up with them. What do you do? Ask the Ethicist.
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@MorlockP Not esoteric at all, but still funny
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@eigenrobot I respect his opinions but I don't agree with them. EG AMRAAM vs Cruise Missiles is one of those things I guess is *technically possible* but not really recommended for lots of reasons. There's a reason the emphasis is "Kill the Archer, not the Arrow"
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@JamezBriant @jbarro But email is easily scalable, and phone calls from humans are inherently not! And "tech thinks at scale" is a fundamental philosophy in that world.
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@AlanMCole @RogueWPA Gonna start a trolling response of "Employers want to bring you back into the office because they love that little Mexican joint down the street and are worried about if it can survive and also are kinda lonely eating there now"
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bruh
@BNONews
BNO News
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BREAKING: U.S. Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site
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When you break any EMCON condition ever
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities
@torturedbylife
jerby
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Facebook during an election year is amazing, My uncle just shared this
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Guy has clearly never spent six months on a boat before
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Shades of the SIOP where they intended to nuke the ChiComs no matter if they were actually at war with us or not because they couldn't let that many communists live
@SaysSimonson
Joe Gabriel Simonson
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that's an L
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I still don't care about the Kaepernick protest, but it has inspired brilliant memes (also some of the data about various groups responses to it was interesting)
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"Iran starts a war with Israel, gets nuked by Pakistan" is kind of a hilarious outcome, actually
@Faytuks
Faytuks News
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BREAKING: "Pakistan Air Force has conducted airstrikes on Baluch separatist camps inside Iran" Pakistan Correspondent for the New York Times reports
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@rumpfshaker @jbarro 83% of Americans think they know what a butter board is and think it's a euphemism for something they've fantasized about and are just lying for fun
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A coin toss to solve the Dem #IowaCaucus is ridiculous. A game of skill like Rock-Paper-Scissors would have been much better
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@EricRichards22 @LiteralSheridan *Most* populations can't live this neurotically. I think we've created a special new hybrid of human being who *must* live this neurotically
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Related to something @AlanMCole said yesterday: when Shatner was born, only one person had flown across the Atlantic, and he lived long enough to be able to fly into space commercially
@TrekMovie
TrekMovie.com
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Happy 93rd birthday to the powerhouse actor/author/host/horseman/astronaut/documentarian/documentary subject that is William Shatner, James T. Kirk on the original #StarTrek & TAS and in 7 Trek movies. He also directed & co-wrote the story for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
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Not saying those guys are lying or trying to deceive us; but if there's one thing we should have thought about the last two years, it's how living in a bubble can effect our data intake and thus our outcomes
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@20committee My big takeaway from first couple weeks is how stupendously bad Trump Admin is at staffing any kind of work
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3 years
Asking for prayers/best wishes/good vibes tomorrow as I have a job interview (for only the second time in my life) at 0900.
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2 years
The Virgin Oppenheimer vs the Chad Von Neumann
@phillippepayant
payant
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@hannahrosewoods @extradeadjcb Reminds me of the time Oppenheimer was quoted as saying that all the Manhattan Project scientists had “known sin” and Von Neumann replied, “sometimes one confesses to a sin in order to take credit for it”.
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@ChrisExpTheNews Fellas, does the lady you are dating have a Nobel Prize?Major🚩if so
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Welp, I'm officially a licensed foster parent in the state of RI. And first placement will be a for three kiddos, so prayers will be appreciated.
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