Grant Strem

Energy. Geology. Cogitation. Humour. Optimism. Growth. Peace. Technological Advancement.

[Grant Strem @GoTaMars]

@Quantum49873873 @TheProjectUnity That was @alyankovic as the actor who played Gandhi for a fake trailer of the movie “Gandhi II” in his excellent 1989 movie called UHF.

https://t.co/xkG00UfVbW

[Rational Posts™ @rationalposts]

"Your posts aren't valid because you hide behind a fake name!"

Yes, I do.

[Grant Strem @GoTaMars]

@NotFreeNotBrave @ryanhansen33 Often both.

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I’m in Lisbon watching Portugal vs. Spain.
For most of my adult life, I’ve believed “soccer/football” nets should expand by a few cm/year until the average game ends with a double-digits winner.
What’s with all this nil-nil stuff?
Opinions?

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@CaryKelly11 @IndependenceArk I think you should move out.
To my house.

Your cooking is exceptional and remarkable.

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@Tech85333574 @TRHLofficial 👏 This is the way.

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@AncientEpoch Exciting thought realm worthy of evidence expeditions.

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@HomerosHayyam41 Church ceiling in Lisbon.

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@snoozydabs @Rainmaker1973 @grok @grok do tourist cruise ships do this too with leftover food? If not, why not?

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We are living in the future:
My eyebrows are fairly bushy but they don’t connect.
This device could make a simulated monobrow or connect brows to sideburns, encircle eyes, rim an ear, add random little back patches, make a nose look hairy, or make knuckle faux fur.
Amazing.

[Johnny @j00ny369T]

Apparently eyebrow printing is a thing - the precise technique that creates natural-looking, long-lasting brows with incredible detail.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Europe built these generous pension systems on the assumption there would always be plenty of young workers paying in.

By 2060 Italy and Spain are heading for barely 1.7 workers per retiree, France and Germany around 2, even Sweden only scraping 2.27.

That’s a slow motion funding crisis, and instead of fixing the real problems governments just keep borrowing more, hiking taxes on whoever’s still working, and importing people who often cost more in services than they contribute.

They won’t touch fertility collapse, they won’t make serious cuts to the promises, and they sure as hell won’t admit the math doesn’t work anymore.

So the bill keeps getting pushed onto younger generations who get to pay higher contributions for smaller benefits and later retirement, all while the system gets propped up with more debt and more people.

But this is what happens when you build everything on demographic quicksand and then refuse to face it.

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@TheProjectUnity Method of trapping (presumably); entities would stand and stare while trying to understand them.

During this immobilized thoughtful state, they were more vulnerable to having a net thrown on them or whatever. 🤷‍♂️

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Please provide an accurate image or link to a map showing the maximum extent of New Sweden. @grok

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@EGrimalkin1967 @CarlHigbie Conversely, some towns probably have a much higher diahrea death rate (DDR) than others.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Atlas Shrugged made simple:

1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted.

2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t.

3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all.

4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing.

5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people.

6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it.

7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t.
You don’t want us? We just go…🤷🏻‍♂️

[Grant Strem @GoTaMars]

@ThirteenFathers Ynglings? Jötunn?

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@AncientEpoch Early versions of Baseketball.

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@MoundLore Details of the cause.
Was it an astrobleme (impact from space)?
Or a gastrobleme (like a giant version of Mother Earth’s belch at Tonga)?

I’d like to read studies, learn evidence, and examine various maps, ideally while sipping a single malt with thoughtful nerds.

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@MoundLore What would a significant sediment drill-core survey of Burckle Crater and its surrounding region reveal?

What is the recipe, from pure elemental ingredients to make most of the common minerals in Earth’s Crust?

How significant a role have hydrosilicons played in Earth history?

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@impossiblebones @MoundLore I drove there and judged it interesting.

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@TafkaTrap @MoundLore Perhaps some of Romania should be shaded green on this map?