GeopoliticalBum

There are only two things that make the world go round. Geopolitics & this formula A=P(1 + r/n)^ (nt). They are often intertwined. Freedom makes them happen

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

Let me tell you a story Lord of the Rings style.

Once there was SpaceX. Hardest, and most genuine of all endeavors by a founder in a quite entrenched industry. They were the eleven, who succeeded beyond anything that could’ve been done in that time, and even now. To the moon!

[Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 @BonifaceOption]

“You knew the first trillionaire?”

“I didn’t say I knew him. I said he replied ‘Wow!’ on my post once.”

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

They didn’t have to manufacture oxygen to get there.

[Adam Smith @adamstatonsmith]

Is SpaceX really worth $1.8T? Probably not.

But the Dutch East India Company was worth $8T in today’s dollars. They got rich exploring the unknown.

SpaceX is about to do the same thing.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

@peterrhague We haven’t even colonized the moon.

That’ll tell you enough about value propositions

[Magills @magills_]

Elon is now worth a trillion dollars which means Dave Ramsey may actually be okay with him buying a new car at the sticker price.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

Only scenario you had this experience was in a B-52.

I still kinda doubt you were taking “ground fire” from that altitude being the case

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

I was officially on 2 combat missions with the USAF.
On one sortie, the guys fired cruise missiles and we took ground fire.
They—the airmen—were “in combat.”
I was not.
I was a reporter embedded to report on what they were doing.
It’s not the same thing.
In my opinion.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

This is so tiresome.

Commercial comm payloads at geo have twice this… 30 years ago

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: SpaceX officially unveils AI1, its first AI satellite, with up to 150,000 watts of compute payload.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

The thrill about cannonball running is to make sure you don’t get caught.

You don’t keep up the pursuit once you’ve known you’ve been made. You abandon the vehicle and try again before they catch you.

Like all things in life, sunk costs don’t mean you keep going

[Dillon Thomas @DillonMThomas]

—CANNONBALL RUN: 130mph—

A Colorado man has been arrested, alongside his passenger, for allegedly driving more than 130 miles an hour through Northern Colorado.

We got a look at his vehicle, allegedly modified to jam signals and evade detection.

@CBSNewsColorado 6pm.

[Scot Bertram @ScotBertram]

Every EV road trip adventure story is exactly like this one: The trip was a piece of cake! Except the charging stations that didn't work, the fact I had to stop every 125-180 miles to charge, that each charge takes 20-35 minutes (those are the fast ones!), and I nearly got stranded at 1am at a rural Alabama Walmart.

But you should totally buy an EV!

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

Honey you wouldn’t even be able to describe what thermodynamics is at a high level without looking it up.

Even if you did look it up, I doubt you’d have the mental capacity to understand what it actually is.

[🧡Lulu🌾; @ItsLulu_7]

Capitalism goes against science!

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

My wife doesn’t realize how obnoxious I’m going to be for the 250 anniversary of our nation.

The fireworks show is gonna be epic.

[Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 @ING2Firebrand]

Ben Franklin didn’t plow through dozens and dozens of French whores so that you could abide by fireworks ordinances

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

@Stewbiedo0 Solid. Always told myself if I lived on a corner lot the whole perimeter of that corner is gonna have 10 foot steel beams sunk in concrete, with granite boulders placed on top of each beam. All less than a cars width apart.

It’d definitely put Sir Isaac Newton to the test.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

@SteveBrusatte @FinancialTimes Didn’t know the new book was out. Looking forward to the weekend read now.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

Exactly. Just because you didn’t deploy doesn’t mean training didn’t injury you preparing for war.

[Matt Swanson @MaxROIFarmer]

This is why you have people who have never deployed end up with a VA disability rating. There are certainly people that are gaming the system and then there are people who did something fairly dangerous and it didn't come out all aces.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

This account is freaking awesome and hilarious.

Keep it up boss. 👍

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The man at the hardware store called me "boss."

I do not work there. I want to be clear about that from the beginning, because of what followed.

I had only asked where the nails were. He pointed and said, "aisle six, boss."

Boss.

I stood very still. A title is not given lightly. In my country, to be named the head of a house is a ceremony that takes a full day and three witnesses. This man had done it in half a second, over nails, and walked away.

But done is done. I had been appointed. I would not dishonor the appointment.

So I assumed my duties.

I began arriving early. I learned where everything was. When a customer looked lost, I guided them, because a boss does not abandon his people. When two boxes fell, I restacked them. When a child cried, I gave the child a small respectful nod, and the child stopped, because authority comforts.

A real employee found me straightening the paint cans. He asked what I was doing. I told him, simply, "my job."

He called his manager. The manager arrived. I bowed and prepared to receive my first performance review.

The manager said, "Sir, you can't be back here."

I understood. A new boss must earn trust. I accepted the demotion with grace. I returned to the floor and continued serving the people, now from a humbler station, which only deepened my resolve.

By closing time I had helped forty customers, reunited a man with the correct drill bit, and been thanked, by name, as "boss," four more times.

Four more appointments. I now hold five titles at a store that does not employ me.

A weaker man might find this confusing.

I find it an honor I never asked for, and cannot return, so I have simply decided to be worthy of it.

The manager walked me out gently and said, "have a good one, chief."

Chief.

I stopped at the door.

That is a promotion.

So I will be back tomorrow. Earlier. There is clearly a path here for a man willing to work, and I intend to climb it, one kind stranger's word at a time, until I have earned every title this generous country keeps handing me for free.

I do not know what I am the boss of.

But I will protect it with my life.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

Ok I laughed at this one

[George Alderman @GeorgeAlderman_]

“What’s this?”

“Your next-generation space telescope, sir”

“No, no no, it’s not 2027 yet”

“It’s launching this summer now. We even did it under budget”

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

@nnzp1730 He’s from Illinois’s they invented it all there

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

@Rossputin @victormarx I don’t know enough about his background, but it isn’t unusual to adopt former military dogs when their time is done with the military.

Generally speaking the person who adopts a former military dog was one of his handlers while the dog was in service.

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

No it’s not.

[John Ringo SF Author @Jringo1508]

This is my theology.

God created some guidelines on how people should conduct themselves because it was the best way to run a society for the most good of the most humans.

Humans kept ignoring the guidelines. It was infuriating. They all JUST MADE SENSE! IF YOU WOULD JUST FOLLOW THE RULES, THINGS WOULD BE BETTER FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE!

But no. 'What the fuck is up with these morons?'

So, being curious, God incarnated Himself as a human. And being smart, started from the beginning which meant being born, raised, lived, as a human. Even a bit crippled in the whole God thing.

And discovered BEING HUMAN IS HARD.

Think about an all knowing, all powerful God who just got his first erection watching some girl bend over to get water out of a well.

'Oh, Me! Did I really do this to humans?'

And that's why He forgives us. He knows our problems. Because He tried things out and found out life isn't a rose garden.

And the best thing He could come up with as an additional suggestion was 'Just do unto others as you would be done unto. That's the best I can come up with.'

That's pretty much my theology.

[GeopoliticalBum @GeopoliticalBum]

@wingod @Emilyy20k As far as I’m still aware, muting them kills engagement even better