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Practice picks up where ability leaves off. Just here for the fun of it.

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@yasminbella05 The definition in your back is exquisite

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@tgirljessy Yes

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

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@elonmusk Tesla headlights are too bright for incoming traffic though.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Health Sec. Bobby Kennedy SMASHED 20 pull-ups at DCA airport, at 71 years old

This is CRAZY! 🔥

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: "Do not listen to the craven and cowardly voices who tell you America needs to think small, or to shrink from our duties or potential... We are the inheritors of the most incredible civilization that has ever existed, and our task is to defend it." 🇺🇸

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@ksorbs Plausible. A lot of gay men live double lives

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

Paradox: If you see a baby located 90 light-years from Earth, right now it would be a 90-year-old, but you see it in your present, as a baby.
While the light takes time to reach you, the baby grows and ages.
When you look at the universe, you are always looking at the past.

[Jim Rockford's Answering Machine 🇵🇸 @Vic_Issitudes]

@miles_commodore Don't just play along. Ask questions that aren't just part of the regular story. For every story my grandfather told me a hundred times, I can now think of a hundred questions I wish I'd asked him.

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@Vic_Issitudes @miles_commodore Man this is good solid wisdom

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Dr Spock was Ukrainian

[Adam Nimoy @adam_nimoy]

To commemorate my father’s 95th birthday, I want to remind Spock fans that dad’s parents were Ukrainian immigrants which shaped my father in many ways. Four years of Putin’s war has brought death and destruction to our people, our homeland. LLAP. #standwithukraine #ukraine

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American X can't be beat

[greg @greg16676935420]

Chuck Norris was born May 6th, 1945

The Nazi’s surrendered May 7th, 1945

COINCIDENCE?

Yes. There is no way a one day old baby could have defeated them

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that.

The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them.

Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?

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@AsTG08 @WallStreetApes Only on level surfaces. If they approach at a higher elevation you'll get blinded. LEDs are horrible

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@elonmusk But what about benevolence?

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@alicesowhite OMG I've never seen such beauty

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"Weinstein thinks Elon sees the problem clearly: modern academia is too broken to deliver them. Too slow, too political, too captured by incentives that reward safe mediocrity over risky genius."

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Eric Weinstein has a theory about what Elon is really building.

“You can’t get to the stars using SpaceX.”

Chemical rockets have a ceiling. They can reach Mars, maybe push deeper into the solar system, but interstellar travel requires physics we don’t have. Breakthroughs that should have happened decades ago but didn’t.

Weinstein thinks Elon sees the problem clearly: modern academia is too broken to deliver them. Too slow, too political, too captured by incentives that reward safe mediocrity over risky genius.

So Elon stopped waiting.

xAI isn’t a chatbot company. It’s a research engine built to solve the problems human institutions have failed to crack. Grok is the tool designed to unlock the physics that gets us past chemical propulsion.

SpaceX builds the rockets. xAI finds the way through.

One gets the headlines. The other might actually get us to the stars.

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'Moon City'

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.

It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.

That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

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@bell2366 @PhilosophyOfPhy A lot of people change their minds over time. Who knows what he would've arrived at given more time and information

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@TSAhhn @PhilosophyOfPhy ..can lead to "at least" two conclusions...