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Step into my library of writings, film, and tweets; a collection of some of the better thoughts I've released into the universe — please enjoy:
When you realize that folks who enthusiastically boast their admiration of tradition ("conservatives") often prefer to vote on election day, you become unperturbed by most misleading "early" poll data.
The same people who use "late-decider" probably believe the thirty spam mailers, incessant auto texts, and political yard signs would sway any sort of meaningful difference in personal disposition...
𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
"600 people needed temporary shelter"
intriguing
Under the new Pope, the first order of business for Guardia Svizzera Pontificia will be standing up a squadron of F-35B STOVL, capable of vertical landing in Saint Peter's Square and utilizing sensor fusion/joint networks to secure Papal visits in contested or volatile regions.
What industries do you think will prefer to simply go offline.
Or are we too digitally integrated to revert to closed system enterprises.
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BREAKING: Dozens of supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg hit by suspected cyberattack affecting its refrigerators and freezers -- Thousands of euros worth of food has had to be thrown away
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Che polpetta piccante!
One-hundred and fifteen years ago, today, during the Italo-Turkish War, Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti snuck four 2kg grapefruit-sized grenades aboard a routine Reconnaissance mission in his Etrich Taube monoplane against Ottoman Turks in the Libyan Desert... Proactively and decisively executing the first weapons delivery event from an airplane in human history.
The Turks protested the act under international conventions of warfare, but it would be a drop in the bucket for the following century of ordnance raining from the skies, precision guided strikes, and total air dominance conflict of the modern era, to come.
"600 people needed temporary shelter"
intriguing
𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
The F-4 couldn't climb like that. Its thrust-to-weight ratio was below one to one. 32,000 pounds empty, and in full burner 30,000 pounds of thrust.
The most fun I ever had flying was performing Hot Pad duty in Key West. We were there to laughingly protect the SR-71 from the Cuban MiG-21's.
So, every time the SR-71 was inbound over Cuba, we'd be placed on five-minute alert, which means you have to be airborne within five minutes of the call to launch going out. Once the SR-71 outchopped, they'd launch the Alert Five to see if you both (we stood it in section) could get airborne inside of five minutes.
What made it really cool was that when they launched us, the airspace was all ours. Everyone else was vectored around that airspace and we had carte blanche to do whatever we wanted.
So we'd position on the duty runway, having already received takeoff clearance. I'd plug it into full A/B and head off down the runway. Hit liftoff speed and hug the deck, gear up, then flaps up. Still in full burner.
I'd hold it on the deck until I hit about 500 knots, and then pull into a 4-G climb. That was the type of flying we never got to do aboard the boat, and couldn't do anywhere else.
Glory days.
𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
This is one of my favorite quotes by Alexander the Great:
"Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them."
𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
I will never forgive Disney for how badly they screwed up the acquisition of the Star Wars IP. I devoured these novels as a young adult. There were countless stories across characters you never heard of but grew to love and now those stories are gone forever.
𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
Millions and millions and millions of people need to be forcibly removed from our continent.
Save Europe.
op, or acting?
its almost as if these characters were part of a larger plot to subvert enemies of [redacted]
The best way for the United Nations to redeem itself (under auspices of UNESCO cultural preservation) is to enforce a global moratorium on any and all movie remakes, effective immediately.
This hypothetical trainwreck gets worse the further you read.
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𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
intentional abandonment of Lucas' SW IP totally dissociated millions of boomer/genX/millennials who grew up reading canon
It takes an entire (far, far away) galaxy and replaces it with contemporary slop emphasizing progressive rhetoric at the expense of story; total sanitization
𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 retweeted
On a 24-hour Global Standard Time world
There are no "zones," nor "daylight savings;" no confusion.. Everyone simply knows "The Time"
Detractors bemoan "waking at 1730", but this is all flawed perception
Animals and children already rise with sun
Are there even any downsides?
On a 24-hour Global Standard Time world
There are no "zones," nor "daylight savings;" no confusion.. Everyone simply knows "The Time"
Detractors bemoan "waking at 1730", but this is all flawed perception
Animals and children already rise with sun
Are there even any downsides?
