Gramps

Steward of the August Sander Foundation

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

Another banger I’m afraid

[Matt Grimm @mttgrmm]

Hey @peard33 @WIRED - free tip for you

Yesterday the Anduril team in Mississippi achieved a successful test of our Denali rocket motor, the same rocket that exploded *on that exact test stand* 38 days ago.

In the ~5 weeks since the rapid unscheduled disassembly, the Anduril team diagnosed the failure, rebuilt and re-instrumented the test stand (including some backlogged improvements), meticulously studied and inspected the new motor, and prepped for this test. A true all-hands-on-deck effort culminating in success.

This is the same exact test stand that Wired, quoting anonymous sources, said “could take up to a couple of months” to rebuild the “knocked out” test stand and “could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business.” Not so much. I look forward to your detailed reporting on the successful test.

As I discussed 35-ish days ago, doing hard things is actually hard, and rocket science is definitely hard. It’s easy to cite anonymous sources, usually former disgruntled employees, to throw shade and write critical headlines when tests go wrong. Well, yesterday it went right.

The credit belongs to the [team] who is actually in the arena, and for all the Andurilians who sprinted: thanks, and great work. I hope you enjoy some celebratory chicken wings this week down in McHenry. Onward.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

This bitch can ball. I can’t believe the transphobic @wnba won’t sign this woman.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

I’m sick to my stomach…

This is going to prevent so many women and people of color from getting cheap groceries.

[Gramps @Grampypoo]

32 years in this state & I don’t recognize a single face at these protests. use to be a running joke that u couldn’t go anywhere without running into a dozen people u know.

[Gerry Callahan @GerryCallahan]

Eye witness: “The car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer.”

I wonder how hard CNN is working to get this guy on tonight.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

People really think opening up the US real estate market to the world and all its citizens had zero effect on housing prices.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The guy who can’t even build 1 foot of train tracks with $120 Bn and 7 years in office is trying to take shots at the guy who is landing rocket ships backwards and catching them in midair with chopsticks?
Ok, bro.

[Adam Rankin @rankintweets]

Every 3 years a new water bottle brand completely oneshots middle class white women like clockwork

[✮ @areheon]

honestly the older pokemon games rewarded curiosity in a way not many games do anymore

[Baaulp @Baaulp]

closest you're going to get to seeing how dark ages peasants acted

[Big Glenn Network @BigGlennNetwork]

New fantasy football punishment unlocked

[Robert J. O'Neill @mchooyah]

I smoked your G.O.A.T while you were fucking your goat.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@PalmerLuckey @rsg Systems were designed under the assumption that people would act in good faith.

People now just treat law and public benefits as computer code and maximize outcomes by whatever means necessary.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

We need a bit more shame.

People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this.

Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 40% of young women (under 35) claim mental illness, and SSI disability payments have gone up 400% in a single generation.

It isn't good for anyone, least of all people who are actually disabled, when everyone looks the other way as friends and family and peers con the system with a level of shamelessness no architect of our safety net ever imagined could be possible in America. When everyone is disabled, nobody is.

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

9 times out of 10 a headline that starts with “A Federal Judge Has Ruled…” it somehow seems to be followed by something that sides with criminals or negatively impacts the country in some way.

Useless.

[Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF]

The increase of foreign-born leftists with power is absolutely off the charts. Sparkle has been an American for 7 years and has the ability to strike down the President’s agenda. Pure insanity.

[Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett]

The idea that the federal government cannot use its own databases to enforce its own laws is so insane ONLY a progressive could believe it.

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Imagine having to explain to George Washington that America can’t prevent illegal aliens from voting in our elections because a foreign born judge called ‘Sparkle Sooknanan’ said so.

[Gramps @Grampypoo]

The patience I use to have for Maine traffic is gone. The demographic has changed and it’s no longer older folks being unpredictable. Now the streets are filled with ignoramuses.