Kevin

Some assembly required, batteries not included. #terrorsquad

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is how Rush introduced Tom Sawyer last night. This was their first show since 2015. Incredible. 😁

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@Dizzie_Locz @LASHYBILLS Counterpoint the one who set up the camera to perfectly capture what was going on then went to help did exactly what he needed to

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨NO WAY🚨🚨

Offensive lineman Ethan Lawson announced his commitment to #WVU by burning a couch while “Take Me Home, Country Roads” played in the background.

Peak West Virginia energy.

This is an all-timer.

[lex @jorilextera]

folks, we’ve got an instant philadelphia legend here

[SEATTLESUBMISSIONS @SEATTLESUBMISS]

West Seattle hosted Washington’s first funeral for a closed Taco Bell… a crowd showed up in black, doves released, “Alive No Más” tombstone (photo credit: ChaoticRift)

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@Emmys As a bonsai enthusiast who walks dogs all over the Seattle every day, the temptation is very real

[Arc @arctanno]

it's really weird that courts can compel you to do things like write an apology or attend social impact classes, very anachronistic, a remnant of when your physical community mattered, so visible works of penance were useful, but now no one gives a shit and it's just power plays

[Thaddeus C. ✨ @ItsHippyPotter]

Teen Titans Battle Blitz (2003)

[Kevin @KevHa17]

Everyone who works at this company should be lined up against the wall. When you consider what palantir actually does (spy on you and amass ALL your data) this is the most evil shit I have ever read

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Kevin @KevHa17]

This cat served two tours as a spotter, he was telling the sniper that the wind had picked up blowing southwards and to adjust his scope to make the shot.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

"Today, our neighborhood was on lockdown. SWAT teams were everywhere, snipers lying in the snow, and the whole place was completely silent. Then, out of nowhere, our cat Hector casually walks in.
Curious about absolutely everything, Hector hops right onto a sniper's back, trying to figure out what is going on.
honestly can't tell if he's incredibly brave... or if he simply doesn't care about our
human nonsense at all."

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@stottpie @zPanthrrr As an OG player since beta fully agree this is like complaining about oxygen and water

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@jay79096860260 @TonyBologna97 @NixLupus31 Plat tyvm

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@TonyBologna97 @NixLupus31 Characters that can one shot zen are the only ones I care about. I will solo a tank if I need to.

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@stottpie @NixLupus31 She can one shot zen, he can’t one shot her. I agree though to a point, I’m not afraid to take that fight

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@AspersionCaster Met him at work like a month ago and he was actually very humble and kind. You are talking out of your ass

[Kevin @KevHa17]

Time traveling back to 2020 and telling people the toilet paper conflicts escalated into wars

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Watch as an employee starts a massive fire inside a 1.2 million square foot warehouse filming himself on Instagram as he sets toilet paper packages ablaze

📌#Ontario | #California

Watch as a disgruntled employee started a massive fire at a 1.2 million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario, California, with 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim arrested on arson charges after filming himself on Instagram setting toilet paper packages on fire and saying You may not pay us enough to f*cking live, but these btches are dirt cheap. There goes your inventory. All you had to do was pay us enough to live. The warehouses, which span roughly 11 city blocks which prompted a massive response a 6-alarm fire alert from 175 firefighters and 20 engines working to put out the blaze. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.

[Kevin @KevHa17]

@OWAnonymous_ You should be imprisoned for crimes against the state

[Henry West 🇬🇧 @HenryWestGaming]

Happy #StPatricksDay to all of you!