mattfield.bsky.social
Observer of history, programmer, maker/hacker, ex live music touring, avid hiker, dog father, photographer, cooker + eater of good stuff
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Yep have one here, 12GA shotgun cartridge for scale. baton is more solid plastic than “rubber” - you can just barely bend it with both hands
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Same Assholes = SA = Sturmabteilung
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“You killed Ted, you medieval dick-weed”
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Did her broomstick stop working?
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Gives me the Ye-bbie Jeebies
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That’s real entitlement vs what the GOP are always warning us about
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Heartly recommended follow up reading: Tom Crean - the unsung hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic expeditions - by Michael Smith
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Ah yes sure his experience as an an adviser to a total failure of a UK PM will set him up for success as a republican candidate for governor in the most populous democratic state and 5th largest economy in the world
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A consensus on the facts undermining the claims of an autocrat is not an assault on democracy, quite the opposite
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Of course one more toadie, with zero subject knowledge - who seems likely to have set foot in all these museums just once - knows better than the hundreds, or thousands, of highly educated curators that have worked on all their collections since they were established. Insanity
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Social media is what has put us in this horrible place. Where they know that negative engagement is rewarded as much or more than positive.
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Looks great, assuming it’s pork chorizo, I reckon that would make it a Swineherd’s Pie
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He’s the epitome of a sadly prevalent boomer mentality of (deliberately) not understanding anything that was discovered or created in the last 50 year. Or accepting that anything could have been invented, researched, or improved by anyone younger than them
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There’s no way these “agents” are trained. Else why would they be attempting to smash through a car window with an adze rather than putting a center punch or screwdriver in the corner and shattering it. Literally every fireman, car thief and beat cop knows that.
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You are horribly misinformed, and i am not sure who you think is being self righteous
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And how exactly did they extract, refine, concentrate and transport all that O2 and H? Just because it doesn’t generate CO2 during launch doesn’t negate the carbon footprint of the whole endeavor
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I am going to be frank with you - the more francs you can donate, the better
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The shameless laughing, about that, from all those people standing in our office 😡
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Quite the Fascionista
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youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?... It’s this same segment from 5:40 onward for those not wanting to visit Xitter
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Six! Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza LV and Trump Castle separately. Then Plaza NYC. Then Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts (which was entity he had combined the bankrupted Taj Mahal, Plaza and Castle into and it also went bankrupt)…then that became Trump Entertainment Resorts (TER) that was also bankrupted
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Sure Valentina Gomez, they don’t have a boxcar with your name assigned to it… yet
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There are def still some outliers like Fluke, HP/Agilent and a lot of the defense adjacent companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Teledyne and plenty of others. The latter are heavily subsidized by the US taxpayer and the former have serious import competition now with close quality, lower price
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This is pretty much the case across every industry - see Victorinox vs Leatherman, VW vs Chevrolet, Volvo Trucks vs Freightliner, Knipex vs Snapon, Miele vs Electrolux, L’Acoustics vs JBL, Glock vs Smith and Wesson etc etc
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Another completely insane feature of our systems that the governor gets to decide whether or not an election happens rather than it being automatic and mandated by law
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Independent of any morals or a sense of shame
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He doesn’t appreciate that the likely end result of this will be him being dragged by his combover out of a culvert on one of his golf courses dressed in his soiled diaper/underwear like Saddam Hussein was
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They asked Big Balls, and he used ChatGPT
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Skoda is Czech. Now Lada on the other hand…
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But for $420M no doubt
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It’s clearly shows a prison staff being proud of their regime and with the understanding that it was created to address the results of horrific wide scale organized crime. Makes it even more bleak and chilling that our govt is deporting people there on spurious evidence and without due process
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youtu.be/V4VJ6gZrMTU?... I’d recommend anyone wanting to know more about CECOT to watch this video which shows the facility recently and before these deportations happened
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Hardly a surprise they smell blood in the water with Trump failing to support Ukraine
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If only he could have stayed in his own lane, you’d have thought someone who is supposedly a self driving car design genius would understand that
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The US has ~3700 but jf one madman like Kim can be provided a nuclear sub that allows him to put 20 missiles each with multiple warheads in undetected range of the US then those 3700 are pretty
much meaningless.
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Sure nobody responded that the uk banned slavery in 1833, whilst the confederacy waited 30 years, lost a war, did nothing of note for 150 years and is currently attempting to reintroduce it
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Even wilder when blaming Soros is all part of a common right wing anti-semitic trope, yet the administration that Elon is a major part of is currently deporting people for criticizing Israel
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Operation Paperclip 2 minus the skill requirement
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ICBM launches are detected by satellites though (SBIRS). Not sure what they’d be doing at Space Force in Greenland but it isn’t detecting ICBM launches.
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This makes a lot of sense as an explanation and tracks with previous behavior
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Whilst that all makes (crazy) sense, do we really think he has the capacity to understand all of that and act on it as part of some grand strategy? Or rather perhaps someone has told him he can rename it Trumpland, or open a hotel or a golf course there, and that his kids can hunt polar bears
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“Air Force T-38 jet flying past the Delta plane and DCA airport going more than 350 miles per hour at 800 feet” seems insane to be flying that fast that low over a major city
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True and well noted, but Hitler wasn’t facing a (until recently highly) unified military alliance set up to oppose a greater threat than he now represents, nor against a unified europe with 3 times the population and a combined GDP that is an order of magnitude greater
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Big war against Europe? they have failed to take a significant chunk of Ukraine after 3 years and nearly a million casualties
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Can’t imagine which part time car company ceo might have urged him to sideline a bunch of agencies and regulations and destroy the landscape and environment to find more lithium to dig up etc
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So much for the concept of “need to know”
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Is he still denying the Armenian Genocide? Oh yes, he is.
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I work in an industry (language/localization) that shows some of the greatest promise for generative AI - but output still sucks. I hope no one in law or medicine would be considering trusting generative AI to do anything much past prettying up the invite to the office Christmas party at this point