I can't white put my finger on it... Sorry I meant quite.

Unfortunately that tends to be the norm for most dictatorships. Even Hitler at the end of the war was in the region of about 30% or so support. Any cult of personality will have a decent sized group that will follow until the bitter end.

Probably not because they can just move to a different denomination with the same titles. There are a number of Catholic sects that split off for a number of reasons and are no longer in communion with the Holy See. A number of them split in 1870 after the church decided that the Pope was infallible

Don't give Kirk Ferentz any more ideas.

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

I feel like we should create a commission whose job it is to look for these kinds of things and impose harsh penalties. Maybe something like the Federal Trade Commission? I'm just spitballin' though because that just seems too improbable.

Absolutely loved watching you use his own words against him along with the Bible. Doug Wilson is everything that is wrong with Evangelicals right now. His completely inane response after that shows you hit a nerve and all he could do was quote a stupid facebook meme.

Even if that were true, it probably is, the problem is that Christians have not only accepted a lot of his teachings but many have embraced it. Just b/c some Nazis disagreed with Hitler on a couple things doesn't mean they weren't Nazis anymore. Until Xians rebuke and expel him, he is one of theirs.

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.

It was worth it.

That stupid emoji again. Just because people disagree doesn't mean that there isn't a most likely answer. In this case it's most likely Oswald asking alone and the only reason people question it is because Ruby killed him.

Do you think marksmen in the military only train on stationary targets?

That's right. I forgot that he missed completely. Then torso and then the final shot. Pretty typical for a shooter to figure out where they missed and then get closer each time.

Oswald had training and was able to get off two shots with the first one missing. It once again is the one that makes the most sense and there probably wouldn't be the same conspiracy around it if Ruby hadn't killed Oswald before a trial.

Pretty much all of them from the Lakers 3-peat era were controversial in some way.

I was with you up until this one. He had motive and his whereabouts are mostly unknown when the murder happened. Occam's razor tells us he was the most likely culprit. His later behavior kind of shows us how erratic he could be and current and former NFL players have a long history of DV.

Mattresses have crazy high markups so they only need to sell a few each month to meet their overhead and most employees are paid on commission. A mattress in a store will typically have 60-80% gross margin on it for the seller. It's why you can find the same thing for a quarter the price online.

These are the rantings of someone who just took a 100 level college course on a particular topic so now they know everything about it. Pretty typical of Techbros who know a lot about one thing so obviously they know everything about everything.

The only good thing about this is we know who the bad guys are b/c with this they've just come and told us. We always knew but now they've confirmed it for us.

This is the one that made me wonder what is going to come out about a politician and it's connection to Palantir. Public officials should be held to an even higher standard than the general population. If you represent me and are a worse person than me then you shouldn't have your job anymore.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Dammit Carl (assuming whoever it was that caused this rule is named Carl)! This is why we can't have nice things at NPR!

God forbid we try to help. I guess the only way out of all of this is to just do nothing right? Go away Gary.

They are whiny little babies and the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. They can't imagine that something bad could happen to them because of a decision they made. I've gotten so many news alerts about potential measles exposures in the last month. Some people are so stupid.

I see stuff like this and see how far in just a few years how Trump has gutted the military. WW2 had special ships delivering ice cream to sailors in the Pacific for morale. Iraq had fast food within weeks to help keep morale up. Vietnam had a large number of USO shows.

Depends on the ship and the time though. In this case they are rationing so the mess crew are most likely portioning it out.

That money is going somewhere because it's not like they cut our military budget. I would love to see our military budget cut but it shouldn't come at the cost of the actual boots on the ground.

No it's missing the broccoli too.

The US Army is quickly turning into the Russian Army. Our biggest strength was logistics but that's not flashy or cool to people like Hegseth. That's why our sailors are in this position and we were at risk of running out of interceptor missiles.

They didn't even get their broccoli or one other thing...

Is this scran?