Cousin Rabbit

Having conversations with people who aren't here.

[Cousin Rabbit @CousinRabbit]

@AuronMacintyre The panopticon has become the panicans!

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@GabeGuidarini The panopticon has become the panicans!

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Wait for details. Likely voluntary; not arrest (no cuffs apparent). Even happens sometimes in traffic stops when the driver is asked if they're willing to sit in the police vehicle. Likely Sean was asked/advised until they could game out the unexpected need for an escorted exit.

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

@jacktronprime When you are put in the back of a patty wagon under law, it’s technically an arrest. The point is they just triggered a massive Streisand effect.

[Cousin Rabbit @CousinRabbit]

@RealAlexJones @jacktronprime Likely voluntary; not arrest (no cuffs). Even happens sometimes in traffic stops when the driver is asked if they're willing to sit in the police vehicle. Almost certainly in this case Sean was asked/advised until they could game out the unexpected need for an escorted exit.

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@AuronMacintyre I can't believe how many panicans are coming out of the woodwork tonight.

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@CurtMills The panopticon has become the panicans

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@DrJackKruse It isn't clear from this post is higher or lower deuterium is preferable.

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@UpdatingOnRome Thrice?

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@Villgecrazylady @infolibnews Neither America 1st nor the MAGA leftovers will be responsible for the loss. Trump won by 1.5% with big gains in independents and historic numbers with minorities. Those were gone by August '25.

The division is irrelevent to outcomes - even if they voted together R's still lose.

[CJ the palmer worm; wife,mother, researcher. @thepalmerworm]

‘The ‘Sovereign Individual’ presents its timeline as a natural arc of history, even pointing to a roughly 250-year span that carries the reader back to the Founding era. That gesture is not at all neutral. It reframes the American Founding moment; attempting to negate it as the establishment of a permanent constitutional order grounded in inalienable rights - and instead, posturing that it should be seen merely as one phase in a cycle, now giving way to something ‘new’.’ (Jones)
https://t.co/KPhMx42cDk

[Cousin Rabbit @CousinRabbit]

@lporiginalg So, progress can be stopped.

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The rub: even if both sides agreed they'd still lose. The MAGA civil war is irrelevent to outcomes -- minority arguing against itself. People forget that independents, gains in hispanics and blacks won 2024. That support was gone 6 months in. Doesn't matter who else drops out.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

The 4 on 4 debate I was in was recorded weeks ago so I watched it back and read the comments while I had time to kill

No exaggeration. Of the first 1,000 comments just 3 went for the MAGA side. 997 supported the AFAFO side

3 vs 997

I'm telling you. America 1st is the future

[WOLF Bitcoin @WOLF_Bitcoin_]

🚨 COINBASE JUST TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS THAT BUYING JEANS WITH BITCOIN SHOULD NOT TRIGGER A CAPITAL GAINS TAX

Their exact argument: https://t.co/1kUpcTiKHL

"A consumer who uses Bitcoin to buy a pair of jeans still has to calculate and report a capital gain. That is not good tax policy. Americans shouldn't need an accountant for tracking millions of transactions that generate little or no revenue."

Right now every time you spend Bitcoin on anything, it is a taxable event. Coffee. Groceries. A pair of jeans.

Coinbase is pushing Congress for a de minimis exemption that would remove tax friction on small everyday transactions, the same way you don't pay capital gains tax on spending foreign currency after a trip abroad.

Until this passes, Bitcoin functions better as a savings asset than a spending currency.

That is a policy problem, not a technology problem. And Coinbase just took it directly to Congress.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

-― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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@JG_Nuke Let's throw in iWon[dot]com

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Perfection

[Nobody Special @JG_Nuke]

The government is considering buying an equity stake in Ask Jeeves, Pets dot com, and Excite. We’re all gonna be rich.

[Nobody Special @JG_Nuke]

The government is considering buying an equity stake in Ask Jeeves, Pets dot com, and Excite. We’re all gonna be rich.

[Cousin Rabbit @CousinRabbit]

@AuronMacintyre I don't understand a lot of those words but I understand. Maybe that's the point.

[Cousin Rabbit @CousinRabbit]

@MLFootball Clearly outside the cylinder.

The front of the ball hits the front of the rim first when Wemby brings it forward, before rolling over the top. Couldn't happen if it was inside the cylinder.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Antoni Gaudi died 100 years ago today.

He was 73 and spent over 40 years working on La Sagrada Familia (completing 1/4th of entire basilica).

Gaudi’s method for designing it was genius: he hung movable weights on strings and let gravity do the work of showing the proper angles and force vectors for his nature-inspired look.

He then flipped the model upside down to see how to build the columns and arches.

Also inspired by forests and sea life, the legendary architect once said, “there are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature.”

In the final years of his life, Gaudi’s was solely focussed on the project. His diet was lettuce leafs dipped in milk. Lived inside the Basilica and barely slept on a simple cot.

He died after getting hit by a tram while walking aroudn Barcelona. His clothes was so ratty — underwear held together with safety pins — that passerbys thought he was homeless.

The city held a massive funeral for him with 30,000 people packing the streets.

While 3/4 of La Sagrada Familia was undone, Gaudi left enough plans (models, drawings) for future generations.

La Sagrada Familia was largely dormant for a few decades 1930s-1960s (Spanish Civil War, World War II, early Cold War).

Some of Gaudi’s designs were so ahead his time that it would require the development of aeronautical design software to complete his vision.

Gaudi once remarked that “my client” — referring to God — “is not in a hurry”.

There is still work to be done but a major milestone was completed in February: workers installed a cross on top of La Sagrada Familia, making it the tallest church in the world (172.5 meters or 566 feet).

It’s also the tallest structure in Barcelona. But Gaudi intentionally capped the height because “human creation should not pass God’s work.”

The Montjuïc Hill in the southwestern part of Barcelona is ~570 feet.

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