Autonomy & software dev, writing amateur. Building a family, stories, robots, and software to honor God. Former pilot, leader. Aerospace Engineering B.S., EMBA
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The sad thing is that he's serious
Merit is anathema to him; Hakeem genuinely can't understand competence, leadership, vision, or patriotism
Turns out it was a call for help
Every federal agent in Alaska who has heard of the NYT article has PC to arrest Peltola today. Right now. Yet it hasn't happened, and despite my optimistic nature I have nearly certain doubt it will
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As I was saying.
We have a communist violence problem.
BREAKING: Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens has asked for U.S. Marshals protection after receiving death threats over her endorsement of Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers.
VIA: @axios
While it is completely understandable that everyone abandoned the GOP in its current, desiccated, boomer-styled, sclerotic form, it's the wrong move for the country in the short term
We shall see if it works out in the long term as the (D)s misread this as some kind of mandate for gay mohamedean race communism
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Every GOP candidate who has any hope of winning in the future needs to BEG Brandon Gill and Jace Yarborough to help them understand what it takes
But more importantly, more than just some cheap political advice to win an election, we need candidates who actually BELIEVE what Brandon Gill and Jace Yarborough believe
I have come to a revelation about myself
I was completely addicted to my phone. Not to stimuli, as I had convinced myself, but explicitly to my phone. It happened recently, despite having a smartphone since the time they existed.
I used to work in SCIFs. A SCIF here, a SCIF there, even a SCIF flying through the air. I am two years post-retirement and a full-time caretaker now, so I have unlimited access to my phone. I think I grew up and had a career at exactly the right time to delay smartphone addiction until just recently.
My phone has been off for almost 24 hours now. I intend to keep it that way for a while. Maybe Grok @bot or other apps can help ping my computer with important texts or calls so I never need to have it near me, risking relapse.
Thank you for welcoming me to Dopamine Addicts Anonymous
The list of accomplishments over the prior two years:
1) The Big Beautiful Bill
2) nothing else
You are among the top reasons why the GOP deserved to get pounded yesterday. The real tragedy is the collateral damage from (D) control of Congress, a (islam) cultist Sen., etc.
Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that’s created safer streets, more money in Americans’ pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead. After fighting Democrat obstruction at every turn, we prevented the largest tax hike in American history, secured our border in an unprecedented way, confirmed the president’s Cabinet at the fastest pace in two decades, and put strong conservative judges on benches across the country faster than we have since the Reagan administration. I’m proud of our team and everything we’ve done for the American people, and I’m looking forward to the important work we have in front of us over the next few months. As we head into 2027, Senate Republicans will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we’ve done. Thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White House, and we’ll work with him to stop the worst impulses of Democrat extremism. We cannot let their fringe positions become the mainstream.
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There's a saying on American social media:
"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."
I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.
So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.
"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)
"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)
"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)
"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)
"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)
"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)
"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)
"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)
"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)
"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)
And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.
"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.
The people running toward it.
There are always so many."
So, America.
You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.
We're not imagining you.
We're remembering you.
The punishment for stealing horses back in the day was so severe because the crime was so easy to commit, not because horses were so valuable
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I failed 21 SAS selection.
One hundred and twenty men started. Four finished. I was not one of them.
I do not tell that story to be humble. I tell it because of what happened next, which nobody ever asks about.
I went home. I was 19 years old and I had failed at the one thing I had told everyone I was going to do. There is a particular silence that follows that. Friends are kind. Family are careful. And you sit in your childhood bedroom and understand that the failure is now a fact about you.
Six months later I went back and did the whole thing again.
Passed the second time.
Here is what I actually learned, and it is not what people expect. It was not about grit. It was not about wanting it more. It was that the first attempt was not wasted, it was the reconnaissance. I knew where the ground broke you. I knew what the third day felt like. I was not braver the second time, I was better informed.
Most people treat a failure as a verdict.
It is data.
The only real failure is the one you refuse to go back and look at.
