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[BFD @BFD01406857]

@SawyerMerritt Picking parking spots does need help. I have seen my Tesla try to park in handicap spots, spots designated for customer pickup, and spots where signs designate the spot as reserved.

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@JonKrawczynski @TheAthletic It would be fitting that he came from the Lakers to Minnesota to help give us a chance to a championship being that the Lakers left Minnesota to LA and Minnesota has not won a championship since then.

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@GrageDustin It saddens me to see Open Cupboard providing a venue for Tim Waltz to spout his nonsense. I have to rethink my donations to the charity.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Europe is starting to ban A/C for 2 reasons:

1. To kill old people with heat stroke who use up all the tax dollars in socialized medicine.

2. To make everyone feel hot and miserable so the “global warming” scam feels more real and they can pass more tax increases.

These globalist elites are truly evil.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇯🇵 THE LESSON OF VERSAILLES: How Trump is treating Iran like MacArthur treated Japan!

The lesson from history we cannot ignore right now with Iran:

After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles humiliated Germany. It crushed their economy, stripped their dignity, and treated their leadership like criminals. What did that produce? Resentment, chaos, and Adolf Hitler.

We almost repeated that mistake in 1945.

But General Douglas MacArthur refused to go down that road with Japan.

MacArthur understood something the Wilson crowd never did: you don’t win the peace by destroying a defeated nation’s leadership if you can use it for stability instead.

Emperor Hirohito was the symbolic heart of Japan. Many wanted him tried as a war criminal and hanged. MacArthur said no.

He kept Hirohito on the throne as a figurehead, had him renounce divinity, and used the Emperor’s authority to push through sweeping reforms - new constitution, demilitarization, land reform, and real democratization.

Result? Japan didn’t descend into chaos or communism. They became one of America’s strongest allies and an economic powerhouse. MacArthur turned enemies into partners.

Fast forward to today.

There’s a loud crowd that says we must completely humiliate and destroy the current leadership in Iran. Topple the regime, no off-ramp, total humiliation.

That’s Versailles thinking.

And it’s dangerous.

The Iranian people are already suffering under their regime. The smarter play - the MacArthur play - is to create an off-ramp.

Give their leadership a path where they can deliver real prosperity and dignity to their own people in exchange for abandoning nuclear weapons, terrorism sponsorship, and regional aggression.

When a nation’s people start seeing tangible improvement in their lives, the appetite for endless jihad and confrontation drops dramatically.

Stability beats endless occupation. Prosperity beats resentment. Smart power beats performative toughness that creates bigger problems down the road.

America First doesn’t mean we’re weak. It means we’re wise.

We learned from Versailles. We learned from MacArthur’s success in Japan. Let’s apply those hard-earned lessons instead of repeating the same mistakes that birthed the last century’s nightmares.

Strength and strategy. Not just slogans.

The goal isn’t to own the libs or look tough on cable news. The goal is to secure America’s future with the least blood and treasure possible.

History already showed us the winning formula.

Now it’s time to use it.

[Republican Party of Minnesota @mngop]

DFL @GovTimWalz is profoundly unpopular in Minnesota because of the mess he's made of this state. Just remember, your local DFL state representative and state senator voted for all of it. Blowing an $18 billion surplus, increasing the size of state government by 40%, raising sales, gas and payroll taxes by $10 billion, letting fraudsters run amuk, they voted for it all. The only way to clean up after Walz is to vote Repbulican.

https://t.co/IW90y3X2co

[BFD @BFD01406857]

Germany was damaged significantly because of how the allies inflicted economic damage after WW1. The result being WW2. After WW2, the US helped both Germany and Japan get back on their feet. If Iran compiles with all requirements then there should be no reason to not support them.

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@LisaDemuthMN @RyanDWilsonMN Totally agree with you

I think you will be breath of fresh air to our state.

Please consider also bringing accountability to the Metropolitan Council once you win

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

🧵The SpaceX IPO isn’t overpriced. The future is underpriced.

Fourteen years ago, Facebook’s IPO was mocked as a failure. I called it a Strong Buy. Those who listened made a fortune.

SpaceX is the same story — only much, much bigger. It's the East India Company all over again.🧵

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 BREAKING Scientists may have just cracked the code on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's — WITH ONE PILL.

A drug called Buntanetap was just published in a peer-reviewed journal with Phase 3 data.
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It targets the ROOT CAUSE of both diseases simultaneously.

Here's what you need to know 🧵👇
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[BFD @BFD01406857]

@SleeperVikings @AdamSchefter @PatMcAfeeShow My question is whether Flores lawsuit that is gathering evidence from all teams except the Vikings will need information from the new general manager? What impact will this have?

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@LiuInTheShadows Will this cause Delta to reconsider their poor decision not to use Starlink for airplane internet service

[BFD @BFD01406857]

While I’m still trying to appreciate what you have written, I do have a broader question about the future for humanity.
On the one hand, you have AI in which both you and the pope have written about. On the other hand, there is potential disclosure of humanity interaction with extraterrestrial beings.
Which could be a greater impact on humanity?

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

the pope and anthropic's co-founder just stood together at the vatican to release "magnifica humanitas," the first ever catholic teaching on AI

yes, you read that right. the full ceremony was 2 hours.

here's the most interesting things for you to know:

1. this is the biggest religious response to AI in history. popes only put out a handful of these huge official letters in their entire time as pope. the fact that one of them is about AI tells you how seriously the church is taking what's coming.

2. small detail with massive meaning: this pope picked the name "leo XIV" on purpose. the last pope named leo was leo XIII back in 1891, and his most famous act was writing the church's response to the industrial revolution. picking the same name is a deliberate signal. this pope sees AI as the new industrial revolution.

3. the catholic church does this every time a major technology reshapes humanity. they wrote "rerum novarum" in 1891 to respond to the industrial revolution. when nuclear weapons threatened the world in the 1960s, they wrote "pacem in terris." climate change and runaway tech got "laudato si" in 2015. now AI gets "magnifica humanitas." they don't issue these often.

4. the pope's main line: "AI needs to be disarmed." he literally compared AI to nuclear weapons. he said the church spent decades pushing for nuclear disarmament because the technology was too dangerous to leave in the hands of a few. he says AI is now in that same category.

5. anthropic co-founder christopher olah told the pope, on stage at the vatican, that anthropic's own research team keeps finding things inside their AI models that "mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."

6. olah's reframe of what AI actually is: these things are grown. they're trained on a structure roughly modeled after the human brain and fed everything humans have ever written. in his own words: "they are made from us, from our words." he said even the people building them don't fully understand what's happening inside.

7. olah publicly admitted that every AI lab, including his own, faces pressure that can conflict with doing the right thing. commercial pressure to keep shipping, competitive pressure from other labs, plus the older pressures of pride and ambition. his solution: we desperately need outside critics with no skin in the game who will tell the labs when they're failing.

8. olah says there are 3 giant questions the AI labs cannot answer alone and the world needs religion and philosophy to step in on:

> how do we make sure poor countries actually benefit from AI?
> what does human flourishing even look like in this new world?
> and what are these things we're actually building?

9. one of the sharpest lines in the whole encyclical: "the promise of automatic general prosperity often proves illusory." translation: the idea that AI will just make everyone rich on its own is a fantasy. someone has to actually design the system so the benefits get shared.

10. the pope also pulled out a 100-year-old quote: "contemporary man has not been trained to use power well." said by a theologian back in the 1920s. the whole encyclical is basically a long argument that we need to learn how to use this kind of power before it uses us.

11. the pope kept stressing that he doesn't have the technical answers. but he says the church has thousands of years of wisdom on what it means to be human, and that wisdom is exactly what's missing from how we're building AI right now. his closing line: this technology should serve "human flourishing and human dignity, not control consciences."

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@EricLDaugh President Trump has made the right decision for the long run.
However, it’s a foregone conclusion that nothing will get done in the Senate for the remainder of the year as senators will spite the president.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Democrats NEED to call Republicans “Nazis,” and the inverse is not true because it’s unnecessary.

I’ll explain.

Republicans freed the slaves. Republicans won the Civil War and magnanimously reconciled with the losing Democrats even though they did not need to. Republicans passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Republicans gave women the vote. Republicans desegregated the federal workforce. Republicans ended Jim Crow. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Acts. Republicans have been zealous defenders of 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. Against such a stellar historical track record of promoting freedom and personal liberty, Democrats NEED to call Republicans “Nazis” to obscure the truth of who the bad guys actually are.

Democrats, OTOH, built a party based almost exclusively on slavery and racism. Democrats initiated and fought a bloody Civil War that killed ~700,000 Americans. Democrats instituted Jim Crow. Democrats popularized lynching. Democrats opposed the post-Civil War Amendments and all of the Civil Rights Acts. Democrats denied the vote to women. Democrats re-segregated the federal work force. Democrats invented and staffed the KKK. Democrats have always fought for a racialized society. Democrats re-racialized society in the 21st Century. Democrats invented abortion as a tool of eugenics. Democrats killed ~66,000,000 babies since 1973 thanks to Roe v. Wade. Democrats hate the 2nd Amendment. Democrats hate the 1st Amendment when free speech, freedom of assembly or freedom of religion challenge them. Democrats have embraced Marxism and jihad.

Republicans do not need to call Democrats “Nazis” because calling them “Democrats” is horrific enough.

Explained.

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@XploraSpace Seems silly that they have to close the highway to launch the rocket. Why doesn’t the Boring company just move the highway underground near Starbase

[BFD @BFD01406857]

No one is mentioning the future benefit of self-driving cars. Imagine traveling in the future to different countries that all support Tesla FSD and you want to rent a car with FSD enabled. The car will allow a person to navigate anywhere within the country and understand the each countries laws.

[BFD @BFD01406857]

@warDaniel47 While I agree that this was said, it seems to be conditional.
It has also been said that Cuba could get 100 million dollars from the US in support delivered through NGOs and Catholic charities, if they change their ways
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